Blogging for Your Small Business – Part IV: Promoting Your Blog
Posted by | Tommy Liu | September 25, 2009 | Join the Conversation
Here is the forth and final post to this series of Blogging for Your Business. In case you missed it here’s Part One, Two and Three. Here are 17 tips to promote your blog (after you’ve written 8-10 solid posts) that we use here at the G-Spot:
1. Share the URL with your friends and family through social networking sites and ask them to pass it along to their network.
2. Use Twitter and develop a following and find new readers.
3. Leave genuine and engaging comments on related blogs with a link to your blog as part of your signature. The emphasis is on leaving a relevant comment because this helps establish you as an expert in the field, suggesting that you would have knowledgeable insight to offer on your blog.
4. Find where your target readers are and engage with them there.
5. Submit your blog to blog directories such as Technorati.com (the biggest) and RSS directories.
6. Submit your best blog posts to social bookmarking sites.
7. Have social media share buttons accompanying every post to make it convenient for your readers to share your blog. This is free promotion.
8. Ask your readers to share your blog.
9. Participate in blog carnivals.
10. Participate in forums with a link to your blog in the signature.
11. Put keywords in your post to be bettered indexed by search engines. However, be mindful not to sound like a robot. You are talking to human beings after all.
12. Add a link to your blog in the signature of your e-mails.
13. Put your blog on your business card.
14. Link to other blogs, and they’ll get a pingback notifying them about your blog, and if they check it out and like what they see then they may promote your blog on theirs.
15. Write guest posts and link back to your blog in a byline.
16. Conduct interviews with experts in your niche, preferably those with a strong following.
17. DO NOT SPAM!
Thanks for reading. I hope you found this series helpful. Let me know in a Tomment, and let me know if I left out anything vital. This concludes “Blogging for Your Business,” but we will be moving on to another aspect of social media for your business. Possibly, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or social bookmarking. Be sure to subscribe or follow this blog on on Twitter (@gettingspotted) to be in the know.
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September 27th, 2009 @ 8:08 am
Hi there,
Thanks for the article. It’s very helpful on how to promote a blog.
Pett