Pop Quiz: You have an amazing new site with all kinds of great content, but the traffic isn’t there, what do you do?
Answer: Promote it!
There are literally hundreds of ways to promote your blog… this post is going to cover the most important ones…
- Guest Posting
- Networking – Its all about link building, this will help your Google juice.
- Advertising
- Social Media – Submit blog articles to StumbleUpon, Delicioius, and Digg
- Viral Content – Article marketing can be very beneficial click on this link (PDF) to download an excellent report on article marketing.
- Recruiting and Retaining Brand Champions – consistent and solid branding is key!
It is important to remember that these are all different steps, each one is a piece to the puzzle. Of course there is always a list of what not to do when trying to successfully promote your brand/site/service/etc.
Further Reading at ProBlogger on using Social Media to Build Traffic to Your Blog:
- How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post
- How to Draw StumbleUpon Readers into Your Blog
- How to Build a Digg Culture on Your Blog
- How to Use MySpace to Build a Blogging Audience
- How to Write Posts that Set StumbleUpon on Fire
