Tips and Tricks of Blog Promotion
Sometimes you come up with a great blog story. You know it will drive you a lot of traffic but you have a problem. No one knows about your great blog post.
In order to get maximum attention you need to spread the word around. This is where the social / bookmark networks come handy.
Bill Gate is using the technology. Mircosoft is taking advantage of this new marketing strategy. What about you? Are you harnessing the power of social networks?
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What is a social / bookmark network?
It’s a place where you can share your stories or blogs and network or bookmarks with others. Take Digg and StumbleUpon for example. You submit your blog story to the network, allowing other members to vote and comment on it. More popular stories that receive a certain number of votes get promoted to the front page. Most social networks are different. Some even allow you to export a large number of bookmarks straight from your browser.
Why social networks?
1) Social networks get a lot of traffic due to their nature. Users often return to read the latest stories and share their own.
2) Readers are usually only one click away from your blog. A popular submission can bring you thousands of daily visitors.
3) Most social networks are free and take seconds to register and submit your first entry.
4) You will be surprised when you see the amount of other websites that use feeds from various social networks. A good story can spread across the network like wild fire.
5) If your story will not get to the front page you can always submit another one. In most cases there is no limit on the amount of stories you can submit.
6) Most social networks are search engine friendly. Not only your story will be picked up by major search engines in no time, in most cases you will also get a reciprocal link. Some social networks have very good google page rank (PR)
Tips and tricks:
1) An interesting, catchy story is often a must. Your main target is to get promoted to the front page by getting enough votes. You need to convince other readers to vote for your story. Strange, shocking and controversial stories often do well.
2) You can always ask your friends to join and vote for you in order to get more votes. Don’t create fake accounts because you will simply get banned.
Secret tip: Form an alliance with other bloggers and vote for each other’s work.
3) The more stories you submit the better. If you want a steady flow of traffic you will need a steady flow of submissions.
4) Just enjoy your experience. I certainly find it more interesting compared to other methods of blog promotion, such as link development.
Social networking sites are useful, aside for their marketing potential, but as a way of keeping in touch not just with your friends but with your universe of friends.
There are a lot of various social networks around. Simple search on google should do the trick.
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wow! i think this is nice! thanks for this nice tips! Great!
Great article , blogger should take advantage of social media to build readership for their blog
I use some of these but not all of them. I refuse to join Digg because they’re always kicking people out, and I’m not in the mood to sign up for StumbleUpon either. I do use Technorati and Delicious, though.
Of course, nothing works better than commenting on other blogs to get people to come, not even asking your friends to go to your blog & comment to drive your stats up.
you can get some crazy traffic from social networking sites.
Yes, you can get some crazy traffic, but not easy. There´s quite some competiton, all wanting that crazy traffic.
Cool tips. Its really hard to generate traffic although you got some great articles on your blog. However these social bookmarking sites and the emerge of social media sites are really helpful for promoting a blog.
We’ve actually seen quite a bit of activity from users helping to spread the word about our products by using the social networking share features. It really is worth doing!
So far I have seen the greatest success in getting my blog promoted through the simple act of sharing a thoughtful comment on someone else’s blog. You would be amazed at the results gained by actually taking the time to READ the material in full before leaving a comment. Drive-by-Spam only serves to irritate others and is a waste of time and energy. Thanks again for sharing these tips and tricks of blog promotion so freely as there are those of us who surely benefit from it.
Xoxo,
Lady Alexis E.
Good tips and tricks . I want to add something more.
I think we shouldn’t forget that the main bunch of visitors sould come from search engines. This is essential . Because all the others methods are just seem as forcing and not too much organic! For example sending posts to facebook pages by manual can take visitors but can also take reverse reactions from the members of the group if this group is not of your website. On the other hand if you stop to post your link to facebook or another social websites like twitter, visitor traffic will also stop . There is no regularity. But search engines are organic and send you regular and quality visitors. So we have to make an optimum seo. If we think that seo of our website is okey than we can share our time for other methods.