5 WAYS TO PROMOTE A BLOG

[Bimmer]

Blogging is fun. Some of us write because it is an hobby. We share our ideas with our friends and relatives. This type of blogging does not require you to make your blog very popular. We only need to ensure the right people are reading our posts and we are happy.

However there are those of us that blog so that we can earn money online. This is commercial blogging. If you fall into this category you might want to promote your blog so that it is very popular. Search engine optimization (SEO) might also come in handy. Getting to the top of a search engine like Google can give you lots of free targeted traffic. That however is a story for another day.

Today lets talk about how you can promote your blog. There are several ways to do this and make your blog popular or even make it go viral.

1. Social Networking sites – Everyone is definitely on Facebook and Twitter. If you are not, you must be living under a rock. You can turn your followers on Twitter or Friends on Facebook into active readers of your blog. The bottom line here is do not spam. If you keep posting links nobody cares about they are bound to stop following you or unfriend you.
2. Commenting – When reading other blogs in your niche you might want to leave your thoughtful comments at the end of the post. Make sure your comment is relevant to the post. You can leave your link if it feels appropriate. This will bring readers to your blog.
3. Article Marketing – Article submission sites like Ezine articles, Articlebase, GoArticles and the rest give you a chance to submit articles to them for free. For this you get to link back to your site. This not only brings you highly targeted traffic, it also helps you in building backlinks.
4. Email signatures – Include you URL in your outgoing emails. Nearly every site owner out there does it. You can also include your URL in your business cards. This is a very effective way of offline blog promotion.
5. Contacting other bloggers – Talk to other bloggers and ask them to consider linking to your post. There are more likely to, than the reader who just stumbled on your blog.

These five ways are very effective in increasing your blogs visibility out there. There are many other ways you can use to promote your blog. You can even use word of mouth. Just make sure somebody is reading what you are writing.

Do you have a blog? What ways have you been using to promote it? Do leave me a comment

[lte]

Wow a very informative article for newbie bloggers. BTW I tried to put a blog last year, but my problem is I can't write a good article, because of my poor grammar and vocab. , thats why I decided to cut blogging for a while and focus on my studies.

But I will will not quit in blogging coz I'm a IT student, blogging/website creation is one of many things an IT professionals and even undergraduate people earn .

[Bimmer]

Hehe, I know what you mean :) but don't worry about your english writing skills, because there are lots of ways to improve them by correcting or ... u know... :) by learning.
Good luck

[lte]

Thanks Bimmer, actually I'm already reading English grammar books during my free time.

[sowmya]

Thanks for sharing this information. Its really helpful to me to know more things related to blogs..

[honeycomb99]

Now a days most of my friends earns a amount of money from internet .. So i inspired and started browsing and surfing several sites with a hope of finding a way to earn something .. For me your article is very very much helpful .. But i have the same problem as Mr. napkin .. but i will try to open a commercial blog .. you can wish me all the best :) this is one of best thread i have ever read ..

[sachinsg]

Thanks For the great information.

[bage]

nice article for newbies

[pkfarnv]

Thanks...for sharing this new article.It will helpful for ma.

[azzizzy]

Very
informative post you could also ad forums as a means to getting traffic.


Find forums
related to you niche and make useful post that definitely helps.