How to Promote Your Blog Like a MADMAN!

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One of the best ways to earn money online, hands down, is to blog. The secret is out and everyone knows that contrary to prior popular belief…Yes, Virginia you can make money blogging online.

In order to make money blogging there is one vital element your blog must have–the experts generically call it traffic. I like to call them my guests, visitors, regulars, friends, subscribers, or even co-addicts. Basically, it’s the family of followers and contributors a sincerely helpful and interesting blog will develop over time that will cause it to become successful.

So, how do you get to this point? Well, first let’s assume (which is a BIG assumption here) that you have a useful, engaging, intelligent blog that adds value to the world wide web. Okay, so that basically cancels out all of the autoblogs, black-hatters, cheaters, liars, and self serving get-rich-quickers…. All of you can exit the building. Okay, is there anyone left? Good….you guys are who I’m talking to. You actually have an awesome wit, a wonderful blog, and advice, service, or products to offer the world. So how do you stand out from the crowd of mindless, useless, rubbish that is out there?

You Promote Your Blog Like a MADMAN! That’s how. Yell from the rooftops until you are noticed. Once people see that you are serious about your blog, your business, and what you have to offer….the snowball effect will fall into place, but until that happens—Promote!

Steps to Mad Promotion:

1. Social Bookmarking – Useful websites, such as SocialMarker are out there to help promote your site. Fill in the form with your blog post information and you’ll be able to hit a lot of social websites in one pop. This is a great time-saver for the mad promoter and will generate some healthy traffic (friends) for your blog.
2. Sending Pings – To ping is to notify websites and search engines when you’ve submitted a new post.  To make this work fast visit AutoPinger. It will do all the work for you.
3. Submit to Blog Directories – There are directories which list blogs and actually work bring visitors your way. Here is a list of popular blog directories where you can submit your blog. Yes, you have to do this manually and it’s boring work, but will pay off in the long run!
   topblogarea.com
   blogtopsites.com
   topbloglists.com
   123khoj.com/top-sites
   blogrankers.com
   blogflare.com
   blogrankings.com
   bloghub.com
   blogcatalog.com
   bloggernity.com
   bloggernow.com
   blogarama.com
   blogexplosion.com
   dir.blogflux.com
   blogstreet.com
   freewebsubmission.com
   blogshares.com
   worldtopblogs.com
   globeofblogs.com
   bloghop.com
   blogsforsmallbusiness.com
   geekyspeaky.com/links
4. Article Directories – Submit your post to article directories and put a link to your blog at the end of the article (your post). This popularization method is very good for search engine ranking as article directories are noted very positively and importantly by search engines. Here are the top ten, by Alexa rating and Google page ranking:
   

   1.	ezinearticles.com	210	6
   2.	ArticlesBase.com	967	5
   3.	buzzle.com	2,100	6
   4.	searchwarp.com	7,115	4
   5.	pubs.acs.org/hotartcl	7,212	7
   6.	articlealley.com	15,925	5
   7.	goarticles.com	17,185	6
   8.	articlesnatch.com	23,336	2
   9.	articledashboard.com	23,883	6
   10.	webpronews.com	24,919	6

5. Commenting on other blogs – Visit both high traffic and lower traffic blogs of your niche and post comments on their posts. Tools such as Comment Kahuna can help you find the blogs that will link back to your site. Obvious tip: Don’t post comments without reading the posts. Post intelligent and useful comments.
   Try to comment on pages which have page 1 or 2 Google rankings for additional benefits to your Madman Promotion!
   

More Tips:

• Choose your blogging platform wisely as some of them don’t allow you to put advertisements on your blog and sudden spikes in traffic can get you booted.
• Keep tabs on your page ranking, visitors, and especially check the stats that tell you ‘how’ a visitor arrived on your site. Was it through a direct search? If so, what keywords did they use? Was it through a forum post? Good, keep posting there. You get it.
• Choose your advertising wisely. There are alternatives to  Google Adsense, such as AdBrite and Bidvertiser.

I assure you that if you follow this advice, you will not only be promoting like a MADMAN, but your blog will definitely become popular (as long as your blog is truly a value to the blogging community). Soon you will experience growth and followers without any promotional effort by you. All you’ll need to do is make your posts…Sounds like a plan– Now get going!

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