How to Promote Your Blog

You can use these concepts of branding to:

  • Promote your website, product, or service
  • Promote yourself — often we have to be self-promotional in order to get ahead
  • Promote your charity, non-profit organization, or other good cause
via zenhabits

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99 Ways to Promote your blog

lifehacker lifehacker - 12 months ago

  • Exchange links with other bloggers
  • Use BlogRush
  • Submit to RSS directories
  • Submit to blog directories
  • Submit to general directories
  • Start a 2nd blog and link to yourself
  • Create and give away blog themes (with a link to your blog in the footer)
  • Create free plugins
  • Create link bait
  • Participate in blog carnivals
  • Comment on DoFollow blogs
  • WordPress Backlinks Plugin

    COMMUNITY:

     

  • Join communities at MyBlogLog
  • Join communities at Bumpzee
  • Join communities at Blog Catalog
  • Start a community at any of these sites
  • Comment on other blogs in your niche
  • Email your friends and contacts about a new blog post that may interest them
  • Email your readers to say “thank you”
  • Email other bloggers to introduce yourself
  • Link out to other blogs
  • SOCIAL MEDIA:

  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Netscape
  • Magnolia
  • MySpace
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

    FORUMS:

     

  • AuthorityBlogger
  • Bloggeries
  • SitePoint
  • Blogger Forum
  • BloggerTalk

    GROUPS:

     

  • Yahoo!
  • Google
  • MSN

    ARTICLE DISTRIBUTION:

     

  • Write a guest post for another blog
  • Ezine Articles
  • Article Dashboard
  • Go Articles
  • ArticleHub
  • Jogena
  • Marketing Seek
  • Article Avenue
  • Alumbo
  • Article Pros
  • eBusiness Articles
  • Syndication from Idea Marketers
  • Write for newspapers
  • Write for magazines
  • Scribd (document sharing)
  • Open Floodgate
  • Google Base
  •  
     full list via  cheatppc

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    More tips to promote

    lifehacker lifehacker - 12 months ago
    1. Content Is King, Really?
    2. One Post at a Time…
    more at search-this

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    How to Promote Your Blog through Networking

    lifehacker lifehacker - 12 months ago

    • Be generous
    • Don’t Expect too much too quick
    • Look for the B-listers
    • Prove Yourself First
    • Persist But Don’t Annoy 
    • Look in Neighboring Niches
    • Ask Questions
    • Become a Go-To Person and a Connector
    • Have an Elevator Pitch
    • Look for Points of Synergy

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    How to Promote Your Blog (or Yourself) Like the Big Guys Do

    lifehacker lifehacker - 12 months ago

    1. First, figure out who your target audience is

    2. Next, figure out what desires you’re going to be tapping into

    3. Then figure out what message you’re going to send to them that will tap into specific desires

    4. You need to be consistent about your message in everything you do

    5. Finally, you need to repeat your message as much as possible to your target audience 

    full list via writetodone