“How to promote your blog?”
That question seems like it is on the tips of small business owners and internet marketers everywhere. So, I decided to do a last minute test this morning and gather some cool bloggers together to get their insights on how to promote your blog.
We gathered some of their key ideas to help you understand some different ways you can promote your blog. What I recommend is to take a look at the ideas below and find one idea that you can start executing on today. Then come back in a day or two when you used the first idea and started taking a look at one of the other ideas below.
The most significant idea in blogging is that you have to be consistent with whatever strategy you use below, or nothing will work. One shot wonders take 20 years to happen. Long-term businesses takes a lot less time.
How To Promote Your Blog From The Bloggers
I generate a large percentage of my engaged traffic through the use of commenting and social sharing based syndication tribes. These tribes allow me to build both my SEO (via activity, relevancy and social proof) while also building my social media presence. The combined power of working together rocks!
Kim Castleberry from Just-Ask-Kim
The best two ways to promote your blog are commenting on related blogs and then writing guest posts for the blogs where you comment. We love using CommentLuv because it allows us to share with the blog owner and their readers what we care about, so you can build relationships faster.
Gail Gardner, GrowMap
A cool way to promote your blog… “promote the blogs of people who share the same value system as you do and communicate your respect of them to them WITHOUT expectation of something in return.”
Peter Pocklington, Freedom Nation United
I signed up right away for Networked Blogs on Facebook and then posted to my four facebook fan pages, so all my fans would know that my thought of the day was out. Friends on the networked blogs network would help share the post as well.
Jerome Johnson, EasyInternetMarketingSoftware.com
Thanks to all the bloggers who answered my pesky questions. It was greatly appreciated. For the readers, let me know below what questions you have and also if you have anything to add to how to promote your blog.
“The biggest idea in blogging is that you have to be CONSISTENT with whatever strategy you use below, or nothing will work. One shot wonders take 20 years to happen. Long-term businesses take a lot less time.” – Andy Nathan <—That my friend is the most Golden piece of advice to all who would build a business. Blogging is a MEANS to an end – not an end in itself…
Peter,
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed that nugget. I almost did not put it in the article.
Andy
Wow that solution was really great and that is helpful to me, I will share this to my friends so they can see it too..
Great post, Andy! You’ve definitely done a great thing getting these great bloggers to share their tips. The time has come for me to be more regular in paying attention to these things, and I can’t wait to see some of the great stuff that you and others are putting out there!
Steve,
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed this post!
Andy
Your email list is a great way to promote your blog. I think the most powerful ways to promote your blog is through guest posting on other blog and doing interviews, because it positions you as an expert on your subject matter.
Dewane,
List building is huge for your blog and your business in general and then you tie that in with guest blogging to just wow everyone!
Andy
These are some great tips and I’ve noted a few that I’ll be putting into practice this week!
Candice,
That is great!
Andy