5 tips and tricks to promote your blog

1. 5 tips and tricks to promote your blog Your masterwork is online, now you must to consider how to encourage your blog. Now I distillate on free methods that have a solid track record of driving visitors to your blog. In truth your blog should be self promoting, let me explain. Content. A blog lives or dies as a direct result of the quality of it's content. The articles and blog posts that you or your colleagues write need to be original and of genuine value to the reader. Stuffing your blog with quantity rather than quality, in terms of copy, will ensure that it gets ignored by your potential audience as well as the search engines. You should blog, if possible, every day. Circulation of content. I am assuming that the point of promoting your blog is that you wish it to rise through the search engine listings and appear on page one. To appear in the top ten of Google's listing will ensure a healthy stream of visitors. To create content for your blog alone isn't enough, you must circulate versions of it throughout the internet. Article distribution sites, for example EzineArticles, should be on your list. A simple search for 'top 100 article distribution services' will reveal a long list of them, only you can decide on how many you will use. I would suggest the top five. Guest blogging. This is a particularly powerful technique that requires a little more work. To begin with find a website within your niche that is compatible with whatever you are blogging about or promoting. Approach the site owner and suggest that you write an article for their site. This article needs to be genuinely unique and of a high standard. It will, of course, include a link back to your blog. Site owners are constantly on the look out for fresh content. Forum posting. I'm certain that there will be one or perhaps many online forums within your niche. You should get into the habit of submitting posts or, even better, answering questions on these forums. In this way you can become thought of as an expert in your area, an authority to be listened to. Never attempt to sell or promote anything on a forum, instead supply accurate and helpful advice. Forum rules vary but it is usual that after you have established yourself as a useful contributor that you will be allowed to have a link back to your blog.

2. Email signature. A simple way to promote your blog is to set up a specially formatted signature that you always use when sending out emails that has a link to your blog. I would suggest that you fully exploit all of the above free methods of promoting your blog before considering buying paid advertising. Why spend money when a little hard work and consistency can achieve a great deal, your time being the only necessary commitment.