Youve got your blog set up and youve started putting up pithy, useful experience that your niche sell
would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your visitors
stats are barely registering. What do you do?
Like any internet page
you own, you must do some blog promotion to initial
driving traffic to your website
. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you may initial
doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.
1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everybody in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.
Http://www.bloglet.com
2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your website
gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)
http://www.my.yahoo.com
3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Dont write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every instant you publish. http://www.pingomatic.com
5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines: http://www.submitfire.com
6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this page
: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this might
take several hours when you first initial
so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.
7. Add a link to your blog in your e-mail signature document
.
8. Put a backlink
to your blog on every page of your website.
9. If you publish a news letter
, contruct
sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.
10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.
11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.
12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that everybody may subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some can ruminate on
its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of web sites
or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as feeds) could be
read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries. To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm
13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and web sites
in your posts
14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a communication
from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a hyperlink to your blog is now included on their page
.
15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a hyperlink to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below
