Blog Promotion Tips

Blog Promotion: The Bloke’s Tip for the Day

Instead of just living in my newsreader I’ve decided to try an experiment and spend time perusing the social network discussions.

Today I came across a discussion at BlogCatalog called “What is your way of blog promotion?”. This was my response:

All of the ideas here are great, but the best promotion for your blog is to write compelling and original content. Spending a lot of time on promotion won’t help much if your content doesn’t make casual readers want to come back for more. Turning casual readers into subscribers who link to you will bring the greatest return on your investment over the long run.

It’s no different than the real world. There’s no better advertisement than a direct reference from a happy customer. You can read more ideas about blog promotion over at the discussion group.

What’s your favourite method for promoting your blog?

Original Article on www.blogbloke.com

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30 Strange ways to Promote Your Blog

Promoting your blog is the most difficult part of blogging. After spending hours writing a great post and putting links and images in it you push the publish button and wait… but nothing happens! Your post is live on the web and no one is going to read it! You can’t even get a comment!

1# Yard Sale – Sell items you no longer want and make sure to put up a sign in your yard with the words “Sponsored by ______.com”

2# Teach a Local Class – Go to your local community center, college, primary schools, etc. and offer to teach a free class about your blog’s niche. If you blog about cars, teach a class about how to change a tire. There are a lot of ways to build face-to-face relationships in your area.

3# Get on Your Local News – Find a way to get in your local newspaper to build some hype around your blog and what you are doing online. An easy way to do this is by writing an editorial or showing up to important local events.

4# Farmer’s Markets – Give away food at local events like farmer’s markets, conventions, fairs, car shows, or other local events. People will stop by your booth and will accept a handout with your product or blog on it for a small bit of food.

5# Go to the Beach – Enjoy yourself and while there etch your url into the sand. Just be sure to watch out for the tide. – Works in snow too!

6# Write on a Dirty Car Window – It only takes a second!

7# Host a Snowball Fight! – Unless it is illegal in your state. This is a fun way to get people to have fun and with a little hot chocolate sponsored by your blog it’s a quick way to get your name out as well.

8# Yard Sign – Campaigns do it all the time, just put a very nice sign in your window or yard, be sure to check the rules of your city or neighborhood though.

9# Post Flyers – Stick a poster about your website on your work or school’s notice-board. You probably want to wait until no-one is around before you try this one.

10# Public Browser Trick – Go to your local library, internet cafe or computer lab and set your blog’s domain name as the default browser homepage on all the computers you can easily access. Just make sure not to violate any terms of use.

11# Router Trick – This is an easy one to do and can get your neighbors interested in your blog. All you have to do is name your wireless router after your blog and try to get your neighbors interested. Who knows, you might have a fellow blogger next door.

12# Blank Business Cards – You can hand out a business card whenever your blog comes up or whenever you bring it up in conversation. Be sure to mention your blog to more people offline.

13# Local Meeting – Organize a meet-up for webmasters and bloggers in your area and use it as an opportunity to network.

14# Backpack Patch – Get yourself a custom patch to put on your bag or backpack and travel with it everywhere.

15# Niche Hot-Spots – Leave fliers or posters at hot spots for your niche. For example: If you have a music blog then post flyers at a local music shop, concert venue, etc.

16# Take Out a Local Ad – Local ads in newspapers are often pretty cheap and local papers have a circulation of thousands. One more way to be found.

17# Wear your URL – Create for yourself and friends custom t-shirts or hats with your URL on it. People will want to know more and you will be creating conversations about your blog.

18# Use a Talent – You Draw? Make Crafts? Sing Songs? Find a way to expand your visitors by showcasing a talent which exposes your blog.

19# Homeless Humor Approach – Why do your advertising approaches have to be boring? Try something funny and exciting

20# Hire a Consultant – Find out specifically how you can get your blog going and get help from an expert. I have consulted many clients and the key is for bloggers to be open and willing to listen. Many consultants are pretty inexpensive considering the time they save you from having to learn it on your own.

21# Hire a Publicist – Have them take care of your PR for you. They are expensive though so be aware.

22# Bumper stickers – There a millions of drivers so get a bumper sticker for your blog and mail them or sell them to your blog readers. Every time they drive anywhere they will be promoting you.

23# Have a Party – Tell local bloggers, friends, and family that your blog is sponsoring a party with food, drinks or whatever you want. Then when everyone comes in hand them a card with your blog on it. It will create some great buzz offline.

24# Invite Offline Friends – Often we forget that many of our friends and associates offline might be interested in our niche too. Just mention your blog the next time your offline friends ask you what you are up to.

25# Advertise on the Radio – It is generally pretty cheap and very easy to set up. If you have something non-web people would want get talking.

26# Advertise on TV – If you have product to sell and 30 second commercial might be a great way to get people online to check out your site.

27# Sell Your Product on an Infommercial – If people can sell inflatable kitchen knives and tons of other wacky stuff, you can sell your product too!

28# Put Your URL on Your Desktop – If you are like me you use your computer outside of your house at school, library or in public. People will see it and may visit your site.

29# Write a Guest Posts for Offline Productions – I’m talking about newsletters, magazines, books, newspapers, or any other offline production you can help people and do a little self-promoting at.

30# Marketing Apparel – Get a t-shirt made with your blog’s logo and URL on it. You can also offer the t-shirt as a prize in a contest on your blog. If the t-shirt’s design is pretty cool, the winner will advertise for you wherever they go!

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Getting your google page rank taken or redirected

I have at last count 32 different websites and blogs online. All of my sites are monetized and do very well. This blog promotion tips site was my newest venture but I have decided I will change the format on this site. The reason for changing the format on the site is I made a crucial mistake in promoting the site. Let me explain in more detail. When I start a new blog or site I use my own blog promotion tricks to get to the front page of google usually within 1 month. It should never take longer than that or I am doing something wrong or something is wrong with my seo. I used the same format for this blog and I was on the front page in about 10 days. I then began adding content and everything was going well. I enjoy helping other bloggers get to see there sites grow and get to the front page with very little effort using my blog promotion tips. So that is why I decided to start this blog rather than have pblogger continue to dominate the niche with the regurgitated same old blog promotion posts over and over again. I can list 32 different sites that I own and every one of them is on the front page. This site was never started to be one of my super money making sites , I have those already and they take up a lot of my time .This site I deviated from the usual program and submitted it to http://www.dailyradar.com/ which runs http://webmarketingblips.dailyradar.com/ this was my fatal mistake. Dailyradar runs alot of these so called blip sites which promote your site the problem is that they also seem to take your page rank from you. There are other sites that you submit your blog to that are very similar to this. In the past I have never used these to gain traffic or page rank. This is the first time I have used these type of sites. I saw a instant 12 page rank drop on some of the prominent key words I was attacking. There is a list of theses type of sites that are doing the same thing to your blog but I wont mention it in this post. I will continue to leave this blog online and let one of my workers continue to post to see how things play out. I will update in future posts my findings after my research is complete and reveal all the sites you should not submit your blog articles to.

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Blog Promotion and Comment Approval

Well I took the whole weekend off for this blog as I am in the middle of moving and there was just no time for me to post. But I am back at it with a vengeance. My first blog promotion tip for the week is comment approval. I visit a lot of blogs and the first thing that pisses me off is when I write a long engaging comment and hit submit and I get a your comment has been submitted for approval. Not only is this a turn off for the visitor of a persons blog it is bad business.

You should reward the readers that are nice enough to leave a comment on your blog by having your comments set on auto approve. The reader should not have to register to comment and enter captcha, that is a waste of the readers time and and will cause a reader to leave your blog and never return . This is not user friendly and is not going to make your blog special by requiring this. If you are worried about spam then use askimet plugin or another spam plugin to filter the spam. Every now and then a spam comment will squeeze thru your spam filter but who cares, just delete it. If you are really working to improve your blog promotion then you should be monitoring your blog and engaging with your commenter’s and you would notice a spam comment sneaked by your plugin. But I doubt this will happen very often as askimet is vastly improved now to detect all the spam comments you dont want. If someone takes the time to  leave a comment on your blog then follow them back to there blog and leave a comment or there blog and let them know you saw they visited your blog. If your blog gets hundreds of comments a day then just do your best to comment back on as many as you can. This will go a long way in building bridges to more readers and help you increase your blog promotion. Something as simple as commenting on a blog post should not be time consuming and difficult for your blog readers. If you have your blog on approve all comments then you need to change it and  install the askimet plugin and put all comments on auto approve. Trust me on this it will make your readers very happy to know that he or she could comment on your article and it is auto approved. Those blog owners who require you to jump thru hoops don’t deserve a comment and if you are looking to get a backlink out of one of these type of comment moderation is on blogs forget it. They will not approve your comment as they think they are the comment police, and whoa is them if someone leaves a backlink on there blog. Leave a comment on my blog today and watch the auto approve. Happy Blogging Monday

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Blog Promotion for Know It Alls

Well I was trying to think about what blog promotion tips I could write about today while surfing the web. I came across a lot of blogs re writing the same blog promotion tips over and over again. I can say in all honesty that blog promotion is evolving into big business for some and little business for others. There are so many blogs out there that get very little love at all. I am fortunate enough to have a lot of blogger friends that will add me to there blogroll. So that is what todays blog promotion tip is about, blogrolls. One of the most powerful blog promotion tips I can give you is to target other peoples blogrolls.

I will practice what I preach and extend a open invitation to this blog to add anybody’s blog to my blogroll that will add me back to there blogroll,just leave me a comment in this post and it shall be done. Getting your blog added to blogrolls on a lot of blogs can be blog promotions most powerful traffic tool. I have friends that are on over 500 other peoples blogrolls and every blog that is on that many blogs, blogrolls gets mega traffic. It should be your goal to get your blog on as many blogrolls as you can. If there is a blog that you visit often ask them to add your blog to there roll and do the same for them. If they refuse then never visit there blog again. I hate the so called big shots PR 5 and above who think they will get penalized for adding a PR 0 to there blogroll. This is not true I have sites that are PR 5 and I have brand new blogs on there blogrolls and it changes nothing. Like I said before on other posts the old ways google indexed pages is out the window, they have changed with the times and if you own as many sites as I do then you would know this to be true. Your assignment today is to go out there and find a blog you want to be on there blogroll and ask them, do this everyday and you will get some blogs who say yes and some will say no but you will get on nobodys blog roll if you dont ask. Do not add a blog to your blog roll who does not return the favor, don’t do it. So like I said above if you want to be a part of my blog roll just add a comment and add my site to your blogroll and we will be one big traffic trading blog family.

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