How to promote your blog? My tips and answers!

Blog promotion is highly crucial to get your blog content in front of more eyeballs; right eyeballs.

However you cannot simply blindly go about promoting your blog posts. There are quite a few things that you need to set right before you can think about blog promotion.

In the last post, I talked those things that you need to take care of or fix before you go around and promote your blog content. In this post, I am going to give you tips on how to actually promote your blog posts.

Now, I assume that you have taken care of all the stuff I have pointed out in my earlier post, because, I would like to stress once again, all your promotion methods (that I explain below) and your promotion efforts WILL go wasted if you don’t fix those points first.

So how to … [Read more...]

How to promote your blog? Things to do BEFORE you promote your blog

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All bloggers know quite well that promoting a blog is a crucial part of the game. Most experts suggest 20% content creation and 80% promotion and I agree with them.

If you simply create blog content and do not give it proper promotion, your content (and the time and effort you put in to create it) goes wasted. And no blogger wants that.

We all want our content to be read, shared, appreciated, and we also want to consistently gain traction, get subscribers, customers and a steady stream of income.

As you can see, blog promotion plays a very crucial role in the whole of your blogging system.

Actually there are two things: Quality content and … [Read more...]

3 Tips To Make Online Marketing Work For You

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As a company, marketing is one of the biggest facets as to whether or not you're successful. If you want customers to visit your website or purchase your products, you need to market to them effectively.

Most companies have realized that online marketing is the way to reach their consumers, so they're actively creating websites and other digital marketing tools in order to reach out to these consumers. Some companies, though, make the mistake in thinking that as long as they have an [Read more...]

5 Reasons Press Release Complements Your Content Marketing Strategy

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New and well established businesses alike want their brand to reach as much of the target market as possible, which is why the marketing department is a core element of every business strategy.

Businesses are beginning to understand the power of online advertising; however most of them fail to utilize an inexpensive yet effective online marketing opportunity – the press release. Press releases can benefit your business for the following reasons.

Get more exposure

Every business irrespective of whether it is brick and mortar based or not deserves to have an online presence. Out of the 2 billion people with internet access you are bound to find quite a number of people who are interested in your product or service.

Did you know that everyday 80 million people read their news online? The press release will be especially … [Read more...]

Online Marketing Ideas For Your Home Based Business Blog

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Without marketing, a business is nothing. No matter how much value you provide and how much you stand out, if you don’t let people know about your awesomeness, you won’t be found by them.

Build it and they will come no longer works. May be because there’s too much information and too many businesses out there. But don’t get disappointed just because you have too many businesses similar to yours.

Every business has a unique purpose and so does yours. So if you managed to find out your UVP and if you managed to position yourself in the market, you can rock it. You can stand out and let people know about your awesomeness, quite easily.

Now whenever I say “let people know” – there comes marketing into the picture.

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Launching DoSplash: For Targeted Splash Of Traffic And Connections

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DoSplash is my newest baby. It’s been in my mind for quite a while that I should have a community where bloggers can come, participate, share their knowledge, interact and promote each other’s business.

I know there already exists quite some cool communities out there like Blokube and Blog Interact in which I’m part of. But still I wanted to host one myself :)

That’s not a bad idea, is it?

Now when I told some of my folks about this idea, I immediately got a negative feedback. Everyone suggested that there already exists places like this where bloggers and site owners promote their own stuff, participate, vote, share etc. – so why another?

A very reasonable question indeed!

But then I asked to myself, there was Facebook, then Twitter, then Google Plus – … [Read more...]

Guest Blogging: 5 Effective Steps To Guest Blog Like A Pro

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Guest blogging is one of the most powerful techniques to get people's attention to your blog. In my opinion, every blogger should guest post on other blogs.

It is a fact that guest blogging is quite abused by spammers who do it for just link building purposes, however, one cannot deny the fact that guest blogging is a great way to reach out to your target audience at a larger level.

What are the major benefits of guest blogging?

Guest posting has so many benefits, some of which are as follows:

1. You can develop a good relationship with fellow bloggers with mutual benefit.2. Free advertising for your own blog. 3. Guest blogging improves your writing skills. 4. Makes you think out of the box, and makes you write for a different … [Read more...]

What Makes A Good Blog?

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A good blog is rare to find - its like diamond.

You can find a lot of rocks these days, but not diamonds.

In a couple of earlier posts I talked about what makes a good blog post from the perspective of both the reader and the blogger.

Click on the links below to read them (seriously, don't miss them).

What makes a good blog post (from the reader's perspective)? What makes a good blog post (from the blogger's perspective)?

Now let's get to the big … [Read more...]

5 Essential Factors To Get Targeted Traffic from YouTube

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Video marketing is one of the most powerful strategies to get free traffic to your website besides, it also plays a major role to build your authority in the niche you are involved.

I’ve been reading a lot about how you can use videos to improve your traffic and now it’s time to go a little further and show you how to get free traffic from YouTube.

But first here is a question: why is YouTube so important?

Well, mainly it is because they are owned by Google, therefore once you know how to optimize your videos to rank better on YouTube you are also making your site achieve a larger audience which can … [Read more...]

Guest Posting Is Not Dead… You’re Just Doing It Wrong

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I have a strong 5-year experience writing hundreds of (practical and value-driven) articles for my blogs. I know the ins and outs of both freelance writing and copywriting.

Just the beginning of this year I took guest posting by the horns for a completely new niche (teaching AM/Blogging), and already have 20 live articles that are already sending me traffic and link juice. Next, I aim for 30 articles per month, each and every month…

That’s the only strategy I will always highly recommend to ensure you drive consistent and targeted traffic to your site (and keep your name and brand) in the front of new audiences.

I made quite a few silly mistakes myself, and learned my lessons, which I bet you’ll want to hear about … [Read more...]