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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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 - 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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Thanks for this post! I am going to try some of your tactics and see what happens!
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Nice and succinct post on getting visibility for your blog.
MomIsWrite: if you’re moving your blog from blogger is your domain a blogspot domain? i.e. will your domain name be changing? To preserve your search engine traffic, make sure you use a temporary redirect (302) and then once Google indexes the new domain you then use a permanent redirect (301). Scottie Claiborne writes a nice piece about this … http://www.searchengineguide.com/scottie-claiborne/switching-to-a-new-domain-without-losing-your-google-rankings.php
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I’m glad it’s helpful….It is tedious, but worth it!
Thanks for posting the list of blog directories. I need to get to adding my new freelance writing blog to them!
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Tiffany: If you need a step by step ‘setting up a blog tutorial’ I know I have one…just email me at partnershipmktg@aol.com and I’ll send it your way!
MomIsWrite: Transfering your blog to WordPress may take some time, but you may want to leave that one on blogger and start a new one. Google owns blogger so it is indexed quite well.
If you need any help though, let me know…it’s part of what I do!
Diana: Excellent comment. And honestly there is a debate on this issue out there. When you talk about Google not being a big fan, this is what I have found to be true from my research….If you submit your articles to article directories 100 times, Google will fight back (in a way) by only counting it as 1 content….but that’s okay, because you are not punished by Google, they only look at it as one submission….but what we are really after here is traffic, and by submitting to the article directories you are getting more human eyes on your site.
Kind of like what my new eMag is all about. It is created through Blog Carnival and is basically submissions of individuals best articles right from their blogs. if you notice, the entire articles aren’t posted in my eMag, just teasers that lead you to click on them and then are led to their blog (which equals traffic). Many or most of the article submission sites work the same way….posting a few lines along with your title, hence….no problems with Google and added traffic for you! Win / Win Situation!
Thanks for the info as I am setting up my blogs as we speak and I bookmarked this page to have it in the future.
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I think the hardest thing for me to get over right now is that I’m not sure I want anyone looking at my blog to be honest!
It just isn’t quite ready for the mass market…there’s so much I wan to get done on it, and I’d like to move it from Blogger, but I don’t know how that works.
Looks like I have some work to do!
For #4, I was under the impression that Google isn’t a big fan of duplicate content. Submitting blog posts verbatim to an article directory is duplicating your content, how beneficial is that? I’m curious whether it would result in a bit of extra traffic, but also cost you pr.
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