Promoting Your Blog
I've expanded this section into two separate
articles below.
How To Build Traffic To Your Blog
With the growing interest in blogging as a means
of online promotion and branding, a lot of marketers are starting
blogs to promote their opinions, products, books and services.
But a blog is like a website. "Write and
they will come" isn't exactly a magic formula to bring in
traffic by the boatload.
If you need to promote your website in order to
build traffic to it, you need to promote your blog as well.
Here are some ways you can become a well-read
and influential blogger.
Read all of them in the article How
To Build Traffic To Your Blog
Search Engine Optimization For Blogs
Blogging software is really a simple Content Management
System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into
your site's navigational structure and linkage.
Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine
friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated
webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous
HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing
a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a
web page. But depending on the blogging service or software you
use, the results may look somewhat different.
If you follow some simple rules for search engine
optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website
pages in the search engine results pages.
Here are the most important rules to follow to
get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.
Read the rest of the article Search
Engine Optimization For Blogs
Blog Promotion Tips
An
excellent tutorial by T.L. Pakii pierce on Blog Promotion
Places to submit your Blog
Big
List of Blog Search Engines
List
of Blog Search Engines from ELaunchSite
List of services to ping
Pingomatic
automates the process and pings many services for you all at once
List
of 43 WordPress ping URLs
Problogger
has a list of services to ping
Jeremy
Wright has another long list of services to ping
