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Hi guys,

What do you guys suggest are easy yet effective ways to promote blogs? I have blogs which have banner ads on the side which will take my viewers to a very convincing video salespage. I don't worry about not getting much conversions, i believe the buyers will be there. My problem is i don't have any promoting experience to get viewers for my blog to begin with.

I'll look forward to your tips and suggestions. Thank you!
#blogs #promoting
  • Profile picture of the author packerfan
    Nothing like good 'ole fashioned paid traffic when you actually have something to sell.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashleysmith12
    HI
    social networking sites are the bets way of promotion these days .
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    • Profile picture of the author Xdonaldd
      Ashley,

      So you're referring to facebook and twitter right? What if i only use my facebook for social reasons with my real life friends. Can you go into detail with what i could do with social networking sites to help promote my blogs?
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    • Profile picture of the author Christine Brady
      There are dozens and dozens of ways of promoting your blog.

      It comes down to what you will do on a consistent basis.

      Social networking, article writing, forums, blog groups - they all play a part in your blog promotion efforts.

      Commit to a few and participate there on a regular basis.

      You will get traffic - just be consistent!
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  • Profile picture of the author Xdonaldd
    Hi Christine,

    I'm willing to work as i have quite a lot of free time. The problem is, despite all my free time, i don't know what to work on. Do you think you can walk me through the steps to help me get started?

    As you can probably tell, i'm still pretty new to this. So any tips and suggestions will be helpful. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    This might help:

    How to Promote Your Blog with Irresistible RSS Feeds | @PushingSocial

    Supersmart ideas about RSS - have to do that meself.

    101 FREE Ways To Promote Your Blog | BLOGOOLA

    101 free ways, how can you go wrong?

    Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author pauley13
    Personally, I'd say the best way to promote any kind of site - but ESPECIALLY blogs - is through SEO with special focus on deep keyword research. It has the added benefit of building your authority on a solid foundation and any results you achieve are far less likely to disappear overnight (as it happens with MOST other promotional techniques).

    * Research your keywords thoroughly.

    * Establish the most indexed and suitable LSI keywords (and break them down into relevance groups, core characteristics, keyword types, etc).

    * Make a long-term keyword implementation plan, matching your current position on the web (Use Alexa as a rough guide, i.e. if you're unranked or low-ranked, start with the very easiest keywords, then move up gradually).

    * Depending on your niche, ensure that your keyword plan is sufficiently broad to establish a strong semantic environment for your site (that's your key for building Trust Rank).

    * Intelligently retro-fit small keyword sets into your already-written content (as applicable), ensure that each page is optimized to the max - but without affecting readability and quality of content.

    * Follow standard procedures for pinging, bookmarking, etc - nothing too fancy - just don't double-ping or double-post anything. If you do, make 20-30% "update changes" to the old posts before doing so.

    * Link manually to only the highest authority sites.

    * Ensure your NEW posts include your well-researched keyword sets and continue to adhere to the best SEO practices.

    * Monitor progress daily with Google Analytics. If you do 1 (800+ words) post per day and tick all the other boxes, you should be able to see between 25% and 50% organic traffic growth month-on-month, cumulative. Be super mindful of average time on site (the higher the better for your long-term ranking). If below 5 minutes, revise content and presentation and/or any other techniques to keep them glued to the screen.

    * If you do this right, you can have a near-geometric organic traffic progress which is super hard, if not actually impossible, to duplicate in any other way I'm aware of.

    My 2 cents

    cheers paul
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  • Profile picture of the author cashp0wer
    Social media combined with seo i think is the best way to promote a blog and i really like social bookmarking because you can bookmark a post then have discussions with the readers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Xdonaldd
    Of all the methods to promote blogs, i seem to be very interested in social media websites. So using sites like facebook and twitter. But my facebook account is mainly for talking and hanging out with my real life buddies and i don't really have a twitter account.

    Can you guys teach me how to use facebook and twitter to promote my blogs?
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