Are you trying to gain more sustainable audience to your blog? Here is a practical guide on how you should and should not promote your blog to reach this objective.

Before you learn what works, care to learn what doesn’t.

0. Don’t buy gaming traffic.

Although gaming traffic is the cheapest click traffic you can buy, there is a good reason for it being the cheapest. Gamers won’t stick to your blog. They bounce back as easily as they pop in. Gamers don’t convert into sustainable audience. As soon as you stop the traffic, consider the game is over – your blog audience will drop back to its original level, unless, of course, you run a gaming blog. Why? Gamers are very impatient and won’t waste any time on anything that is not “kicking”.
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