Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed
Built a blog? Will they come? They will if you do these simple things that can attract new eyes.
Link, Link, Link
Include links to other articles, web sites, and blogs that are similar to what you write about. “Social bookmarking” sites, such as digg or del.icio.us, and those with high pageranks can generate good traffic. Referrals to other blogs often can mean links back to you.
Syndicate
RSS feeds can generate a lot of traffic. Encourage visitors to subscribe and make it easy for them to include you in their readers.
Aggregate
Make sure your blog is being “pinged” by technorati, blo.gs, weblogs.com, or pingomatic to get your blog noted by other aggregator sites.
Install: Email This Post
Allow people to simply forward an article to a friend via email. It enables others to publicize your blog for you.
Install a Blogroll
Similar to linking, it puts a list of other bloggers and their sites on your blog. It is a personal statement that says these are the bloggers I like or the crowd I’d like to be associated with. Again, a very simple yet effective social networking scheme.
Add Comments & Trackbacks
You can routinely pickup new readers by allowing them to communicate with you. Referrer and new audiences can spring from trackbacks and other references to your site.
Great Writing
Interesting posts always keeps them coming back. See tips on writing great content.
I commend you on being consice. What took other people 12-17 steps to say you said in seven steps.
I will use this as a check list and see if it helps.
Happy Writing
Thanks for the tips. I’ll give them a shot!
Great tips!
E.
Excellent tips!
With cheers,
Bharath
http://amusingsilhouettes.blogspot.com
Thanks for the tips!
I really enjoyed your blog. I just started blogging and felt lost. This really helped
Those are good tips.. if you link out to a lot of sites though, that don't ever link back to you, does that end up hurting your page rank?
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Its dissapointing that hardly any people notice my blog. I can’t understand why.
I have joined Digg and none of them are following me. Apart from this I have submitted my blog to many directories. Still, i cannot get traffic.
Can you please explain me the reason. Is it because I’m a creepy repellent weirdo or is it my blog?
Is there a way to submit a blog to the major search engines? I tried submitting to bing but only got an error.
Thank you! Thank you! I have been trying to drive more traffic to my blog. People seem really interested and I stumbled upon a couple of aggregation sites, but the advice I read here in your post, made me feel confident that I now possess the right tools.
Thanks for an informative and easy to read and follow site.
Great tips! Thank you. We’ll give them a try!
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Casey Knopik
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I found your article quite informative. I recenently did class on creating blogs but nothing was addressed on how to get your blog noticed. Thanks for the information. I will definitely be trying them.
Very simple steps and not like other complicating articles that confuses the reader at the end. good job.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll give ‘em a shot!
Appreciate the advice!
I really appreciate the advise. Being a new blogger, I’m kind of “dumb” when it comes to getting my thoughts out there to share. You made it easy and simple to do. There is a lot of info out there on how to publish a blog, but getting it noticed is harder to do. Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely try them!
thank so much for this advice! very helpful. cheers!
This is great advice. I am working on getting my blog seen online. It takes a lot of time to build links, but doing it slowly and honestly is best. Blog rolls really do help as well.