Top Ten Ways to Market Your Blog

There are many ways to market your blog, but I have found the following ten to be my most successful strategies of all times

My Blog Log

1. Join http://mybloglog.com. Once you join, you will be given a small amount of code to paste in your blog which will help you track your visitors. Once you are a member of My Blog Log, begin visiting the members’ area of the website and start adding contacts to your account. If you don’t actually know the member, when prompted by the service to find out how you know the person, simply choose “I am a fan of this person”.

2. Create Great Links, Trackbacks, Categories and Hot News Dedicate time to creating links and trackbacks. A trackback is a link back to a story or another blog. You will get visitors by using the trackbacks feature. Be one of the first to “break” a news story. As soon as you hear about something related to your subject matter, go blog it!

3. Blog Catalog Blog Catalog is similar to My Blog Log, yet it is much larger and a little bit easier to invite people to join your blog. They also have a broadcasting feature which allows you to do a little bit of promotion to their members (but be careful…too much promotion will get you banned from the site.

4. Fast Company Open a member blog through one of the big online journals like Fast Company. Each time you make a post on Fast Company, mention your blog and place the link for your blog at the end of each post. For more information, visit: http://fastcompany.com and look for the member blogs section (this is on the home page.)

5. Feedburner Once your blog is up and running, go to http://feedburner.com and “burn” your feed. Once your feed is set up, click on the publicize link, and sign up to have your visitors opt-in by e-mail. This will greatly enhance the number of pepole reading your blog (if they have to opt-in by e-mail.)

6. Article Writing The internet has thousands of article submission sites. We highly recommend that you write articles and use your blog in the author by-line of your article. This will drive more and more traffic to your site (you can also use this article as content for your blog.) Two of the hottest article sites are http://ideamarketers.com and http://ezinearticles.com. They get more traffic than most, and this is a good place to begin.

7. Expert Interviews One of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog is by interviewing experts in your industry. You can record these calls using a service like http://instantconference.com or Blog Talk Radio nd then post the interviews on your blog. The person you interviewed will more than likely link their blog back to your blog as a way of thanking you for the exposure.

8. Submit Your Blog to the RSS Submission Sites and Search Engines One of the best ways to get exposure to your blog is through RSS (Real Simple Syndication) Sites. You can begin submitting manually, yet we highly recommend hiring a company who can do this for you. For more information on assistance with blog submission, contact http://VirtualAccuracy.com. The top list of submission sites begins here: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/part-10.htm

9. Invite Guest Bloggers to Submit a Blog Post to Your Blog This keeps things interesting!

10. Additional Add your blog to your e-mail signature Add your blog to your business card * If you have a long blog name, buy a super simple domain for verbally sending people to your site (As an example, I own the domain http://learnaboutgeny.com, which takes people to the Millennial Leaders blog. When I am out and about, I simply say “Just go to learn about gen y.com, and people can remember that better than the long url for my blog) * Sign up for http://Facebook.com and use the notes feature to import your blog into Facebook * Sign up for http://Twitter.com and install the Twitter plug-in to fully integrate your blog into Twitter: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

Get Great Keywords Using the WORDTRACKER Free Keyword Suggestion Tool

I am a huge fan of WORDTRACKER. They have a great tool to help you search for keywords relevant to your niche and/or industry.

The have a Free Keyword Suggestion tool, and I use it for Google Adwords and for my blogs.

When it comes to marketing, it is important to know what your potential customers are searching for online, and you have to then go provide them with information on those keywords to get them to look your way. So, check out WORDTRACKER today.

Simply go to the Free Keyword Suggestion and start typing in words or phrases that you think your target market might be searching for.  Consider what pains them, what keeps them awake at night and what brings them joy.  Then…go use those keywords and add them to your blog and your website and watch as your visitors grow by leaps and bounds!