Posts Tagged ‘how to promote your blog’

Top 6 ways to market your blog successfully

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Blogging is one of the most popular trends of today. You would see almost every one creating a blog and promote it. This is a great way to make yourself and your services more popular and available to a good number of people across the globe. Blog marketing is not a difficult task. All you require doing is to follow some tips in order to make your blog popular world wide:

Tips on blog marketing:

•Search engine indexing: You need to ensure that the entire blog is indexed on the popular Search Engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live.
•Google site map: Focus on getting a Google Sitemap on your blog. This is helpful indexing the blog fully.
•Networking sites: It is crucial to take part in major online business networking sites including Linked In, eCademy and SoFlow.
•User friendly blog: When creating the blog you need to make it user friendly. This means that your readers should be able to bookmark your blog on the social most of the book-marking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Furl etc.
•Blog submissions: You must submit your blog to the main Blog directories.
•Pinging: Make sure that you automatically ping the main blog Search Engines and Directories including Technorati and IceRocket in order to get indexed instantly.
•Blog Design: Your main focus should be on the design of the blog. Maximize it by highlight posts or subjects that may attract and retain readers.

How to Promote Your Blog / Website Using Facebook and other Social Networking sites

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

If you are serious about promoting your blog online, the most effective way is to use a site that is extremely popular among people across the globe. Facebook is a social networking website loved by most people world wide. This site facilitates you to create a page to promote your blog. The best part is that it is completely free. The site is doing really well among online visitors.

Once you have a Facebook page for your blog, it becomes easy to set up your RSS feed that further results in new posts appear on your fan page. Members of Facebook can become a “fan” of your posts. They can also comment on your posts inside Facebook.
This indicates that you can easily create a mini community of loyal blog readers in Facebook and facilitates them to click through to your blog and then sign up for the relevant RSS feed.

If you want to get page set up, just follow the steps mentioned below:
•Step one: Sign up on Facebook.
•Step two: Create a facebook account.
•Step three: Click zee link.
•Step four: Click on this link and get your fan page going.
•Step five: Choose “Brand, Product or Organization”. Now, select “website:” from drop-down list.
•Step six: Enter your site’s name. Enter your name under “Electronic Signature” and then click “Create Page”.
•Step seven: Customize Your Page.
•Step eight: Your page will be set up and you will be taken straight there.
•Step nine: Customize your page and customize your site information.
•Step ten: Type detailed information about you website in the “Info” tab. You may also enter information such as when you started the site etc.
•Step eleven: Set up your blog RSS feed to illustrate your new posts in Facebook.

Here is list of 100 social networking sites.

http://slashdot.org/

http://www.facebook.com

http://hubpages.com

http://www.eurekster.com/

http://hyves.nl

http://www.mylinkvault.com/

http://spotback.com/

http://reddit.com/

http://www.ask.com

http://segnalo.alice.it

http://www.jumptags.com/

http://www.instapaper.com/

http://www.simpy.com

http://del.icio.us

http://www.linkagogo.com

http://www.citeulike.org

http://www.mybloglog.com

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/

http://www.mixx.com

http://multiply.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/

http://tumblr.com/

http://socialauthority.ning.com/

http://clipmarks.com/

http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/

http://www.diigo.com/

http://www.zimbio.com

http://ping.fm/

http://blog.myspace.com/

http://www.geni.com

http://ning.com

http://newyorkstate.tribe.net

http://www.esnips.com

https://sourceforge.net/

http://www.gadgets-reviews.com

http://linkarena.com/

http://snipurl.com/

http://www.dealigg.com/

http://www.oneview.de/

http://dealspl.us/

http://www.buzznet.com/

http://pulse.plaxo.com/

http://www.migente.com/

http://www.tagworld.com/

http://oknotizie.virgilio.it

http://www.downelink.com

http://blogspot.com/

http://web2list.com/

http://ho.tli.st

http://www.bloglines.com/

http://buzz.yahoo.com

http://www.favoriten.de

http://www.wishlistr.com/

http://www.wishpot.com/

http://www.flixya.com/

http://twitter.com/

http://myitthings.com

http://www.triond.com/

http://www.oondi.com/

http://kwoff.com/

http://www.dealdigs.com/

http://www.booki.at/

http://www.utterli.com/

http://spaces.live.com

http://www.xanga.com/

http://www.walk2web.com/

http://petercruise.vox.com/

http://www.azcentral.com

http://blogdrive.com/

http://webs.com/

http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/

http://www.symbaloo.com/

http://www.wikio.co.uk/

http://techrepublic.com.com/

http://harrydecaprio.stumbleupon.com/

http://tweako.com/

http://www.stumpedia.com/

https://my.xmarks.com

http://www.thisnext.com/

http://skyrock.com/

http://url.org

http://www.evernote.com/

http://petercruise.livejournal.com

http://www.eviplist.com

http://www.savethis.clickability.com

http://cloud27.com

http://www.yousaytoo.com/

http://socialgo.com/

http://dwellicious.com/

http://searchwarp.com

http://identi.ca/

http://petercruise.tadalist.com/

www.piczo.com

http://edublogs.org

http://cellphoneslist.shoutpost.com/

http://blogspirit.com/

http://weebly.com

http://www.stylehive.com/

http://petercruise.mindsay.com/

http://petercruisephones.pnn.com/

http://globalgrind.com/

http://news.deviantart.com/

http://www.krumlr.com/

http://www.bloggersbase.com/

http://newstrust.net/

http://www.arto.com/

http://bravejournal.com/

http://www.twine.com

http://www.techtree.com/

http://www.blackplanet.com

http://www.grazeit.com/

http://shutterfly.com/