Chris Brogan: Nine Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts
Steve Woodruff
· 1 year ago
I know this sounds very old-school, but sometimes I will e-mail closer blogging colleagues a link to a post that I want to draw particular attention to. This always draws more comments on the post than just "hanging it out there" with the other methods...
maxravi
· 1 month ago
Hi,
Promotion of blog is indeed most important topic in internet. Thanks nice review..what I generally use most to promote is my blog is article writing,social bookmarking and forums. Getting more backlinks means you will get better ranking in google.
I tend to prefer Facebook to Myspace. But depending on the size of your expected audience and the topic of your post, searching for pages on myspace with interests in the topic. Politely send them a message and or friend request inviting them to check it out.
If you already have a large following, or if the topic is general enough that narrowing pages down will be difficult, this is not a great approach. Otherwise, it may be beneficial. Given the viral nature of new media, finding a handful of interested people who will tell others can be a good use of time.
Jonathan Fields
· 1 year ago
Riffing of your number 4, if you participate in any active forums that where the topic of your post would be relevant to an ongoing discussion, modify your sig-file to reference the post directly or just enter your signature manually to include it. But, always be respectful of the forum rules and ethics and, like you mentioned, add value and context, first and foremost, then let digital nature take its course.
Kieran Hawe
· 1 year ago
I definitely agree with utilizing social services to promote your blog posts. I would add other micro-blogging services to the list (pownce, plurk, etc) along with Twitter - twitter does drive more traffic but every little big helps right?
Peter Kim
· 1 year ago
Maybe not as straight forward or self-controlled, but a #10 could be "Participate in an aggregator." I.e. sites like Social Media Today and Alltop scrape feeds and present content along with like minded bloggers. Doesn't necessarily drive traffic to your original site, which may be a negative for those who monetize impressions, but accomplishes the goal of spreading ideas.
Webconomist
· 1 year ago
As always, I learned a little something here; thanks Chris!
Oddly enough: Yellow Pages ads for small businesses. Yup. Has worked for clients in certain sectors (services mostly) to have people read the blog, then they seem to get calls. I call it Evidence Based Marketing (not my term.)
Oddly blending traditional and new medias...
dahowlett
· 1 year ago
I use a Newsgator widget that pulls relevant content into the site. Or rather it pulls in links associated with certain companies whose services are relevant to my topic area. Works a treat.
Alex Cristache
· 1 year ago
For that post to be a really good one, it has to approach topics or matters of real interest. This type of topics and matters are pretty heavily discussed on forums also, and participating in discussions on forums, and guiding the other participants to your blog post that approaches the same topic is another good promotion method.
Christopher Penn, Financial Ai
· 1 year ago
Email the community impacted by it.
Develop a press list of your own and send appropriately.
Develop a social network community on your blog or podcast and send them bulletins.
wonderwebby
· 1 year ago
Thanks Chris, just wanted to say I always get some value out of your posts. I find I always tend to get some traffic through Twitter and Facebook. It's great when you get stumbledupon but I wouldn't have thought of doing it myself. Nice tip on the blog comment too.
Adele McAlear
· 1 year ago
Another one: Make sure that your own feed is in your Google Reader, then share it with a short summary in the notes area.
Amarnath
· 1 year ago
Nice post... makes absolute sense.. iam starting to use all points mentioned
Scott Lockhart
· 1 year ago
You can nominate your blog for inclusion onto www.regator.com which launched a week ago. Regator is a hand-picked collection of the web's best blogs with tools to make it easy to find, organize and share whatever interests you in nearly 500 categories. It also drives traffic back to your blog. You should check it out!
Maria Elena Duron
· 1 year ago
Am printing this out for my "to do" list on gaining more publicity for my blog. Thanks for the post! I really appreciate all the comments and unique tools list from other readers, too. I just love other people's experience!
Bernie Borges
· 1 year ago
Don't forget your customers. They're not all subscribed to your blog or in your Twitter following. Email your best posts to your clients and share the love with them. After all they are already among your greatest fans!
Simon Middleton
· 1 year ago
A fantastically useful post for me, the ingenue blogger. Thanks Chris, again, for practical and usable information and advice.
Ed Shaz/ NextInstinct
· 1 year ago
Wait. Didn't your posts have a by-line before?
Is my memory faulty? Didn't they say 'by chris brogan' under the title formerly?
Miss Gisele B.
· 1 year ago
Thanks Chris - these are quite useful tools to help us grow traffic and credibility to our sites!
Miss Gisel B.
Suresh
· 1 year ago
There are some the different tips are offered like adding favorite on zemanta and BlogCast. Over all great post. Thanks
Yonghwee
· 1 year ago
Thanks for those tips.
Martin Sullivan
· 1 year ago
One critical aspect is timing. Try to figure where the majority of your target audience lives (American professionals = US East Coast; American arts = US West Coast). Then try to release your post and link it to all of the above near peak blog traffic times relative to those areas. Requires a bit of geographic understanding, but effective bloggers understand their audience quite well. I've seen great blog post slip under the radar for days because they posted it after 5pm on a Friday. Just my $.02
webtechreviews
· 1 year ago
thank you for your tips :) i joined your propeller's Tech community and that's how i got here
Vermin
· 1 year ago
Nice. Do check my blog !
Fubiz
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the tips!
mrintech
· 1 year ago
Great tips Hats off to you. Trying Zemanta right now.
Thanx a lot :)
Helena Makhotlova
· 1 year ago
Thanks for great advices. I think these tips are especially useful for those of us who are relatively new in the blogosphere. I can't make myself to put my own blog on StumbleUpon though...But someone else did it today! :)
Nicole
· 1 year ago
We have found some success in Blog Carnival listings as well. Thanks for a good post Chris!
Lynn Jordan
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Chris, for a great post. I'll share the post with my audience. I also put a link in appropriate forums to promote.
Joe Almeida
· 1 year ago
Very helpful post. I didn't even know about Zemanta. The other sites, although I knew they were there but, the tips you gave for each site, gave me some good ideas.
Cheers and thanks!
Choppers Mag
· 1 year ago
That's quite a few good tips there.
One more I might suggest.. Get a Firefox addon that allows you to change your referrer. And change it to your blog or a blog post. Then visit your favorite blogs. This will bring in some traffic from webmasters who dig through their visitor logs ;)
Tim Jahn
· 1 year ago
I like what RachelSterne mentioned in the Twitter ideas about swapping blogroll spots. I think it would be worth it to try swapping spots with blogs that relate to yours and writers you admire.
Petitehye
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the tips on how to promote my blog posts. I only submit my posts to digg but I will also join to the site you have mentioned above, thanks a lot. It will help a newbie like me.
If you are a music blogger, you can get more readers by submitting your site for inclusion in idiomag. Also check out the tool at http://idiomag.com/bloggers
Andrew
· 1 year ago
If you blog about music, you can increase your readership by submitting your blog to idiomag. Also check out the tool at http://idiomag.com/bloggers for a great way to make some cash off your blog
T. J.
· 1 year ago
Great Post. I'm going to start using these methods now!
Laurie PK
· 11 months ago
Hi Chris,
I have a question about related posts that I'm hoping you can shed some light on!
In my blog posts, I like to conclude with, "If you found This Article helpful, try:" and link to 3 related articles in bullet form. (here's an example if that isn't clear http://theadventurouswriter.com/blog/quipsandti...).
Plus I have an automatic "Related Posts" tool, that supplies 5 or so related posts (which aren't always the same as my own manually generated related articles).
Does Google count this as a "link farm"? Do you think my Page Rank is negatively affected? I'm a 3 out of 10 right now, and started this blog in July 2008.
Thanks for your help!
Laurie
Productive Pinoy
· 10 months ago
I was thinking of putting my own work in delicious and stumble upon... but I hesitated and needed to know if its a fine thing to do. Thank you for clarifying this!
KooWii
· 9 months ago
Nice tips. It is really hard to promote blog posts if you doesn't know how to do it. Using social bookmarks is one of the ways. Been doing some of them and will do the rest starting from now on :D
JD Lusan
· 9 months ago
Great blog post...such good information. Thank you.
Simply Ridiculous
· 9 months ago
Thanks for such great information.. Keep it coming.. :)
Newamba
· 9 months ago
Great stuff! Thanks!
Nicki MacRae
· 9 months ago
Thanks so much, one of the most useful articles on the subject I've read so far! Makes sense to a novice at blog promoting like me :-)
Andrew Bates
· 8 months ago
Good stuff. As a new and fledging copywriter, I'm reading everything I can find in order to become a better blogger. Thanks!
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Training An Older Dog
· 5 months ago
Oddly enough: Yellow Pages ads for small businesses. Yup. Has worked for clients in certain sectors (services mostly) to have people read the blog, then they seem to get calls. I call it Evidence Based Marketing (not my term.)
All Comments
Promotion of blog is indeed most important topic in internet.
Thanks nice review..what I generally use most to promote is my blog is article writing,social bookmarking and forums.
Getting more backlinks means you will get better ranking in google.
http://webmasterdailytips.com/2009/10/how-to-pr...
If you already have a large following, or if the topic is general enough that narrowing pages down will be difficult, this is not a great approach. Otherwise, it may be beneficial. Given the viral nature of new media, finding a handful of interested people who will tell others can be a good use of time.
Oddly enough: Yellow Pages ads for small businesses. Yup. Has worked for clients in certain sectors (services mostly) to have people read the blog, then they seem to get calls. I call it Evidence Based Marketing (not my term.)
Oddly blending traditional and new medias...
Develop a press list of your own and send appropriately.
Develop a social network community on your blog or podcast and send them bulletins.
Is my memory faulty?
Didn't they say 'by chris brogan' under the title formerly?
Miss Gisel B.
Over all great post. Thanks
i joined your propeller's Tech community and that's how i got here
Thanx a lot :)
Cheers and thanks!
One more I might suggest..
Get a Firefox addon that allows you to change your referrer. And change it to your blog or a blog post. Then visit your favorite blogs. This will bring in some traffic from webmasters who dig through their visitor logs ;)
i like it thaks for sharing it
jasmine yuyutsu
adsense-blogtips.blogspot.com
How about free domain... example xxx.blogspot.com ?
Thanks,
Gessi
ill try it when i have enough time...
thanks for the great tips ;)
Now just another one that reads something like this
"10 ways to make money from your blog" :)
Seriously though.. I liked quite a few points here :)
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http://worthtobeblogged.blogspot.com/
I have a question about related posts that I'm hoping you can shed some light on!
In my blog posts, I like to conclude with, "If you found This Article helpful, try:" and link to 3 related articles in bullet form. (here's an example if that isn't clear http://theadventurouswriter.com/blog/quipsandti...).
Plus I have an automatic "Related Posts" tool, that supplies 5 or so related posts (which aren't always the same as my own manually generated related articles).
Does Google count this as a "link farm"? Do you think my Page Rank is negatively affected? I'm a 3 out of 10 right now, and started this blog in July 2008.
Thanks for your help!
Laurie
my blogspot. :)
Common thread: Write quality content.
Thanks again!
Pat