Successful Blog Marketing Tips
Blogging June 10th, 2007
So you have a blog and want to market it and make it a successful blog. How do you do this? How do you go about getting your blog out there to be seen and known by others? How do you draw readers and keep them coming back for more? There are many ways to get your blog out there and known by others. This can be known as challenging for some and just quite easy for others. If you have ever had a successful blog before then you know what it takes. You are not going to get anywhere by just setting up a blog and hoping that people will find it and read it. You are not going to gain any links, nor a higher search engine ranking by just having a blog. This is all part of blog marketing. Anyone can do it, even you.
Successful blog marketing tip number one. When you first create a blog, of course it is unheard of. No one knows anything about the blog unless you give them the link and show it to them. However, for a new blog that has never been seen, there are many ways to get it out there and known. You just need to know how. The first thing that you can do is to allow RSS feeds be taken from your blog. Allow other websites and blogs to publish your same exact blog. When you do this, they are giving you a link back to your blog, and also telling their readers all about your blog. You will get more traffic than ever with this tool. RSS feeds are wonderful for promoting and getting your blog out there.
Blog marketing tip number two. Update your blog frequently. We can not put enough emphasis on this tip. If you tell your readers that you are going to update your blog daily, then do it. If you tell them that you will be writing in your blog weekly, don’t let them down. Your readers are what makes your blog successful. You may not realize this in the beginning, and you will have few readers in the beginning as well, but you will eventually build a readership base and have people checking out your blog regularly. Maybe you do not plan on telling your readers how often you will update your blog. That is ok too. However, think about this, if you were reading a blog on a weekly basis, and you expected to see the blog that you like to read updated at least once a week, you would be very disappointed to find out that it was not. Sure, things happen that might prevent you from updating, and that is expected, and excused, but week after week can hurt you and cause you to lose readers.
Tip number three. While you are working on your readership base, and trying to gain readers, you are going to find that commenting on blogs that are relevant to yours will surely help. Find a blog that is on the same topic to yours, or close to it and leave comments. You can also make a track back with your blog postings to comment on your own blog. Doing so will probably more than likely give someone else the urge to track back to your blog. Which will be good for it as well. Commenting on blogs that get many comments will make yours be seen by those interested in that market. You will gain traffic and readers that way, and it is easy as well as free.
The fourth blog marketing tip. Learn and apply SEO to your blogs. SEO is search engine optimization. You are going to find that if you want your blog to go anywhere, you need SEO, and you need to know how to use it to the advantage of your blog. Just like a website, a blog will be better off optimized.
To Your Success
Cody Moya
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June 10th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I’ve found that the tactic of even asking an occasional question in a blog article or comment will draw many more responses to it. Don’t you agree??
R J Davis
June 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Funny, R J.
Yes, questions are one way I have left comments on related blogs. I think you’ll find that some people always seem to delete comments that have any links in them at all, even if you put your website link in your username and nowhere else. And some people allow pretty much anything in their comments, as long as it isn’t blatant off-topic spam (like Viagra or something.) In time, you’ll probably build a good list of friendly blogs to submit to in certain niches. Just record where you post and what happens to the comments later.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I agree some people can’t even give an inch yet the spammers go a mile on posting comments on topics as you mentioned. I am doing more blogging this year and have noticed exactly what you mean Funny.R.J.
Thanks Cody for the great info keep it up.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Also frequent social bookmarking on your daily blog posts can be a great way to get a lot of blog traffic. This is another blog marketing technique and anyone can test it.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:05 am
I found this very interesting and beneficial, but unfortunately you told us to learn and apply SEO to our blogs without directing us how or where to go to get this information. I do believe that this information is very important and of great value to those of us who have blogs.
June 11th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Hi,
I agree with everyone’s comments. Other things you can do are make sure to ping every ping site possible after every post. If you use future posts, you might want to install the WP plugin from http://www.problogtools.com Making effective use of tagging in sites like Technorati is especially important, as well as making sure your RSS feeds are submitted to all the directories. I had great success with StumbleUpon when they first came on the scene, but have not tried them since they were acquired by Google.
Hope that helps!