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Using Blogs As Sources In Articles Depending on what type of blog that you have, it might be a good idea to advertise your blog using articles. For example, say you know about jewelry and gemstones, and your blog is a place where you post information for people to read about jewelery. Submitting an article to a website such as Associated Content can be very instrumental in bringing people to your blog. A good example would be is, if you wanted to talk about the common misconceptions about the colors of gemstones. You could write about the fact that people assume that gemstones such as emeralds, sapphires and rubies are one different color, but the truth is that those stones come in a variety of colors and hues. Then you can use your blog as a source for your information, as long as you have blogged about those gemstones. The great thing is that some places, like Associated Content, will pay you for the articles that you write. So if you sell jewelry on your blog, it’s like being paid twice for your knowledge. Of course, this is just an example of the way you can use articles to advertise your blog. When you are writing an article, be creative. You don’t have to be an expert at what you do. If you enjoy writing stories, you can say that posting stories on blogs is a new and different way to share your stories with others. Then, post your blog link as your source and you have people checking out your blog and your stories. Social Bookmarking for Blog Advertising Social bookmarking sites are a growing trend and are becoming more popular each and every day. They are a great place to share your bookmarks with everyone and to be able to access them from any computer. They are also a great place that you can post a link to your blog. There are over fifty social bookmarking sites that you use to submit your link to your blog. Digg, Digo, Blue Dot, and del.ico.us are just a few of them that are the most popular. Each site has its own guidelines and rules for posting links, so it’s important that you want to read the rules that they have before you post any links. Because social bookmarking isn’t as targeted as other forms of advertising for your blog, you may find that it will take longer for it to be effective. But it’s also a good way for you to get your blog noticed and it may bring in people who may not have found your blog another way. Since social bookmarking doesn’t always give you the opportunity to know who it is that has seen your site, or get to know other people, it’s always a good idea to keep track of the visitors who say they were linked to your site through a bookmarking site. If the site allows you to put a comment, ask people to let you know on your blog that they found it through a social bookmarking site and which one. That will help you know how effective it is. SEO Importance In Blog Advertising Having a blog on the Internet that gives people some good informaton doesn’t do a lot of good if peopledon’t know that it’s there. If you want people to be able to find your blog, something that is important is that you have good Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Whenever you put one or more words into a search barto look for something, the SEO of a website is what helps bring up those websites. For example, if your blog is about Harry Potter, you are going to want to be sure that your blog includes popular terms such as Harry Pottter, JK Rowling, and other things that are related to Harry Potter. Think about the things that people look for when they are interested in Harry Potter, and the kinds of things that come up when you search. It’s always a good idea to use your own experience when you are optimizing your blog for searching. Think about what has worked, what hasn’t worked, and use them for your own blog SEO. This way, when someone puts one of the terms that you put in your blog into a search engine it will be one of the sites that comes up. Of course, there are other factors that come into play that determine where your blog will come up in the list, but everyone starts somewhere. The more keywords that your blog uses, the more people will come to your blog. It just takes time and patience. Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog You will find, especially if you join something like Live Journal or Greatest Journal, is that User's just like you have created communities for people with common interests. There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn't a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog. The nice thing about communities is that there isn't any limit as to how many communities that you can join. For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them. As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps they will check out your personal blog. Something to remember is that you don't want to write a post that is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading. Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post. As with posting comments on someone else's blog, you don't want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won't visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well. |
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Getting The Message Across If you are someone who uses chat programs such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN, or Google talk and have a lot of online friends, it can be a great way to get people to read your blog and to leave comments on it. As it is with your signature on your email, you don't want to just send an instant message to people every time you update your blog. You also don't want to simply send a message to someone asking to read your blog. For someone who has been on your friends list for a while, you can be less formal of course, but you want to be polite when you talk to people who you may have not talked to in a while or someone who is new. Use your own judgement when you are chatting with people about your blog. If it's someone that you haven't talked to in a while, and someone asks you what you have been up to, you can point them to your blog so that they know what is going on with you. Some blogs, like Live Journal, have their own messaging program, so that's also another good way to advertise your blog. Be certain that you don't send someone a message though only to advertise your blog. It's more polite to say something about their blog first, and then tell them about your blog. If you have a common interest, it's a good ice breaker and it will give you something to talk about. Email Groups - Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising A Blog Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues. They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites. There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject. These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people. Most of the time when you join a group, you are encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself. This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don't overdo it. Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off. If your blog covers different subjects, you can advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well. Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There's nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences. When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that they leave. If they know that you appreciate the time that they took, they are more likely to come back again. Blogging Traffic - Give And Take Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else 's blog. Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common. When you find something that you find truly interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there. One of the best known blogs available is Live Journal. A great feature of Live Journal is that you can search for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest. Are you interested in horseback riding? You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well. When you are commenting on someone's post, you want to make sure that you don't leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post. After you have commented on the person's post, then you can say something like, 'I really like horseback riding too. I had a similar experience to yours.' And then use it to link back to your journal. But be sure that you sound sincere when you are commenting, and don't make them feel like you're just fishing for traffic. If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won't visit your site and your efforts will be wasted. Blogging Directories - Great Advertising Venues If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submitted cover. Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there. Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location. There are other blog directories on the Internet - these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make new friends. You never know what you will find when your browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily. As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures. Blogger Forums - A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and that's the main subject. It's a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog. There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries, where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog. Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog, Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read. If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure. When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy. Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you'll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the right thing. Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed. One of those ways is something that you do every day, and that you may not even consider as a way to share your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature. Chances are that you send out emails more times than you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email's signature. It's always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have. The thing to remember about putting an advertisement in your signature for your blog is to make it short, but eye catching. You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don't want to scare them off. Just like it is with any advertisement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising. Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people about it and want to visit? That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog. |