Tips on marketing my new blog

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Romaniano, Jul 12, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    So i have a niche... its Investing.
    What I do is offering articles that are both informative on general stock market information / knowledge, as well as my top stock picks for the month. I also do videos to add on and attract more followers.

    I have used StumbleUpon and Mybloglog, what should be next? I found that Digg and reddit haven't necessarily been all that great at generating traffic for me.

    Any suggestions or tips would be great... this is my blog: www.StocksHaven.com

    Thanks in advance,
    Michael
     
    Romaniano, Jul 12, 2008 IP
  2. xternall

    xternall Active Member

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    #2
    well, Did you SEO your blog? each post should have metatags etc. Wordpress has a plugin that's called all in one seo pack, that one is really useful.

    Secondly, Try to find some partners in your niche and ask them to make a quest post on your blog.

    Thirdly, use forums signatures that are related to your niche and make active posts..

    etc etc etc :)
     
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  3. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    #3
    you can try doing seo for your blog.
     
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  4. moratraffic

    moratraffic Banned

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    #4
    First, submit it to all the social bookmarking sites. Whether it gets traffic or not is not the issue. Often, digg or reddit articles will rank very high and can generate organic search traffic that way. The site I use for multiple social media submission is http://www.socialmarker.com Give it a try.
     
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  5. Fatherspirit

    Fatherspirit Peon

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    Hi Romaniano!

    I would suggest that You should write some expert articles on investing and the stock market and submit them to http://www.ezinearticles.com
    Leave a link to your site in the bio box and then write many more!

    With a bit of luck, many people will read your articles (when listed on Google) and will like the info provided and click on your website link. The other great thing about submitting articles to EzineArticles.com is that your are likely to get other investment sites using your articles on their sites and that will mean that a percentage of their traffic will be re-directed to your site through the article link.

    Establish yourself as an expert in your field and people will come running to you! The best part about article marketing it that it is FREE to do!

    Regards,
    Dave.
     
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    One of the easiest ways to get traffic that has a huge CTR is forum marketing. For you, I'd recommend joining some investing/finance forums and citing your site as a source.
     
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    I agree with the above posts, become active in multiple investing forums (there are a ton of them) Give advice, have your sig link available to them.
    Go to yahoo answers and answer investing questions.
    Excange links with investing sites, or purchase links from investing sites.
    Article submissions work great.
    Tell your friends and family, co workers...
    Go to investing seminars with some business cards..make contacts.
    Good Luck
     
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    baybossplaya Active Member

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    your best bet would be to do video blogs.
     
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    submit at many web directory and post at forum about your blog.:)
     
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    #10
    With your topic, if you could become a member of a few forums in your particular niche and contribute there with the link to your site in your signature.... it would work very well.

    Also answer some questions/opinions on Yahoo and Google groups.

    You could also do some cheap PPC (in lesser networks than Gogle) for a little time.
     
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  11. Romaniano

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    Thank you so much guys!!! I will all follow your tips very carefully! Awesome guys... you've really made my first post a delight.

    Oh one question... some of you said SEO my blog, how do I SEO it? I've heard a couple people say for me to change my link structure to actual names.... so I've done that. What are META tags used for?
     
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    Glad to help Romaniano! May You have great success!

    Regards,
    Dave. :)
     
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  13. mentos

    mentos Prominent Member

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    Promote it using adword
     
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    I know alot of people think entrecard is trash traffic. But if your starting out it can't hurt and the prices right.
     
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