One of the hardest things for me to do is to stay focused.  It's probably not that hard for you, correct?

What I've found helpful, is to break down every hour into 15 minute segments. I tell myself---- "Self, what is the most important thing you can do in the next 15 minutes? What can you do that will be highly productive and beneficial in the long run?"

Well last night at around 11:47 p.m., "Self" told me, "The most important thing you can do, the one thing that will be highly productive and beneficial in the long run is... TO GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND GO TO SLEEP!"

Below is part 2 of the 10 Powerful Steps Every Real Estate Should Use To Get Blog Traffic.  Remember, to subscribe to my blog "Adventures in Door Knocking" to have my musings come to you automatically.

This tips are from Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He has a offers a free report called Blog Profits Blueprint that I signed up to recieve, before I joined his program, which is turning out to be a lot of work... but necessary if I want to see results.

Top 10 Blog Traffic Tips (#7, 6, 5, 4)

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

Did you miss tips 8 through 10? Well, here you go.

Or click here to read the last three tips.

Happy Blogging,

Kendall Matthews, CRMC

www.StressLessHomeLoan.com

P.s. Yarak, has some free blogging set-up videos that was helpful for me in setting up RSS Feeds and other technical things I couldn't figure out, would you like for me to create a post review about that?  Let me know.