This morning I spent some time promoting my blog. These are techniques that don't take much time but do have a positive impact in driving more traffic to my blog and hopefully getting more readers. These are pretty basic and not intended for the "master bloggers" out there. But I share them with those of you who might be just starting out. Some of these techniques have already been taught in the 30 Day Challenge but here I apply them to this blog. And one more thing - this is not an all inclusive list there are many more tips that I have not mentioned - but this is a good and easy place to start.
1) I submitted my blog to www.pingoat.com - Pingoat is a service that will send out your blog information to a big list of blog tracking sites, think blog search engines. These services track active blogs and include them in updates and various search results. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity. It takes a few moments for the pinging to happen and once completed you are given a complete list of all sites pinged. Now I bookmark that "completed ping" page and on a daily basis (or as frequently as I post) I open that bookmark and it pings those sites all over again. Now the service won't let you ping every hour so don't bother trying that. My rule of thumb is to ping everyday or once a week depending on how regular I add content.
2) I then StumbleUpon the blog and write a review - then I ask my friends to do it along with a quick review, I also have my 30 day challenge team/friends StumbleUpon - just asking for honest ratings and feedback here
3)I asked my team mates at some point when they are visiting my blog to twitter that they are visiting my blog
4) I have a link to my blog in all my signature files for all the related forums that I am in (outside of the 30 day challenge)
5) I created an account with FeedBurner and then added the RSS button on my blog page to encourage people to follow along by subscribing to the blog feed (I am not going to go into what RSS is, etc )
6) Get 30 day challenge team mates and friends to subscribe to my blog - using whatever RSS reader they have - bloglines, etc.
7) I have a Yahoo account so on my Yahoo home page I have added the feed as content - another RSS feeder option - so now I have it in Bloglines and on my Yahoo home page.
If you were only going to do 2 things on the list today than I would recommend using pingoat on a regular basis and creating an RSS feed, so that visitors have a way to subscribe to you blog.
Well that is is
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