How could i market my surfing blog?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Gareth_Boyd, May 27, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I need to get my blog up and more people looking at her so i need to know how could i market my surfing blog... the link is in my signature! ;)

    All help would be nice :)
     
    Gareth_Boyd, May 27, 2006 IP
  2. tschrock

    tschrock Peon

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    I don't know how much time and money you have to put into this, but you could run a contest. That would be the hands down easiest way in my opinion (assuming you have already submitted to SE's and leveraged your other sites).

    I can imagine a site where surfers can submit photos and then vote on the best ones. Kind of like hot or not for surfing. http://www.built2go.com has a ready to deploy hot-or-not style website available (membership required) that you could download and install on your domain. Make people who submit photos supply their full name and email address to enter (as that is how you will contact them if they win).

    Then you have a section of your website where surfers will go to upload pictures, their friends will go to vote for them, and everyone will check back daily to see how they are doing. That should be some decent traffic.

    As for the prize, I did a quick Google search for online surfing store, and I got http://www.ronjons.com as Google's #1 hit. Their home page is a PR 6. I would contact them and ask if they would link to your contest from their home page if you buy the prize gift certificate from them. If they are not interested, I am sure others would be. You might even contact multiple sites and ask them for links in exchange for smaller 2nd place and 3rd place prizes.

    Granted, you could probably buy some PR6 links around here for less, but gift certificates to a surfing stores would target your specific demographic and get you a targeted email mailing list for future use.

    Once the contest is set up, then you need to promote it. I would do the basics first - submit a www.digg.com story about your contest, issue press releases on free press release sites, place an adobe PDF on your site of the release (Google reads these), and develop an entry form for picture submission. You might also send press releases to local newspapers in surfing communities. Most of the time they don't get published, but if you do get one through it is an AMAZING response. Everyone believes what they read in the paper.

    This could be a lot of work, but you could probably expose a bunch of uniques to your site's content, make a few bucks off some ads, and get a loyal following to your blog as long as it stays interesting.

    Good luck!
     
    tschrock, May 27, 2006 IP
  3. GADOOD

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    Here's a few ideas I can think of..

    Free options:

    - Submit it to the appropriate category in DMOZ.org

    - Find other surfing websites in the UK you can exchange links with (you should be able to find lots of personal surfing sites)

    - Post in surfing forums with your signature, allow people to upload images of themself and their surfing antics on to your page.. encourage comments from other users

    Paid options:

    - Submitting to an appropriate category on BOTW.org and dir.yahoo.com

    - Advertising on larger surfing websites

    - Adwords

    Pete
     
    GADOOD, May 27, 2006 IP
  4. psyberweb

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    Look for blog related to your blog and ask them if they want to exchange links with you, then post a very nice content about surfing..sometimes leeching visitors work..you can even get those visitors to actively read your blog. To find related blogs click this , i added the word wave because im getting too many results about surfing the internet.

    That really works and try adding comment to other blog and you can put your website in your signature when commenting. Good Luck!
     
    psyberweb, May 27, 2006 IP
  5. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    Thanks guys for that i really appreciate it!
     
    Gareth_Boyd, May 27, 2006 IP
  6. KeithLDick

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    You can try these also... They do bring in some traffic...

    My Links for Promoting Blog Sites sign up with all of these..

    Popdex http://www.popdex.com/

    Pheedo Exchange http://www.pheedo.com/

    Blogrolling http://www.blogrolling.com/

    Glob of Blogs http://globeofblogs.com/

    Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/

    Blogshares http://blogshares.com/

    Blogkits http://www.blogkits.com/

    BlogWize http://www.blogwise.com/

    Bloggeries http://bloggeries.com/

    Blogpulse http://www.blogpulse.com/

    BlogFlux http://mapstats.blogflux.com/

    Blog Reporter (Like Digg) http://www.blogreporter.biz/

    Bloghop http://www.bloghop.com/

    Blogtricks http://www.blogtricks.com/

    Blogexplosion http://www.blogexplosion.com/

    Technorati http://www.technorati.com/

    Catch My Blog (Like Digg) http://catchmyblog.com/

    OnTopList http://www.ontoplist.com/

    Top 100 Bloggers http://www.top100bloggers.com/


    A very good & Free way to keep track of your visitors and all your Stats for your Blog.

    Performancing http://performancing.com/


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    KeithLDick, May 27, 2006 IP
  7. mister charlie

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    you can actually submit your blog at the BOTW Blog Directory for free.
     
    mister charlie, May 30, 2006 IP