Blogging Forum

**cpvr** · 10-03-2007, 04:32 PM

Alright, I recently created my own blog for my niche and I was wondering what's one of the best ways to start marketing it?

**MrCat** · 10-03-2007, 09:05 PM

If you have good and original articles in your blogs, submit them to article directories like Ezines, etc. Just always use the same URL if you submit the same article to multiple directories to avoid being flagged as duplicate content. Put that article into good use for linkbaiting

You could also do social bookmarking, forum and blog posting on relevant niche, and other link building methods

If you want to be more aggressive and have a budget for it, you could opt for PPC (best if your blog is a landing page for an affiliate product you are selling), links on other similar niche sites, etc.

Just some reminder for your blog : Remember to provide your audience with informative and interesting contents for your niche. Always keep it fresh and updated. Pinging is essential after every update as this sends out signals to search engines' bots to go to your site so that the new contents gets indexed in the SE's lists. Goodluck!

**cpvr** · 10-03-2007, 09:41 PM

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Just some reminder for your blog : Remember to provide your audience with informative and interesting contents for your niche. Always keep it fresh and updated. Pinging is essential after every update as this sends out signals to search engines' bots to go to your site so that the new contents gets indexed in the SE's lists. Goodluck!

Does submitting your rss feeds up as well?

**Kristee_webb** · 10-04-2007, 05:10 AM

Joining social networking groups like Yahoo!'s MyBlogLog is also a big help.

**sky.bobi** · 10-04-2007, 06:14 AM

Adsense is one of the simplest ways, but there is a lot of competition. If you have a product or service, you can earn more Just click here and be on your way to probably one of the most important websites of your life.

**Finandom** · 10-04-2007, 10:39 AM

What I usually do is:

1. Submit my blog to search engine, directory and some topic related sites.
2. Participate in forum discussion and leaving comments in others' blogs
3. Submit my posts to relevant carnival.

Currently I'm planning to write a free ebook for viral marketing. I think this is another way for me to boost my blog's traffic.

**imported_brandondrury** · 10-08-2007, 10:57 PM

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Just always use the same URL if you submit the same article to multiple directories to avoid being flagged as duplicate content.

Could you explain how this works? I'm not sure I follow you and I'm definitely sure I don't know know what you mean by "same URL".

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Adsense is one of the simplest ways, but there is a lot of competition.

I guess you mean "Adwords". Obviously, Adwords is a PPC search engine. Adsense won't bring more traffic to your site.

Brandon

**xboxundone** · 10-09-2007, 11:03 AM

Several ways.

Hottest right now is thru social media, delicious, Stumble upon, digg, propeller, youtube if applies... to help get buzz about your blog

next find similar topiced blogs that have links to commentors sites and leave good comments don't promote your site at all except the link for you blog name in the user part. cause you dont want to spam but if you post wuality comment people will come to your site if the blog is popular.

Lastly use adwords etc..

**MrCat** · 10-09-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by brandondrury

Could you explain how this works? I'm not sure I follow you and I'm definitely sure I don't know know what you mean by "same URL".
Brandon

Hi Brandon!

You do this so as not to get penalized by Search Engines. If you submit the same article to different directories and use different URL's in your site (some do this to build up PR on inner pages within a site), SE's will see this content as duplicates.

**andrew wee** · 10-10-2007, 09:38 PM

It depends what your niche is.

From actual testing, I'd say that using digg, myspace, hubpages, squidoo is highly overrrated, and most people telling you to use these usually have a backend product/ebook/course to sell you.

The best, bar none, method to generate customers (forget about 'traffic') to your site is to build a highly targeted niche blog.
Eg. a Harry Potter themed blog.
Make sure your affiliate programs and adsense are very tightly, (ie they don't leak traffic).

Google and go to bigboards if you need to.
Find the 10 biggest forums in your niche.

Hit them with highly targeted and useful content (use a freelancer or copywriter if this isn't your forte).

For example, if you hit some of the bigger Harry Potter forums with about 80,000 members and about 40,000 - 50,000 of them are active. posting about 30-50 quality posts should get you at least 5-10% of that userbase coming over.

If you aren't able to generate at least $5,000 in net profit from each forum you enter, you'd need to relook at your business model.

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If you approach 3-5 big forums in this way, you'd get highly targeted traffic who're very motivated in your targeted CPA and affiliate offers...

**cpvr** · 10-11-2007, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by xboxundone

Several ways.

Hottest right now is thru social media, delicious, Stumble upon, digg, propeller, youtube if applies... to help get buzz about your blog

next find similar topiced blogs that have links to commentors sites and leave good comments don't promote your site at all except the link for you blog name in the user part. cause you dont want to spam but if you post wuality comment people will come to your site if the blog is popular.

Lastly use adwords etc..

Wouldn't adwords be pricey though

**andrew wee** · 10-11-2007, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by cpvr

Wouldn't adwords be pricey though

You need to have a gameplan in place to make any business work.

If your customer acquisition cost is $1 and your customer value is $10, then it makes sense to use adwords to acquire your customers (because you'd make $9 net profit from them).

Take a look at how Lee gives away cell phones on his forums.
He must be doing something right, mustn't he?

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If you start an adwords campaign, you can use site-targeting to get a higher ROI, plus bidding on the right keyphrases (rather than general ones like "fishing" or "scrapbooking")

**Liz_nhbs** · 10-11-2007, 06:17 PM

Bookmark your blog. Join Social Sites, such as reddit, del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, etc. RSS Feed Submission, and Pings.

**cruelty4** · 10-11-2007, 06:29 PM

the best thing is update your blog constanly..make your visitors safe and good there lookin at your blog

the main thing is get respect!

**ses5909** · 10-15-2007, 04:29 AM

When you start a new blog the best way to market it is to get seen. You do this by joining the social media sites and getting involved in forums related to your niche (to include blogging forums).

I regularly read other blogs and make relevant comments on their blogs. I know when someone comes by my blog and makes a comment, I ALWAYS go read theirs as I appreciate the time they took in coming to mine.

Join sites like MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. People love seeing your avatar show up in their sidebar and will click through to your profile/blog to see who is reading their site.

Growing your blog is not an easy process. You have to make it happen and luckily there are ways to do it. Good luck!

**jesterx** · 10-15-2007, 08:23 AM

depends if you want to market your blog for free or you want to spend money.

I always opt for money...sometimes you will get tremendous traffic if you hit a source with lots of traffic (unique) coming to their site.

otherwise the free methods you could use are :-

-forums
-blogs
articles
-directories-
- yahoo answers
- myspace-
- facebook
- viral reports

start with these and you will surely get more targeted traffic.

**cpvr** · 10-21-2007, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ses5909

When you start a new blog the best way to market it is to get seen. You do this by joining the social media sites and getting involved in forums related to your niche (to include blogging forums).

I regularly read other blogs and make relevant comments on their blogs. I know when someone comes by my blog and makes a comment, I ALWAYS go read theirs as I appreciate the time they took in coming to mine.

Join sites like MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. People love seeing your avatar show up in their sidebar and will click through to your profile/blog to see who is reading their site.

Growing your blog is not an easy process. You have to make it happen and luckily there are ways to do it. Good luck!

I don't have to comment on other blogs. That's too time consuming. What about word of mouth? My blog name is on of the best in my niche - and its starting to get known. New visitors are starting to leave comments and the blog is starting to rank for a few keywords.

**Aetherius88** · 11-08-2007, 10:49 PM

This is actually something that I have been meaning to learn more about as well. I know of one good option and it costs about 50 dollars to do. I am considering trying it I believe the name is automicblogging or something like that. Look into it you might like it.

**rayww** · 11-16-2007, 11:35 AM

Placing unique articles and quality stuffs is the best way

**biomark** · 11-24-2007, 06:47 PM

Article submission, social bookmarking, posting in forums, and commenting on related blogs are all great ways to get word out about your blog and hopefully acquire links.

Remember though, if you don't update your blog with fresh content/articles then people will either not stay on your site when they get there or they won't ever come back once they leave.

So, remember.... update, update, update, promote, update, promote, then update again. Repeat often.