Top 10 Tips for Blog Marketing
Articles to Teach
Blogs become popular if there are some good write ups that help inteaching the reader. You can have them short and crisp but ensure thatthey have steps or “how to” references. Generally known as “pillar”articles, you can have at least five such articles in your blog section.
New Blog
Each day, post a new blog that has some fresh news or tips. Thiswould ensure that the blog is working and up-to-date. Curious readerswould slowly make it their habit to come back once to your blog siteevery day.
Apt Domain Name
What does your blog highlight? What can a reader expect from yourblog – serious note, friendly note, satire, etc? Make sure your domainname shows what content that blogs would content.
Commenting on Other Blogs
If you wish others to read your blogs and talk about your articles,make sure you do the same for other blogs too. When you startcommenting on other posts, and just place link of your blog in the end,the word spreads. You never know how other readers get back to yoursite.
Using Trackback and backlinks in Posts
Trackback leaves an incomplete summary of your blog to the otherblog entry. It appears like a comment and helps to communicate withother blog writers. It leaves behind a link from the other blog to yoursite and allows the readers to follow the path. As a result, readersfrom other blogs may come back to your site to read your blog.
Publish Comments of Others
Just writing blogs don’t help much unless you get comments. Apowerful write up can have numerous comments. More are the comments,more popular is the blog. So, you need to encourage comments.Responding to comments, especially if it requires the author to reply,is a must to ensure that the popularity picks up.
Participate in Blog Carnival
Submitting blogs to carnival – a post where numerous blogs onsimilar topic is posted. This ensures that the blogs get links back totheir site. It increases a sudden increase in readership.
Submitting to Blogtopsites.com & EzineArticles.com
You can also submit the blogs to various blog-collecting sites whichgreatly increase readership to the site. Roughly, you can get at least10 readers per day if you post blogs to Blogtopsites.com.
Submitting Optimized Blogs to RSS
RSS feed is a good way to promote blogs. However, make sure youoptimize your blogs with relevant keywords so that the reader is ableto locate your blog.
Blog Marketing is an ongoing job and you need to keep supplying fresh content tenaciously.
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