How to promote my blog?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Mirodenia, Nov 5, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hello everybody,

    How are you?
    I have a blog of 4 months old, I write short and intense stories.
    People like them, everybody told me, I am very happy.
    I want to promote my blog because it is unknown. A friend told me it's enough to write good content for people to come to my blog. But they need to know about it, I assume.
    Can you be so nice to suggest me a list or a link with all I can do to promote my blog please?
    It is on facebook, twitter, indexed by google already, I signed for some sites like google, yahoo and other.
    I need a list with the best places to promote it.
    I tried to place the link to some forums, posting, but they banned me. How do you promote the sites on the forums?
    On facebook and twitter I only keep on adding contacts, hoping one day they visit my blog after I announce a new story and post the link.
    Thanks for a short and comprehensive list.

    A nice day!

    Mirodenia
     
    Mirodenia, Nov 5, 2011 IP
  2. nwk

    nwk Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Well, you can start by putting your blog url in your profile signature. That way, people will be able to tell you what all things you need to do so that your visitors come again. e.g. you can put an RSS subscribe button through feedburner or something. That way, your readers will be notified whenever you write a new article. There are various ways of promoting your blog but I'm no expert on that. You can however start by having a look the top blogs like problogger.net, johnchow.com, etc.
     
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  3. SimoneRyan

    SimoneRyan Active Member

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    Try the social bookmarking sites like facebook, stumbleupon, twitter, digg and so on. Those sites should make your blog really popular if your stories are interesting for the ones that read them.
     
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  4. indianseocompany

    indianseocompany Peon

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    #4
    Here are some tips that might be useful for you:

    1. Comment on Other Blogs
    2. Post Frequently
    3. Participate in Online Forums
    4. Use Social Media
    5. Link to Other Blogs in Your Own Posts
    6. Include Your Blog Link in Your Email Signature and on Business Cards
    7. Hold a Blog Contest
     
    indianseocompany, Nov 9, 2011 IP
  5. born_star16

    born_star16 Member

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    #5
    Also, blog directories, blog RSS feed directories etc. can help a lot.
     
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  6. Install

    Install Member

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    Your friends is definitely right. Content is over all the main thing.
    I won`t repeat here the issues which you have already read but I would add one more thing.
    Working on your content try to make something like VIRUS stuff. Something like scandal, nonsense, discovering.
    The rest will happened itself.
     
    Install, Nov 9, 2011 IP
  7. mikeychristianson

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    #7
    Do some article marketing, if you're a writer I would suggest you go to other's writers blogs and leave comments on their blogs, and build relationships with other well known writers...from there you could do guest posts on their blogs with a link back to your blog. Best of Luck!
     
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  8. digptrader

    digptrader Peon

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    #8
    don't forget optimize you SEO
     
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    well your blog must connect with social network ...its powerfull to promote your blog...
     
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  10. PatchesDM

    PatchesDM Guest

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    #10
    Hey! If you're looking to promote your blog, I would say SEO. However, if you're just trying to make money off your blog, you should definitely try blog automation. PM me if you want to learn more!
    Cheers and happy blogging mate.
     
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  11. goldenpearl

    goldenpearl Active Member

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    #11
    Blog directories and social bookmarking are important.Good comments or link on related blogs is best way promote your blog.
     
    goldenpearl, Nov 9, 2011 IP
  12. mikeleonard

    mikeleonard Member

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    #12
    You can share your blog on the social bookmarking sites, Social media sites . it is a way to promote your blog
     
    mikeleonard, Nov 9, 2011 IP
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    if you want to know how to get traffic to your blog and make money
    with it then you should google rob benwell of "Blogging To The Bank"

    he is a blogging master
     
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  14. bill9404

    bill9404 Active Member

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    #14
    A good way to promote is good old fashion advertising, buy a banner ad on a like site with traffic.
     
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    18infomedia Peon

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    #15
    There are lot of ways for you to promote your blog as you can promote your blog on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Stumble etc. You can use also offpage techniques like bookmarking, directory submission, blog commenting. These will provide your site backlinks and also provide traffic to your blog.
     
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    #16
    The best way to get exposure to your blog is by writing an article on free article directories, and then point a link back to your blog within the article that you wrote. Using an article directory like articlegather.com or articlesbase.com is a great way to do this.
     
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    laurarussell49 Peon

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    #17
    There are many ways to advertise,
    Post your website or blog to free Web Directories
    Post your website or blog in Social Networking sites or Blog Directory sites
    Submit your link to websites with high traffic
     
    laurarussell49, Nov 10, 2011 IP
  18. rosy

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    #18
    to promote the blog you can post your blog on bookmarking site which having high ranking or you can leave the url in your signature while posting comments on forum or blog commenting.
     
    rosy, Nov 10, 2011 IP
  19. Ella_Z.

    Ella_Z. Peon

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    And I'd advise you to start with analysis of the blogs which write about the same or similar topic as yours. Look why the most successful of them are so. Often after such a research in your head appear so many ideas how to improve your stuff. The other thing is of course PR of your blog. From this point popularity of your blog is like a vicious circle - the higher the PR - the more people can approach it, the more people visit it and then link to it - the higher PR will be. So you can't omit submitting it in different blog directories:)
    Interesting thing is also guest posts - some blogs with high PR offer posting guest posts which will link to your blog. That's also a thing which can bring you some more popularity.
     
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    You can promote your blog by finding related blogs in your niche and submitting comments with a link back to your site on them.
    Ensure that your comments adds value to the conversation or else they might simply be removed
     
    golfpro1, Nov 11, 2011 IP