I need new promoting advice...

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by netsavy006, Aug 4, 2010.

  1. #1
    I believe either last weekend I re-promoted my blog/forum on the various promotion forums on Forum-Promotion's sticky link. I've been making "content" over the past 2 weeks on the blog.

    I keep a tabs on my google analytics. I've noticed that over the past 2 weeks, the analytics has decreased. I'm now down to 10 visits a day.

    What can I do to re-increase my blog's visits?

    (I don't have any money right now so all methods will have to be free. I've made sure to implement SEO on my blog pages and I have a xml-sitemap for the search engines).

    Thanks,
    Andy.
     
    netsavy006, Aug 4, 2010 IP
  2. nairbuoyevoli

    nairbuoyevoli Active Member

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    #2
    social bookmarking are good for blogging.
     
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  3. netsavy006

    netsavy006 Active Member

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    I submitted to Stumble Upon, Digg, and 2 other social bookmarking sites about one month after starting my blog.
     
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  4. pyneonline

    pyneonline Peon

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    Submit to blog directories. There are hundreds and hundreds of them.
     
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    morgankikou Peon

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    Hi there pal, bulk emails, bookmarking, article directories, etc.. because nowadays people are considering the niche of the forum.
     
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    JoesMillion Peon

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    I sell as space if you want to go that route.
     
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    zhoom Peon

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    You may have implemented SEO, but where are you ranked for your keywords? If you aren't on the front page you will get less than a few% of all searches for your keyword (see here: http://chitika.com/research/2010/the-value-of-google-result-positioning/).

    To increase blog visits without ranking, try posting answers in Yahoo answers with a link to your blog and post forum and blog comments in relative forums/blogs.
     
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  8. Micheal Smith

    Micheal Smith Peon

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    I am looking for advice on how to market/advertise my online baby boutique with a very small advertising budget.
     
    Micheal Smith, Aug 5, 2010 IP
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    Sammy111 Peon

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    Ok i check it thanks...
     
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  10. rewardscript

    rewardscript Peon

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    Use ad brite and rent some ads after they want payment dont' give them . :D
     
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  11. Dean_Saliba

    Dean_Saliba Notable Member

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    Blog commenting and Twitter has worked wonders for me.
     
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  12. gvannorman

    gvannorman Well-Known Member

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    #12
    Free advertising is all over the internet. The problem is that there are some who go by the saying "if you build they will come". Well, on here it just is not going to happen. Nothing is going to happen. Your traffic won't go up much, you need to let people know that your blog or site is there. This raises the question "HOW?". Well, SEO or Search Engine Optimization is very important. This means both on page and off page.

    Lets start with the easy ones first. Off page SEO is easy to implement, but it is very time consuming. This is why a lot of bloggers pay for the service. You start out by link building, using anchor text with the keywords. This helps the search engine find their way to your site, with the words. How do you link build? That is the question that some of you have. Start with forum posting. This will drive almost immediate traffic to your site. Not only that you get some good backlinks to your site. Of course this is only if the site is a " do follow" forum.

    Then start blog commenting on blogs in your niche. Not any blog will do, but the ones in your niche are very important. You want good quality links of authority. This means do not head out and spam others. Post comments that add value....include a link back to your site.

    Above is just a couple important link building strategies. Of course there is always social bookmarking and networking. Remember Facebook recently passed 500,000,000 million members. So start a fan page for your blog, and encourage your readers to visit and like it.
     
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    Eola Guest

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    You may try some keyword tools - there are a lot of free tools, but i'm not sure they are good enough. I use semrush - it has a free trial version, it shouold help you.
     
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  14. Demavend

    Demavend Active Member

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    Hey

    Patrick how much is you conversion % on this method of yours? Just curious. Nice pitch right in there :D

    Regards
     
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    Demavend Active Member

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    By the way I will share with you guys a surefire method how you can promote your blog very fast without any SEO,Backlinking or similar BS that doesnt help you much anyway. First you have to build a BRAND to get you noticed. What does it mean? Well you have to go out and send articles on "Guestblogs". What is Guestblog? Well its a blog that have a lot of readers and let you send articles to them in return you will get laser targeted TRAFFIC to your blog that means only people that are actually INTERESTED in YOU and what you have to say. These people will be much more responsive than search engine traffic that doesnt know you. Make sense init???

    Regards

    PS: Here are some tips on guest bloging: http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/guest-blogging/
     
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    Here are some method that I use to get more traffic..
    Social Bookmarking
    Blog commenting
    Link wheeling
    forum posting
    pinging

    I hope it help you..
     
    khulet22, Aug 7, 2010 IP
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    marketingideas Peon

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    write some press releases about what makes your blog useful/unique, and post them on free press release websites. Search for "free press release websites" in google, and you should find a good list. Make sure to pick a keyword rich title and to do some SEO on the content of the release. I've gotten some good traffic using this method. You could also post some articles to the big article directories and promote your blog in the resource box.
     
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    so many ways to expose your website.... article marketing, vidoe marketing, PR, forum posting, yahoo!answers... vidoe marketing is by far the most effective way to drive traff... they are very engaging and easily drive the audience on youtube to your sites
     
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    IMfighter.com Peon

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    #19
    there are many ways how to get traffic:

    USFreeads
    affiliates
    Slide sharing (Slideshare.com)
    Link Directories
    traffic exchanges
    List Brokers
    Popups/Unders/Overs etc..
    Software apps (facebook, toolbars, etc.)
    Software/scripts included in CPanel/Fantastico
    Pinging your pages and the pages on other sites which link to yours.
    Blogs
    XML sharing (PADs, Feeds, Sitemaps, RSS etc.)
    Wikis
    Article directories, and reprinted articles
    CPA
    PPV
    Tell-A-Friend scripts
    Twitter , myspace, youtube, facebook etc…
    PRs
    Sofware links (PAD)
    Datafeeds
    PPC
    Videos, audios
    RSS
    JVs - ezine, links, ty page, A/Rs
    offline (physical books, testimonials/forwards in other peoples books - word of mouth, seminars, networking, business cards, radio advertising, tradeshows, workshops, roadshows, mail, local sponserhips etc)
    Recommendations
    Viral Marketing (ezines, software, ebooks etc.)
    Ezine ads
    Testimonials
    REviews
    comments
    Knols
    webinar / teleseminar
    Online TV stations and radio stations
    Ebay
    Craigslist
    buying other websites with existing traffic and links
    buying expired domains with existing traffic
    Outsourcing sites - Elance etc.
    Traffic swaps
    Giveaways
    co-regs
    giving away templates
    Images (Flickr etc)
    service offline businesses
    Merhandise
    Banner Ads
    Craigslist and similar
    previous customers returning (emails, links in books, promotions etc.)
    forums
    message boards
    yahooanswers
    community sites
    google news - alerts
    Kunaki
    cafepress
     
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