CategoryBlog Promotion

Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold. Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter. How to Write an ...more

Update – 48 hours has expired and I’ve now closed this experiment. OK – here’s a little experiment for us to participate in this weekend. Below I’d like you to ‘pitch’ us on why we should read your blog. Read on to find out how. I get asked these two ...more

Almost every time I write about having an email newsletter associated with my blog (as I did yesterday in sharing how I drastically increased subscriber numbers) I get people asking me why I use newsletters? The questions on newsletters as a medium often include: Isn’t Email old fashioned? Isn’t RSS ...more

Two weeks ago I was seeing 40 new email subscribers per day to my photography blog email newsletter. This week I’ve been averaging over 350 new subscribers a day. In this post I’ll share the story of how I did it. In this months ProBlogger Newsletter I gave subscribers some ...more

Here’s a cool little blogging tool to help spread news of your blog posts from readers to their networks of friends via email, social networks, instant messaging and their blogs – it’s called TellaFriend. IN essence it’s a little widget that you embed above or below your posts that readers ...more

Getting other blogs to link to your blog posts is not easy to do – particularly when you are starting out. Taking a ‘write quality content and they will link up’ approach can work once you have a readership (although even then it’s not that easy) but what if your ...more

This short post on using forums to drive traffic to blogs was submitted by an anonymous ProBlogger reader. My blog is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and other peoples forums are the number 1 source of this traffic. Darren has asked me if I’d share how ...more

Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search. I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list – but ...more

In this post Kim Roach from BuzzBlogger shares three techniques for getting featured on mainstream media news sites. Did you know that you can get your site featured on major news sites like CNN, CNET, Newsweek, USA Today, and even the Wall Street Journal. It’s one of the best kept ...more