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10_Ways_to_Instantly_Promote_your_Blog_for_Free
| 10 Ways to Instantly Promote your Blog for Free
1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping a
blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated
your blog content and that your listing should be refreshed.
Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many
individuals and services use to track blog changes. Pinging your
blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search
engine robots to visit your blog. Also, many people browse these
sites to find something new.
2. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and
directories. You can submit your blog's url to websites such as
Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of
websites where you can submit your url, go to http://www.guidetorss.com/
3. Set your blog to display RSS feeds and submit your blog's RSS
feed to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to
start is http://www.guidetorss.com/
which provides a list of the top RSS directories. 4. Put your
blog URL in your email signature. If you’re a regular at any
online discussion forum, you can also add your url to your
signature line at the bottom of each message you post. 5.
Install a blogroll. A blogroll is a collection of links to other
weblogs. Services such as Technorati spider your links to tell
who’s linking to you and who you’re linking to. If you show up
on someone’s Technorati link list for their site they’re likely
to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your
exposure. Blog owners can also visit your site to check it out
if you show up on their referral logs. 6. Be an active
commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs that you regularly
visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave
a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least.
7. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your blog’s web
address on it. You can print your blog URL on business cards,
stickers, leaflets, etc.
8. Take advantage of blog software features that help to promote
your Blog. For example, if you're using Blogger, you can do this
by turning on: "Email This Post", "Post Pages" "Site feed" and
the Blogger Navbar. These features will help attract new
visitors to your blog.
9. Exchange Links with other Bloggers or blog owners. This is
another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to
your blog for free. It involves contacting other blog owners for
a possible link exchange partnership. All you have to do is
locate blogs that are related to yours and contact the webmaster
to swap links.
10. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to
publish and put your blog url in the byline. The ‘byline’ is the
short paragraph that goes at the bottom of each article and
describes who the author is and what they do. If you write good
content, your articles will be published by other webmasters and
many readers who like your article will go on to visit your
blog.
About the author:
Copyright © 2005. Chileshe Mwape writes for The US Banks Website: http://www.us-banks.org/.
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