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Tiger Woods and Blog Promotion

I already know why you clicked this article because you want to know how I can make Tiger Woods part of blog promotion. I thought about writing this post while I was driving kids to school this morning and I heard the radio talk show hosts talking about Tiger Woods. Tigers crash and secret love life has been on the news since Thanksgiving and hasn’t let up yet. The reason is that all the talk shows and celebrity gossip shows and sites love juicy controversy. You as a blogger can take advantage of this every time something juicy happens and use it to your advantage. Tiger Woods has been the number 1 search term on google for the last 2 weeks.

What that means is millions of nosy people want to know what the latest news is on the Tiger drama. Well your blog isn’t about Tiger you say. Hmmm this blog isn’t about Tiger either but I am writing about it just to show you how you can take something sensational that happens and add it to your blog. This blog post will show up in the long keyword tails and who knows where else it might land. When a seasoned web surfer search’s in google for a term there is a little tab in the corner that says options. I use it everyday for my other blogs that I own. It tracks the latest posts for any search term you enter in google search. When I hit submit this blog post will become the latest news story for Tiger. Sure some people will come to this blog and be disappointed that I am not posting any juicy Tiger news. But I really don’t care I just got a new unique visitor to my site. And a potential future reader if they own a blog and see that I am a blog promotion guru. Some of you might think that is underhanded blog promotion or bait and switch. Well it might be, but to succeed you need to take the by any means necessary attitude to swim with the sharks in the fight for new blog readers.


If you go to yahoo.com there is a web pulse that is updated constantly telling you what the top search terms are at that moment on yahoo. This is another good blog promotion tool to use especially if you blog about celebrities or current events. It is a must that you are up to the minute on celebrity news if you have a celebrity news blog. Most of the hot searches are going to be on celebrity news. When it gets close to the holidays the hot searches for christmas will be christmas gifts with long tails keywords. If you have a blog and you sell stuff you need to write posts with long keywords. A example would be instead of Christmas gifts for dad, you might change the title to Christmas gifts for dads that have everything. This subtle change could get your blog post on the front page of google for that search term. Are you confused yet ? Tiger Woods would probaly come to my blog for blog promotion tips if he wrote his own blog. Tiger Woods blogs about his girlfriends on this secret blog. The last two sentences I just wrote will get crawled by the google robots and get indexed probaly at the top page of google for the those search terms. This is an advance blog promotion tip that should not be over looked and you should use on a regular basis. Tiger Woods might be the popular search term of the moment but next week something else is going to take over that top spot. If you have a certain niche that you only write about, you need to figure out how you can incorporate whats popular into your latest blog posts if you want to get that extra blog promotion.

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Blog Promotion Weekly Wrap Up

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10 Ideas to use for Blog Promotion

10 things to do for blog promotion and to increase your blog traffic

1. Submit your articles to article directories and ez articles. A very good way to get back links and to drive traffic if done properly. A good article written today can bring traffic to your blog years from now from these article sites.

2. Submit your blog to some large free directories and search engines. Dont overdue the directories as not many people use them anymore,very outdated method of blog promotion but it can bring some traffic. You will see authors plug directories as being so important in blog promotion. But that was years ago, it is only important now to submit to the huge directories. PR 5 and above

3. Submit your site to free website review sites. Before you do this make sure your site is ready for a review, make sure you have at least 3 weeks worth of content.

4. Write related articles on WikiPedia with your blog url in it. I am guilty of not doing this very often, however it can lead to a traffic increase. But most of wikipedia is no follow, and I am anti no follow sites as they do not give anything in return for your contribution.

5. Start a myspace page for your blog.and post some of your articles in your blog on myspace. Myspace is a follow site for Blog entries which is a good thing for page rank.

6. Start a facebook page for your blog. Post links to your blog and promote your blog thru your friends pages. It can be a tedious task at times to visit all these social networking sites but it is not to be overlooked if you want to cover all angles in blog promotion.

7. Start a twitter page for your blog. This is a must for this year as twitter is the new leader in social networking sites, love it or hate it, you need to do it. Then set your blog up with a twitter plugin that tweets all your articles and posts them straight to twitter. And every now and then get on twitter to make some real human tweets to show that you are a real person and not just a plugin robot person. Those who use twitter like real human interaction so make sure you are making some real tweets as well.

8. Start a yahoo answers account to answer questions related to your niche, be sure to leave your link in the resource box. I have written about this before in previous posts. Yahoo Answers is a follow site and a PR 8 site which gives excellent back links. When you have nothing to blog about put in work on this site answering every question that is even remotely close to your niche with your blog as the answer.

9. Join Forums related to your niche if you can find them, if not create one for your niche and post the link to it everywhere. Forums are a great way to get people interested in your blog, this is a time consuming task but if you want to be successful make time for it or get a partner to help you. Which leads to my last blog promotion tip. PHFGZAKE2D8V

10. Get a partner to help you with your blog. One person cannot do the work of 2 people. With a partner you have just doubled your blog promotion capabilities. Find someone you admire for there work ethic and ask them would they be interested in being a part of your blogging venture. If you are blogging for fun then just keep on doing it by yourself, but if you are blogging for profit then a partner is the way to go. And one word of personal advice is do not let your partner be a member of your family. The old saying is true never mix family and business together. I made this mistake once and it caused me whole lot of grief that could of been avoided if I would not of went into business with my family member.

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Blog Promotion Networking shouldn’t be overlooked

It is very Important to Network with other Bloggers

Blog promotion is like  a good vegetable soup recipe , it contains many ingredients to get it just right . One of the ingredients to successful blog promotion is networking. All accomplished bloggers are connected to other successful bloggers this is a fact that can sometimes be verified by the same advertising network they are in or the links backs to each others site. Networking with other bloggers is usually overlooked by the startup bloggers and some of the know it all bloggers. You need to make a point to reach out to other bloggers either thru comments on their blogs or thru emails and forums. Connect constantly to build your blog up to the level that will make it worthwhile to keep writing.

Networking with other bloggers can provide you a path to some of there readers and maybe a link on there blog. A good friend who is a blogger will have no problem mentioning your blog in one of there posts and you should do the same back but getting a stranger to do this is no easy task. Compliment a blog writer if you enjoyed his or her article it will go a long way towards establishing a new relationship. Be sincere in wanting to network with other bloggers dont go at it with a bad attitude. Bloggers come in many shapes and sizes it is a mosh pit of ranters and professionals with many in betweens. You need to juggle all the different types of bloggers out there in the blog world to achieve networking greatness. A few good loyal blogging friends is better than zero blogging friends. I am the type of person that this is a hard task for me as I can be withdrawn and I am quick to anger, but my better half is really good at this aspect of business relationships and she sometimes helps me in this area. When you are looking for blog to network with explore many blogs that write about subjects in your niche as well as blogs that are subjects that interest you. Visit blogs often that you like and comment often or they will not know you have visited. The blog writer will notice after a period of time that you are a loyal visitor and that is the perfect time to start your networking. Ask for a link or ask for them to write a post about your blog and you will do the same back for them. It might work it might not it just depends on the blogger you approach. Like I said earlier a few blogger friends are better than zero. Keep at it until you get your first blogger friend after that it will get easier and easier as you build your network of blogger buddies.

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Using Youtube to promote your blog

There are so many different articles on how to promote your blog or website using youtube. Most of these articles are a waste of time as Youtube is a nofollow site and can actually drive your seo page ranking down. Youtube is one of the biggest sites in the world last time I checked Alexa I think they were number 5. It doesn’t matter they are big and their traffic is undeniable. After sifting thru all the ways to drive traffic from Youtube to your site I have decided that most of the effort is a waste of time and your time could be better spent creating back links to your blog or just writing new blog posts.

Im sure I will have some who disagree with me but this is a blog promotion site and I dont want to steer you wrong with a bunch of fluff and B.S. like some of the bigger sites will. First and foremost do not ever pay someone to promote your site thru Youtube this is a guaranteed scam.

It wouldn’t be profitable for the business that claims it can because the time and effort would outweigh their profit.Steer clear of these scams. But if you are a avid Youtube visitor like I am, I use Youtube videos on some of my other sites there is one fast way to drive traffic to your site using Youtube. It is leaving a comment on any video page that you watch.

The comment will not create a link back but it can lead to visitors and usually the person who posted the video will come for a visit as well, because they always come back to check their video comments out. If your niche is celebrity news then search for celebrity news videos and be specific and search only for today. Videos will show up about celebrity news and some will show up not related to your search , you will have to sift thru these videos.

If your site is called celebritynewsbuzz  then leave a comment on the site that says we used your video on our site celebritynewsbuzz it is on the front page. If you use videos in your blog then post the Youtube video you have found on your blog, readers love videos.

If you dont post videos then leave the comment we are thinking about using your video on our site celebritynewsbuzz. You can not leave a .com at the end of your comment as it will be filtered out by youtube. And if your site is not a .com then you are out of luck because 99% of the people who are nosy and the video poster will type in celebritynewsbuzz.com.

The only other way you can get traffic from Youtube is to make your own videos and post them up on Youtube , but once again this is a lot of trouble and you dont want to do this as very few will leave Youtube to check out your site. Posting comments is the way to go , I know I do it everyday for my site that I use videos on.

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