What methods do you use to promote your blog?  |
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Hey y'all I have two blogs/websites and there are a few methods I use to promote my blog, and I've had very little success thus far, but I'm still optimistic heres a list of some of the things I've done to promate my blog.
1. I added my site/blog to google and yahoo 2. I use free advertising sites like leadsweap 3. I post my site on twitter and youtube
What methods do you use to promote your blog/website, and are your promotion techniques successful?
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1. scheng1 (1656) | 4 months ago | Hi Apples, I write articles to post to various writing sites, and under the Profile page, I always add the url to my blog. The only problem is that I can't use banner as what i did to the profile page in mylot. Another way is rather time consuming, but quite effective. Use Yahoo Answers. When people ask any question, you can research on it, and then write a short blog post. After that, go back to Yahoo Answers, make a summary, and use the reference page to paste the URL of your blog. It's quite time-consuming, and even though I got traffic, I rather not use this method. I also ping my blogs regularly, and submit to free blogging directories.
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SunlightSwoon (661) | 4 months ago | You listed Yahoo Answers as effective, but you said you would rather not use this method. I'm a bit puzzled, if it is effective...what's the draw-back...the amount of time involved in doing it or is there another reason?
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scheng1 (1656) | 4 months ago | Hi Sunlight, the time factor is a problem. I have to search for the questions, and then I have to type the answers. Even though I try to use the same answer template for similar questions, this mean I have to spend time hunting for similar questions. For new user, we can only answers 20 questions in a day. This method is effective because traffic does come from Yahoo Answers. I can see from the statcounter. Another thing is that Yahoo Answers provide backlinks to my blog, and backlinks is one of the most important criteria that Google uses to compute page ranking. The third thing is that some bloggers or webmasters use rss, and copy the whole Questions and Answers to their blogs. So I get a few visitors through their blogs too.
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2. BuffMom (1971) | 4 months ago | Hi, I do several things to get traffic to my blog. I'll always add my blog link on my signature page or profile page of forums or social networking sites. I use twitter as well to post updates on my blog. I also use the follow application feature that blogger has, I get viewers everytime someone sees my profile from the follow application. I sometimes even buy cheap advertising on paid to click sites to get views to my blog. Those are just some ways I get traffic, it seems to work just fine.
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3. jojorv (106) | 4 months ago | try joining stumbleupon. my experience there is great and i'm sure you will get lots of traffic when you post your stuffs in there.
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| 4. runstudyeat (5) | 4 months ago | set up a twitter account and post often. also, follow popular people and twitter them things like questions. say something funny that relates to your blog and attach a link. I am fairly new to both steady blogging and twitter and in two days I already have 2 comments and 71 followers on twitter. (http://runstudyeat.wordpress.com) The ke is to make your presence be known but try not to get caught up in too many scamming sites like followFriday---although it works and free submission sites.
Focus on going to blogs that relate to your topics and frequently leaving comments on them linking back to your blog through your screenname. Soon they will return the comment favor and once they do ask for a link exchange. This will build your credibility. I am a internet journalism student and I hope this helps!
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5. iwrite (752) | 4 months ago | Well I think another good way for you to promote your blog would be from forums, your friends are more likely to support you right. So I would promote my blog over here an other forums.
By the way you would be able to view my blog under my profile.
Another effective way is to visit other people blogs, and more likely if you have left a comment in their blogs, the would return the favor.
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angel_of_charm (2700) | 4 months ago | Hello my friend, what you said really helps receive traffic from your blog. So far, I had increasing visitors on my blog using mybloglog and using shout mix. I visit other blogs and leave the URL of my blog on their blog in order for them to visit me. I also leave comments with my blog URL on forums. Somehow I also use twitter but its not helpful enough. While I'm still learning how to apply my blog on search engines.
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6. abruzzi10 (256) | 4 months ago | Hey, apples99!
Yes, traffic is most important thing for bloggers! I have blog about Luxury Cars, Of course i added it to SE (Google, Yahoo...) and registered at some traffic exchange websites. For example you surf some other websites and earn credits. Than you can exchange them for visitors to your blog. By traffic exchanges I usually get about 200-250 visitors per day... + my friends. To get some visitors i suggest you to add your blog on blog top lists (there is many, just search in google -> blogs top) And suggest it to your friends and put your link in some social pages, like facebook, socints and other. Or if you have some $ you can get some traffic faster(10000 visitors for just 9$). Hope it will help you with promoting! Have a nice day, mate!:)
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7. jaizhi (167) | 4 months ago | HI applle... I am a new blogger and having hard time to promote my blogsites. I guess cause of my topic is not interesting. Thanks for you post and the responses of some bloggers about. It really did give me idea on how I can have people visit my site. Thank you so much.
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8. hi2rashid (149) | 4 months ago | yeas very nice question. And you are also following the very good and successfull methods. If i wrote a blog i will try to search for its real success keywords. If a keyword matches then there is nothing needed to promote. The advertising are not always give you the real visitors. But sucessful keywords give you. Try www.referrallist.blogspot.com
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9. sweetseoul (348) | 4 months ago | I join forums and indicate my blogs in my signature. I also joined linkreferral to drive traffic to my blog!
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10. checkmail (663) | 4 months ago | Hello apples99 this is checkmail and earlier had an Adsense blog created in google and had really sucessful in it.I use to post the link of my blog on the free classifieds and ads posting networks.Also used to post in various freeware websites, social websites, free search engines, etc.Personally i promoted the blog among my friends and known online members.I nearly had sucess with reaching th etarget within 1 month.
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