A major problem that I had with one of my blogs is a really high bounce rate. Barely anyone stayed on that blog. How do I know? According to Google Analytics, I had a huge bounce rate of 75.76% with only about 66 visitors over a period of a month. So that leaves how many people that were actually engaged in my blog? Just a few.

Why did I have to deal with this horrifying screenshot below?

Because I failed to do something all bloggers should do, but don’t. What is that? It’s a very simple little thing. I have tried to do this on all the blogs I started, but I failed at this miserably.

It’s called using media on your blogs.

Now, I really don’t blog anymore due to my need of fast money, so I don’t care if my blog gets ranked #1 or 1 million.But is it really that simple to earn big with your blog? Is it true that you have to just add media, and wait for the visitors to stream in?

No, not really. Adding media is a step towards making your blog more user friendly. If that happens, it’s likely that any visitors that do wind up at your site by any chance will likely spread the word to their friends about your blog. That would create some excellent traffic to your blog virally.

Why does it work? Because most people don’t like to read. It’s too much work. Instead, they like to see stuff as it is. It makes it easier to understand, and if it’s easy to understand, people will most likely come back to the same place for more stuff just like it.

Now if you want to make some easy cash off of this, there is a very easy way to do it. All you have to do is embed ads on your videos. How do you do that? I don’t know, but that’s a way that YouTube people make some money. If you’ve ever seen those AdSense units on some YouTube videos, then you know what I’m talking about. There are lots of people making money from their videos on YouTube.

This is one of the most popular episodes of the Jeff Dunnham show on YouTube. If you see the Martin+OSA ad I circled in red (it’s hard to miss), you know what I’m talking about. You can do this from a lot of other adsense like sites. ClickBank, Overture, and other PPC programs also work with this.

But for people that want more money from their blogs, you want to build traffic first. You need to use videos and pictures without any monetization whatsoever. Wait for some good traffic to build up, and then you can do all that crap.

Anyways, media is one of the most powerful agents of free viral traffic. It will get you a lot of followers, and is a huge source of traffic. But you shouldn’t just rely on the average Joe to come along and see all your stuff. Submit your site to search engines, ping it, find ways to put backlinks to your blog to anywhere you can! Only then will your “media makeover” be complete.

But what happens if you don’t? Your own blog becomes your own, literally. No one will visit it besides you.