How to Promote Blog

How to Promote Blog – Different ways to increase online blog popularity

Once you have created your blog online and publish it on World Wide Web, you still have lot of work left before you start thinking of making money form it. Many people get confused or are overwhelmed with too much information and find difficulty in promoting their blogs. They search everywhere to find the solution on “how to promote blog”. Here you will discover step by step method on how to promote blog, which I have used and succeeded with it by getting high PR (page rank) blog.

1. First steps you should perform is to generate Meta tag for your blog in order to get your blog indexed and able to receive free traffic from search engines. I always use http://www.submitexpress.com/meta.html and http://www.submitcorner.com/Tools/Meta. Both are free and you can easily generate your blog Meta tag by entering your blog URL and description and keyword for them. Once you generate the Meta tag using any of the free method, you should place the generated Meta tag into your blog just place it below your title tag but before closing head tag.
2. Once your Meta tag is generated and placed on blog, now its time for you to start promoting your blog URL to search engines by submitting it to different search engines. I always use http://www.submitexpress.com and http://www.1stopsubmit.com for URL submission it’s easy and free.
3. Submit your blog RSS feed to RSS directories. To speedup the process I will suggest http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/. This site will list many sites to which you can submit your blog and RSS feed. This is going to take many hours but it is well worth doing it.
4. Go to http://yahoo.com and set up an account if you don’t already have. Add your RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" account as news feed. You will need to add RSS Beta to your My Yahoo content if you don’t have it. For more info on how to accomplish the task, read here: http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html. Add your blog RSS feed into MY Yahoo. To do that, click on edit in the RSS feed section. Enter the Feed URL of your blog and you are done. Adding RSS feed of your blog will increase your blog’s reach.
5. Go to http://www.feedburner.com or http://www.feedblitz.com and subscribe your blog. It provides lot of feature to increase the readership of your blog.
6. It’s also necessary to submit your blog to Internet directories because people might find your blog through these directories. One of the most important web directories is http://dmoz.org/.
7. Make sure your blog is listed with as many blog directories and communities as possible so that you can ensure a good amount of traffic from these sources. Here is some of the important Blog Directory List.
8. Find do-follow blogs in your Niche and start leaving comment on these blogs. Use your blog title instead of your name while leaving the comment. I will suggest you to install “Search Status” add-ons for Mozilla Firefox this will help you to find out do-follow blogs. Here is a do-follow blog list.
9. Getting one-way linking to your blog is important to achieve high PR ranking for your blog. If your blog is new then it will be very hard to convince other blog to link to you. So to accomplish the task, you should write 10-15 articles targeted on low competitive keywords related to your blog theme and submit it to article directories. I personally use http://www.ezinearticle.com, http://www.goarticles.com and http://www.buzzle.com. Remember to put your blog URL in your article resource box.
10. Register with Blog Tracking Services – These services note when a blog has been updated and publish an ongoing list. They even keep track of the most updated and most visited blogs. Plus you will able to learn what pinging is. http://blo.gs/ http://www.weblogs.com/
11. Keep your blog updated. I have seen many people make post on their blog in a month or so but this is not the way blog works. At least publish a post in a week if not daily. This will keep your blog updated and help search engine robots interested in your blog.
12. Tag your blog with keywords whenever you are about to publish a post on your blog. I always use Greasemonkey. This is free add-ons comes with Firefox 1.5 and above. First Install the Greasemonkey from here http://www.greasespot.net/ and then install the script from here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1290. Once you install the script you can easily tag your article with multiple tags. Read more about multiple tagging (http://www.consumingexperience.com/2005/12/updated-multiple-word-technorati-tag.html).
13. Ping Your Blog whenever you update with the following: http://www.pingomatic.com/
    http://pingoat.com/
    http://www.ipings.com
    http://kping.com/pings/ping.php
14. Increase the "Why Must I Return" Value to Your Blog. Everyone knows the fact that Blogs get a huge level of returning visitors because of its constantly updated content. Why don't you add more interesting items to your blog that give reason to your visitors to return to your blog? Like fixed periodical posts / offers, e.g. Monday Top 10 Tips, Picture of the Week, Free Bonus of the Month, Free Daily Wallpapers, etc. to give them the absolute excuse to return to your blog. As long as you can efficiently and appropriately increase that Return Value constantly, it guarantees that you'll be getting tones of repeated visitors periodically.
15. Track Your Blog. Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com, ActiveMeter.com, Extremetracking.com or Sitemeter.com will do the trick. Join any of these sites and Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors.
16. I will suggest you to join blogger’s best friend Technorati, it will generate trafiic for his friend (blog). Technorati makes easier to find your blog through Technorati tags. Technorati is a large blog ranking engine it will rank your blog by the number of links to your blog from various websites. The heigher you rank in Technorati the more traffic you will generate for your blog.
17. Search engines love blogs which are updated frequently so it’s important add new articles o your blog. For this you can use RSS feeds of other sites/blogs. You can get RSS feeds from http://www.syndic8.com or http://www.pheeds.com.
18. Social Bookmarking is another must-have for a blogger. Allowing people to Bookmark your blog and specific posts will help your blog to spread it around the worlds and make it popular. It is also a nice way of getting some quality visitors to your site. Here is comprehensive dofollow social bookmarking sites list.

I hope by now you have an idea on how to promote blogs and make it popular. Follow each and every step and you easily see your blog popping up in the major search engine listing.