The Second Step of Blogging – How to promote?

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There are lot more information on ‘How to Promote’ all over the blog posts. I won’t preach and refer – lecturing ‘the best ways to promote your blogs’. I believe, most of you know much better, doing it. But can I share my experience from those early days?

Before I plunge putting this in front, I would like to thank everybody for your inspiration; and I’m all excited with your responses. Please accept my sincere thanks.

Ahh! Those were the ‘devil days’. Do you remember the image in my earlier post, how I felt myself overloaded? Let me show it again.

You feel not different either, when you start promoting your blog. There appears a huge lot of tasks to accomplish and you’ll feel over loaded. Just look at the list of tasks you MUST do as much as you can to promote your blog effectively.

How you should promote your new blog?

1. Create accounts, at least, in Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, BlogEngage. There are other numerous social networking services you need to dip your feet.
2. Get the buttons and badges for those services, and put in your blog.
3. Be active in all those networks; and develop your relationship there. Prove that you are honest person. This is not a job of a couple of hours. You will continually building up relationship and try to get as many friends, contacts and followers.
4. Read as many posts in other blogger’s sites and write comments.
5. Look for link exchanges with good blogs that are related to the topic of your blog (niche)
6. Subscribe to as many other blogs in same niche. Get updated what they post, and what they are discussing. Mark your presence and prove you are worth taking notice of.
7. Search ‘dofollow’ blogs and websites. Make a list of them. Visit them, read articles; and leave some creative, original and impressive comments. Do-follow blogs will release some PR Juice to your blog through the back link on your signature.
8. Do not forget to update your blog and publishing original nice content.
9. Tweet and Retweet the messages of other people. Share what other FaceBook members are posting, Stumble interesting content, vote in BlogEngage and do in all the networks you participate.
10. Join traffic programs like LinkReferral, Yavrim, TrekPay and as many. Do the expected tasks there. Some visits from those sources worth in beginning days.
11. Submit your blog to RSS Directories, Blog Directories, General Directories.
12. Join and be active in communities like MyBlogLog, Bumpzee, BlogCatelog.
13. Email your friends and families to inform your blog. Ask them to share if they like it.
14. Response properly for every emails, comments, responses you receive. Make them feel high.
15. Join forums like AuthorityBlogs and any other that suits your subject matter. Be active help them as much as you can.
16. Write newsletter and publish regularly. Let your visitors subscribe.
17. Write genuine and pressing posts and send them to other blogs for guest posting.
18. If you have some money to spend, start a StumbleUpon Ads Campaign, Buy some ad space and so on.
19. Attend relevant meetings, webinar.
20. Develop your blog search engine friendly. Be aware of SEO and keep learning.

Scared with the list of tasks? They are just a few you MUST do. I hope veterans have more to say on this topic. But how to complete all these tasks with a single man’s time? Ohh Brahma! Why you made only 24 hours in a day?

Best Strategy

I have only one line to say about the best strategy of promoting a blog.
Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
- Marilyn vos Savant
yes! as Marilyn says do one task at a time. Bring it to some level where you can handle it with minimum time then go for another task.
I suggest you to start with Twitter. Create an account there, look for people with similar interest and start building relationship. Make them retweet your twits. Don’t forget, to achieve this, you must retweet their twits. Let me tell  you my twitter username, its icttrends. You can find me there waiting to be friend with you and follow each other!

I hope I did not indulge into preaching and suggesting today, did I?  

Oh? I was about to share my experience on how I started promoting my blog, but the whole thing went on the background information. Spare my experience for next ‘Sunday Post’.

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