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Once your blog is up and running and you have added a few posts to it, you will want to start driving traffic to your site.

Here are 5 great ways for driving more traffic to your blog for free that I personally use with great results:

1) “How To Start A Blog” Videos – These step-by-step video training tutorials show you not only how to set up a WordPress blog, but also exactly how to configure it using FREE plugins that will automatically notify search engines, feed directories and social networking sites as soon as a new post is made to your blog.

Even if you (or your webmaster) have already set up a WordPress blog, these videos will show you how to go beyond the default WordPress blog installation and set up an automatic “set-and-forget” traffic-getting system for your blog that can help you grow your business online faster and save you a lot of time and effort. Click here for more details …

2) Publish Articles – Submitting articles regularly to article sites like isnare, Article Marketer, Article Dashboard, Goarticles, etc … can get you lots of traffic, visitors and new blog readers. Just make sure you have a link pointing back to your blog in your article’s “resources box” (e.g. “for more information about [your-area-of-expertise], visit the author’s blog here: [insert your blog URL]“.

Some of the main benefits of creating useful content like articles, is that you can then reformat and reuse the same information in different ways to help you not only drivet more traffic to your blog, but also target potential new customers, educate existing customers and generate more sales of your products and services.

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Yesterday one of my clients sent me a disheartening email. He had just finished setting up his brand new business blog following my business blog video tutorials and a couple of days later, he went to visit his site and all he saw was a completely blank page!

The tragedy is that he had not gotten around to backing up his site files and data. This is somewhat understandable, as most people wouldn’t think of backing up their site or blog as soon as they get it up and running. It is highly recommended, however, to back up your data on a regular basis (e.g. at least monthly when you first start, then weekly or even more frequently as your blog starts to grow and more content gets added to it.)

My client also let me know in his email that his hosting provider had informed him that his “wordpress crashed” and there was nothing wrong on their side.

I sent my client an empathetic email and suggested he try a couple of things first, before deleting the site from his server and starting the blog installation process all over again:

1) First, make sure that you’re hosting your blog with a reliable web hosting service provider.

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If you’ve been following the posts on this blog, or have set up your business blog as per our step-by-step video tutorials on how to set up a blog, then it should be pretty clear by now that the only work you have to do as a business blogger is to keep writing about your business and posting it on your blog.

In previous posts I have listed some of the many topics you can write about – all of which are designed to help you build trust with potential new customers by educating and informing your blog readers about the benefits of your products and services and why they should be doing business with you instead of your competition.

Now, whenever I talk about this with other small business owners, most of the responses I get tend to fall into two main categories:

1) “I don’t have time / I’m too busy”
2) “I don’t know how to write”

Business owners, small business owners and micro-business owners listen up!

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