How do I promote my Blog?

There are several important ways to promote your blog. Some of these are simple and fun, others take a little bit of time and practice. As with anything, the things that take a little bit more time are always the most profitable. Having said that, I am going to offer you some ideas beginning with the easiest and moving on to the most time consuming.

Before going into that, Let me address one point. There are many different kinds of blogs. You might be the only writer, or you might be one among many authors. With community blogs, the payoff can be tremendous if each contributor takes a little bit of the responsibility for promotion. Many hands make light work so the old adage goes.

So here are the things you need to do to promote your Blog

1. submit it!

- this might seem like a no brainer, but believe me it goes undone far too often! Here are some places you need to sumit your blog to. The links will open new windows going directly to the submission page.

google yahoo MSN Icerocket

2. be conversant

- People like it when you post on their blogs, and they will return the favor. Take a few minutes a day to peruse the blogs of some like minded bloggers, and post comments on the pages. You will get traffic from people who see your comments and from the site owners as well.

Along the same lines. It is appalling to me how few bloggers actually use an RSS feed. Let me assure you, none of the successful bloggers are among them. You can get an rss feed reader from any of the major internet portals like google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Feedreader is a nice little program like outlook that does it all for you. Whatever you do, you must use a feed reader to save time and follow relevant blogs like yours.

3. Post often

This blog is updated far too infrequently to serve as a model for that. Daily posts are almost essential, every other day at minimum to maintain good return traffic. It doesn’t have to be much, but it needs to be frequent.

4. Use Feedburner

Feedburner will turn your rss feeds into a whole new animal. You can promote feeds through their free service and you can see your subscriptions and the frequency with which your subscribers come back to your site. You can even include paid advertisements in your feeds!

5. Be a social networker!

This is really becoming the most significant way you can promote your blog. There are a handful of social networking websites similar to myspace and facebook that will get you a great deal of attention. You must join these:

Digg Stumbleupon MIxx Technorati

There are others you could join and use, but these will be enough to get you started and then maybe you can look for others. Some other items of interest can be found on the resources page, but I think the information you have here will be enough to get you going. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Oh, and one more thing. If you have your own wordpress blog, you need to get a plugin that will do what this blog does. You see the links to these pages at the bottom of down there? Click them to submit this entry to the site of your choice. Handy isn’t it?

More on this topic

• If you aren’t using feedburner you could be making a Huge Mistake
• Never send out a partial feed
• How about RSS for me
• A Better Blog in 31 Days
• Some Great blogs to watch

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