Free blog promotion tips
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- If you haven't yet started a blog, start a WordPress blog hosted on your own domain, not hosted on the Wordpress.com domain.
- Use Stumbleupon.com to get huge quality traffic to your blog for as little as $0.05 per click. To start advertising click on "Advertising" link on the bottom of their page, create an account and start promoting your blogs literally for free. The best thing about advertising on Stumpleupon is that if your blog is interesting, people will bookmark your blog, which basically means that they will share it with other people!
- Create linkbait posts - something that is really entertaining, important or useful that will attract a lot of buzz and bring you lots of incoming links from other sites. In order to create interesting posts, think about what would make people in your niche want to keep coming back each week.
- Update your blog every week, even short posts will make a difference and don't forget to "ping" your blog after every update (www.pingoat.com)
- Link to your blog from all of your other sites, including main website, social networking sites, forum signatures, email signatures etc.
- Participate and leave comments for other sites, but it is extremely important to leave interesting and useful comments.
- Use "Requests" on Hubpages.com as an opportunity to make yourself known as a helpful and supportive member whom other people would like to get to know.
- Create a lense on Squidoo.com, add ebay and other modules and promote your blog by posting something interesing and placing a link to your blog
- Use social networking sites profile pages as fullly as possible, as it is an important traffic channel for your blog and any other sites your link to from it. For your username, you may want to consider using your business name or a name that relates to your niche or your main products.
- Create "About Me" page. Include interesing facts about your business, something that would capture the attention.
- Advertise your blog through Youtube.com and other video sites. Display your recent photos from Flickr.com
- Exchange links with other bloggers by using "blog roll". Choose carefully who you want to promote.
- Make it easy to subscribe to your news and/or RSS feed
- Never advertise or try to do any selling while social networking and always ignore rude comments.
Top social networking sites for your blog promotion
- Free blog promotion
Social Networking Site for Bloggers - Stumbleupon/Advertising
Advertise on Stumbleupon - Wagg.it Squidoo lense!
Wagg.itSquidoo lense! - Requests on Hubpages.com
Requests on Hubpages.com - share your photos
share your photos another site www.photobucket.com - review and rate various products
review and rate products - submit and comment on do-it-yourself projects
submit and comment on do-it-yourself projects - huge network
huge network - submit your story and vote for other stories
submit your story and vote for other stories
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Comments
Some great tips here and, most importantly, your hub is written recently and is extremely relevant. Thumbs up to you!
thank you pjdscott!
StumbleUpon is a great way to do this! I agree!
This is a great article ... i was searching for something similar and this is the most relevent thing i found ... thanks a ton .
it is fantastic
Very helpful tutorial. Thank you very much.
nickhetcher says:
2 years ago
Thanks so much, this is just what I needed.
Nick Hetcher
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