CategoryBlog Promotion

“Tell us how you ‘really‘ get traffic to your blog?” After presenting to a group of bloggers at an event recently I was surprised to be asked this question by someone in the audience. I wasn’t surprised that people would want to know about how to get traffic to a ...more

A guest post from Glen ViperChill. I’ve read a lot of blogging success stories in my four-year blogging history. Sadly, they’ve always been about other people, rather than me. And, when I do see them, although they are real, I get a sense that the owner didn’t have to work ...more

Yesterday I shared 6 reasons that I find email newsletters to be a more effective way of driving traffic to and making money from blogs than RSS. Today I want to show you exactly how I do it. Firstly a word about technology – I use Aweber to deliver my ...more

Email is back! Earlier in the week I mentioned that one of the emerging themes in the monetization sessions at Blog World Expo was the idea of membership sites as a way to make an income from a blog. The other theme that emerged in a number of the sessions ...more

In this guest post internet marketer and full time blogger Lynn Terry of ClickNewz shares one of her newest tested blog marketing strategies. On the current theme of Content Marketing, I have a super simple strategy I have been testing to increase exposure and profit that you’ll really enjoy. It’s ...more

Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ‘seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers. Today I want to take the ‘seeding’ idea a step further and ...more

One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content. “Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last ...more

Later today I’m speaking to a couple of groups of business people about the power of blogging and social media to help market a business. One of the question I’ve already been told to prepare a question for is – How do you find Readers for a blog? The question ...more

A guest post from Olivia from Frugal Bon Vivant (a blog about enjoying the good life on a budget). We’ve already established that doing a giveaway can be an excellent way to promote your blog. So now that you’ve decided to do a giveaway – and it’s been live for ...more