21 Tips about Promoting your Blog or Website

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Recently I found a very well done video about blog promotion on youtube, with 21 useful tips about promoting your blog. I am excited to find it. After listening to it carefully I decided to do a blog about it to record the details, and help the video creator promote his video. I'm excited and will work it into my strategy to promote my blogs.



21 Useful Tips to Promoting your Blog or Website

• Search Engine Optimization
This is the most important method of generating traffic. It can generate thousands of people to your website, each month, if you do it correctly, and achieve a high ranging. If you achieve a high ranking, you can forget about all the other methods.
• Write a Down-loadable E book
You can have a free down-loadable e book, about your website products and activities. It is a kind of viral marketing that can generate traffic to your website after awhile.
• Add a Signature to your Emails
Make a signature for your emails with a link to your website or blog, and have a link to where people can download your e-book.
• Use Autoresponder
Many people leave without coming back. A good way to attract them back to your site or blog is to have an autoresponder.
• Exchange Links
Exchange links is a good way to receive free traffic, but don't do it excessively. Search engines may penalize of ban your website or blog. You can exchange links with 10 or 20 websites that are related to your website, or blog theme and subject. This is an excellent way to increase traffic; however, you need to be careful, and obey the rules. Forums operators run scripts to flag people that post links, and will remove your posts if it does not comply to their rules.
• Write Articles and submit them to Directories
This is another good way of generating traffic to your website or blog.
• Submit your website or blog to Web Directories
Web Directories specialize in linking to other websites, and categorizing those links. People looking for something specific will zero in on those directories, to find what their looking for.
• Create a group at Yahoo, or MSN
Groups are one of the largest online discussion boards. They are like a hybrid between email and forums. People can choose to receive messages by email, or read them on the groups website.
• Participate in Yahoo Answers
If you participate, and leave a link to your blog or website, people will follow up by a visit.
• Submit your blog or website to Social Networks and Bookmarking Sites
This is one of the best ways to generate traffic. Just be sensitive to spamming people. It is suggested that you don't post to more than 6 sites at a time.
• Become an Active Member in bookmarking sites
It will increase your visibility, and get you known in the bookmarking community.
• Join Traffic Generating Sites
Join traffic generating sites like, Traffic Swarm. Its an automated way to promote your website or blog to thousands of search engines, directories, link pages, online malls, and classified sites.
• Comment on Webblogs
Comment on other peoples webblogs on a regular basis. This will get you known in the community and encourage, other viewers, and bloggers to visit your website or blog page.
• Publish Fliers in your Area
This is not expensive, and you can use your own printer to do this. It is something you can do every weekend. Depending on your time, you can distribute between 300 to 500 fliers. If you want, you can even pay an advertising company to do it for you. This will generate a few hundred to thousands of people a month. Only those people that are really interested in your product, or website will visit.
• Wrap up your Car (If you own one.)
This really works. Some people sell space on their car to advertise products, and services. Its actually kinda neat.
• Word of Mouth
Let your friends, neighbours, and relatives, know about your website and its activities.
• Write the URL of your website on your Garage Door, or Even the Side of your House
People will notice this, and check out your website. It could generate a few hundred people monthly.
• Write Articles for Newspapers and Magazines for Free
Personally, I don't agree with this. Newspapers and magazines pay hundreds of dollars for well written, and researched articles. I understand why the video creator added this point; though, newspapers and magazines have large subscriber bases; however, it is something you may want to take with a grain of salt.
• Give 2 hour Lectures at Community Schools, and Colleges and Universities

Some people may choose to go this route. You can put together a slide presentation, and generate interest in your product or service. This is not for everyone. You must be confident, and know what your talking about.

There are many other ideas to generate traffic, to your blog or website. These are some of a few. Some of the points were excellent, and others were not very helpful. Remember, that you need to think about return on investment, and you need to get something out of all the effort and time your putting in.

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