How can I market my blog?
February 19th, 2009Author: Dechen
yeehaw! asked:
I’ve started a blog sometime back and I’m needing some good free resources to market it.
I’ve started a blog sometime back and I’m needing some good free resources to market it.
I’m basically just in need of about 500,000 visitors daily.
Any and all pointers will be appreciated and you′ll also be welcome to link to anything non-malicious on it!
It′s http://www.blogcharm.com/nostate
On seeing the content (political and religious commentary),
let me know of anything you thing might help please.
Thanks!
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“just 500,000 visitors daily”?
That’s a lot of visitors daily!
You said you started this blog sometime back so how old exactly is your blog? What kind of traffic are you getting on it now?
Who is the target audience of your blog? Meaning who would benefit the most from the content on your blog?
Is your blog optimized for the search engines? In other words if someone typed in keywords relating to your blog would your blog show up in the search engine results?
My blog appears on page 1 of google’s search engine results when the following terms are typed into google’s search engine:
adsense consultant
adsense consulting
Those are EXACTLY the two most sought after search terms that I would want my blog to appear on
And basically that is the same thing that YOU have to do if you want to optimize your blog for the search engines because a good deal of traffic to one’s site comes from the search engines.
Like I said before my blog shows up on page one of google’s search engine results when certain keywords are used – I was able to accomplish THAT by constantly updating the content on my blog. I didn’t add my blog to the search engines (which is something you could do manually and for no cost BUT it may take as much as a few months for those search engines to get to your blog).
So besides working on getting more traffic to your blog, its your blog that you should also be constantly working on.
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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 – 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 – 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
Technorati
DAYPOP
Feedster
Bloglines
Blogdex
TOPIX.NET
popdex
Blogcritics.org
Blogstreet
blogwise
boingboing
2rss
WeBlogALot
Globe of Blogs
Blog Universe
The Truth Laid Bear
Memigo
BlogHop
Blogarama
Contents Matter
PubSub
BlogSearchEngine
EatonWeb
RDFTicker
Blogdigger
Bloogz
BLOG’z
5. Email other bloggers – pitch your post to other bloggers and hope that they will link or mention your blog
6. Use techniques to showcase your blog – examples include meme games such as the Daily Meme or carnivals
7. You can try pay per click programs such as Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing – 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.
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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.
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Use social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and del.icio.us to get visitors to your site. You may also want to register on forums and put your link on your signature to gain more exposure.
The best thing to do is to build good backlinks; doing so will make your site’s search engine ranking higher. See the source for a good list of link building tactics.
The more high-quality backlinks (with good a anchor text) you have, the higher your rank will be on the search engines.