How do I promote my blog and my blog posts?

[alxvallejo]

I know content distribution is critical in SEO. I have a Blogger that I keep updating but how do I get traffic to it?

Side question: The blogger is separate from the main website. It links to the main website but does anyone know how to integrate the blog posts from Blogger onto the main website?

[Hotness]

Submit the same content to Top directories:

Ezines
Article Alleys
Sooper Articles... to name a few.

Checkout TargetHut for the list of better directories.

Setup a twitter and fanpage if you haven't already.

Hope this helps,
Haruka

[Justinpage]

Do link building. If you know how to build links, then it will not be a big problem for you. You can also use social bookmarking and social networking site.

[alxvallejo]

Originally Posted by Hotness

Submit the same content to Top directories:

Ezines
Article Alleys
Sooper Articles... to name a few.

Checkout TargetHut for the list of better directories.

Setup a twitter and fanpage if you haven't already.

Hope this helps,
Haruka

Aren't you penalized for creating duplicate content on both your blog and the article directory you submit to?

[webring]

submit your blog feed url to high pr rss directories, use social bookmarking, submit your blog to search engines manually. these all will increase the traffic of your blog.

[myseoclub]

seo, seo, seo

With the blog posts build backlinks for keywords relating to the post or the site just like the big sites do.

so if you are a movie site and have a review of a new film backlink the actual post for the film name.

For example on my blog i am front page of google for hostgator review and hostgator reviews and this brings in regular traffic through to my blog and I must have another 100 blog posts that do the same.

[georgefuller]

for the blog post.. it's better for you to wait until google cache your page before submitting it to social bookmarkings and networkings.
while for the main blog site.. i suggest do a link building campaign specially blog submission sites.

[alxvallejo]

Again, If I were to copy and paste my blog post and submit it to EZineArticles...what's the outcome?

[WilliamBLee]

I think you should submit your site to relevant ones and also please make content which is keyword friendly and easily crawl by google.

[jpr106]

Off page SEO !!!!

Backlinks will bring you traffic. They're like votes for your sites, and the higher quality backlinks you get the higher you'll rise in the SERPs.

Make sure your getting a good all-round link portfolio with links coming from lots of different sources, and keep building! I find that building backlinks to your backlinks is REALLY effective at the moment, so make sure you're doing this if you want results fast.

Jonathan

[guarino1235]

Thank you WF learned a lot here. i have backlinks but still, my blog isn't not ranked on the keyword i am targeting.. I guess i'm doin it all wrong

[dadamson]

Make sure you are doing some keyword optimization before every post you create.

Focus on one or two keywords and run the post through an onpage SEO analyzer to check it.

Test how successful you are for each keyword and what competition level you are able to obtain good results with (without sacraficing too much traffic)

With your blog posts optimized, you will need to do some link building (or use an SEO service) to do your offpage SEO.

The aim with this is to rank each individual blog post you make on the first page of Google for related keywords.

Your traffic potential can exponentially rise as you continue posting.

Cheers,
Dave

[Web Dev]

Social Network, Article Marketing, Bookmarking, etc...always work for me.

As long as you do it right for each page, you'll rank higher than your competitors.

[fitz10]

-Participate in groups in your niche (Yahoo Groups, Nings, etc)
-Thoughtful commenting on other blogs (NOT spamming)
-Read your post outloud and turn it into a podcast
-Guest blog on other blogs
-Trade blog roll links with someone else
-Participate in blogging contests
-Blog parties and carnivals
-Add your blog to blog directories and RSS directories
-Twitter