How to promote a blog?

14 years ago

Here are a few tips to help you:

1. Incorporate social media into your blog. Add facebook and twitter share buttons.

2. Use great headlines to attract social media traffic

3. Engage in guest posting on other related blogs

4. Invest in SEO. Yes in the beginning it may be painful but the rewards will be much in the end

5. Learn about content curation. This is a killer tip that can turn your blog into a traffic generating machine.

Hope this helps.

Dann Vicker

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WF99

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dann Vicker

Here are a few tips to help you:

1. Incorporate social media into your blog. Add facebook and twitter share buttons.

2. Use great headlines to attract social media traffic

3. Engage in guest posting on other related blogs

4. Invest in SEO. Yes in the beginning it may be painful but the rewards will be much in the end

5. Learn about content curation. This is a killer tip that can turn your blog into a traffic generating machine.

Hope this helps.

Dann Vicker

Thanks Dann .. Your tips helps me too ..

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James.N

14 years ago

When did you set up your blogger blog? It can take some time for it to show up in the search engines. Plus depending on the niche and keywords it could be ranked very low which is why you are not seeing it, this is probably pretty likely since it's in the finance niche. If you just want to see if Google knows about your site go to google and type in:

site:yourwebsite.com

If it comes up with something Google has at least crawled your site. You can use something like the firefox plugin ranktracker to see how your site is ranking.

More importantly I would just keep adding quality content to the blog and as Dann said start working on getting your blog out there...use social media, do some guest blogging, blog commenting, put the blog in your forum signatures etc.

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James.N

14 years ago

Never mind...he's banned.

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fluffythewondercat 14 years ago

Originally Posted by quadxnet

Never mind...he's banned.

Not as of today. Keep in mind bans are often temporary but threads go on forever.

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Usmile

14 years ago

Use the power of social media to promote your blog. Create a fan page or twitter account so that you can post updates with greater amount of audience

Bookmarking your blog is also a great idea. Stumbleupon, reddit, digg and delicious are good places to do it.

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smartiewriter

14 years ago

Don't worry, sometimes it just takes a while for it to show up in the search engines. You should make sure that you have the keyword phrase that you are trying to rank for throughout your blog (but not more than 4% of the content.) You just want to have it mentioned a few times so that people who are searching for that keyword can find your blog.

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Resale Rights Ninja

14 years ago

The same old same old. Great content, and forum marketing, twitter... blah, blah, blah.

To me it is all a waste of time. Get and affiliate program set-up and help your affiliates get rich and they will do all the promo for you.

Google is dead me. I no longer try to please the search engine gods. I have sites that were 100% original content slowly moving up the ranks and then suddenly drop way back. It is so hit and miss and its too much stress and a waste of time to please google. there are better ways to get traffic and make money.

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phpdevelopment

14 years ago

Add in social media into your blog. Add facebook and twitter share buttons, Use great headlines to attract social media traffic for promot your blog.

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EdwinBrownJr

14 years ago

I would...

First by your own name with namecheap
RonLeroy.com or FinanceWithRon.com

Then you get some real hosting
hostgator or arvixe

Set up a blog, using wordpress

Start blogging, creating great content because you don't want to be known a SCAMMER

and drive targeted traffic
by following the great advice from the people below...

Originally Posted by Dann Vicker

Here are a few tips to help you:

1. Incorporate social media into your blog. Add facebook and twitter share buttons.

2. Use great headlines to attract social media traffic

3. Engage in guest posting on other related blogs

4. Invest in SEO. Yes in the beginning it may be painful but the rewards will be much in the end

5. Learn about content curation. This is a killer tip that can turn your blog into a traffic generating machine.

Hope this helps.

Dann Vicker

Originally Posted by Usmile

Use the power of social media to promote your blog. Create a fan page or twitter account so that you can post updates with greater amount of audience

Bookmarking your blog is also a great idea. Stumbleupon, reddit, digg and delicious are good places to do it.

Originally Posted by Toponsmar

You can submit your blog article to Digg, it's can promote your blog indexed by Google. Of course, you can comment other blogger about finances. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Resale Rights Ninja

The same old same old. Great content, and forum marketing, twitter... blah, blah, blah.

To me it is all a waste of time. Get and affiliate program set-up and help your affiliates get rich and they will do all the promo for you.

Google is dead me. I no longer try to please the search engine gods. I have sites that were 100% original content slowly moving up the ranks and then suddenly drop way back. It is so hit and miss and its too much stress and a waste of time to please google. there are better ways to get traffic and make money.

Originally Posted by nijinashok00

The best way to promote a blog entirely free is through social networks like Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and social bookmarking websites like Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg etc. Out of this Reddit gives me the most referral traffic. The strict policy of Reddit makes it one of the top social bookmarking website. The bounce rate of Reddit is also fairly good. But it need some tricks to get good result from Reddit. See this Reddit- How to Get Quality Backlinks and Traffic for Your Blog

Originally Posted by phpdevelopment

Add in social media into your blog. Add facebook and twitter share buttons, Use great headlines to attract social media traffic for promot your blog.

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prasanth5

14 years ago

Blogs can be promoted through blog commenting. Make sure that you pick related and relevant blogs and include your links in the comments. Also make sure that you don't spam the external blogs in their comments section.

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RonLeroy

14 years ago

After three weeks of promoting my blog i got some results. Not a big one, but i got my first money from adsense. Concerning promotion i can uncover a secret. For me the best way is to put plenty of backlinks in hight ranked site with PR 7 ,8 and 9. News sites like CNN, Washington post and bbc. They have comments area there you can put your backlinks. These sites are huge if you put comment with your backlink on the top article it will be probably deleted but before it will be deleted you will get some descent traffic. Also google tends to cash the content of top sites quite often and you have a chance what page with your backlink will be cashed before your comment will be deleted, so even thought they delete your comment google in cash think you have a backlink there.

A second secret you can put your backlinks in archives, they are not havily moderated, i have my links on top news sites in archives for weeks and no one still deleted them.

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Royalking

14 years ago

Originally Posted by RonLeroy

I recently created a blog about finances on blogger. I also tried to create a blog on wordpress.com but they do not allow advertising. The strage thing is that i see in search engine my unfinished page on wordpress but do not see my blog on blogger, eventhought I uploaded site map to all search engines. May I have some help with ideas how to promote a blog.

There is nothing to worry about just ping your blog and write an article and submit to ezinearticles or goarticles with a link back to your site. Hope just pinging is enough to get a blog indexed but to make things happen faster, use social sharing sites like digg, reddit.

For more advanced blog promotion strategies check this article - How To Promote Your Blog Posts

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mosthost

14 years ago

"Finances" is a pretty broad category. It might be worthwhile to concentrate on a narrower segment.

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Victoralexon

14 years ago

One of the best strategies seems to be guest posting.

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fluffythewondercat

14 years ago

People seem to miss this basic fact but here it is:

Your blog promotes your blog.

You can't just throw up a half-dozen articles and expect to succeed. Realistically, you're going to need several hundred. Outsource them if you need to, but honest to Pete don't bother with any of that social media crapola until your blog is stuffed with content like a Strasbourg goose.

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MidlandsMarketer

14 years ago

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

People seem to miss this basic fact but here it is:

Your blog promotes your blog.

You can't just throw up a half-dozen articles and expect to succeed. Realistically, you're going to need several hundred. Outsource them if you need to, but honest to Pete don't bother with any of that social media crapola until your blog is stuffed with content like a Strasbourg goose.

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This, this, and THIS.

Why waste time promoting a blog that people are instantly going to leave upon finding?
Make sure that your content is high quality and that there is a lot of it. If you have a tonne of content that you want to display but want to create the appearance of a reguarly updated blog, backdate it as desired.

Once you've got a blog jam packed with useful information, build relationships with other bloggers and your potential readerbase by providing useful comments and eventually guest posts on other blogs in your niche.

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Victoralexon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

People seem to miss this basic fact but here it is:

Your blog promotes your blog.

You can't just throw up a half-dozen articles and expect to succeed. Realistically, you're going to need several hundred. Outsource them if you need to, but honest to Pete don't bother with any of that social media crapola until your blog is stuffed with content like a Strasbourg goose.

fLufF
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Very well said, although you certainly do not need that much content before you start promoting it, but having at least five to ten articles would be good. Of course, it comes down a lot to quality and the length of each article.

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fluffythewondercat

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Victoralexon

Very well said, although you certainly do not need that much content before you start promoting it, but having at least five to ten articles would be good. Of course, it comes down a lot to quality and the length of each article.

Sorry, I'm not one of those "do the absolute minimum" bloggers.

Sure, if you're just blogging to get pennies from AdSense, why put much effort into it? (Though you'll make more from AdSense if you have more valuable content...)

I don't think length has anything to do with it. There's nothing more boring to read than a piece written to word count. You know the ones... where the writer crafts a sentence, then states it differently, then states it a third time. It's sleep-inducing.

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Victoralexon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

Sorry, I'm not one of those "do the absolute minimum" bloggers.

I never said nor did I imply that you were. I know that I am certainly not interested in building one of those tiny adsense blogs.

Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat

Sure, if you're just blogging to get pennies from AdSense, why put much effort into it? (Though you'll make more from AdSense if you have more valuable content...)

I don't think length has anything to do with it. There's nothing more boring to read than a piece written to word count. You know the ones... where the writer crafts a sentence, then states it differently, then states it a third time. It's sleep-inducing.

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All I was saying was that you certainly do not need to hold off on promoting your blog until you have loads of blog posts, you can start quite early and that will make a perfect strategy, regardless of whether if you are building an "authority" blog or an adsense blog. If you were to ask many of the top bloggers, in any niche, you would probably find that many of them started leaving comments on other blogs, tweeting, etc., quite early. As long as you have some content on there for new arrivals, there is no reason not to do it. Most people do not have the energy to read through that many posts when they first land on a blog anyway.
Of course, then you have to make sure to update your blog regularly with great content.

Well, I certainly think that length has a lot to do with it. That said, a 100 word post can certainly be better than one that has 3000 words. I never said that you should write your posts to word count.
Here is an article where the blogger analysed some of the most successful blogs on the web. You may be interested in reading it.

All that said, I would say that this does not matter too much in the long run. Whether if you build a blog with a massive and loyal following or not, will probably come down more to the quality of the content, etc., and not so much on how long you waited until you started promoting it.

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Douggie

14 years ago

Social media and SEO are my main strategies and both have their pros and cons but when done right they can produce a lot of blog traffic.

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seobuzz

14 years ago

Websites primarily have this problem of indexing. But as you start the link building, it vanishes. That is not a big issue with the website.

But the problem that most webmasters face with getting quality traffic to website. And you should concentrate there also i.e to build quality traffic to your website.

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14 years ago

promote it on youtube, face book and twitter
easy ways to promote a blog

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Fundermentalist

14 years ago

you can gradually build your list and send your subscribers daily tips

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Randall Magwood

14 years ago

You gotta post everyday, ping your blog, get subscribers, and find ways to bring people back to your blog. Consider the usual methods of traffic generation. Article marketing, forum marketing, and especially Youtube marketing.

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sbsts

14 years ago

Best thing to do is comment on other people's blogs who have high PR. This gives you backlinks/anchor text to your blog and its posts.

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John Z

14 years ago

Try blog directories

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prasanth5

14 years ago

Build internal links to nicety in order to drive more traffic to your blog. If you go on building internal links then the blog gets promoted on its own accord!

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IMHunter

14 years ago

Post on Forums, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blog Directories etc.

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Tadresources

14 years ago

Social media plug ins, guest posting on high traffic sites relevant to your blog, quality content, good SEO practices. and building up a wealth of good content are the first moves you should make IMO.

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crucita

14 years ago

Subscription on RSS, email subscriptions. Email marketing is probably the most important thing one can do to grow a Blog. Make sure to put your Blog URL in your email signature

Social Media Promotions through grow a community like Facebook, twitter by sharing of posts

Link Building: The number of back links is essential if you want higher page ranks, including:
-Submit your address to blog search sites and directories
-Set your blog to send Pings.
-Add your blog to Blogger's listings

Relevant content is essential and also to publish regular updates in order to keep your target audience interested.

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Mr Oranje

14 years ago

Originally Posted by crucita

Subscription on RSS, email subscriptions. Email marketing is probably the most important thing one can do to grow a Blog. Make sure to put your Blog URL in your email signature

Social Media Promotions through grow a community like Facebook, twitter by sharing of posts

Link Building: The number of back links is essential if you want higher page ranks, including:
-Submit your address to blog search sites and directories
-Set your blog to send Pings.
-Add your blog to Blogger's listings

Relevant content is essential and also to publish regular updates in order to keep your target audience interested.

Some great suggestions thanks.

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