Promote Your Blog

How do you attract visitors to your blog? Start by following these simple tips to drive traffic to your blog.

Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more.

Add search to your blog. Here are four sites that provide you a free search engine to search your blog.

Name	Features
Atomz Express Search	Complete page customization, customize your site, search index containing up to 10,000 web pages, in over 30 languages.
Bravenet	Customize search and results pages. Site search hosted on Bravenet's server.
FreeFind	Customize search and results pages. Free accounts limited to 3,000 pages or 32 MG of storage. Site search hosted on FreeFind's server. Generates a site map for you. Supports PDF indexing.
Google	Customize results page. Unlimited number of searches. Must display Google logo. Google may serve ads on the results page.

Search Engines - Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask are available to index new content and rank your blog. Create an XML sitemap. Then index it with MSN, Google and Yahoo. See this link for Ask

Submit your blog URL to Yahoo (requires registration).

Register your sites with social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.

Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.

Add your blog address to your e-mail signature.

Place your URL on your blog site (Website). Advertise your blog by e-mailing your URL to your friends. Add your URL to posts you make on other blogs.

People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on their list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati.

Install a blogroll. It's a very simple yet effective social networking scheme and it has the same result as a simple link if not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for a blogroll and get that link-list going.

Be an active commenter. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least. So if you feel inspired, leave a comment or two in your blog travels.

If you own a business include your blog URL on anything that leaves your office: stationary, business cards, invoices, return address labels, etc. Also, make sure you inform your employees of your blog URL address and encourage your employees to mention your Blog address to your customers.

If you don't own a business, create your own "business cards" Pass these "cards"out to your friends, co-workers, family and casual acquaintances and ask them to visit you at your new blog site.

Learn from others:

• The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs.
• 99 Ways To Promote Your Blog for Free.
• 15 Ways to Get Exposure for Your New Blog.
• How To Market Your Blog.
• The Blogger's Guide to Search Engine Optimization - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall..

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