10 Ways To Instantly Promote Your Blog For Free
By Chileshe Mwape, Sat Dec 10th
1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping ablog, you are telling the search engine that you have updatedyour blog content and that your listing should be refreshed.Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that manyindividuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging yourblogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the searchengine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse thesesites to find something new.
2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites anddirectories. You can submit your blog's url to websites such asTechnorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list ofwebsites where you can submit your url, go to http://www.guidetorss.com/3. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSSfeed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place tostart is http://www.guidetorss.com/which provides a list of the top RSS directories. 4. Put yourblog URL in your email signature. If you’re a regular at anyonline discussion forum, you can also add your url to yoursignature line at the bottom of each message you post. 5.Install a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to otherweblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tellwho’s linking to you and who you’re linking to. If you show upon someone’s Technorati link list for their site they’re likelyto visit your site to see what you said, increasing yourexposure. Blog owners can also visit your site to check it outif you show up on their referral logs. 6. Be an activecommenter. Try to leave comments on the that you regularlyvisit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leavea link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least.7. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog’s webaddress on it. You can print your blog URL on business cards,stickers, leaflets, etc.
8. Take advantage of blog software features that help to promoteyour Blog. For example, if you're using Blogger, you can do thisby turning on: "Email This Post", "Post Pages" "Site feed" andthe Blogger Navbar. These features will help attract newvisitors to your blog.
9. Exchange Links with other Bloggers or blog owners. This isanother effective strategy for generating targeted traffic toyour blog for free. It involves contacting other blog owners fora possible link exchange partnership. All you have to do islocate that are related to yours and contact the webmasterto swap links.
10. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters topublish and put your blog url in the byline. The ‘byline’ is theshort paragraph that goes at the bottom of each article anddescribes who the author is and what they do. If you write goodcontent, your articles will be published by other webmasters andmany readers who like your article will go on to visit yourblog.
About the author:Copyright © 2005. Chileshe Mwape writes for The US Banks Website: http://www.us-banks.org/.Find informative articles and news stories about banking andfinance. This article may be reprinted as long as all the abovelinks are active and clickable.
