10 Essentials to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn

March 7, 2010

LinkedIn is a great tool to make contacts, but so few people use it as an effective Social Marketing tool and make real connections that will drive traffic to your blog where you can capture and communicate with them.  Darren Rowse posted a great article on Problogger where he talks about the 10 essentials to drive traffic to your blog.  Then it is up to your site to give them strong content to motivate them to connect with you.

The 10 Essentials to Drive traffic to your blog from LinedIn are:

1.  Complete Your Profile:

2.  Increase Your Connections:

3.  Customize Your Website Links:

4.  Answer Questions:

5.  Update Status:

6.  Join Niche Groups:

7.  Post Comments In Groups:

8.  Add RSS Feed to Groups:

9.  Create a Group:

10.  Add the Blog Application to Your Profile:

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