11 Ways To Promote Your Blog
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 www.guidetorss.com 3. Ifyou have some cash you can promote your blog using pay per clicksearch engines such as Yahoo Search and Google Adwords. 4. Setyour blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS feedto the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to startis www.guidetorss.comprovides a list of the top RSS directories. 5. Put your blog URLin your email signature. If you’re a regular at any onlinediscussion forum, you can also add your url to your signatureline at the bottom of each message you post. 6. Install ablogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other weblogs.Services such as Technorati spider your links to tell who’slinking to you and who you’re linking to. If you show up onsomeone’s Technorati link list for their site they’re likely tovisit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure.Blog owners can also visit your site to check it out if you showup on their referral logs. 7. Be an active commenter. Try toleave comments on the that you regularly visit. Mostcomment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link backto your blog which begs a visit at the very least. 8. If youplan to have anything printed up, put your blog’s web address onit. You can print your blog URL on business cards, stickers,leaflets, etc.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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 DebtConsolidation Loans UK: http://www.best-debt-consolidation-loan.co.uk/. Visit our site toconsolidate debts and apply for a loan online. This article maybe reprinted as long as all the above links are active andclickable.
