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Everyone knows how to blog so its how you advertise your blog which will increase your blog rank, PR and traffic. If you have just started your blog from scratch or are going to start one soon and if you have no intention to spend money on advertising then these free methods are just for you. The effectiveness of these methods depend on how much time you devote to them and how consistent you are.
1. Link and/or AD banner Exchanges
Try to trade links or AD banners with blogs of your same niche. Don’t try this with really good blog cos it is not going to happen. Always target blogs on your same level and as your blog keeps doing better slowly do exchanges with the best blogs.2. Commenting on Similar Niche Blogs
This is another really important way of getting some clicks to your site. Find out the best blogs belonging to your niche. Do not by any means go and comment on a movie related blog if you own a tech blog, thats just waste of time. Your comments need to be useful and relevant to the blog post only then will people think about checking out who gave the valuable comment and most probably will end up clicking your name and go to your blog.
If you are lucky and the blog doesn’t have a ‘nofollow’ tag then you will get yourself a good backlink.
3. Pingbacks or Trackbacks
I see most bloggers don’t tend to use it that often. Adding a trackback to a site which has posted a similar topic certainly doesn’t harm your blog at all and if the trackback is approved, you have a permanent link on that blog and surely few clicks from the blog for life.
4. Social bookmarking sites
Sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, Myspace, Facebook etc can be a source for good organic traffic. It all depends on how good your post is. A attractive and catchy title will assure your post getting good stumbles and Digg. Your content should be unique else if someone sees you copied something exactly from another blog, they might give bad comments on the post and demote the value of your blog. Take a moment to check this post made earlier on Do Not Underestimate the Power of StumbleUpon5. Regular Participation in Forums
There are lots of forums on the net and I am sure you will find many related to your niche. Be active in those forums, have your site in your signature. If you are very informative and helpful, people will take notice of you and eventually start clicking on your signature links which is exactly what you want them to do.
The above stated methods are the best effective ones, there are still many more but for a blog just started from scratch, these are the best ways to advertise your blog. Although, one must always remember the right ingredients for success in the blogging world are Original Unique Content, Attractive Blog design, a nice simple logo and a good caption for the blog.
In this post, I talked about free ways to advertise, in future posts I will talk about advertising in which money is involved.
Not really.
Look, I LOVE BLOGGING. And I want every business owner and freelancer from here to the Ethereal Plane blogging, believe me. But I’m not going to get you there by pretending it’s easy when it isn’t. In a limited logistical sense, yes, all you do is write something and click Publish. Just like all you have to do to paint is pick up a brush and start painting, and you’ll be DaVinci.
We all know there’s more to painting than that.
So why the hell does everyone go around saying blogging is easy? I’ve done it myself! Easy compared to what? Ah! Now, this will be interesting. Supposedly, blogging is easier than learning a bunch nerdy, geeky technical things and creating a website yourself. In reality, unless you are a master with databases, FTP, and WordPress plugins, you’re not ever going to get to the point where blogging will be any less complicated than a “normal” website.
If you try to get ANYWHERE beyond the “type in something simple and click publish” level, you will quickly realize that you need to know all manner of geekery. In order to set up and run a self-hosted WordPress blog, you need skills and knowledge in most of the following:
And that’s just to install WordPress, get the blog up and running, and write posts with pictures! You want YouTube videos? Polls? FeedBurner feeds? Image galleries? Well, there are some plugins for that… Oh, you don’t know how to install a plugin? Well, too bad for you!
I bet suddenly, Blogger or WordPress.com are looking better and better, aren’t they?
And yet… everyone who has been there, done that says that having a self-hosted blog using WordPress is the best way to go. That’s right. I agree with that. It is the best way to go. But it is not the easiest way to go. I don’t want you to be fooled into thinking that it is the easiest.
We haven’t even started talking about the difficulty of writing for the blog so that you get the results you want. That is the hardest part of all! What are you going to say? Why are you saying it? What do you hope to achieve?
Who said any of this was easy? No, my friends. It is anything but easy. Blogging is FLIPIN’ HARD.
But still, the numbers of real bloggers writing real blogs continues to grow.
So I guess it’s only fair to ask the question: Why do we blog, then?
Because it’s worth it. We can express ourselves through the most amazing information medium the world has ever known. We can foster and strengthen relationships with other people. We can make money. We can help others. We can even get famous! A blog can help all of these things happen and more. The benefits are so compelling, people like me can earn a living helping others get through the complicated stuff and get to the beating heart of the matter: connecting with other people.
Blogging is not easy. But it is worth it.
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