8 Steps To Promote Your Blog To 60 Million For FREE

Discover eight easy steps how to use the 60 million user potential of LinkedIn to bring your free targeted traffic to your blog.

LinkedIn is a business oriented social network and it’s mainly used for professional networking. Today it was announced that LinkedIn has reached 60 million users in more than 200 countries worldwide.

What makes LinkedIn valuable for your marketing as blogger?

LinkedIn has an applications platform that allows other apps to be embedded within your member profile. For example, there is a WordPress and a TypePad application that allows you to display your latest blog entries within your profile.

Imagine how effective this can be for your exposure. You have your finger directly on 60 million potential visitors to your blog for free.

If you are still not a member of LinkedIn and have a blog about a business related niche than you should consider becoming one very quickly.

The eight easy steps to get free traffic from LinkedIn:

1. You simply signup on LinkedIn
2. Complete your profile
3. Associate your blog with one of the above mentioned apps (WordPress / TypePad)
4. Getting associate to LinkedIn Groups: As you can not invite people on LinkedIn directly, you should start by getting associated to LinkedIn Groups first. Look out for groups in your niche topic and request to be added and subscribe to their updates.
5. Get Friends on LinkedIn: After you are added to a group and subscribed to their updates, you will receive updates every time when somebody posts a discussion from the Group you are member of. Go and visit the discussion and if you have an educated comment, leave it there and invite the person you have commented on their discussion or comment themselves to connect with you.
6. Repeat these steps daily and your friends list will grow day by day.
7. Take care to be focus on quality friends not on the count!
8. Maintain your new relationships, step into (2Way) conversation.

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