Promoting a blog is all round getting your weblog noticed in as lots of other places as budding. The more places that your blog is mentioned the more likely it is that visitors will start arriving at your blog. Here is what you need to do.
Install A Stats Package, Or Two!
It seems daft that the first part of promoting a site is installing a statistics tool, but you need to know which techniques are working for you to concentrate on them. However, one is not enough! I like to use two packages together. This seems like overkill, but if one stops recording or is showing strange results, the other works as backup. I use the WP-Stats plugin and Google Analytics together.
Target A few Keywords
Head over to the Google Keyword Selector tool, of a title suggestion tool on an article directory and work out several keywords that are being used that have visitors. Your own site stats will also reveal this information - look for keywords that the lesser search engines are sending visitors on and then target these on the higher volume search engines
Write For These Keywords
Now, write content based round these keywords for your blog. Use the keywords naturally in the title and throughout the post. Next, write more articles based on these keywords and submit as articles and guest posts, linking back to your website with the keywords. Targeted writing will give far more benefits than random writing.
Take Part In Forums
Find a few support forums that talk about subjects related to your website and sign up to them. Upload a picture of yourself to your profile and add your blog URL to the profile. Now look for questions that you might provide answers and suggestions to and start answering. In excess of time, people will see your answers, click your photo and visit your website. It really works,
You could also try the same with general discussion forums as well, but they don’t quite carry as much visitors to your website, even if there may be more chances of leaving a post.
Join In With Websites
Look for other people’s sites that are talking round similar subjects and read their recent posts, If you have something sensible to add to the post then leave a comment. Comments let's say ‘Nice post’ quite often get deleted and if they don’t, attract no visitors. But if you can leave a comment adding to the subject or backing it up with your own experience, then your comment is seen as being valuable and should be accepted, whilst other people will see that you are talking sense and might want to know more.
With all of these, be watching your visitors logs and seeing where your visitors comes from. If you see hits from certain forums, sites and article directories then you know which you should be concentrating on posting to in the future to create more visitors to your website.
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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start My Blog . Call in if you need any help or advice with starting a blog .
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