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Innovative Ways to Promote Your Blog

Innovative Ways to Promote Your Blog

1. Offer to Write Guest Blog Posts

Many blog owners are actively looking for guest bloggers. You can research
blogs in a directory like Technorati or go to Blogger Linkup that can
connect you with blogs looking for a guest blogger.

2. Blog Communities

Examples of Blog Communities that you can submit your blog to include
MyBlogLog, Blogged, BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs. The search engines will
index your blog faster because these blog communities have great search
engine ranking.

3. Blog Directories

Blog Directories are great places to submit your blog to. The advantage of
this is that more people will find you since the blogs are listed by
category. Technorati is a great blog directory, but you can find more doing
a search in Google.

4. Submit to Document Sharing Sites

Document sharing sites are often totally overlooked by the small and home
business owner. Examples are Scribd, Issuu or Docshare, each with great
search engine ranking. You will have to make your article into a PDF
document for this.

5. Feed Directories

You should also submit your blog's RSS feed to Feed Directories. Here are
some good free ones: Feedage, Feedraider, GoldenFeeds, BlogDigger,
RssMountain, RssMicro.com, RssMotron.com, Technorati.com and IceRocket.

After you submit your feed once, these directories should keep track of your
new posts, and will index them.

6. Pinging Sites

Because pinging your site is very important if you want the search engines
to index you and give you those coveted top positions, you need to do it
every time you update your blog. By default, WordPress pings your blog to
one pinging site every time you update. This can work against you as it
pings after you edit as well, making it appear you are pinging
unnecessarily. I found a great plugin that can stop this from happening. You
can set it to ping every time you update your blog or to ping once every
fifteen minutes, thereby safeguarding you from getting blocked by search
engines for pinging too often.

7. Social Media Sites

If you sign up for a social media site such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+
and YouTube, use your blog name as your username. This will also help your
blog get indexed quickly.

Share your blog posts on your social media sites to invite comments and
retweets which will help your search engine ranking. You can make this
process automatic through services such as Onlywire or Scoop.it if you
curate as well.

8. Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and Delicious can
also help to give you more traffic back to your website. Onlywire also
automates this process.

9. Blog Broadcasts

Add your blog links to your autoresponder and invite your subscribers to
comment on them.

10. Offer to write for Ezines and Associations

You can offer to write for ezines and associations in your niche. You can
also use the search engines for this.

If you have any questions or comments please contact me.

Regards Gerald

Website: http://www.webcraft.ws
E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws
Twitter: WebcraftGuru
Facebook: Webcraft Guru


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