10 Top Ideas To Promote Your Blog

Friday, May 15th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

Blogs are a very popular way to create an online presence for business or personal reasons. You can build a blog for free and begin posting content right away. But, what is great content if you have no traffic. Here are ten great ideas and tactics to drive tons of traffic to your blog.

Of all the successful bloggers that are {making money from blogs-make money blogging} on the Internet, hundreds more have failed. Running a blog is like running a business website. Unless you put the time in and work hard at first you won’t be a successful blogger for very long.

That is not to say that the failed bloggers weren’t serious about blogging. Mostly, newbie bloggers aren’t prepared for the work it takes to be a successful blogger. Just building the blog doesn’t mean that people will necessary come to you. Persue your audience and make a posting to give them a reason to follow and see what you’re about.

1. Fresh Content – no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Make sure to update your blog frequently and be consistant about it. It will be MUCH easier if you write several posts ahead of time and upload them in a time sequence.

2.Article Marketing – the niche you’ve chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time doing it. Always create content first for your blog but also submit to article directories and other blogs. Use the resource box to advertise your blog so people can find you.

3.Web 2.0 Social Networking – these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections. You can join groups of other likeminded people who may also bloggers or entrepreneurs.

4.Viral Marketing – this is word getting spread about your blog by others. Talk to friends, family and even strangers. Give out business cards and make sure your blog address is on them.

5.Use RSS Feeds – RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” Readers subscribe to your feed and get updated when post new content. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

6.Submit Blog to Search Engines – this will allow your blog to be picked up and ranked. Google and Yahoo! are two of the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages. It’s not a gauranteed top ranking, though. You will have to do more work for that.

7.Joining Forums – as a blogger you’re a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Become a member of forums, work at home forums and other forums in your niche to meet new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can find you.

8.Visit other blogs – show your appreciation to your visitors by posting comments on their blogs. It is a kindness that shows fellow bloggers that you are not just out to advertise your blog alone. Post your links in your comments.

9.SEO Marketing – whatever you write, use relevant keywords. Keyword density between three percent and ten percent is best for getting high page rankings in search engines. Base your keywords on a research you do to find the most popular words used in search engines for your niche.

10.Social Bookmarking – submitting posts to social bookmarking sites allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog.

Putting to use the ideas will kickstart your blog into the right direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want.

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