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I recently published an article. In it I collected almost all the ways a blogger could use to publicize his/her blog. I wrote about it to few bloggers and all appreciated it and promised me to link to it soon. Instead if linking to the article I am copying the complete article here so that more and more people can benefit from it.

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Year 2007 was exciting with my blog CompuWorld completing 1 year. Something which I learned in the last one year was that the “Genius inside you might NOT be sleeping” (see my blogs punchline) but the knowledge thirsty Internet surfers DO NOT know about your genius. Yes! You might be writing unique articles but are there people who are reading your articles? I remember the days when I used to check the MyBlogLog’s visitor stats for my blog after every hour just to see the number increase by 5 or 10. That is when I started dedicating more time in publicizing my content instead of writing the content.

Here goes the list of points which can help you explode your blog’s traffic by huge numbers. You just need to be consistent. Remember that here I am considering that you are already generating quality content.

Proof Reading Is A Must

Be it the new readers or the regular readers, no one would like to see regular grammar mistakes in your articles. The regular reader might come back to your blog (considering he knows your habit of delivering quality content) but the chances of the new reader coming back are very less (until Google search or link from some other blog sends him/her to your blog). Keep in mind: “First impression is the last impression”.

Email Other Bloggers About Your Niche, Your Articles

Once you have written a quality article which gets some appreciation (mostly in comments) than write a decent and short email to bloggers from the same niche and inform them about your article.

Once I wrote to MakeUseOf about one of my articles which was getting lots of appreciation from readers in comments and they were generous to link back to my article within a day. My blog earned huge traffic from there blog for few days.

Comment Regularly On Other Blogs

Some time back Caroline did the October stat analysis for her blog. One major point in that analysis was the huge number of traffic which she earned from the comments which she left on other blogs.

When you leave a insightful comment on other blogs than the author (and few readers) of that blog will come back to your blog to know more about you. This is dedicated traffic. I say dedicated because the reader was impressed from your comment and came to your blog. There are high chances that he/she will subscribe to your feeds.

Do Some Guest Posting

If you can write quality articles than do guest posting on few of the famous and same niche blogs. Once again emailing them your post with a generous request to publish your post on there blog can very well do the job. You are bound to get huge traffic from that blog.

Review A Product And Ask The Company To Feature That Review In Press Section In There Website

If your review is good and the company writes about that review in there press release with a link back to your blog than this will turn into regular traffic for your blog. Plus your blog will become known amongst few biggies of that company.

Write About Celebrities (relate that to your niche) And See The Jump In Traffic

Once I wrote about Jessica Alba’s gaming habit and that one article gave me around 2000+ views only from stumbleupon.

Try and relate the celebrity news to your niche and publish such articles in regular intervals. This brings in lots of new readers and is appreciated by almost all of them!

Many Newspapers Are Writing About Bloggers. Contact Them

Almost every newspaper keeps mentioning about the new buzz word “blogging”. Contact few in your locality and explain to them about your strength. Face to face interaction can have great effects on the person listening. Be honest to them.

Get Some Stickers/T-Shirts

Get some fancy stickers and paste them in Internet cafes, libraries etc. These are hot spots for information hungry humans. Once people read them regularly than your brand name gets stuck-up in there minds and they will check your blog at-least once.

Get some T-Shirts with your blog URL printed along with some attractive image (may be your logo) and wear them in public occasions. People around you will be curious to know the details.

Regularly Link To Other Blogs And Relate Your Articles To Their Articles

Once you link to other bloggers they are likely to see those links in pingbacks and will come to your blog for more information.

Get A Keyword Rich Domain Name, An Effective Punch Line, A Nice Logo And A Attractive Blog Design

They all matter a lot so do NOT overlook there importance.

A keyword rich domain name (which is easy to remember too) will get listed on the top pages in SERPs and hence bring in traffic.

An effective punch line which forces the reader to read your blog might well bring in traffic once the line creates the necessary buzz.

An attractive logo (like that of ShoeMoney) is enough to create the buzz and bring in few readers.

Get a new design for your blog and email everyone about your new design. People are bound to see the new design once and leave a comment during that visit. Many will subscribe to your feeds.

Create Videos Regularly

Darren of problogger regularly creates video tutorials and this practice of his has give him dedicated readers (including me) who eagerly wait for the new videos to be released. All this helps you create the buzz for your blog.

Write Some “Top 20 Bloggers” Type Of Articles

Choose a niche, compare the various rankings (technorati, alexa etc) for those niche blogs, create a ranking system and publish those ranks in your blog with a link back to those bloggers. Email those bloggers about there rank and you are bound to get a link back from them. They will “boast” about there rank and in that process link back to you.

Talk Negative (in comments, forums, social networking sites etc.)

This is very helpful in bringing in traffic in loops. People come back again and again to your blog to clarify the negative point, inform you that you are wrong and in that process they somehow become used to coming back to your blog.

Try and leave negative comments on some famous blogs and see the retaliation.

Participate Regularly In Social Networking Sites, Forums And Yahoo Answers

Join groups related to your niche in various social networking websites and participate in the discussions. In the process leave links to few of your articles (and relate those to the ongoing discussion) and you will see people coming back to your articles and your article might well become a important part of that discussion.

Participate in various forums and include your blog link in your signature. When you are active than people will click on those links and may be subscribe to your feeds.

Yahoo answers is a great place to earn some dedicated traffic. Regularly answer the queries of people in yahoo answers and leave links to your blog. Once you start doing it regularly people might subscribe to your feeds considering that your answers help them.

Content is the king but unless people do not know about the king, how will you construct your kingdom?
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This was one good and informative read. Thanks

 

I like those ideas, some of them I never thought of before...

 

Oh! thanks. This is great information.
You are non-stop.

 

Thanks!

 

Nice ideas! Thread subscribed!

 

Nice ideas!

 

Thanks for the information mate! it really helps.

 

One of the best posts I've seen in a while. Thanks for the tips!

 

Its an great post ..i think you have covered a lot of stuff ..
great buddy

 

nice informative thread friend

 

nice information thanks mate.

 

A good collection, commented on the blog too

 

nice ... thanks for the ideas

 

great tips. I've been reading some threads about this kind of things and I'm starting to see 3 or 4 of them in all them, I guess I'm starting to get an idea about website/blog promotion strategies

 

Nice read, going to think about it for further implementation in my site's marketing

 

To expand on the social networking concept... Create a myspace account specifically for your business or website and make friends with people in your genre. Post bulletins from time to time, but try not to be spammy about it or people will delete you from their friend list. Post comments on your friends' sites and include a link to your site. Unfortunately, myspace has started using a URL forwarder (msplinks.com, I think it is), so you won't get credit for an inbound link, but hopefully, you will get a few clicks out of them.

 

Great tips indeed. People write books on these with attractive names and sell the same to the price range of BID 20$ to BIN 90$ (Have been ripped off once)..Good and honest work! Thanks..

 

Great tips thanks for such a good thread buddy

 

This is horrible advice!!! You should never talk negatively about something online!




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