Blog marketing is among the latest trends of marketing online that you’re attending find. Here are a few more ways of getting your blog noticed in the online world
- Email – send an email to your list when you have a great blog post you want to share.
- Include a subscription form on your blog – this is for people to subscribe to get blog updates so they return over and over when you publish new content.
- Twitter – use a plug-in or an application like Twitterfeed.com to syndicate your new content to your twitter stream
- Facebook – use the Notes application to pull your blog feed into your profile and/or Fan page
- Video – Distribute your videos on all the video sharing platforms. Include a link back to your blog home page or specific blog posts that are relevant to the content in your video
- Email courses – include a link to your blog in and invitations to subscribe in your autoresponders for ecourses.
- Google profile – you MUST set up your profile on Google and include links to your blogs and web sites
- Article marketing – include a link to your blog in your author resource box.
- Pay attention to the headlines (blog post titles). Using numbers (see title of this blog post!) usually generates good traffic.
- Media releases – post releases around the web and include a link to your blog or specific post.
- Retweet button – include the retweet button from Tweetmeme so it’s super simple for your reader to click and share.
- Share buttons – there are many plug ins and addons to add buttons to share on twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Stumbleupon – find the style that suits you and add it to the footer of your blog posts
- Guest posting – writing on other people’s blogs can attract new traffic and readers to your blog.
- Bookmarking – use sites like Stumbleupon, Digg and Delicious to share your content – when you have a particularly great post, ask your readers to stumble, digg, etc.
- LinkedIn – make sure you blog posts are linked to your profile with the blog link application
- Include a link in your email signature file. If you use web-based email, like Gmail, add Wisestamp so you can include your blog’s RSS feed.
- Comment on other blogs.
- Submit your blog to directories.
- Contests can generate a ton of new traffic (see example here)
- Surveys and polls. People love to give their opinion. Use Polldaddy or SurveyMonkey to ask your readers what they want or their opinion.
- Last and definitely not least…publish as frequently as possible. The more frequently you post, the more traffic you get because the search engines are indexing your content more frequently.