What are your favorite methods for advertising your blog?

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By parushing

No Magic Buttons

Creating quality content and developing a reader base is tantamount to successful blog marketing. This coupled with well thought out linking strategies and RSS marketing will eventually bring in tons of traffic.

Unfortunately there is no Magic Button to push to build lots of quick traffic and that is where people get misguided when they start out.

To break it down in a simple list.

  • Create quality original content updated frequently.

  • Post your RSS feed where ever possible.
  • Seek out other bloggers that compliment your blog and trade links
  • Post relative comments on other blogs and link back to supporting content on your site.
  • Visit forums on your blog topic and provide relevant articles and feed back and put your blog in your signature.

  • Directory submissions do not bring much traffic but they do bring in the spiders which help with SEO

  • Become active in communities like HubPages and reference your content if justified.

Relying on one traffic source or advertising method for your blog is putting all your eggs in one basket. If you build a reader base blog promotion becomes viral and the mundane task necessary to bring in visitors dissipates.

Comments

Jessie M 10 months ago

Thank you for writing this article! Getting much-needed traffic to your blog could really take hard work. I like how you wrote them on here one by one. I've learned a few things. Great hub!

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