CategoryBlog Promotion

16th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

Find New Readers for Your Blog – BlogRush First Impression Review

Every time I survey bloggers to find out what they’d like help with most the answer always comes back as ‘finding traffic’. Bloggers like to know that people are reading their blog and so any method that they can find to promote their blog is worth exploring. In the last ...more
Blog Promotion
15th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

Building Blog Readership by Monitoring What Other Bloggers are Writing

Today I want to share a technique that I used when I started my first money making blog to find new readers. It’s one of those tips that probably won’t bring you thousands of new visitors to your blog all at once – but it definitely did help me to ...more
Blog Promotion
14th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

Driving Traffic to Your New Blog

Greg Hickman dropped a question in my question box that I think represents the question that many people ask me about finding readers for a blog. While there are no easy answers for finding readers I think it’s a topic well worth coming back to again and again. Greg writes: ...more
Blog Promotion
14th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

How to Position Yourself for Seasonal Search Engine Traffic and Not Put Your Readers Offside

Leon followed up my recent video post where I talked about anticipating what people will be searching for as a technique for growing your blog’s readership with a question: “How do you anticipate searches without sacrificing the quality of your posts?” Good question Leon – I’ve seen a number of ...more
Blog Promotion
12th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

The ‘Best’ Example of Linkbait (This Week)

Leo has created a great example of linkbait in his post NxE’s Fifty Most Influential Bloggers. While the validity of the list itself will create debate (and already has in comments) these sorts of lists tend to work well for a number of reasons. They appeal to the egos of ...more
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10th of September 2007 Darren Rowse

Designing Banner Ads that Get Clicked!

The following guest post was submitted by Shrihari from GotChance – a Geek’s Blog. Advertising campaigns are undoubtedly one of the best sources of traffics from other high traffic website. Especially on huge blogs like TechCrunch, EnGadget etc.. and even on other big blogs like ProBlogger, John Chow etc.. There ...more
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29th of August 2007 Darren Rowse

Email a Blogger that Linked to You to Say Thanks

One of the lifelines that keeps a blog healthy and growing is the incoming link. When other blogs and websites link to you blog they inject your blog with ‘juice’ that brings it real life in three main ways: Google Juice – incoming links are gold when it comes to ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
29th of August 2007 Darren Rowse

10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs

Ask popular bloggers for 10 ways to build traffic to a new blog and I’ll guarantee that almost all of them will mention the importance of commenting on other blogs as part of their answer. Much has been written about commenting as a strategy to build traffic (because used correctly ...more
Blog Promotion
19th of August 2007 Darren Rowse

Respond to Comments On Your Blog

One of the most basic skills that any blogger should spend time working on from the very early days is responding to comments on your blog – and that’s today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project. While this is one of the simplest acts that ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog