I feel like my resources are exhausted! Have any ideals?

I’m the proud owner of http://www.blogengage.com/ and the site has been up now for about 6 months! Sitting at over 1800 members and 12,000 unique visitors a month I feel I have exhausted my resources for marketing my site to bloggers!

I have managed to advertise and promote and many major forums, social networks and Google ad words! I’m starting to run out of areas to promote and market my website!

I have used the following sites already as best as possible without spamming.

Mybloglog
Blogcatalog
Bloggeries
Wtf
Authortyblogger
Digitapoint
Ukwebmasterworld
Iguides
Digg
entrecard <--- is awesome for me!

If you were in my situation, what would you do next to market blogengage?

Where would you focus your energy and how would you target new members or visitors?

My target market is bloggers and only bloggers so I would only be looking for methods of promotion in this area.

Thanks in advance

 

You probably have done this but SEO'ing your blog would make a lot more traffic if done right.

 

It's not a blog, it's a social networking website for bloggers! or are you referring to my blogengage blog?

 

What are the benefits (to bloggers) of using your site?

ie what makes this different than any other social media site? Are there advanages to bloggers who use it?

Lump your response to that question into a video and post it on YouTube. Make it fun and engaging or link it to a contest or something...sounds like you have a decent base of traffic so a contest could work. Or at least show you truely how "engaged" your traffic actually is.

Can you hook your blog to BlogRush?

 

Best of luck and your sources are never depleted...be creative. Give people incentives or whatever is necessary. I'm pretty sure you tried this but if you haven't then SEO your blog. GL

 

omg it's not a blog! it's like you guys aren't even reading the thread or visiting the site!

 

Ok so 1800 members, most of which I would guess are bloggers who are trying to self-market their own posts....that's a small % of the total bloggers in the world so you need to go where the bloggers are and grab them by the scruff of the neck and drag them to your site.

You have found some good places where bloggers hang out I see but if you have the budget and the courage I would aim for buying a sposnored post on JohnChow.com or Shoemoney.com simply because of the massive readership these blogs have. Almost all of their readers are site owners or bloggers looking to self-market their sites and blogengage lets them do that. Hence they will have no problems joining up and posting....if they know other social bookmarking sites like Digg well enough they will realise it is best to make friends and post wisely but watch out for the spammers.

Try and think of other places bloggers/blog readers like to hang out target them (i know this is vague advice but I can't think of more examples off the top of my head right now - sorry)

Hope this was of some use to you...

 

^^ That's actually a great idea. Buy a sponsored review on a popular blog (like johnchow.com). It's $500 though, but that could bring some major traffic.

 

Dude,

What are you talking about - 90% of my previous response had nothing to do with a blog, the blogrush comment was for you to put on the blog part of your site as another source of incoming traffic. You should think of (the blog part of your site) as another avenue to bring people to the Social Media part that you are so in love with.

I get it, it's a social media site and yes I visited it three times...but the problem your site has is STFW (So The F What) syndrome - there are a million social media sites out there, the question you need to be answering is what makes yours different and better than the others. If someone can't figure that out within the first 30 seconds of being there, then you have a marketing problem.

Show me why as a blogger I should hang out at your site! Besides the lure of traffic. If you can't do that then you are now the new proud owner of the Tower of Babel.

 

PurplePeeps I wasn't referring to your comments!

Thanks for the advice but the last thing I'm doing is buying a 500 dollar add at john cow! I would rather purchase 50,000 entrecard credits LOL

 

Try Google Adwords, focus on content network, low CPC , keywords as "blog" etc, you will get a lot of visitors