What is your blogging strategy?

It does depend on what it is you are doing this for. Are you doing it to sell something ultimately or just doing it for fun?

If its to sell something then I set up a full ecosystem around the blog. I use tools like links alpha or buffer to amplify the content and I make sure I crank out 1 - 2 solid quality articles per week.

I also use syndication to make sure it gets amplified further than my own ecosystem. I offer amazing value for free and then use autoresponders to up sell at the end of the 7 email series that is spread out over 45 - 60 days.

Thats just to get started.....

That's black hat. Wouldn't you prefer to help people legitimately?

To the original poster. There is a ton you can do... a LOT! And I agree that it does depend on your blog topic. Here are just a few ideas I'll list:

-Make sure your subscription is easy to see and gives a call to action ("Enter Your Email for Free Blog Updates")
-Comment on other blogs in your niche and build a relationship with a few that you feel are on the same level. Then you can all help each other build up (leverage).
-Use something like tweetadder to automate most of your tweeting/following/rss syndication. That's what I use and I love it. It probably saves me at least 15 minutes a day per twitter account I have.
-Use hootsuite to make it easier to respond to people on twitter (rather than opening every single email to respond to people). You can also use hootsuite to syndicate your blog to automatically post to twitter and your facebook page (so you don't have to do it each time, one less thing to do).
-Use the wordpress plugin Tweet Old Post if you have evergreen content (content that's relevant for a long period of time).
-Create something that you can give away for free (like an ebook) and have an email sign up for it. Then you can send blog updates periodically to those people too.
-If you don't get people to agree to let you guest post, you can post on web 2.0 sites (create a couple other blogger blogs, create a triond account, etc) and write articles on there with a link to your blog or a relevant blog post.

I think I'll stop there, but there really are hundreds of other things you can do. Also, make sure your grammar is good, blog posts are quality, and that your blog design is clean and/or interesting, has a custom look, and looks good to the eye.

For me, telling story is one of the best marketing strategy and to get the attention of your blog readers. Many of us love to read stories of other either their personal experience or someone experience that we can related.

You can share to social media group your latest blog post to get comments, youtube video, and forum posting

Quality content with a genuine attitude.. I actually started to survey my readers and found what interested them, what were their strengths and weaknesses and wrote posts that would benefit them. I got a great response!

I read a ton of blogs, and I don't read boring blogs.



Be exciting, out of the box, and entertaining.

If you give me the URL, I will be more than happy to analyze for you. Obviously first and foremost I don't care what other ppl say. Content is still the king, yes they are the king. Instead of writing every few days, try once every other day, copy the URL of the post regularly and check into google search engine and see how fast google is responding in terms of indexing your pages which give you a pretty good idea how popular your site is getting. If your blog is solely focusing on one or two very specific topics, perhaps you want to target some keywords covering the topics and start building some high authority backlinks for both authority building as well as search engine ranking purposes. If you have good contents to offer starting posting unique contextual on high PR blogs with (solid backlinks) not just any high PR blog, they got to have solid backlinks and decent authority. Hope this helps.

I like to use the sensual connection technique. I set my comments to auto approve so that way I can connect and reply back to each any everyone. Some are on topic and some aren't, but regardless I make sure I talk to them. Some of my blog posts have over 1000 comments, but I try to find the time to talk to all of them, and they keep coming back and they comment on my other blog posts too!

I think e-mail can works here but it depend on that how are your blogs and how much good connection you have make with them.If the blog are fantastic then i think there is no need to mail them.But at on first road it makes some help for you.

Facebook, online classifieds, emails and youtube seem to get the job done!

Patience , patience & patience , it always pays [ ] , though its not paying you now.

Later you will understand , that to create a wordpress site around what you know best & to sell that is the best strategy.

And fyi - you are on exactly the right track my dear. takes a little while

My blogging strategy is not to blog at all. Thought about doing a review site, but nah. I'll stick with the offline services market, mixed with easy profit gigs and such.

Well your blog topic has a lot to do with the amount of traffic you attract. In my opinion, you are doing your optimization right maybe you need to apply some tools like hootsuite for your twitter.

some of my blogs are really competitive. For them I regularly post high quality articles and build links on a regular basis.
Some of them are average. And I post weekly one post there. and buy some monthly packages for them.
That's simple and that's my strategy.
thanks

My strategy is different and it is far more productive. I have a section in my blog which i review in each of every day. The title of that section is 'question and answer'. Those who want answer should have a blog and if they get their answer then definitely they would follow me. And another thing is that i also need to learn new thing in each of every day.

You have to have an end goal in mind with every person that comes to your blog

Are you trying to just build your list? are you trying to make sales from your
blog?

It could be any number of things

Personally for me I use my blog to:

1. Brand myself within my industry
2. Build my lists
3. Presell my visitors before they enter any of my funnels
4. Make some sales from products which I have
5. Build my membership site

My blogs main purpose is for branding and everything else is just a bonus

With blogging you need to constantly put out some good helpful content and over time your traffic will build and you will start to build a loyal following

Your loyal following is the back bone of any successful blog

Paul

Those above are your two best techniques thus far, in my view. Here are additional experienced-based suggestions from me:

*Open a Tumblr account. Every time you publish a new blog post at your blog, publish it at Tumblr, too. Also, learn how to leverage Tumblr for your marketing efforts. (Just do a search engine keyword search for this and you will find plenty of quality information.)

*Open a StumbleUpon account if you don't have one. Every time you post a new blog post, Stumble it. Be sure to use as many appropriate Tags as you can, too.

*Stop mixing business with social pleasure on FaceBook. FaceBook is quickly becoming ineffective for marketing purposes, and it can even interfere with them.

*Make videos and create (or re-blog properly credited) images for posting at your blog, too.

*Instead of e-mailing other bloggers to guest blog for you, search out blogs that welcome guest bloggers (preferably those that pay you!), and do your own guest blogging. You will be allowed to link back to your own blog in your byline, and you will build relationships.

*Keep in mind that it's more important to write outstanding blog posts than it is to worry about SEO for blog posts.

*Use syndicated article publishing to bring traffic to your blog. Here's how: In Google, type in the phrase "Write for us" (yes, in quotation marks, just like that) and then a keyword or two corresponding with the overarching theme of your blog. Try to publish articles at the websites that come up as search results. These websites will usually pay you(!) if they publish your article, and they will allow you to link back to your blog.

*Take your time with building your blog following and visitor numbers. Always focus on consistency and quality.

*Do not rely on AdSense or anything else like it for revenues. Your blog needs to offer products for sale. Period.

*Consider paying to use Revisitors or Webfire to bring visitors to your blog.

I haven't really been taking my blog seriously. Just upload content regularly and build backlinks with Ezine, hubpages, squiddo, and guest posts.

Forget aboout all that other stuff - blog when you have something on your mind that you think others will find informative. If you do this - with the focus on your customer / user then all that other stuff will come. But, if you focus on everything else then your posts and your efforts will point in the wrong direction - forgeting about what you want in the first place - customers. Focus on your customers - everything else will come in time.

My blogging strategy is pretty complex. Write and sleep.

Hello there!
The best thing to do if you want your blog to last is to know what people want to read and write if you feel like writing. Squeezing your brain to write a post will only result to a robotic content which no one would like to read. Establish your connections by visiting other blogs too. That is one of the easiest ways to enjoy the world of blogging-- building rapport. This mostly applies if you are blogging for fun. But if you are into earning money, that is a completely different thing. Also, invest on your web design. It is as important as your content.
Regards

It is fairly typical
- Find good keywords with little competition
- Write unique high quality content on those keywords
- Make a video out of it with the targeted keywords
- Make sure all your tags are in the blog
- Get comments and backlinks
- And boom you have a simple blog ready to bring in traffic.

You should definitely offer free stuff, like eboo or video to your readers Also good tip is writing good intros in order to persuade people into reading whole post

Base your blogging strategy on revenue model. Revenue model will define your content strategy.

This video may give you a lot of ideas:


One thing that you can add is guest posting to improve SEO to your blog.

posten often. its easy to get lazy or get complaceent and next thing you know your like i havn't written a post in forever. make a schedule and stick to bloggingconsistantly