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Blog Promotion And Internet Marketing
Shout out to the world and let them know you exist. Internet marketing and blog promotion go hand in hand. You cannot promote your blog well without knowing a little bit about Internet marketing. The tools and resources in this section will help you in your efforts to promote your blog.
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Traffic Streaming
The sites listed here have characteristics of both a directory and a social media site. Yet, they are not quite either. Participating in these communities should be an important part of your blog promotion strategy; especially, if you are a new blogger.
Promote Your Blog Using Blog Directories
Submitting your blog to blog directories is only one tool in your blog promotion tool kit. The idea is that you increase the exposure for your blog by submitting your blog to these directories. The relative value of promoting your blog this way is controveraial. Some blog directories are worth your time and effort and some are not. Click Here To find out more about what makes a good blog directory. (Coming Soon).
*Note: Just because a directory charges for inclusion does not mean it is better, for your blog promotion strategy, than a directory that does not charge.
Directory of Directories And Big Lists
Feed Directories
The premise for submitting your blog’s RSS feed to feed directories is that by promoting your blog’s feed you are in essence promoting your blog. There can be drawbacks to promoting your blog this way. Click Here to learn more about blog promotion using feed directories (Coming Soon).
Web Directories
Many web directories do not discriminate between a blog and a website. Submitting your blog to these directories theoretically increases your blog’s exposure. Blog promotion is all about exposure. So, why not take advantage of these if you can?
- Spreadsheet of 600 SEO Friendly Directories. This list is maintained by VileSilencer. This is a well organized spreadsheet, regularly updated.
Article Directories
Submitting articles to article directories can be a good tactic to push forward your blog promotion strategy. Avoid duplicate content issues by making sure the articles your distributing to each directory is unique.
Directory Submission Services and Tools
It really takes a long time to manually submit your blog to so many directories. depending on your budget you may want to consider using directory submission service. Using services like these will open up a lot of time for promoting your blog in other ways.
Ping Services
There are a lot of ping services that you can use. However, if you are not careful how you use these services you run the risk of being labeled a spammer.
Manually Ping Update Services
Two WordPress Plugins for Autmated Updating
WordPress has a built-in ping function but it is has a few flaws. Either of these plug-ins will correct the issues.
Basic List Of Ping Services
I have limited this list to only a few ping services. For more information on why read this post on the deficiencies of WordPress’s ping function and this article.
- http://rpc.pingomatic.com
- http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
- http://ping.myblog.jp
- http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
- http://bblog.com/ping.php
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=[YOUR RSS URL].
Tools To Help Promote Your Blog
(Coming Soon)
Blogging Forums
Joining and participating in forums is one of the best ways to network online. Networking by definition is a form of promotion and by extension a form of blog promotion. Listed here are some of the larger forums that focus on different aspects of blogging. The key is to find a forum in your niche and participate. Before choosing a forum think about the basic characteristics of the forum.
- Authority Blogger Forum
- Blog Crowds
- Blog Master Mind
- Blogger Talk Forums
- Blogger Forum
- Bloggeries
- Cre8asite Forums
- Create Blog Forums
- High Rankings Forums
- V7n Forums Blogging
- Webmaster Talk
- Web Maste rWorld
- Web Pro World
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