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11 Ways to Promote Your Blog

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11 Ways to Promote Your Blog

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 www.guidetorss.com

3. If you have some cash you can promote your blog using pay per
click search engines such as Yahoo Search and Google Adwords.

4. 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 www.guidetorss.com which provides a list of the top RSS
directories.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

Copyright © 2005. Chileshe Mwape writes for Debt Consolidation
Loans UK: http://www.best-debt-consolidation-loan.co.uk/ Visit our
site to consolidate debts and apply for a loan online. This article
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