Tips on Promoting your blog
By Madhur Kapoor on Sep 17, 2007 in Blogging, My Choice
Whenever you start a blog , the main concern is how to make visitors come to your blog or how should you promote your blog to attract visitors and build a good network . I have been blogging for more than a year now and here are a few tips which i feel will definitely help a blogger in promoting there blog .
- Choose your own domain name . It gives your site the professional edge and builds your credibility around the blogosphere.
- Submit your blog URL to various search engines and prominent Blog Directories like Yahoo , Google , MSN , Technorati etc.
- Content is the king . Write about the topics that readers would love to read about and respond too.
- Link to other blogs while writing posts about similar topics.
- Leave relevant comments on other blogs.
- Mention your blog in places such as your email signature , your forum/social network profile or your visiting cards.
- Build a good online network through sites such as Facebook , Twitter , MyBlogLog etc and use them to promote your content.
- Always respond to comment on your blog , if some other blogger mentions your post in there blog , thank them cordially.
- Try to promote your blog in various forums by connecting with fellow bloggers.
- Keep in touch with fellow bloggers through IM or offline if possible
- Optimize your blog for Search Engine. Use relevant keywords and title . This will help you get a good amount of traffic from Search Engines.
- Participate in Link building campaign or Group Writing Project . These are a great place to get your blog noticed .
All the tips mentioned are not in any particular order . I wrote them as they came to mind . Feel free to tell me your suggestions .
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hey thax madhur for that information.
i didnt know few of them.
by the way what is “Link building campaign or Group Writing Project”.
Roxi | Sep 17, 2007 | Reply
Good tips, I’m with Roxi though can you explain exactly what a link building campaign is? I’m new to all of this!
HairySwede | Sep 17, 2007 | Reply
great article man if you keep these up you will win the $500 for sure
excellent tips ill check them out for myself.
shaun | Sep 17, 2007 | Reply
Nice tips
Commenting on other blogs is necessary for some initial exposure.
Shankar Ganesh | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
Amazing tips, Madhur! I also think that keeping in touch with fellow bloggers is good. Atleast, they won’t forget to visit your blog this way
Haris | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
Nice tips madhur, i need to work out on few things
ram | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, good post for new guys and the veterans.
I just want to add that you can use http://blogsearch.google.com to help you see who commented your blog and thank them accordingly.
chuck norris dude | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
good tips ,sure help me for my blog .thanks for writing Madhur
rahul | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
Solid tips there buddy. Stumbled.
Brown Baron | Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
Simple and useful tips and many of them very much important ones to establish your presence in blogosphere.
Nirmal | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
Great tips ! Even i am doing some of the tips u have said i am not following all those things. Here after i will try to follow all ur tips. Thank u very much !
Logesh | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
All very good points. Thanks for the article. I’ve also had some success with writing guest posts for other blogs. That’s been good promotion for me.
Steven Snell | Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
These tips are always useful no matter who comes across it! Good job madhur!
Vijay | Sep 22, 2007 | Reply
Great tips, but what is Link building campaign and Group Writing Project?
Symbian | Sep 25, 2007 | Reply
Link Building mean getting backlinks to your blog from high page ranked sites on suitable keywords .
In a group writing project , a particular theme is selected and all the bloggers who wish to participate write a post on that theme and send it to the organizer . The organizer then posts all the entries received . Thus all the people can read each other’s post and discover some new blogs .
Madhur Kapoor | Sep 25, 2007 | Reply
Great list, Madhur! I’m a firm believer in responding to commenters. It’s polite - pure and simple.
Mark | Sep 30, 2007 | Reply
Gr8 Tips Madhur
Technobuzz.net | Oct 1, 2007 | Reply
i thought everyone might find blogdemic useful (http://www.blogdemic.com)
Blogdemic is a new service that allows blogs to trade imps, base on related topics etc.
Blogdemic can dynamically/automatically create your advertising banner using your RSS feed and we also allow our users to setup default tags (like google adsense) to be disable along with our blog users tags (you can set the percentage)
blogdemic | Oct 21, 2007 | Reply