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
- 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 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.
To Your Success,
Ket-Sang Tai
