The first couple of months of your site can feel like a complete waste of time. You are probably putting in tons of work, yet seeing very little traffic and even less income. For most new web site owners, the process of properly using social networks and other forms of social marketing can take a while to click. So traffic is probably volatile and usually un-targeted.
While you don’t necessarily need tons of traffic to covert any type of sale or conversion, it definitely doesn’t hurt. Make sure to check out my article on how to covert sales with little traffic. Believe or not there are easy and fast ways to rank high in the search engines regardless of your page rank.
On the other hand, not everybody is trying to covert sales, maybe you want more publicity, or maybe you are just trying to create some sort of following. Whatever the reason is we would all love our sites filled with users and commentators. The number one easiet and fastest way to quickly gain site traffic is to guest post on the authority sites in your niche.
Most of the time these sites are more than welcome to have you contribute. Obviously it means less work for them, but don’t think they will just post any random article. These authority sites usually receive dozens of request a day, but they can’t post all of them. Your articles for a guest post should be some of the best or most interesting pieces you have written. You should try to attack a unique concept that will draw more visitors from the authority site to yours.
What makes a good guest post site?
The ideal site to guest post on would be one that averages some number of commentators on every post. It is hard enough to get people to comment, if they have commentators on everyone, then odds are they are experiencing a pretty significant amount of activity to their site. Also if these users took the time to comment, then there is a good chance they will probably take the time to at least visit your site.
Often times you will come across authority sites, but their traffic is derived more through search traffic. There is nothing wrong with guest posting for them, but the traffic will not be as immediate as you will like.
Once you get the visitors to your site, the ball is in your court. Before your guest post is ever published, your site should be optimized to capture these new leads. Trust me, if a visitor from the guest post site comes to your site and does not like it, then he or she will NOT come back.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Besides just gaining more exposure, your guest post will also give you some great link juice because this authority site is linking back to you, so there are multiple pros for going on a guest post tour.
