How To Promote Your Blog and Increase Visitors

  Written by Ket-Sang Tai on Oct 12, 2009 1:24 pm

Read More: Blogging

 

SEO? Social Media? PPC? Link Building? How do I promote my blog?

You might have spent days, weeks and even months creating a stunning blog with nice graphics and good content but then you realise no one look at your blog! A blog is just like any other websites. Of course sometimes people stumble upon it but that is not enough. You need to have strategies to promote it. Below are a few key strategies:

1. Optimise Your Blog For Google

  • Use a plugin called All In One SEO Pack to add title, description and keywords to your blog, pages and blog posts.
  • Change the permalink setting of your blog post so that your blog post title is included in the url, instead of a number. For example, the url for this blog post is http://www.ketsangtai.com/promote-blog-increase-visitors/.
  • Link your posts to other posts in your blog and also to other popular websites

2. Social Media

  • Sign up to 10-20 social media sites and use ping.fm to post your latest blog posts to all these sites.
  • Participate in conversation in social media and use your blog post to answer questions.
  • Ask your social media friends to comment on your posts. More comments = higher google ranking

3. Social Bookmarking

  • I use a service called Onlywire to send my new blog posts to various social bookmarking sites.
  • Make sure you use appropriate keywords or tag for your bookmarks.

4. Cross Promotion

  • Build relationship with other bloggers and cross promote your blog posts.

5. Utilise your contacts and leads

  • If you have a good blog post which gives good value, send it to your leads or contacts. Don’t forget to ask them to comment.
  • You can do the same if you have a facebook group or fan page.
  • If you tweet about your blog post, ask people to retweet it.

6. Post good content at regular basis

  • Content is king. The more content you have on your blog, the more google likes you.

7. Blog Communities

This list is by no mean comprehensive but it is a good starting point. If you like this article, please comment, share and tweet.

If you are new to blogging and need advice on building your first blog, check out my blogging tutorial at my YouTube channel.

 

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John Smith — Sun, 12/27/2009 - 3:59pm

Bloggal Brained

I know that is not a word, however, I just started a blog and your article could not have come at a better time.

Thank you for the great info.

Steve McChesney
PS - Blog address is http://stevemcchesney.blogspot.com/

Steve McChesney — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 9:00am

Social Net Effect For Blogging

One of the best ways that I have found (I use all of the ways you have revealed in this post) to increase the number of regular visitors to my blog is to use plugins for social networks right on my blog.

The wp-pingfm plugin is designed to send your blog post to ping.fm every time you post on your blog. Plus, you can also arrange to have your entire blog posts published on other sites like Multiply.com, Xanga.com and blogger, just to name a few of the potential places to have your content generating more traffic for you.

In the cross promotion section, you should mention that as a blogger you should be part of MyBLogLog, BlogCarnival and BlogCatalog communities so that you can find other bloggers who talk about similar topics. In this way, you can comment on their articles and in return, you will find a great number of them who will come and comment on yours!

In any case, I recommend that people keep up to date on what is going on by listening to my hit show: Blogging With Micheal on BlogTalkRadio, where I talk about the latest in the world of blogging and social media: http://blogtalkradio.com/michealsavoie

Next show is Tuesday at 11AM Eastern.

Micheal Savoie — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 9:11am

Onlywire

Thanks for a very useful post. I recently submitted my RSS feed to several RSS aggregator sites. Do you know whether Onlywire would: duplicate what I've already got set up, or interfere with it?

Gerald Hoffmann — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 10:03am

Great Information

Thanks for the great post. I also use the methods described, and it makes a big difference when your optimized and using the proper tools.

I also found a way to add pinging services to my blog, (when ever you post in your blog it will ping out to about 20 services that will crawl your site and report back to the search engines)but this is only if you have a word press blog hosted through GVO that I know of.

So if you have word press hosted on GVO contact me, and I can show you how to set it up. If you don't have GVO and are interested, again contact me, and I can help there as well.

Happy Blogging
The Blakester
Robert Blakely
http://TheBlakestersMadness.com

Robert Blakely — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 10:22am

Wow! This is some great

Wow! This is some great info. I already knew some of the stuff but still picked up some great gold nuggets. Thanks for posting this!

Ilka Flood — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 10:34am

Good Article

Your article is very to the point and easy to read. I like that because I try to read valuable content every day, yet have to be careful not to spend too much time.
Keep it up and see you at the top!
Laurie Rothwell

Laurie Rothwell — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 2:24pm

Link Exchange Services

I like what you said here I also use link exchage services there are also free ones too. The one I am currently using does not allow any new customers at least at this time. You can search Google for some though.

Respectfully,
Chris Brown
http://prostarprofits.com

Chris Brown — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 2:57pm

Blog Communities

Thank you for this great tip in point 7 about blog communities.

It was very helpful for me.

Best regards

Volker

Volker Schaefer — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 3:22pm

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Thank you Ket. Your article is very useful and straight to the point. I will definitely modify my Creating Fresh Awareness Blog to be in-line with your simple, yet powerful suggestions.

Regards,

cfagbata

CF Agbata — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 5:08pm

Thank You Ket

Thank you Ket for the great information! The only thing I would add that I heard mention of in a training earlier this year, Is for marketers to be careful of how many sites their sending the same article to at one time because google may take it down as soon as they put it up? This is not my area of expertise, so has anyone else heard of this? Thanks.

Tashamma Smith — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 5:53pm

Great Information

Loved the post - it was brief yet full of content. Great work Ket.

Michael Bristol — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 7:55pm

Much appreciated

Thank you for posting this. I am new to blogging so this was all very helpful.

Susanna Hess — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 8:36pm

Great Information

Thanks for this information. I'm pretty new at blogging myself and this information helps a lot.

Sherman Smith — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 10:12pm

Blogging info!

Hay great stuff! the•Submit your blog to blog communities like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Blogged and NetworkBlogs. Not only you will get followers, you can get indexed by Google faster, this was some real good tips! Thanks and have a great new year!

Timothy Willan — Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:56pm

Your Blogging content...

Ket, You and I both hit the same topic at about the same point in time. I just posted this blog post here http://www.linusruzicka.com/blog-marketing-strategy-generate-more-traffi...
And created a Forum topic about it here on BetterNetworker which is generating some additional ideas on creating more blog traffic - http://www.betternetworker.com/forums/main-mlm-discussion-f2/generating-...

While your post is general to overall traffic, mine is geared more for generating more traffic via comments.

Maybe we should combine the two ideas for one overall strategy!

Linus

Linus Ruzicka — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:10am

Syndicate Your Blog

Ket-Sang, bonjour from France

A good clean introduction to some of the very many ways to improve awareness of your blog. I'm sure you are aware that there are many, many other ways... and I'm not going to hi-jack your post by writing a dissertation.

Just 2 points to add...

1. If you're serious about your blog, get your own server - don't use free blog hosting - you want some "Business Security".

2. Syndicate Your Blog. Join a syndicate that will submit your blog posts to the various social networks like Digg, Mixx and Social Media (many eyeballs). Then garner comments, votes and shares on your submissions from amongst the Syndicate's members... in the eyes of the search engines this will add authority to your posts, the search engines love authority.

In my Syndicate there are presently over 700 members... can you imagine what sort of effect having so many people vote, share, bookmark and comment can be on a blog?

Kevin Phoenix — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:18am

Blog Testing

I've just done up my blog and I not sure whether I did it right, the first part of my blog is the MLSP intro http://www.affiliategive.com and the second part is about the training http://www.affiliategive.com/training

Hope I can get some comment from you guy that I can further improve my blog to bring in more traffic.

Your advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

Dickie Lim — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 4:12am

Thank you

Great information, happy new year!

Joanna Vaiou — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 5:24am

GReat Value

I echo the gratitude of other bloggers here who have benefited from the straightforward, resource article you have posted here.

Pat Campbell — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 9:53am

Syndicate your content

Good strategies here, I also have to agree with my syndicate partner Kevin Phoenix as well. If you're gonna use all these strategies why not do it in one place, makes things a lot easier.

kevin thomas — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 2:03pm

Nice tips, Ket-Sang! Brief

Nice tips, Ket-Sang! Brief and to the point! I can follow this procedure, no problem. Thanks for sharing, my friend!

Derek Fobert — Tue, 12/29/2009 - 8:50pm

Content Duplicity w/Google

I have a question about posting a blog in various blog communities:

Doing as recommended here, would that not create content duplicity. In other words, it's ok for google to see the same blog post in different areas?

Raquel Joya — Sat, 01/23/2010 - 11:35pm
 

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