How to Promote My Blog?
Promoting a blog is Simple in Methodology But NOT Easy
There are no big secrets to promoting your blog, read on for some of the easiest, most effective strategies for driving targeted traffic to your blog…
From my own experience and from listening to other Internet marketers the most effective way to promote your blog is to simply make sure to post regularly.
There is no magic bullet! Google will eventually rank you for loads of different keywords that you couldn’t even imagine IF you make regular contributions to your site.
In essence there are only two things you need to build any website and drives 100s or even 1000s of daily visitors. Those two things are quality, UNIQUE content and some quality back links.
In the distant past, any back link would do, but it seems that Google is becoming more and more particular about exactly which sites are linking to you and the said sites’ current standing on the web.
A link to your business from an ‘Authority’ site will give you a greater rankings boost than a link from a regular run of the mill website.
Once you have made a commitment to making regular posts on your blogging platform then there are certain methods that you can use to help your web presence along.
Article marketing – Write an article and either manually submit it yourself or have an article submission service submit it to the most popular article directories. I use Submit Your Article service. If you’re going to manually submit then to save time only submit to the top 5-10 directories.
Directory submissions – Get a hold of some effective directory submission software like Directory Submitter and submit your site to as many online directories as possible. You can also pay companies to submit to directories for you. If you have the cash then this is the easiest way to go about it.
When submitting to directories use a variety of your main keyword phrases as your website title. Directories will usually use this title to link back to your site thus giving your blog a search engine position ‘point’ for the said phrase.
HINT: The more ‘points’ you gain for phrases that link to your site the higher you will reach in Google and other search engines for the targeted search phrases.
Forum posting – In order to increase direct traffic to your blog – rather than giving your search engine ranking a boost with back links – you can visit high traffic discussion forums and start posting helpful advice, with a link back of course to your site in the forum signature file. The signature file will appear at the end of each post.
Here’s a screenshot of my signature file(Highlighted) at the Warrior forum. Notice I use keyword phrases in the link text here too:
Another way to increase back links and maybe get some direct traffic is by posting comments on other blogs. Now don’t make the stupid mistake of posting the same comment to every blog.
It amazes me how many halfwits post stupid comments to this blog making it blatantly obvious that they haven’t even read the post they’re commenting on 
AND then expect me to publish them 
. If you make a genuine comments AFTER reading the posts then it will pay off. Set a target to post a certain amount of comments each day.
HINT: Choose blogs closely related to your own blog content. If you do use comment posting software to make your task easier use it only to find and locate posts that are relevant, then read the post and make an appropriate, different comment for each one.
These are just a few methods and tips that you can use to promote your blog. I will state again what I said in starting the post – MAKE SURE TO POST REGULARLY!
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Some great info, thanks so much
In my experience, the best way to get new readers is to go to an interesting article like this one & post a comment inviting people to drop by & take a look at my blog.
Peace Out,
Eric
I actually think posting on your blog regularly is really hard to do without supplementing it somehow. So I actually hired a bunch of interns to write my content, and now I have so much content, I decided to share it with other bloggers in the form of my site, promote my blog.
Thanks for this information. actually I have used some of the above methods but still my blog is not getting traffic. if anyone knows about additional promotional methods for my blog, please tell me.
These are the conventional ways buddy, tell me about some hidden techniques to promote my blog.
Hi Mal,
I agree what you said about blog commenting. I really hate those who write a comment on your blog and it seems that they haven’t even read what plog post is about. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR…
Thank you so much for the information, im currently studying the techniques to proper blogging. For now im winging it but the ideas in your article have been posted by many others. What new ways is there that will draw traffic. There has to be secrets out there nobody has found yet. But i do agree with your techniques for now. They all work we just need something new
Great tips…yes I agree you need to update your blog on a regular basis. The new thing the big G is looking for now, is human activity. Before it was content and back links…now they want to see human activity.
Kevin, in all honesty I haven’t found any hidden secrets. For me it was just hard work and persistence.
Mal
I agree. Glad you’re commenting here then – counts towards my sites activity – and hope to see more of your ideas.
Mal
In time, with Google Caffeine and the “human activity” factor, blog posting will be more important for the blog owner than the backling the commenter will get.
Is essencial to keep a space for interaction with the people, just like you are doing so well.
That’s make me wonder if we are facing the end of html sites?
How many visitors are you getting from each of your articles you post? I’ve been doing article marketing for some time now and I’m seeing about 10 to 14 visitors per article for the life of the article. It’s not too bad when you take into account some PPC markets that cost $2.00 to $5.00 bucks a click. I spend about 10 minutes, kick out a 350 to 550 word article and get FREE traffic. I’ve started to out source it too with most articles costing me around $6.00 each. So even when I’m competing against a $5.00 click charge I’m only paying at most $0.60 cents for each visitor… not bad huh!
Do you know the typical visitor count from the other methods i.e. Directories and Forums? I haven’t done much with those yet.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your comments Jim. One of my top articles has over 130 clicks from Ezine Articles alone and 14.4% CTR, which isn’t bad. It can be viewed here Proven Home Businesses.
There is a way to write article to greatly improve the CTR, which you can maybe look more into. I have always tended towards getting as many out there as possible to increase links back to my sites.
Mal
P.S
I don’t allow links in the body of the comments here so I’ve removed your link.
Thanks Chris for your insights. With the advent of social networking sites HTML has definitely become less relevant. i don’t know if they’ll disappear completely though.
The most powerful thing I have done is create social networking sites that grow on their own from membership added content – all unique stuff too.
I look forward to reading more of your comments.
Mal
Great Idea, but how much time you must invest?
I think there are better ways to drive free traffic!
I use safelists, trafficexchanges and adexchanges.
Take a look at my website!
Thanks! I’ve started a blog, so I was looking for a how-to on ways of promoting it. Your article did the job wonderfully.
Hi Mal
Appreciate the mention of SYA, will add my two pennies worth on article marketing …
With ref to Jim’s comments, I always see click-throughs from the articles themselves as icing on the cake really, the real benefit comes from the rise in rankings of your site thanks to all the articles that are out there, and where you’ve done your keyword research properly and are linking back via those keywords in your resource box.
Generally also, you’ll get far more click-throughs from an article published in an ezine than one that’s sitting on an article directory, so the CTR only tells a partial story as to the overall effectiveness of article marketing.
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