Blogengage allows you to submit your blog articles that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted by me, is what Brian the owner of blogengage says his site is all about.When I first read this on his site I started to dig deeper and found that Brian is true to his word. I have started promoting blogpromotiontips on blogengage and will start moving all of my other blogs over to it in the coming weeks. As a blogger you should use all avenues of blog promotion available to you, but only focus on those blog promotion techniques that are most beneficial to you. I proclaim blogengage to be one of the current top four most important blog promotion social networking sites on the planet. I also have found blogengage to be very user friendly and that is a good thing in my book when it comes to blog promotion. There are many blog carnivals out there and many copycats trying to capitalize on the popularity of blogs. You as a blog owner should be very selective on what type of social site you use to promote your blog on. I am the type of person that is not easily impressed and I also have thick skin when I am told I have horrible grammar and I dont write that well. It doesn’t bother me as I know there are many like me who dont write good and don’t punctuate well but bare with me as I am to old and to busy to learn to write properly. But one thing I do extremely well is drive traffic to all my blogs and sites thru good blog promotion. Blogengage is going to be one of my main blog promotion tools that I shall use on a daily basis and you as a blog owner should do the same. Blogengage also has a very loyal bunch of readers over there that are encouraging and supportive of each other. This is another plus for me as I know how competitive the internet is and how many people like to hate on each others sites just because there own sites are not doing very well. I did not find this to be the case on blogengage, I found that the many bloggers at blogengage to be just the opposite. It is a warm and inviting site kind of like a family, not cold and clammy like digg and technorati where you will not get any love at all from the site owners or there readers. I am so glad that I have found blogengage and I intend to use it extensively and I urge you to sign up and start posting there as well and make blogengage.com a part of your blog promotion plan.  Blogpromotiontips fully endorses Blogengage.com and I have to give it the big Thumbs Up.

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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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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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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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Every inbound link is another avenue to generate traffic to your blog. There are other sites and trackers that provide inbound link services,but I use dnscoop because they are free and I always stick with the sites that have served me well in the past. Like the old saying goes its hard to teach a old dog a new trick , but i hope I have taught you one today. Use dnscoop to catch your competition it can be done, I know I have done it and will do it again. Happy Blogging !

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Action words or action verbs and a “call to action” can increase click through rates, web traffic, blog traffic and newsletter subscriptions. Using action words and providing readers with a solution to their problem will make them want to check out your information. Examples of actions words are: buy, visit, sign up, register, subscribe, check, click now,click here.

To get the best results of a call to action, you have to tell exactly what you want your readers to do and give a direct order with direct instructions. To increase the results even more, add an incentive or benefit people will get.

Use action words and a call to action in your blog titles, headlines, emails subjects, web sites, opt-in subscription forms, blogs and article resource box. Search engine listings that include actions words should increase visits to your web site so put actions words in places that may affect your listings such as meta description tags.

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More than 168 Million U.S. viewers watched online video during that month, accumulating nearly 26 Billion total views.

ComScore gives us information of the most popular sources for online video, and there are virtually no surprises. Google still has a chokehold on the competition, with a dominating 40.2% market share. Second place goes to Hulu, with a paltry 2.2% of the market.

The average Hulu viewer watched 15.1 videos in September, totaling 1.5 hours of viewing per person. Of course, that pales when compared to YouTube’s staggering 82 videos viewed per person.

There some really interesting data on online video in general too. For instance, did you know the average video watched is now 3.8 minutes in length? I was shocked at that. I know three minutes doesn’t sound like much, especially when compared to the length of a TV show or movie. But think about it in terms of the web. Go open up your analytics program and tell me the average length of time spent on site is for your visitors. If it’s anywhere near 3.8 minutes, I’ll buy you a coffee the next time we see each other.

In terms of web visitors, 3.8 minutes is an eternity, and most webmasters would kill for an attention span like that. If everything else we’ve said before today hasn’t already convinced you to jump into online video, then zero in and focus on just this metric. What would it be worth to you to hold your visitors’ attention for four minutes? Because I can’t remember the last time I saw a simple text-based blog post average anything close to that.

Among the rest of the findings: 84% of Americans online watched videos. 84%. As I continue to try and convince all my clients to jump fully into online video, I’m going to stop using that statistic about how many searches are performed on YouTube every month… and I’m going to start using this stat. 84% of people online are watching online video.They’re watching an average of about 10 hours of video every month.

If you have a blog and you want to increase your average time on the site for advertisers and google analytics, you need to incorporate videos on your blog.

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1. Post Daily

Posting frequently can boost your search engine traffic. Each new post acts as a new entry point for search engines to find your blogs. Writing with search engine optimization in mind can also boost the potential each of your posts has to lead traffic to your blog.

2. Participate in Online Forums

Join forums related to your blog topic and become an active, contributing member. Include a link to your blog in your forum signature if its allowed, so it’s always available to other members.

3. Use Social Media

Leverage the promotional opportunities that the social web provides. Join social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn and include links to your blogs and recent posts in your profiles. Join social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious and submit great content. Additionally, consider jumping on the microblogging bandwagon and join Twitter. All of these efforts will increase awareness of your blog and give it added exposure.

4. Link to Other Blogs in Your Own Posts

Try to include links to other blogs in your own blog posts. Refer to other blogs you enjoy reading or specific posts you found particularly interesting. When those other blogs have the trackback feature turned on in their blogging software programs, you’ll automatically get a link back to your own blog in the comment section of those posts. At the very least, the other blogger will see the incoming links from your blog in their blog statistic reports, putting you and your blog on his or her radar, and that means more exposure for you.

5. Include Your Blog Link in Your Email Signature

and on Business Cards,include your blog URL everywhere you can. Your email signature and business cards are two of the most obvious places to promote your blog with a link or printed URL, but don’t be afraid to think out of the box. Promotion is key to success when it comes to blogging.

6. Comment on Other Blogs

An easy way to give your blog a promotional boost is by commenting on other blogs. Each time you comment, enter the same name and URL in the corresponding fields in the blog comment form. Doing so will help your search engine optimization efforts over time. When you leave relevant, interesting and useful comments on other blogs particularly those that are related to your own blog’s topic, people will notice and follow the link back to your blog to learn more about you and read more of what you have to say.

7. The C Box

The C Box is a very popular tool you will see on alot of blogs. It is a real time chat box that can be very useful in meeting other blog owners and also posting a linkback to your own blog in the signature box. Make sure not to just spam someones C Box, make sure to make a positive comment about the host blog when trying to promote your own blog.

8. Join a Blog Carnival

Blog carnivals are an easy way to get links to your blog in front of a lot of people. The more closely related to your blog topic that the carnival is, the more traffic you’ll get from it.

9. Guest Blog

Offer your services as a guest blogger for other blogs in your niche, particularly ones that get more traffic than yours does. Guest blogging is a great way to get links to your blog and your own thoughts and writing in front of people who are likely to be interested in learning more about you and your blog.

10. Create Multiple Sites and Link Them Together

The more blogs or websites that you write, the more interlinking is possible. That interlinking can be used to promote your blog through different channels that might attract different audiences. Create an integrated blog marketing plan by aligning your promotion efforts across your various blogs and websites to reap the biggest rewards.

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Because blog promotion is often viral, done right it helps generate needed buzz for your site, bringing you readers and traffic.

If you do a good job designing your blog, post daily, and write well, chances are you hook readers and keep them, and your traffic numbers increase as your blog grows and earns links. The conversations occurring on your blog and on others can generate buzz about your company and products naturally. But if things are moving slowly, you can jump-start that growth.

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