Showing posts with label blog promotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog promotion. Show all posts

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Techniques for promoting your blog

One of the important things that you need to do for attracting traffic to your site is blog promotion. There are many sites such as

blogcatalog
blogexplosion
technorati

However such websites only help for a while. For better blog promotion these are things you must follow.

1. Comment on blogs: An easy way to give your blog a promotion is by commenting on other blogs. Each time you comment, enter the same name and URL in the corresponding fields in the blog comment form. This will increase the number of links to your sites. Comments on sites that attact a lot of traffic can be very useful to your blog

2. Post frequently: Frequent post can attract a lot of traffic. Newer posts always have higher traffic than the ones that are very old. New posts are detected by the search engines however once it is very old only posts that are very specific to a particular topic can attract the attention of search engines which is the main source of traffic to many websites.

3. Using Social Medium: websites like facebook, orkut, twitter etc can be a very good source of attacting traffic to your website. Posting some blogs in those websites and giving a link to your website can give a big boost to your site.

4. Guest blogs: Offer your services as a guest blogger for other blogs, particularly ones that get more traffic than yours does. Post a link to your site

5. Write Multiple Sites and Link Them Together: The more blogs or websites that you write, the more interlinking is possible. Make the sites having particular topics. That way it keeps readers intrested in a particular topic hooked to the site.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Ping your blog, if you dont already

In today’s world blogging is very competitive. Roughly, out of the 100 blogs that are published only one contains actual content. Remaining only contain the same content or transformed into their own words. Very few do manage to add value to the original content.

This makes the promotion of your blog very challenging atleast till the time you get enough traffic to your site. This is where some of the pinging sites can be very useful. If you are able to bring traffic to your website that can fetch good revenue though advertisements.

Pinging sites notifies the servers that keep track of blogs that a new blog has been posted. There are many such pinging websites a list of those is mentioned below and all of them are free.


some of the blogging sites like wordpress provide a way to automatically ping everytime you publish a post. You just have to mention the address of the sites that you want to ping.

Pinging can be useful only after submitting your blog to those blog directories. Pinging would say success even though you website is not listed in that directory.