We have special guest, Laura Backes, offering up some promotion tips today!
Blogging can be one of the most rewarding and simultaneously frustrating undertakings you can attempt. The beauty of creating a website that you have put ample time and effort into can sometimes be undermined by one thing that’s big enough to discourage even the most gung-ho of bloggers: site traffic. When the numbers are low day in and day out you can often get disheartened and want to throw in the towel.
So how can you effectively increase your site traffic?
Business Cards
Get some business cards printed that contain pertinent information – your name, your blog URL, a brief explanation of your blog, an email address people can direct questions or comments to, etc. Business cards are easy to hand out and post on boards around town, and will help to drive some traffic from interested people to your website. Plus, this doesn’t take a whole lot of work on your part – just print, pin up, and go!
Facebook & Twitter
Create a Facebook fan page for your blog. This way you’ll be able to engage readers on a different social media that allows for easy discussions on blog posts and a different outlet to connect. If you don’t want to create a fan page, then simply link to your blog on Facebook so that you are exposing it the billions of users that utilize the social networking site. Connect your blog to Twitter so that when you post it will tweet your new posts to your followers. Use hashtags to categorize the post so non-followers can find it too.
Guest Posting
Guest posting varies in how it works – sometimes it could be that bloggers reach out to their readers for guest posts, and sometimes you can reach out to other bloggers to submit a guest post. Either way, guest posting (when the post is well-written) can help to drive new traffic and hopefully retain new traffic at your blog.
You communicate via email everyday probably – who doesn’t at this point? It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s a great place to drop your blog URL. Just stick it in the signature below your name. More than likely, people will click on it. We have a natural curiosity to click on web links – this will be no different. You never know what opportunities will await you from doing something as simple as including your website in your signature.
These are just a few of the ways that you can promote your blog. There are hundreds of different ways you can gain more coverage, from social media to everyday interactions. Just about anyone can be successful at blogging, you just have to be willing to put in the time and effort required.
Dee is a freelance writer who has lived (and blogged) on both sides of the pond. She’s provided this concise guide to blogging mistakes, which she herself makes frequently, on behalf of her preferred leather sleeper retailer.
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I do want to try guest posting, but i have to figure out some topics first or a way to get some feedback from the owners of other blogs.
These days, at least half of my articles are written by guests. Just ask and most will say yes. If you have sample articles, that helps too.
Business cards are an interesting mix because there are always far more offline potential clients than online; all it takes is that one great connection to land a massive client!
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Guest posting is a great way to increase your reputation and get a little traffic also.
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I think you could add to the list commenting on other blogs, in related niches if possible. It’s a great way to get traffic, especially if you leave valuable comments.
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I recently came across your blog and have been reading posts. I thought I would leave a comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Well said and so true! Site traffic does matter, after all you do want to have some people at least reading your stuff and that gives a lot of encouragement as well. Great tips!
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Guest posting probably the best way to promote a blog, i have been using it and it is really an effective way.
btw, you have got a nice blog
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Yup !! already working on guest posting to get back links for blogs.
thnx for share other tips.
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Being a guest post is very valuable to a blogger. Other than to get a promotion for our blog, our work has received appreciation from other bloggers by making us a guest post for them.
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Email’s a huge one. Often just having a effective email to begin with is good. But finding a good newsletter solution that won’t have you pulling your hair out is challenging. I tend to like MailChimp, but most people go with constantcontact or icontact.
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I would vote for guest posting too simply because there is some discretion involved in whether or not the content gets posted. These days higher quality content trumps lower quality material. So, it is all that much more important that we associate our sites with links back from higher quality material.
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I like the idea of guest posting because it does push you to create great content. It helps evolve you as a blogger and once you’ve “broken through” you can continually work on creating good content over and over again. This will increase your popularity and in turn drive more traffic your site. Eventually people will be asking to guest post on your blog!
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You’re right, offline promotion with business card also help our blog’s traffic. I found synergy in here, offline and online promotion (social media, guest posting, articles, etc..)
Success for you
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Hello, your blog is included in my DoFollow blog list with high PR.
You can check my article and leave a comment in my article if you want to change your blog description.
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This information will surely help me on my blog.. Thanks for the very informative blog!
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Guest posting is by far the best way to get traffic to your site. I will try it myself as soon as I get some more content on my blog
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I’ve yet to do guest blogging but one observation I made is that it isn’t going to do any good if the blog you want to expose through guest blogging is totally unrelated.
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You have great ideas in promoting your blogs… I think another best thing to promote is by actively commenting with other blog posts… But not too often that looks like spam comments.
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I think guest posting is a great way to increase your status and get a little traffic also. This maybe an effective way.
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If you really wish to promote your blog effectively, you should start guest posting. Guest posting helps in promoting your website/blog to a large number of people through writing articles for other blogs. This is a great way to get recognized by other bloggers and communities. Guest blogging will aid you in driving more traffic to your blog/website and in building quality backlinks.
excellent advice, but still had to choose a quality blog in order to get a good reply baclink
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Hi Gabe/Laura,
any tips on how/where to fiind good guest bloggers? Integrity and quality matters a lot to me and I know there are a lot out there who are mainly in it to get backlinks ‘spinning’ articles for that purpose. Any tips?
Also when you have someone guest posting on your site (e.g. Laura) shouldn’t it be Laura and not you answering the comments – presumably it’s possible to set that up – have you decided otherwise to make it less of a burden on Laura in this case, she actually can respond, just that you can too or for some other reason,
thanks & apologies if either of my questions are naiive I’m fairly new to blogging,
oh and thanks for a great article,
Alan
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Thanks for the tips. The easiest to do so far from the tips above is through Facebook and Twitter. Guest posting? Seem a bit hard.
Social networking sites are the trend at present. Taking advantage of them is the best decision you’ll ever made this year. We should try Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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I’ve found twitter to be one of the more effective ways to promote your blog inexpensively.
Thanks for this information and tips by this I can promote my blog effectively.Thanks a lot!
The best way of promoting your blog is sharing it through social networking site (Facebook, Tweeter, Google+) for new visitors. Guest posting is also good way of promoting and at the same time you open relation on other blogger as well.
Haven’t tried guest posting but definitely planning to do it as soon as possible.. thanks for these great tips.
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Thank you for the tips on how to effectively promote a site. I haven’t done any of the above mentioned and I find adding in email signature interesting and also the rest of them. I will surely follow this guide. Thank you so much! I appreciate your effort of helping.
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I have started up two new blogs recently and I’m trying to promote them. Use of Business Cards is an idea I have not thought of. How many times do you run into friends and mention your blog. Do you think he remembers the URL? By giving him a card, you are assured he will remember. Thanks for the tips!
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Running an online business I never really thought I would have much use for business cards, but they come in real handy at industry events and at meetups. They’re surprisingly a pretty big reason that I have some of the contacts that I do.
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I’ve been trying to promote my site but have been very unsuccessful. Facebook and twitter no one wants to click links anymore because they think it might be a virus or its spam. My site is all about Funny Pictures I’m not sure how else I can promote it any suggestions?
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