Blog Marketing Success Now
When starting blog marketing you must realize that it takes months or years to attract thousands of readers. It is a real shame, because if bloggers followed a few simple steps, then they would probably find that there is a willing audience just dying to read about most topics. So what can a blogger do to get noticed? Here are a few blog marketing ideas that should get most blogs getting reasonable traffic in a short space of time.
Create Your Blog About a Particular Niche
Your blog should not be about what you had for breakfast because those are for hobbies. Unless you are a teenage girl super-model who wants to put a lot of photos on your blog, then you are probably going to have a hard time getting noticed. The vanity blog market is bloated and organic traffic is very limited to those types of blogs. Consider starting or changing your blog to some other topic an interest or a hobby for example.
Forum Posting
For blog marketing success, you need to start posting to forums. Put the URL of the blog in your forum signature (don’t spam forums saying look at my blog). If you just join in the conversation naturally, then people will get curious and you will get a few more readers. If the forum you post in is also to do with a similar topic to your blog then you will probably get repeat readers from it! Try to find the most popular forums in the niche you are writing about. To find them, just go over to Google and search for your niche keyword plus forum and you should get a list. Try to find forums with at least a few thousand active members.
Make sure to do track-backs and ping-backs to other blogs that you have linked to so that they know about you. When people find out that you have talked about them, they will come to see what you said. So will some of their readers. Talking about popular stories from popular blogs may get you more than just a few visitors too.
Make Comments On Similar Blogs
Comment on other people’s blogs as much as you can (without spamming). In most cases you can put a link back to your own blog and people do follow these links. It is also good to target blogs that talk about the same subject as you, because then you will get targeted readers who are more likely to continue reading your blog. (Avoid using comment spam programs as Google can track this and will penalize you).
An Updated Blog
Most importantly, you need to keep blogging! Nobody will return to a blog that is updated weekly or only occasionally. You need to add more content at least once per day, especially in the early stages of getting your blog noticed. Adding blog posts daily is very important for increasing blog traffic.
Now if you follow these blog marketing rules, then you should be well on the way to getting a constant readership for your blog.
