You’ve built up a nice little archive of posts. Now all you need is some readers. It’s the question everyone’s asking: how do you promote your blog?
First, let me direct you to the excellent post on this topic by Michael Martine. Michael knows you have to give a little to get a little. I’m going to address a specific aspect of that: giving publicity.
If you run a themed blog, this will be very simple. In fact, you’re probably doing it already. If, for example, you run a sewing blog, you’re probably…
“How do I promote my blog?”
Man, if there’s one question that gets asked about as much as “How do I make money blogging?” it would be that one. For some reason, people simply refuse to believe that great content is all you need for your blog to succeed. They keep thinking there is some magic formula that will generate traffic for little to no work.
Well, guess what? There is a formula! But… it isn’t magic. And… it takes work. But the formula is proven to get results. You are…
With 2008 well underway, it’s time to create your blog marketing plan for 2008.
Your marketing plan doesn’t need to be complex - you can create it on an index card if you wish. However, you do need to create one. The more effort you put into marketing your blog, the more traffic you will get.
The promotional activities you include in your marketing plan are up to you. If your blog is new, then forget about paid advertising in the short term. Wait until your blog’s generating revenue; at that stage,…
Since Google is the king of all search engines, they are dictating the exact keywords you need in your article or blog that will get you the thousands of hits per week required to really succeed in the world of the internet.
Google is constantly searching for blog content that contains not only the most popular keywords and keyword phrases that Google’s users are most interested in, but also the web pages that are linked to other content-heavy web sites.
A new SEO technique that you should start using today…
What image do you portray in the blogosphere and online as a whole? In marketing, we call it branding, but in psychology and sociology, they call it impression management. In fact, there is a whole network of psychologists and sociologists who have been studying impression management online, particularly as part of social media, for years.
In an article from the New York Times this week, it was suggested that people strategize their online personas in order to create an ‘e-version’ of themselves that will appeal to a wide variety of people across…
Marketers are desperately trying to learn the best ways to leverage social media marketing and bloggers play an essential role in driving word of mouth marketing as online influencers. In short, bloggers can make or break a company’s viral marketing campaign.
In 2008, we’ll undoubtedly see an even greater focus on social media marketing, and the stage is set for bloggers to take the lead as online influencers. How can you increase your influence in the blogosphere and the larger world of Web 2.0? The first step is to build your online network.
If…
