What is the best way to promote your blog?

What is the best way to promote your blog? By promote, I mean drive traffic to it.

Obviously, the blog has taken off, and to help you get more exposure for yours, AllBusiness editors have some advice.

Below are 16 tips to help drive traffic to your blog.

You have got your blog set up and you have started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering.
What do you do?
Like any Web site you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates, and so on.
http://www.bloglet.com/

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine. http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/my_init?.intl=us&.partner=my&.from=y
See a tutorial at our Web site: http://www.biztipsblog.com/

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Do not write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-Matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
http://pingomatic.com/

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines.
http://firefactor.coffeecup.com/

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on MasterNewMedia.org.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a virtual assistant to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your Web site.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, and so on.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures, and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary -- although some define it as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of Web sites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as "feeds") may be read using aggregators or news readers. RSS feeds may show only headlines or both headlines and summaries. To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, check out the RSS Specifications Web site.
http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep encouraging your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks. Also, include links to other blogs, articles, and Web sites in your posts.

14. Use TrackBack links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. TrackBack links send a message from your server to the other blog's server letting it know you have posted a comment referring to its blog. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the Web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author information box (See an example below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. Ten minutes a day can help increase your traffic because new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter from Site Meter.
http://www.sitemeter.com/

Also, for more advice, WebProNews has a great article of their own about how to build blog traffic:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2004/12/10/how-to-build-traffic-to-your-blog

We hope this helps and good luck with your blog.

AllBusiness

Advertising in some free comercial sites like www.sulekha.com

Visit some blogs & post a comment requesting to visit ur blog.

Send ur link to me if wish to. I'm also a blogger.

Many make the mistake of believing that once they create a blog, people will immediately flock to it. There are millions out there so why would they visit your blog?

Here are some ways you can promote your blog

1. Create great content â€“ everything starts with great content. Think 'Linkbait" -- or writing about stuff that would be so great that people will want to link to you. It can be a news hook where you write about something that is contrary to what everyone else is saying; resource hook where you have the only information available or humor hook.

2. Update the content regularly â€“ make your visitors come back again and again to your blog by providing daily updates (even multiple posts per day!)

3. Submit your blog to blog directories such as

BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
Contents Matter http://www.bloghq.com/create.php
PubSub http://www.pubsub.com/add_feed.php
BlogSearchEngine http://www.blogsearchengine.com/submit/
EatonWeb http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
RDFTicker http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
Blogdigger http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
Bloogz http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
BLOGâ€™z http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
Columbia Newsblaster mailto: blaster@cs.columbia.edu
RocketInfo http://reader.rocketinfo.com/desktop/AddRSSFeed.jsp
HeadlineSpot http://www.headlinespot.com/site/suggest.htm
KIOSKEN http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
CRAYON http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
Kmax Bloglinks http://www.kmax.ws/featured.htm
BLOGCATALOG http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
BalticBlogs http://directory.balticblog.com/addblog.php
Blogion http://blogion.com/?p=submit

4. Network with other bloggers â€“ comment on their blogs, read and link to other blogs and request them to link back to you

5. Email other bloggers â€“ pitch your post to other bloggers and hope that they will link or mention your blog

6. Use techniques to showcase your blog â€“ examples include meme games such as the Daily Meme http://thedailymeme.com/ or carnivals http://blogcarnival.com/bc/

7. You can try pay per click programs such as Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com... â€“ though the key is to carefully track your ROI and which keywords actually perform well

8. Make sure your blog is indexable by the search engines - and make sure that your titles have great keywords that your target audience are most likely to use

9. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index http://www.theopenpress.com/
http://www.przoom.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com/

10. Submit articles with your blog posts. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

Put up lots of original attractive content and use online methods of promoting it. See :

How about learning from an expert blogger via this ebook at http://www.bloggingtothebank.com (not free) or learn from another expert blogger here http://www.problogger.net/ (free)

1) Use a free blog ping for which you can use to notify search engines that you've updated your website. The ineedbloghits service at http://www.ineedbloghits.com notifies 30+ blog engines, feed aggregators, and directories including Google, Yahoo, Technorati and more.

2) Put your blog into different blog directories like blogflux and blograter.

3) Put it as your signature in forums that you visit

4) Visit peoples blogs or do trackbacks and stuff.

5) Put tags (or "categories" in Blogger) on your blog entries as some people "tag surf".

Using articles with links in them and submit them to ezine article directories (link building is the key!) Take a look on http://www.moneyaside.com in the website section for more ideas.

Can you provide us with your website's URL so we can examine your metatags? Hopefully, your current tags are in proper order and are not in need of major revisions.

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