Top 5 tips for promoting blogs: keyword optimization, update blogs, RSS feeds, social bookmarks, blog sitemap
You’ve set up a well designed blogs, you’ve written great posts, your post images are on point, so why aren’t you getting more valuable traffic? Many people make make the mistake of not promoting blogs they’ve created. Promoting blogs is a must for reaching a large audience and receiving substantial valuable web traffic. Several free promotion options exist for promoting blogs, using the following blog tips will help you compete successfully for traffic with millions of other blogs.
While many techniques exist to help ensure your success in blogging, the following details our top 5 tips for promoting blogs.
1. OPTIMIZATION keyword optimization & page optimization
It is imperative to use search engine optimization techniques to ensure your posts and pages are indexed by search engines. Keyword and page optimization helps search engines like Google find you, search engines are one of the most reliable sources of web traffic. Make sure you use long tail keywords in your blog posts, the ones that Web surfers are likely to enter in the search engine search tabs.
2. UPDATE Keep your blog updated
Blogs are much like those CNN news sites where readers expect them to be valuable and constantly updated. Internet users visit blogs because of contents. For them to go on visiting these blogs, they should experience this feeling of having been informed while enjoying the blog at the same time. Your blog needs to give the news first if it is a news site, if it is a content site then it must give the most content and the hard to find content. The early bird gets the worm. Other blog owners will come to your site for articles everyday and ideas to feed there own blogs.

3. RSS generate an RSS feed for your blog
Generating a feed can give your regular and random readers a chance to subscribe to the rss feed. Having your latest blog contents delivered right into their computer saves them from having to go to your blog. WordPress automatically generates RSS feeds, but you can go to Feedburner.com if you need some additional feed options.
4. GET SOCIAL social bookmarking
While you bookmark your favorite pages, make sure you include the ones that you own. Social bookmarking each entry that you make, at the same time you are giving your pages an increased chance to be spotted by a significant number of Internet users. It is also one way of creating backlinks, which helps in your search engine rankings.
5. SITEMAP create a blog sitemap
This one is a must do step because using XML Sitemap plugin we can ensure that we have a form of control what content Google finds on our blog.

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