10 Innovative Ways To Promote Your Blog
The small business owner, you probably know that writing is a key component of marketing. However, only writing an article or submitting it to as many article directories as you can isn't enough. Ten ways to build more traffic to best results:
1. Offer to write guest blog posts.
2. Blog Communities
Examples of Blog Communities that submit your blog to include MyBlogLog, Blogged, BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs. The search engines will index your blog faster.
3. Blog Directories
4. Submit to document sharing sites.
Document sharing sites are often totally overlooked by the small and home business owner. Examples are Scribd, Issuu or Docshare, each with great search engine ranking. You will have to make your article into a PDF document for this.
5. Feed Directories
Submit your blog's RSS feed to these Feed Directories. for examples: Feedage, Feedraider, GoldenFeed, BlogDigger, RssMountain,,, and IceRocket.
After you submit your feed once, these directories should keep track of your new posts and will index them.
6. Pinging Sites
As pinging your site is very important if you want the search engines to index you and give you those coveted top positions, you need to do it every time you update your blog. By default, Wordpress pings your blog to one pinging site every time you update. This can work against you as it pings after you edit as well, and can seem like hitting it unnecessarily. I found this great plugin where you can stop this from happening, as well as set it to ping every time you update your blog. You can also set it to only ping once every fifteen minutes, thereby safeguarding you from getting blocked by search engines for pinging too often.
7. Social Media Sites
If you sign up for a social media site such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Youtube, use your blog name as your username. This will also help your blog get indexed quickly.
Share your blog posts on your social media sites to invite comments and retweets which will help your search engine ranking. You can make this process automatic through services such as Onlywire or if you curate as well.
8. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and Delicious can also help to give you more traffic back to your website. Onlywire also automates this process.
9. Blog Broadcasts
Add links to your blogs to your autoresponder and invite your subscribers to comment on them.
10. Offer to write for Ezines and Associations.
You can offer to write for ezines and associations in your niche. You can also use the search engines for this.
Remember: content is king. If you apply all these strategies and your content is poor, everything will just be a waste of time. You also need to post daily so that people who want to read more from you can keep coming back for more.
1. Offer to write guest blog posts.
2. Blog Communities
Examples of Blog Communities that submit your blog to include MyBlogLog, Blogged, BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs. The search engines will index your blog faster.
3. Blog Directories
4. Submit to document sharing sites.
Document sharing sites are often totally overlooked by the small and home business owner. Examples are Scribd, Issuu or Docshare, each with great search engine ranking. You will have to make your article into a PDF document for this.
5. Feed Directories
Submit your blog's RSS feed to these Feed Directories. for examples: Feedage, Feedraider, GoldenFeed, BlogDigger, RssMountain,,, and IceRocket.
After you submit your feed once, these directories should keep track of your new posts and will index them.
6. Pinging Sites
As pinging your site is very important if you want the search engines to index you and give you those coveted top positions, you need to do it every time you update your blog. By default, Wordpress pings your blog to one pinging site every time you update. This can work against you as it pings after you edit as well, and can seem like hitting it unnecessarily. I found this great plugin where you can stop this from happening, as well as set it to ping every time you update your blog. You can also set it to only ping once every fifteen minutes, thereby safeguarding you from getting blocked by search engines for pinging too often.
7. Social Media Sites
If you sign up for a social media site such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Youtube, use your blog name as your username. This will also help your blog get indexed quickly.
Share your blog posts on your social media sites to invite comments and retweets which will help your search engine ranking. You can make this process automatic through services such as Onlywire or if you curate as well.
8. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and Delicious can also help to give you more traffic back to your website. Onlywire also automates this process.
9. Blog Broadcasts
Add links to your blogs to your autoresponder and invite your subscribers to comment on them.
10. Offer to write for Ezines and Associations.
You can offer to write for ezines and associations in your niche. You can also use the search engines for this.
Remember: content is king. If you apply all these strategies and your content is poor, everything will just be a waste of time. You also need to post daily so that people who want to read more from you can keep coming back for more.
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