How to Market a New Blog by Steven Snell
Every day there are thousands of new blogs being launched. The ease of starting a new blog means that there is tons of competition if you are launching a new blog of your own. This may not be an issue if your blog is personal but for business blogs developing readership is critical to success.
Because of the huge number of blogs that already exist the exponential increases that are occurring getting yours off to a great start is key. The launch phase is great time to promote your blog pique interest from potential readers.
Here we will cover some of the best things you can do to promote your new blog after it launched.
1. Announce the Blog Launch to Friends Family
By announcing the blog launch to your friends family you can get a few visitors to the site easily when it brand new. Send an email to your contacts telling them a little bit about the blog why you are starting it including a link so they can visit.
3. Use your Other Sites to Link to the New Blog
You may or may not have other websites or blogs at this point. If you do you will be at an advantage. Use that existing site to help send some traffic start building links by linking from your own site. It's an easy way to help out your new blog.
For those of you who do not have other websites or blogs although this may seem like a disadvantage don't be discouraged. You have to start somewhere. In the future as you add new blogs websites you'll be better off since you will already have this blog to help out.
3. Link from your Social Profiles
Almost all bloggers have profiles on at least a few social networking sites. There are literally thousands of networking sites to choose from there's no need to have a profile at every one but be sure that all of your existing profiles mention your new blog link back to it.
The amount of traffic that you will receive from these links will not be significant but they will be decent quality visitors it can get your link building efforts started on the right track.
4. Create Content to Submit to Social Media Sites
One of the best ways for a new blogger to quickly start seeing some real traffic is to leverage social media websites. There are hundreds probably thousands of social media sites some much more popular than others. With interesting unique content you can get amazing results with social media.
Social media is great resource for new bloggers because with the right type of content with quality content exposure to a very large number of people is possible free. New blogs can quickly become recognized in their industry with a few posts that generate interest from social media users.
Many bloggers attempt to use social media with less than spectacular results. The key is to produce the highest quality of content possible develop a network of other social media users. Not every post will be successful with social media but when you have a hit it could have a huge impact on the growth of your new blog.
5. Leave Comments on Other Blogs
Blog commenting is proven way to help increase the exposure of a new blog. With well thought out comments feedback you can catch the attention of the other blogger plus all of the readers that browse through the comments.
In order to have success with this strategy you will need to leave significant intelligent comments not something like "Nice job". Most blog comments are pretty worthless so when you leave one that adds some type of value to the post people will notice.
6. Build a Network of Other Bloggers
One thing that all successful bloggers have in common is that they are surrounded by a strong network. Blogging is too personal in nature for someone to have success without developing relationships with other bloggers.
Leaving comments on other blogs will be a big help in getting to know others but don't stop there. Be active at social media social networking sites especially niche sites don't be afraid to contact other bloggers just to introduce yourself. Most bloggers are very open to getting to know other bloggers so your inquiries will generally be very well received.
Steven Snell is blogger social media expert traffikd. com. His blog Traffikd includes a categorized list of over 400 social media traffikd. com social media websites so you can find some to market your site. . How to Market a New Blog
