I own blogs that are 6 years old and were on page 1 for the keyword I have targeted and they have fallen to page 5 or 6  since December 2009. Now this is something that happened overnight and when I noticed it I also noticed my competitors blogs and websites falling as well. I also noticed that some abandoned blogs , that have not had a new post in years have moved to page one. This blog blogpromotiontips has not had a new post since Feb 2010 and it has moved back to page 1 on google for multiple keywords. This goes against the old blog promotion tip , that your site is rewarded for new content by google.

This is not true anymore, you can let your site sit and not post anything for months and it might climb in the page rankings if it had proper SEO to begin with. Some blogs that get massive traffic are on page 1 for there specific keywords and other blogs that have massive traffic are barely indexed by google, this is maddness and it also points out the fact that no matter how much traffic you get google might not reward you for that.

Keyword Bully

I am going to start posting on this blog regularly now as I know there are many bloggers that need my help to achieve blog success. Your only alternative is the regurgitated same old crap site problogger. Years ago they had good blog promotion tricks and tips , but now they have grown rich,fat and lazy and there is nothing useful on the site for the blogger who wants to carve his own path to super blogdom. My last tip for the day is do not under any circumstance pay anyone that says they can guarantee you page 1 results in google. This is a blatant lie, and it can be done but it cannot be guaranteed. Any Seo company who wants to prove me wrong comment me or email me and I will glady give you keywords you cannot touch the 5th page on let alone the 1st page.

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Attract Blog Readers

10 Ideas to use for Blog Promotion

Blog Promotion Networking shouldn’t be overlooked

Blog back links

10 Ideas to use for Blog Promotion

Blog Networking

Blog Promotion Networking shouldn’t be overlooked

Blogging comment Promotion

Leaving Comments a important Blog Promotion Trick

Building Blog Links

Creating inbound links

Leaving Comments a important Blog Promotion Trick

Increase Blog Traffic

10 Ideas to use for Blog Promotion

Using Twitter for Blog Promotion

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1. Get T-Shirts printed with your URL on it

and give them out to friends and family. This can be a somewhat expensive blog promotion idea but it carries a lot of weight. The amount of people that will see your url on a t-shirt during the life of that t-shirt could be thousands and thousands. Just about everyone wears t-shirts so they are a easy giveaway and they need no talking into to get someone to accept your freebee. It is easy to get t-shirts printed online from many t-shirt business‘s. If you live in a big city you can get them done at a t-shirt shop, the more you buy the cheaper the per unit cost. Humans are curious by nature and people will visit your url if they see it on a t-shirt.

2.Blog Promotion on Billboards and Bus stop benches

This can be a reach for some startup blogs budgets. But the old saying goes it takes money to make money holds true to this day. In every town in America their are billboards for rent that you can have your url and tag line on. These can be seen by millions if you get one by a busy highway in a big city. If you live in the country it might not be the best idea for you. Billboards are a very good way to advertise and are not to be overlooked it you are serious about promoting your blog. It can be a expensive way to advertise. But if you think big you will become big if you think small you will stay small.

3. Laptop Skins for Blog Promotion

I love this idea as it is the least expensive idea for today and it can pay off in dividends. Their are many Laptop skins business’s that you can design and have a laptop skin made for your computer. This is only a good idea if you use your laptop in coffeshops and airports and places where people are around. If you never leave your house with your laptop then revert back to Idea 1 or 2.

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I’ve already accomplished what the big blog promotion blogs said cannot be done in under 6 months, in less than 2 weeks.  The joke is on them. As I’ve said in some of my previous posts, the old dated ways of getting on the search engine front page for your niche keywords are out the window.

I’ve re-invented the wheel on getting my blog on the front page on google for many keywords. I am on the coveted first and second page after only 2 weeks; for the keywords I targeted. That one week includes five minutes for my partner to set up the blog.

My partner is the world’s fastest blog creator, absolutely amazing. She can set up your blog up and have it online is under five minutes. If you need her services leave me a comment and I will send you a email with her contact info.

As I have said in some of my previous blog promotion posts if you want to achieve front page status for your blog keyword of choice you need to use my blog promotion tips. There are a few insider blog promotion tips I haven’t written about yet that helped me to achieve these amazingly impossible blog promotion feats. I just haven’t had the time to address them yet in my blog promotion articles.

My site is a PR 0 and I am on the front page of google. This time next year I will be a PR 5 or PR 6 easily, you can quote me on this. I will walk down all the blog promotion competitions with the greatest of ease. Happy Blogging to me !!

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This important blog promotion tip is known as “link building,” it is getting other Web sites to link to your site. It’s like one of your neighbors recommending a auto repairman or good restaurant; it carries a whole lot more weight than if a person just found  your blog site.

In today’s competitive world wide web, there is so much more to good search engine listings than simply optimizing your site for keywords.

Building links have become increasingly more important to the Search engines because they see links as an endorsement or Co sign of your site by other Blog sites.

The best way to build links is still doing it yourself,do not pay any website to build links for you and never pay for links. Here are the steps you should follow when building links:

1. Set a Goal and dont stop until you achieve it.

Link building is very time consuming, but it is very effective and easy to do, so you want to keep at it. Set a goal for the number of links you want as a way to stay motivated through the process. If your goal is 1000 links then dont stop until you achieve this goal. I repeat do not stop until you achieve your goal. There is no feeling in the world like reaching your goal.

2. Identify the type of blogs you want to link with.

Focus on blogs and sites that are related to your target market niche, we have all heard this since the start of seo techniques. But do not ignore blogs that are not related to your niche. A lot of the old so called standards for linking you will read about on the outdated posts do not apply today. Some of the algorithms used by google in the past are not used anymore. I know I have put them to the test and all my finding are that it does not matter anymore where the links come from. To achieve front page rankings in the past you needed a lot of links, this is no longer the case. The reason you need a lot of links for blog promotion is to establish many avenues for traffic sources to your blog. Links from blogs in your niche are important because if someone is interested in basketball and your site is about basketball then of course it would be a good thing to have your link on other basketball sites.

3. Target High Google Page Rank Sites

The higher a page ranks the better. One strategy is to try to link up with sites that have pages ranked as high as or higher than your own. This can and always has been the hardest part of link building. Most high PR sites dont give the little blogs and sites anything. They even turn off their follow comments part of their site as they get bigger. It is like they are too good for the old neighborhood since they moved on up. Some of the big PR sites think google penalizes them for linking to lower PR sites. Google does not confirm this , as they give no PR information out. I would say that Linking to high PR sites is definatley good for your blog but not a must. Dont lose

sleep over it if you are snubbed by a lot of high PR sites in your niche. You can get quality High PR links from sites like PR 8 Digg.com and PR 8 answers Yahoo for free and with no trouble at all and I doubt any site in your niche is a PR 8. Those 2 sites give you immediate follow links that are from PR 8 sites.

4. Make a list and Follow up

Make a list in excel or word of every blog or site you have tryed to link to. After about a week check their blog to see if they have added you, if they have not send them a follow up email asking them to link you again. Sometime persistance pays off, they might have overlooked your first email or it could of went to the spam folder do not assume that they just didnt link you. A follow up email is

a step that has paid off for me many times and you should use it. Do not get discouraged if some blog snubs you, just keep it moving and keep your eye on the prize. Like the old saying goes Rome was not built in a day.

5. Set a schedule for blog link building.

It will be a lot easier on you if you set a schedule for your link building campaign. If you do it for 1 hour a day at a set time , then stick to your schedule you will achieve your goal. Do not try to get 1000 links in a month this is not the way to do it, the slow grind is the best way and the natural way. Google will notice if you get 150 links overnight and it might penalize you for this as it seems fishy. Happy link building

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Using Twitter to Promote your Blog

1. Sending Blog Posts Straight to Twitter

I use a wordpress plugin called twittertools on all my other Blog sites to post straight to twitter and to put a post on twitter every time I publish a article. I was a genuine twitter hater at first but my partner is a twitter junkie and she has shown me the error of my ways. Twitter is a great way to get unique visitors to visit your blog.

2. Add Follow me on Twitter badges

Twitter is in its early stages and it is a good time now to get a lot of followers. Every follower is a potential everyday reader for your blog. Users of Twitter do not follow everyone, they pick and choose who they follow. Twitter has grown and morphed into a “whoever has the most followers has the power” type of site. Gaining a lot of followers is the key to using twitter to its full potential. To accomplish this I would add twitter follow me badges on every blog page and post you make.

3. Comment on other Twitter users Posts

Make your twitter followers believe whatever they are tweeting about interests you. People love to have their ego stroked and commenting positively about other tweets is a good start to gaining positive responses on your own tweets.

4. Re Tweet your followers tweets

This is very important point I must emphasize, always Re Tweet your followers tweets. This is what everyone on twitter wants to happen to their tweets. Re tweeting someone else’s post shows you are interested in what they have to say and helps them gain new followers. The old saying one hand washes the other will then begin to happen for your own blog posts your followers that you have retweeted will start re tweeting your tweets which in turn will lead to more followers for you.

If you have followers that never re tweet your posts send them a personal message asking them to re tweet your posts and you will do the same for them. This form of direct communication should be used sparingly as I presume in the future twitter will crack down on this and it will result in a ban. But for now the wild wild twitter mania is wide open so use it for your benefit.

5. Ask your followers to critique your blog posts

Ask your twitter followers to critique your current blog post. Post a link to your new blog post and ask your readers to look over your grammar or your overall article.  Make a list for your blog, for instance if your blog is about movie lovers, you would make the list the top 100 horror movies of all time and ask your followers to look over the list and see if there are any good movies that you have left off the list. This will lead to instant traffic to your blog by your followers and also if you ask them to re tweet it for you it could lead to a spike in traffic in one day. I hated to give that secret away but I have decided that I will not hold back any blog promotion tips on this blog. You can take that one and run with it.

Asking followers for input should be used sparingly, over use will put off your followers your responses will drop off.

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Myth 1: Blog Marketing is Easy

This is one of the biggest myth’s of all,and gets harder everyday. The internet gets more and more crowded and the success stories are fewer and fewer. One thing that I have learned is that internet or blog marketing is not easy. It take alot of time and hard work and many hours in front of a computer while your life passes you by. I know first hand the ups and downs of internet marketing and I can tell you it is not easy. It is simple to register a url and get a blog online, but marketing it and promoting it is not easy. There are many blogs in my niche that are full of fluff but no substance and yet they are still successful. The reason is that they put a lot of work into promoting and paying for advertising to drive traffic to there Blogs. Blog Marketing is easy is a myth.

Myth 2: Anyone Can get Rich and Make Money Online with a blog or website

This has very little truth to it unless you call selling something on ebay as making money online and even then the waters are very crowded. The only people making money off of ebay these days is ebay. Making money running a website is  very hard for a veteran blogger or internet expert, let alone a first timer. A few first timers stumble into a niche that has not been attemped but that in itself is like hitting the lottery these days. You can make some money online if you have a 10,000 or less Alexa ranked site but that is not a easy task to accomplish. All the scammers out there with the I make $5000 a day posting links for google on my site are just that scams. Barnum Bailey once said theres a sucker born every minute. Anyone can make money online is a total myth.

Myth 3: It’s Too Late to Start a Successful Blog

The old saying is very true the early bird gets the worm.

Don’t you wish you were the blogger who started Digg or Myspace ? Of course you do, it is every bloggers dream to start a new site that becomes a household name. Well that dream can still be achieved all it takes is timing and luck and a lot of hardwork. It is never too late to jump into the blogging world with a idea and grow it into the next big niche. The internet is here to stay and the competition is fierce,but not impossible. If you are stumped about how or what to blog about then look at the successful blogs that you admire and give them some competition in the same niche. Improve upon what they started and give the world some choices, for every myspace there is a facebook. Its to late too start a successful blog is a huge myth.

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Here are some reasons to start blogging right now

Search Engines Love Blogs: The major search engines usually give higher page rankings to blogs that post frequently. When you post to your blog daily your content is constantly growing ,thus adding more pages for the search engines to index which is a good thing and the search engines will reward you for it.

Building a Audience: A good blog can attract many new readers. Readers who like what you have to say will visit your blog more frequently and might link your blog and or tell others about your blog.

You can Become Somebody if you have a Blog:

Starting a blog is one of the fastest and easiest ways to showcase your knowledge in your subject of choice. When you share valuable tips,news and resources you will keep your readers interest while building a fan base that keeps them coming back for more.

Republish your Blog Content:

It doesn’t take long to build up a great amount of blog content. You can republish your posts into articles, ebooks, books and news releases. Many bloggers have found ebook success by building a loyal following online and then writing a ebook and selling it to there loyal readers for a profit.

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1. Optimize

Optimize the blog using standard search engine optimization techniques, so that it performs well in the organic rankings of the various search engines.

2. Submit

Submit the blog to the available online blog directories. There are a number of blog search engines and RSS directories which you can submit your blog to in order to gain additional exposure.

Submit Blogs – http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm

3. Social Networks

Submit the blog to the major social networks, and then bookmark the blog.

Social Networks – http://www.webmaster-elements.com/social-bookmarking-sites.htm

4. Press Release

Write a press release announcing the blog.

5. Blog Commenting

Post comments on other, related blogs, and include the URL of your own blog in your signature.

6. Forum Posting

Signature Post in forums and newsgroups with related topics, and include your blog URL in your forum signature.

7. Email Signature

Include the URL of you blog in the signature of any email correspondence.

8. Business Cards / Letterhead

Include the URL of the blog on business cards and on company letterhead.

9. PowerPoint Presentation

When making presentations at meetings and conferences, be sure to include the URL of the blog at the bottom of all PowerPoint slides. That way, if the presentation is redistributed, you will obtain further branding benefits and additional web traffic.

10. Handouts

Include the blog URL on any handouts that you distribute at meetings, trade shows, or during presentations.

11. Deep Links

Deep-link to other parts of your website and blog from within the blog.

12. Wiki Links

Generate quality content and resources, so that you can attract wiki links.

13. Hold Contests For Participants

In order to encourage blog participation, run contests or have giveaways for the best comments or participants.

14. Related Posts

Incorporate links to related blog posts, or post a list of related blog posts at the end of an entry.

15. Provide an RSS Feed

Make it easy for readers to follow the blog by providing an RSS feed that contains blog posts.

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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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