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by Adam Tinworth

Hello blogoolians, I am collating a huge list of blog promotion resources to help you promote your blogs across the World Wide Web! The list is in no particular order and will continue to grow when I discover new methods. There are two lists, one for free blog promotion methods and one for paid blog promotion methods.Please note that this list is for FREE options only.Facebook.Every man and his dog knows what Facebook is so I’m not going to explain this one but say just one thing: Get a Facebook page for your blog! Get your friends to click like and each one that does a link will be posted so all their friends can see… and so on.  Sams verdict: A Facebook page is essential to any blog.Twitter.Just about every man and his dog knows what Twitter is so I’m not going to explain this one either but say just one thing:  Get a Twitter account for your blog! Link it to your blog so that a message gets send out to your Twitter followers every time you make a post on your blog. Sams verdict: A Twitter… Continue reading

Blogs right now are in a way empowered. They are not just online “diaries” as they used to be. They are also currently used as communicating tools where everyone is given the chance to reach other people. And considering that blogs can be accessed by almost everybody, they are now being used by several individuals as tools for advertising.

Yes, you can even use your personal blog for salon marketing. You just have to note that your ads need to be more subtle if you plan to host it in your blog. Blunt announcements like “Go to our place and have a great haircut!” will not work. You have to learn how to pique your audience’s interest in a way that will leave them clamoring for more details from you.

One thing that you can do is to make your blog easy to read and informative. In terms of format, try to do away with writing everything in long sentences and paragraphs as they tend to be boring. If you can try to break down your thoughts in bullets and present it that way. Bulleted ideas are… Continue reading

Blogging as a marketing strategy cannot be over emphasized if you want to generate MLM leads for your network marketing business. But for you to generate these leads, your blog must have frequent and quality blog posts. And whatever your niche may be, you want people to read your posts and comment on them. To help you achieve these goals, I have listed the basic blogging tips to help you promote your blog post.How to promote your blog posts1. Create catchy Keyword titlesMake your title to be compelling; your blog title should promise to deliver your expert information on a specific topic. It should build interest or motivation. Does it entice your readers to ask questions? “How to” blog posts will always attract readers because people are looking for answers to common problems facing them. Furthermore, titles need to be search engine friendly and keyword wired or nobody will ever see them, no matter how catchy they are.2. Blog posts must be reader friendlyReaders should be able to scan through your post and get the answers that your title promised to deliver. Your paragraphs should be short and precise. Also… Continue reading

So, how much traffic are you driving to your blog?… Now, in order to have a blog that produces a massive amount of traffic for your business and then turning that traffic into a massive amount of traffic, you need to promote it.

1. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

In order for the major search engines to know that your blog exists, you need to get it indexed by adding your RSS feed to your search engine accounts.
Install the All in One SEO Pack plugin and use it to add title, description and keywords for your blog, posts and pages.
In your back office, change the permalink settings for your blog posts from the url that includes the number to the one that includes the blog post title.
Where relevant, link your posts to your other blog posts as well as the other sites in your niche.

2. Blog Communities

Submit your blog to good blog communities. Google will index your blog as these communities have good search engine rankings. And you will start getting followers.

3. Blog Directories

Submit your blog to blog directories in the relevant category(ies). This is very powerful, it’s like being listed in the yellow… Continue reading

When you first created your new blog, chances are that you have virtually no traffic coming to your blog. This is despite how beautiful your blog may look, or having a well written, rich and unique content posts. This article shares some of the best blogging techniques that you can use in promoting your internet home based business.Blog Commenting

One good way to find targeted quality readers for your blog, is through blog commenting on other similar niche blogs. If you focused on similar niche topic on other blogs, the readers will be very interested in what you have written as well as your valued opinion.

This is even more so if you have already established yourself as a well known expert writer in your business niche. Within a similar business niche, you probably share a lot of common interest with these people or marketing similar products for your internet home based business. However as there are no two marketers who have the same approach in providing profitable solutions on their online business opportunities or ideas in promoting an internet home based business, the continuous interaction among bloggers would always be welcomed by all.

You may not see immediate traffic… Continue reading