Blog Marketing Tips- 25 Techniques to Market and Promote your Blog

How to Promote your Blog with the help of methods, including SEO, Social media, advertising, and marketing.

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SEO tips- Online Advertising tips for blogs - With numerous blog sites being developed every day, it's a secret to lots of blog writers just how to make their blog site stand out on the Internet. Marketing your blog is very important just like any other business, product, or company.
Peoples and search engines must be aware about your blog if has to stand out in the market. And, we have to market our blogs in order to get that traffic, and to make our blogs visible over the Internet. There are numerous kinds of blog sites but the methods to market them almost the same. When we think of promoting our blogs there are 3 main broad ways or methods to do it : SEO + advertising + Marketing.

We have to follow every method to get that traffic and popularity level. Also Read other post on this blog about SEO tips, online advertising tips and techniques promote-market-your-blogs-websites-freeBlog Marketing Tips - Learn how to Promote your Blog

List of 25 good tips to promote and market your blogs websites for free

#1.  Make your blog a reliable and consistent site, write at least 3-5 new posts each week, yet each blog post should be unique and different to previous ones in some sense.
Get your blog on a good CMS/ bloging platforms - WordPress, Blogger and Moveable Type are great ones and have their own advantages over others.

#2. Customize blog site feel and look, take a professionally designed template or theme and customize it as per your content appeal.

#3. Study key words and create a good list of Keyword phrases and words best suited to your blog . Use WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Key phrase Study materials.

#4. Enhance your blog site with respect to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)- use relevant keywords in title, url and first paragraph of every blog post. They are the most important points for SEO. Use nofollow tags for outbound links to the sites that are not of high authority.

#5. Never forgot to use Alt tag for images. Do not over do use of key words. Key word density must be between 1-3%.

#6. Template designing - Make your template a search engine traffic friendly template using the Technical optimization tips. This comes under on-page SEO.A template is good if it Provides RSS membership/ subscription alternatives, social sharing options, options to save your blog's web links, and a good commenting system. For comments on your Blog: Use Facebook comments, Gplus Comments, Disqus comments, etc to fight spam.

#7. Prepare a blog Sitemap for your blog. If you are unable to generate xml sitemap, at least create a page and list all important links there with proper hierarchy

#8. Enable automated trackback and ping performances. Use Pingomatic or Pingler.com regularly. Again, dont over do it other wise your blog might be labeled as spam by ping directories.

#9. Setup a Feedburner account for your blog and use all of the features available in Feedburner.

#10. Determine authoritative blog sites, directory websites and social sharing sites for generating good number of quality web links. Post bookmarks to ONLY the best bookmarking sites.

#11. Enable blog traffic data for monitoring using Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, and Bing web master tool.

#12. Submit RSS feed and your Blog post urls to popular RSS and Blog directories and free online search engines.

#13. Take part in a reciprocal web link exchanging projects. Only take links from relevant and good sites.

#14. Submit your blog post to PDF uploading websites. They are good source of traffic as well as backlinks. Though, some wont backlink you, but traffic coming from them does matter when concerned to Google rankings.

#15. Post comments on others blogs that have similar content as yours. Commenting generates traffic as well as reputation for your blog. Let others know about your blog.

#16. Add your blog site link to some good paid directory sites, like-Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, etc.

#17. Write some optimized articles and disperse them to some good press release websites.

#18. Request responses or testimonials of your blog site in appropriate online forums, conversation threads.

#19. Study other blogs, and discuss with similar minded people/ writers about the topics you write about in your blog.

#20. Analyse and explore incoming web links for your blog, notice the source of traffic, remarks and discussions of your blog site.

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