35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 4

This the final post in the series.You can refer to Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 for more details.

These are the last five of the 35 successful ways to market your blog:

31. Try a contest.

32. Find relevant forums to add your input (like Google Groups). Add your blog link to your signature line.

33. Have a point of view. If your posts are the same as everyone else's posts, who cares? Be different and get noticed.

34. Define your niche. Focus on an area that you can be the leading expert in. If your topic is too broad, you'll never be able to make a dent.

35. Never ever stop. Your blog is a promise to customers. Keeping that promise going will be a key factor towards your continuing success.

Remember that a good blog supports two way communications. Involve your audience and they will become the most important part of your blog promotion team.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 3

This is the third part in the series of how to successfully market your blog.You can refer back to part 1 and part 2 for additional details.

Following are another 10 new ways to market your blog successfully:

21. Focus on information your customers really need. If you provide valuable, relevant and compelling information via your blog, chances of success are good.

22. Use the right keywords. Leverage Google's keyword tool to find the terms that your customers are looking for.

23. Post your blog on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and Sphinn.

24. Don't hide your RSS button. If prospects like your blog, they might want to subscribe via email or RSS. Don't hide those buttons.

25. Create a list of favorite bloggers relevant to your market. Then notify them that they made the list. If the list is good, they'll promote it, and possibly comment.

26. Use numbers in your title. I found out that most popular posts almost always included a number in them (i.e. 9 steps, 4 types, etc.).

27. Comment on other blogs. It's hard to be a blogger if you don't share. Show your expertise on other blogs and leave valuable feedback.

28. Link to your other posts within your current post.

29. Go back to older posts and add new links to current posts.

30. Don't over complicate your site. Make it easy for people to get around and share.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 2

This is the second post in the series on how to successfully market your blog.You can refer back to part 1 for additional details.

Following are another 10 different ways to market your blog:

11. Guest post

Find blogs where your customers are hanging out and volunteer to blog. Be specific with the

subject when you approach the blogger. It shows you did your homework. Also, bloggers are always looking to take a breather...as long as the information is relevant and valuable.

12. Interview

Bloggers love to be interviewed. Doing a post about them is a sure way to get your post spread

around.

13. Submit your site to Google. Just in case your site isn't getting picked up.

14. Put your blog on company invoices as well as other correspondence to customers.

15. Showcase your employees on your blog. Employees are your most important asset, putting them front and center strengthens your blog.

16. Develop an opt-in eNewsletter out of your weekly blog posts.

17. Talk about your blog when you speak at events.

18. Listen to customer issues on Twitter and respond with links to blog posts that answer their problems.

19. Be human. Stop talking like a company and start talking like a human. Write in your own voice.

20. Use the blog as your customer FAQ.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG - PART 1

This is a very important post on how to successfully market your blog over the Internet to have more visitors to your blog.

Following are the important 10 ways to successfully market your blog:

1.Promote it on your website

It's surprising the number of small and large companies

that actually have a blog but it's not promoted anywhere on the main site. The blog is capable of hosting important discussions with your market. Welcome them to it on your homepage.

2. Include the blog URL in all email signatures. All employees are part of your marketing team today. Every time they send an email, it's a marketing opportunity.

3. Blog on Print. Put your blog address on your business cards, direct mail and print advertising.

4. Like Yourself. Many business owners forget to tell employees to ‘like’ their own sites on Facebook and Follow on Twitter. Be sure employees know that you’d love if they shared relevant blog posts with their networks as well.

5. Leverage Twitter Hash tags. When you promote your blog via Twitter, use relevant hashtags (i.e., #marketing) that prospects may follow.

6. Share your blog posts through your Facebook page.

7. Post to your LinkedIn status.

8. Submit to directories.Using various submission directories generate back links for your blog.

9. Include links to your blogs in any press releases. By using services such as PR Newswire, Marketwire or PR Web, you can get your blog link placed in sites like Google, Yahoo! and sometimes hundreds of other sites.

10. Post regularly. The more you blog, the more opportunity you have to be found. Consistency is key.

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SEVEN GREAT THINGS THAT BLOGGING DOES

All the writer over the Internet are gifted in certain areas which they show off through their blog.People are extremely lucky now a days to have blog as a medium of expression to the entire world.My post discusses 7 great things associated with blogging as follows:

1.Bloggers are mostly critical thinkers

Almost all of the serious bloggers over the Internet are great thinkers as they plan their way into moving forward with their blogging style.More over even if somebody does not visit your blog,you still think over some critical topics and read about the content from various other sources to finally present the excerpt from all the knowledge you have accumulated.More over you do think on the topic seriously before writing the post down.

2.Blogging helps in developing new ideas

In your blogging after critical thinking on various topics, you can start developing new ideas and business models and blogging ideas for promoting your blog and also find out ways of pushing your blog ahead of others.Writing a blog,commenting on other blogs and giving feedback for the comments on your own blog is the ideal catalyst for new ideas and innovation.

3.You can tinker about

Sometimes you ponder over some ideas and do not fell 100% confident about it.Thus we are able to tinker some ideas and do the thinks as we want to do.Over a good span of time we learn our shortcomings and also develop our vision in moving your blog forward to the next level.

4.Blogging is about building Social relationships

Its just not about writing content and publishing it online or just your mindset of earning money online.We comment on other blogs and interact with different kinds of people all over the world and understand the way they live and express themselves and we get a hell lot of things to learn from them.Some of the good online friends of mine are excellent writers and I have learned from them so much and they have been the inspiration for me to start this blog.

5.Blogging is money

Most bloggers have emerged in recent days in search of new means by which they can earn money online.Not only this tremendous increase in the ad publishing network ,websites,online jobs,affiliates and paid blog posting one can now consider blogging as a full time business with minimal or absolutely no investment.Its an investment which can really bear fruit once you have sufficient amount of content and good page rank as well as alexa ranking for your blog.I have decided to come up with new topics on online marketing strategies, business techniques and proper advertorials to help selling of the product over the Internet.

6.Blogging is done to share

We write articles to share the information to all the readers spread across the globe.Its not only about just commenting and leaving feedback and just promoting your blog but sharing important topics and information that most people are looking for.Blogging in a way makes you learn the technique of sharing things with others in a proper manner and you advance socially.

7.Blogging is a way to chill out

People have full time work in the firms mostly and after the hectic schedules they can really release their tension and chill out through blogging.Its proven that if you somehow remove the frustration that is developing within you,it makes you a lot happier after few moments of time.Do realize that blogging is done for enjoyment and it is never a forced decision.If you force your way into anything then you will quickly have your mindset developed against that work.So enjoy what you do and try to make most of any opportunity that you get.

Somehow I believe that I have found out a new passion within myself to blog about and have also started enjoying this thing a lot more that what i used to before.I expect that people do take blogging seriously and enjoy while writing on any topic so that their style becomes fantastic to read about.

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PART 6 - RECRUIT NEW WRITERS

This the last part of the series how to generate huge amount of content for your blog.We would now discuss how recruiting additional writers will help generating good content for your blog.

Many successful bloggers all over the world have linked up with the other bloggers to write content for them or review or short promotional content for their site.If you can somehow get somebody to write a post for you when you are in need and you can give back by writing one for him or her so that its a post-for-post relationship.This might also help you if you are publishing a content of similar niche that the other writer is also about to publish on his blog.You can link back to his blog post mentioning him and he can do the same and in way your website gets better exposure.

Sometimes you have to be confident of whatever you do.So think differently to do the things how successful people do.Thank you for following all the series installments.I hope we all are going to benefit and become better bloggers in the near future.

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PART 5 - BREAK DOWN POSTS

This the 5th post in my series of generating huge quantities of content for your blog.This post is to discuss the various effects of breaking down posts on your blog.

It is very important to understand that if you are writing on a very important topic and the topic is about business or on blogging or online marketing strategies(barring personal topics and issues) then it is certainly advisable to have a good quality post with reasonably long content.I have seen many good writers write so much long on one topic for which they could have broken down into two or three posts very easily.Writing very long posts does not help readers at all as they have to read for a long time just that same post and that is certainly not a good thing for any blogger.As a writer anyone wants a reader to read most of the content that is recently updated on your blog as well as from the archives that the reader is interested in.You don't want the reader to get exhausted in one and leave the blog.

By breaking your posts into smaller size posts we can have the readers come again for the full series of posts and getting the entire information in short bursts.A long one doesn't really compel a reader to read it full unless it is really special.The breaking down method will also get the reader to come down again and again to your site over the next few months if your post is really the hot topic over the Internet.

Another plus point is that if you are spreading over your content into a series of posts then you might have variety of visitors all over the globe coming to your blog if you do some linking with other blogs and use social networking sites to promote the posts.

A huge bonus that you get is that your google page rank will increase with more targeted visitors to your blogs.Thus your page will be displayed higher in the google search for the same keyword as compared to the other site.

As of now I can confirm you that this idea is 100% relevant and more practical rather that personal opinion expressed by me.In my next post I will look forward to complete the last part in the series by discussing the merits and perils of recruiting others to write for your blog.

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