Everyday you update your blog. You write about your life and post it on your site. But no one reads them. Then you try writiting about latest technology and gadgets hoping that you will get some comments from readers on the next day but still, not many people comes to your site. But you still continue posting and updating your site everyday, every night. After some period, you realized that you need to promote and advertise your site but you don’t know how.

Here I will share with you some tips on how to promote and get more readers to your site. I’m no expert in site advertising or marketing but I have some little knowledge that I want to share with you. :d

Join bloggers forum

Join and participate in bloggers forum or portals. Introduce yourself and brief politely about your site. Tell them what your site is about. I’m sure in every bloggers forum, there is a section where you can promote or show off your blog. Post something there.

Describe your blog and invite them to visit. If the forum admin enable signature in post (usually it is enable), put your site link in your signature. That way, peoples can see your site link when you post or reply someone’s post on the forum.

Visit other blogs

You must start it first. Don’t wait people come to your site. Visit other member’s blog and drop them some comments about their blog posts. Don’t give comments say something like, “Hey, nice site!” or “I love your site. Cool!” but give comments that relate to their posts. If they read your comment, they also will visit back to your site.

Another way is, if your post same like other people post, trackback their post. I assume you know how to use trackback. :p

Submit to Blog Directory/Topsites

There are many blog directories in the Internet. Submit your site to as many blog directories as you can. Almost of them are free but some of them you need to put HTML code on your site before your site been listed in their directory.

And join topsites too. If your site is on top rank, there will be more peoples now about your site.

Signature in Email

Put your site link in your email signature. So each time you send or reply email, the receiver will see it. So they’ll know that you have a site and they will visit your site to see what your blog is about.

Join Exchange Link program

This program is a two way feedback. You put their site link on your site and they will put yours on their site. The system goes like that. Beside increase your page rank, it also can bring more peoples to your site.

Public Bookmarking

Submit your contents to any public book marking sites such del.icio.us or Furl, etc. There are many to list here. But make sure that you submit on specific topic or people will ignore it.

Submit to Search Engine

Submit your site link to popular search engine such as Google, Yahoo, etc. There are some sites that can submit your site to 20 search engines for free.

Ping your site

This is a must. Ping your site to Pingoat.com or Pingomatic.com each time you update your site. Both of them give the best ping-ing services.

Well, if you have make all these things I’m sure in one week or maybe less, you will have regular visitors that come to your site. But make sure you have good contents on your site or you will loose them one by one.

If you have any comments or want to add up your own tips, feel free to say it in the comment form. Well, thanks for your time and hope this helps!

By: Fauzi Mohd Darus

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Once you begin to set up to promote your blog, here are some SEO tips you can use that will teach you how to blog.

The first thing you want to do is make sure your keyword research is complete. When you start to put your new content on your blog you want to put the keyword in the title once in the first few sentences and the last few sentences. Use a few different ways of words in your keyword research.

When you host the domain name on a server I suggest that you put your blog onto a primary domain where the primary domain name includes the main keyword that you are trying to target. The main page that you use is very important because 50 to 60% of your links over time to point to that page. That landing page has to have a little different strategy than the other promotional strategies that you use for the entire blog.

Make sure if you’re selling a product to have good ad copy. Always attach a blog to your website‘s product or services. This will help you in your marketing efforts.

Once you have a few articles on your blog that are optimized for the main keyword, this is where you’ll target the best traffic potential in some of these how to blog tips and tricks. The first step is to social book mark your articles, submit your RSS feed to various RSS directories, aggregators and search engine submission directories.

Now you’ll get some good links over time but the link value is very low. Keep up a good social book marking plan but make sure you stay consistent.

Because the link value is low you’ll want to have articles written up and submitted through article directories. I suggest using other blog networks and get some outbound links that way in your signature. Everything that you do you want to make it as natural as possible so that everything appears quite organic.

That is why book marking is good to use because it drips out these links over a period of time and it’s not an overnight task where you wake up and have thousands of links.

Most people over look these methods when learning how to blog because of the low value but over time the search engine spiders will index your site. It just might take a bit longer. This method on how to blog will take a week or two and sometimes a month or so for the indexing to happen, but he effort is really worth it in the long run. Now that you have learned some of these tips and tricks on how to blog, start applying it and reap the rewards of your success.

By: Reed Slidell

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1. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on
http://pingomatic.com/. Pingomatic will ping 15
services all at once.

2. Ping your blog after every post at

http://pingomatic.com/

3. Here’s a real gem: Submit your blog to
http://www.pingoat.com/ Pingoat will ping over fifty
blog ping services all at once. So you don’t have to
hunt for ping services and manually ping them.
Pingoat pings over fifty blog ping servers (growing)
with just one click.

4. Ping your blog after every post at Pingoat at

http://www.pingoat.com/

5. Sign up for a free account at BlogExplosion.com and
register your blog there: http://www.blogexplosion.com/

6. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at

http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html

7. Sign up for a “My Yahoo” at http://my.yahoo.com/ and
attach your blog to your own “My Yahoo” account. This
will get your blog included in Yahoo very quickly.
This is worth the effort to stop what you’re doing
right and do it, since Yahoo has a PR 9.

8. Use this code: “http://add.my.yahoo.com/content?url=
http://www.yourblog.com/urblog.xml” in your blog to
allow others to put your feed on their own “My Yahoo”
account.

9. Sign up for a “My MSN” at http://www.my.msn.com/, and
attach your blog to your own “My MSN” account. This will
get your blog included in MSN very quickly. This is also
invaluable because MSN has a PR 8.

10. Use this code: “http://my.msn.com/addtomymsn.armx?id=
rss&ut=http://www.urblogfeedaddress.com/urblog.xml” in
your blog to allow others to put your feed on their
own “My MSN” account.

11. Place the link and description of your blog in your
signature, so that any posts to Forums, Outgoing
Emails, Autoresponder Courses, etc, will promote your
blog.

12. Post a link and description of your blog on each of
your sites.

13. Place your blog on all the major search engines.
AddMe.com will submit your blog free to the top 14
Search engines here:

http://www.addme.com/submission.htm

SubmitExpress.com will submit your blog free to the
top 20 Search engines here:

http://www.submitexpress.com/

14. Use Article Directories as a resource for articles
to post on your blog. Here are a few:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://goarticles.com/

http://www.knowledge-finder.com/

[http://www.informit.com/articles/]

15. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place useful
comments in their comment box. Be sure the blog and
your comments are relavent to both your blog and
theirs. Senseless posts won’t help you, they’ll
hurt you.

16. Once you get around 5 to 10 posts on your blog, start
a PR campaign and announce it to all relevant
channels.

17. Make a blog post as often as possible. More than once
a day is not really necessary. Remember, if you can’t
write that much, go to step # 14.

By: Gregory White

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Getting targeted website traffic is the only way for an internet marketer to succeed. If nobody visits your website it doesn’t matter how well designed or pleasing to the eye your site is.

There are thousands of websites out there competing for the same visitors so getting targeted website traffic can seem daunting. Here are some tips that if followed methodically can help increase your traffic and with the right kinds of visitors.

Understanding your target market:

Number one is understanding who you are marketing to. Research whatever niche you are in to find out what your market is interested in. Keeping your website interesting, relevant and updated will keep your targeted market coming back to your site.

Article Writing:

Writing articles with good and original content that is interesting to your targeted audience will keep them coming back. Good articles help to promote your website and can drive more traffic to it as it becomes more popular. There are hundreds of sites that you can submit your articles to but a few hold more weight like EzineArticles, Article Dashboard and Go articles to name a few. EzineArticles still seems to carry more weight as the place to publish your articles. Always put a link back to your website in the resource box.

One way Links:

One way to get your website noticed by the search engines is for high page rank and relevant sites to be linking back to your website. Some ways of getting links back to your website is article writing with your link in the resource box, commenting in forums and leaving a link in your signature or bio box and doing the same in blogs. The relevant backlinks to your website can boost your ranking in the search engines which help drive targeted website traffic.

Search Engine Optimization:

Getting your website to appear in the top results of the search engines can boost your traffic tremendously and your site should be Search Engine Optimized with a good amount of relevant backlinks and articles and posts that are original and rich in content.

Building a list:

In internet marketing a subscriber list is a very valuable asset. Through email marketing with autoresponders and personalized news letters you can build a strong traffic base. Having a list with repeat visitors gives you marketing opportunities now and in the future.

Search engines are a an important way to generate traffic but by utilizing and combining a lot of different methods and strategies you will be able to generate more targeted and quality traffic to your site.

By: Mark Baybayan

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Article marketing has been around as long as there have been printed publications. It is definitely not new to the internet, though many people associate it with internet marketing. If you were to ask you local newspaper editor what percentage of their content was actually researched and written by staff, you might be surprised to learn that nearly 70% of the content in most papers is actually submitted to the paper by business owners, or by other people that are looking for publicity.

So how does article marketing work? Well on the internet of course, things look a little bit different than the standard process that happens with newspapers. In fact, on the internet, it is even easier.

You, as a marketer, need merely write an article that is in some way related to the product or service you are providing. It does NOT have to be about your product, but merely something interesting or useful in the same niche, or in some way related.

Once you have your article, you can submit it to online article directories, for free. Ideally, you want to have optimized your article for a particular keyword. The article should be kept short, so that people haven’t lost interest by the time they reach the end.

Now, the final part is what really makes article marketing work on the internet. Along with every article, the writer is given the opportunity to submit a resource box, sometimes called a signature box. This resource box should be used to present an offer to the reader, or at bare minimum, send them back to your website.

The value therefore flows both directions. The article directory gets a good deal, because people like yourself are constantly providing them with free and unique content, and the marketer gets a good deal because they are able to get their information in front of a much larger audience.

Depending on the directory that you submit to, there will be a short term burst of traffic from the article you write. However, the real power of article marketing comes from the long term value. Over time, your article (if the article directory is properly optimized) will gain rankings in the search engines. At that point you should start getting traffic from people that have searched your term directly in Google. Long term you can receive thousands of views from this, and if you have properly written your resource box you can expect to receive a percentage of those in clickthroughs to your site as well.

So, the next time you hear the question “How does article marketing work?” You’ll know the answer and you can educate the questioner!

By: Jonathan Boettcher

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