Quick and Easy Ways To Market Your Blog – Blog Marketing 101
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A blog refers to a web log. It is an Internet publishing tool where an individual or group can publish its discrete entries known as posts. A blog can be used for personal as well as professional purposes. Blog marketing is advertising and publicizing to get your blog noticed. Today, blogs are a big source of information pertaining to different areas ranging from technology, media, news and entertainment to a lot more. Blogging is now as common on web as are PCs in homes. People at least post sporadically if not regularly.
Blogging comes with many benefits. It depends only on you how you exploit those benefits for your good. It takes time to make a blog popular especially if you are a beginner. To make your blog a success you need to find many ways to market your blog which may look like a slow process but it does reap fruit in the end.
Stress on Quality
Quality, quality and quality. We have always emphasized on quality. Obviously the first and foremost notion that makes your blog a reliable source is its quality. A blog post requires research, a new idea and innovation. Without all these elements your blog is just like a weak link.
Blog is just like a product. Depending on its purpose; it is a reflection of your personality, your business or your agenda. Optimized selection of words, error free text and information packed blog is always going to attain success. Use simple words and short sentences to cater all types of audience.
Some quick tips!
Make sure that if a visitor arrives at your blog, he or she remembers it.
Make it focused.
Don’t thrust in posts which divulge from the main theme of the blog.
Interact with your Readers
You cannot keep a conversation going with a person unless s/he gives you a response. Same is the case with a blog, you cannot keep visiting it until it provides you with an answer to what you are looking for. Interact with your readers, period.
It is necessary that you keep posting regularly on your blog. Use a casual and conversational tone in your writing. Adding illustrations can greatly help the skimmers. Enable comments for every one but make sure to have an approval check. All these strategies are used to attract the readers and help them in being loyal to your blog for further visits.
Some quick tips!
Make sure your blog is compatible with different browsers and platforms.
Use optimized fonts and layouts.
Use customizable templates in order to express yourself freely.
Pay special attention to the colors you use.
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Promote Your Blog
After making some posts it is time to start promoting your blog. You can use different techniques for this purpose. Like you can connect with other bloggers and share back links with them. Use RSS feeds for users to subscribe to your blog. If possible advertise some product for free.
Some quick tips!
Use social networking sites for your good.
Use sticker or logos for your blog if you have one.
Advertise your name, get the domain name printed on give aways like your T-shirts, mugs, p-caps, gel pens or just use your car!
Although an old practice but you can sometimes leave a comment on other bloggers posts in your field and leave a link to your blog along with it.
Engage your Visitors
Don’t lose your visitors once you have built a number of them. The best way to keep your visitors engaged and make them come back to your blog again is by writing on subjects that will start a discussion on your blog. For this you have to make sure the topic you are writing on is unique and interesting. Don’t let your visitors down. There is always a way to keep them engaged on your blog.
Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Effective use of keywords, proper phrases and carefully chosen titles give a chance to the blog to be ranked higher on the search engine. Use your skills of article writing and submit articles on different directories with embedded links of your blog.
Some quick tips!
Email marketing is yet another tool to increase traffic to your blog.
Make sure you email selectively to the target audience or else your emails will end up in the spam folder forever.
Acquire A Proper Domain Name
Internet users are more informed than ever nowadays. The web address of your blog is very critical in building credibility in user’s mind and on search engine rankings. Research suitable keywords before you select a domain name. If your desired domain name isn’t available then look for an alternative. It is better to buy an alternative extension rather than changing your keywords selection. For example you can use .org if .com isn’t available. Even a sub-domain will work. Get the most suitable domain name from the web hosting services. It doesn’t cost much.
[post_ads_2]There are many ways of marketing your blog and to bring traffic to it. However, it is more important to retain the interest of the readers who visit your blog. Only quality blogs can keep their users interested. Popularity among users is the most powerful tool for marketing, thus it should never be ignored.
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