Wednesday, March 10, 2010

How to promote your blog

Blogging is arguably one of the best ways to make good money online. There are many ways to earn cash with a blog. Affiliate marketing, Google Adsense and private ads are just some of the ways that you can make money blogging. The key to having a successful blog (in terms of making money) is to have lots of quality traffic. Building an audience is the most important thing you can do when blogging. Targeted traffic will convert into money for your blog. Now how do you promote a blog especially if its brand new and you’re a beginner.

Provide updates via Twitter

A new blogger or any blogger can use Twitter to effectively promote their blog and their new posts. Make it as habit of sending out tweets when you have a new blog post or have added a new feature to your blog / website. Be sure not to tweet every little thing. Also still tweet about other things to draw in a bigger audience. Tweeting will do no good if you don’t have many Twitter followers so take that into consideration.

Participate in forums

Participating in forums can be a great way to promote your blog or website. By being active in forums of the same topic as your blog, you spark other peoples interest in your blog. I would recommend you gain some influence in the forum before you really start promoting or people will think your spamming them.

Quality content speaks for itself

This is not really a way to promote your blog but its still worth mentioning. By writing quality posts and content that people enjoy reading, your blog will get promoted by others. This is by far the best way your blog can get promoted because it means that others are taking interest in your hard work!

Get involved in communities

Communities like Blog Catalog can drive some traffic to your blog. However I personally have found that these type of communities are more for spammers. You will have to find out if you can promote your blog using this method yourself.

Promoting your blog is extremely important because it gives your blog a lift and lets people around the web know about it. Beginners who have just started a blog or who are thinking about starting one should think very carefully about how they are going to promote it. Remember that gaining a targeted blog audience is the hard part, once you have the audience it is easy to make money!

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