21 Ways to Advertise a Blog
The sixth edition of Bullet Proof Blogging brings me to talk about advertising strategies for your blog. Today, I am going to list 21 ways to promote and market your blog from birth. I hope you enjoy this weeks bullet proof blogging article and find it useful and effective for your blog.
- Submitting your blog to Blog Carnivals.
- Commenting on related blogs. (Google Blog Search)
- Search Engine Optimisation - Increase your rankings, increase visibility, increase traffic.
- Article Marketing - Build traffic and Build backlinks (Links in well with SEO)
- Social Media Marketing (SMM) - A good way of building traffic short term and building backlinks.
- Forum Marketing - Using Forum signatures or link dropping (dropping your link in a related thread).
- E-mail marketing - Marketing your website to an existing E-mail list.
- Guest posts - Writing unique articles for other people’s blogs.
- Exchanging links with other related blogs.
- Join Yahoo and Google Groups
- Add your blog to your online profiles
- Submit your blog to directories
- Submit your blog to social bookmarking websites
- Put an advert in the local newspaper
- Add an advertisement in your local shops
- Use Pay Per Click (PPC) - Google Adwords
- Purchase advertising space on relevant blogs
- Purchase advertising space on relevant forums
- Create a Video of your website and submit it to the popular Video sites (Video Submission Site)
- Ping your Blog (Ping FM)
- Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS Feed (FeedBurner)
There you go guys and girls 21 ways to advertise a website, I could go on and on and well I am going to. This can be the 21 for the sake of the article and the series I am creating but I would like to give my readers an extra couple so here you are.
More ways to advertise a website
- Create a Yahoo/Google Group (Yahoo Groups - Google Groups)
- Add your website to Google’s local Business Search.
- Claim your blog on Technorati. (Technorati)
- Find blog ranking lists for your Market and E-mail the owner to ask to add your blog.
- Submit your site to web directories (Directory List)
- Create a Viral Marketing Campaign
- Sponsor a Wordpress theme or software.
- Write an Ebook and give it away free or as an incentive to subscribe to your blog.
- Create a competition and offer a prize.
- Create a Buzz within your market.
- Create a redirecting 404 error page that sends the user to another page.
Thats all guys and girls. Hope you enjoyed these tips. Do one thing for me now though, don’t just go and read another article on advertising, make use of these tips and implement them now!
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Thanks for sharing the about advertising a blog.Great information.
I think you should include contests in the list. They are great way to get advertised by contest participants.
Have you advertised your blog or site in the local paper? How did that work out? I’m curious to see the conversion rate for a print to online campaign for blogs, it will be interesting to see if the two media types can work together for the benefit of both parties.
A solid 21 ways to explore our blog to the world. Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Just try on Google Group today, hoping to see some traffic results.
very informative…hope I can do justice to the read! thanks for the article
21 good way. I only don’t know if doing AdWords is a good way. Blogs should be visited by their content, not paying.
I’m curious to see the conversion rate for a print to online campaign for blogs
thanks a lot for sharing important tips. lets see how it works.
I’m using Adwords and so far it seems like it helps. =)