Welcome to Day 6 of your 10 day Niche Blog Challenge.

Today, we’re getting into an ‘advanced’ blogging tactic.
It involves using a ‘trigger’ based on a primal, powerful
human instinct - ‘curiosity’

First, you’ll write a blog post. This is similar to the
earlier one you wrote:

- locate an interesting news story or article or opinion/
editorial relevant to your niche

- think about what you want to say

- type a short introduction or ‘lead in’ to the material

- copy-paste an excerpt (short paragraph or snippet) from
the article or news story or website

- place a link to the rest of the story/article/website

Next, find 3 discussion forums related to your niche.
You can do this by searching on Google for

‘Your Niche’ + forums

Pick the busiest, most reputed, high ranking forums,
where many people visit and post regularly.

Register with them. Pick a username relevant to your
niche. Create a ’signature’ which includes a link back
to your niche blog, with your top keyword as the ‘anchor’
text (the text that’s highlighted and readers click on)

Now, post a ‘curiosity builder’ message.

Use a headline like this:

* Have you read this?

or

* Did you know?

or

* What did you think about it?

In the body of your message, make a vague reference to
the news story or article you blogged about. Do NOT give
out all details, but hint about how important it could be
to others in your niche.

Then, sign off!

Here’s what will happen.

Either no one will be interested… which means you’ll have
to try again with a different ‘angle’

Or someone will reply, with a comment or question. Very
often, you’ll get a post asking:

“Where can I read more about that?”

Bingo! You reply, saying you just made a post to your
blog, and that they can read all about it there!

The link to your blog in your signature then acts as their
roadsign, bringing visitors to your blog.

And by going to the busiest, highest ranked forums, you
also make sure search engine spiders will ‘find’ your
blog through your signature link.

Convinced this could work?

Great. Now go out there and find 3 forums today - and
post to your blog and mention it in these forums.

See what happens - and post your results to the forum
so others can see and learn.

That’s it for today. Take a break - I’ll see you again
tomorrow.

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