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Where Is The Best Place To Promote Your Blog?
Everyone knows about Google and search engines, but where else is a great place to promote your blog. Ok, everyone knows about social networks, but typically these places don’t deliver too much traffic unless you have a big network of friends. So, once again, where is the best place to promote your blog?
Can you advertise your blog in the classified section of a magazine? What are the options available? Commenting is a great option, but we all know that. What do you think could serve as a great source of traffic to a blog?
Garry Conn asked this questions on January 6th, 2009.
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Date/Time: 1-6-2009 05:25:55 Reference: #1877
I have a couple of GEO domain Bogs about the area where I live and this is what I do. Every couple of weeks or so you can put an ad on Craigslist.org about the Blog directly if you can figure out a way. or mention it indirectly in a buy/sell ad situation. Craigslist forces you to pick a specific city when you sign in so all of the traffic is at least relative to your local community. It is also a free backlink.
Date/Time: 1-6-2009 19:45:39 Reference: #1915
How much traffic would I get if I had a 5 or 10 second ad during the super bowl just showing my site name and url?
Date/Time: 1-6-2009 23:55:31 Reference: #1925
Think like an entrepreneur: how much would that have cost you ? How much would have been the ROI (Return In Investment) ?
Off course you would have had a lot of eye balls see your url, but are you sure that eye balls are targeted and would convert well ?
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alex
Date/Time: 1-7-2009 11:55:38 Reference: #1950
However, you do make a very good point that depending on the content of your site you may or may not have a decent ROI. I think that if the ad was mysterious enough, you might get a decent amount of traffic from people wanting to find out what the site was but they may or may not convert to $$$ and/or come back in the future.
It would still be pretty cool to do though, wouldn’t it?
Date/Time: 1-7-2009 09:44:34 Reference: #1947
I’ve got an increase in my subscribers the first day I posted a group of replies here.
Date/Time: 1-7-2009 23:50:21 Reference: #1965
Date/Time: 1-8-2009 21:16:07 Reference: #2014
So, by using forums, not only are you getting the targeted traffic of other forum users (who are interested in the same topic) but you can also benefit from additional clickthrough traffic people just browsing the forum looking for information (again, targeted traffic)
Also, you can use the forum to get more exposure because even if your site doesn’t rank well in the SERPs, if you’re link is in a good response on the forum page that was the top result, you will get traffic almost as if you were the top result and not the forum….
Am I wrong or is there almost like a triple benefit here (targeted forum users, targeted one-time forum browsers, search engine clickthroughs)? Even with such a benefit, is there much likelyhood of long-term gains (i.e. subscribers and increased revenue) or is it just short-term traffic spikes (visit once never to return because they either got the information they were looking for or (in the case of regular users) went to your site out of curiosity but didn’t really care what they found there)
Date/Time: 1-19-2009 09:00:18 Reference: #3268
The first thing to get the high pagerank that is submit your web or blog to directory.
For example, my blog here: http://freshhome.wordpress.com . When I search on google with this key “freshhome” and I found many different directories that show well on google search. This is the way my blog that is on top of search, and this is a chance to have new visitors.
The second thing to have a good topics that almost people who want to see. I think this is the best way to have day after day visitors.
The third thing that comment on the other blogs is good, also Forum is good.
Of course, there are many things to promote your blog but I just like to submit on the web-blog directories.