Article Marketing Blog and Forum posting (make that the post/comment adds value to the original) The above 2 will help build valuable backlinks to your blog. Check out this tread for more ways to market / advertise your blog http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1684778
This issue has been discussed extensively. So you will find a lot of information by searching the forum and by searching google. Anyway, here are a few tips. 1] Comment on blogs of the same niche as your's. 2] Submit good posts to social bookmarking websites such as digg, reddit and others. 3] Do basic SEO on your blog. 4] Join forums of the same niche as your blog and contribute useful posts
You can also write guest posts on another blogger's sites, that can help to drive traffic from a blog with more reputation.
There are so many threads like this you can find similar topics just by searching. Make sure you have good content and people will naturally link to your blog. This is the best way to promote it. Although there are other ways such as article publishing, blog posting, and using social networking sites such as Digg and Twitter.
You could sponsor a local Not For Profit event, such as cancer awareness, AIDS research,,, something like that. Make connections at the local chamber of commerce. Contact the local news paper to see if they can use a freelance part time writer. Start a youtube account Attend trade shows and make some connections there Have a large site sponsor a contest for you Those are some of the first things that came to mind.
Advertise online and OFFLINE. Many people just think about online marketing, when offline is also a powerful way of advertising as well. Try newspaper, radio, magazines, etc.
backlinks articles comments on other blogs forums twitter facebook bebo tagged Plenty of them out there
I recently just posted a post about this on my site (not trying to spam or anything) themannsworld.com I'm a small site in a large niche, and I have seen solid traffic from forum posting with my website address in my signature, twitter, and posting on other popular blogs in the same niche.
Oh man where do we start? Theres so many out there nowadays its overwhelming lol. Social networks are good for one, blogs as well and forums to promote your blog. People catch on quick and with "bloggers" people are usually willing to try anything out once so youll get a good amount on traffic. Steve P.
The best place for your blog is on your own server so you can add a large ping list. Not sure you can do that on the free blogs. Wordpress lets you install the software on your own server which helps you in many ways. For one, Google sees it as a more "permanent" site because free ones probably come and go more frequently. Plus your visitors will give it more credibility and see you as a serious business person. Sylvia
You can search optimize your blog, using standard optimization techniques. Here are 15 solid blog promotion tips you may also find helpful http://www.feedforall.com/blog-promotion-tips.htm HTH
People say you should post comments but I have never seen more than a small trickle from that. Putting your signature in forum posts can get you a few visitors a day. I have just written a guest post for a blog with 30,000+ subscribers, so I am hoping that will bring some significant traffic.
I think the back links are very useful for anyone to get the proper promotion to their blogs. That is the best way to increase the traffic to your website.
Be sure that you are pinging your blog to all of the important places. Do a Google search on "blog ping" and you will find more than enough tutorials.