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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

There are many steps that go into creating a successful blog. We all know the first step is to create it, but then what? After you have developed your blog, you need some effective ways to attract visitors. Below is a list of methods you could try.

1- Remember that word of mouth is one of the best marketing tools around, so make use of it, and brag as much as you like about your website to all and sundry. Also, make use of the numerous ways that you can use Craigslist to promote your blog. After all, Craigslist is like one big digital classifieds ad.

2- You should also become active on social bookmarking sites by choosing just a few and then becoming really active on them on a regular basis. Apart from giving you more creditability on the site, it will also drive more traffic to your blog as well. Make sure to visit the blogs of those people who write on similar topics, and then leave good comments there. You can also include a link to your blog in the “website” section on the comment form – this will… 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

The reason we all write blogs and content for our websites is because we have something that we feel is important to say, and we want to get that message out to the public and to our potential consumers. Unfortunately, as my boss has pointed out in one of his posts that only 16% of people actually read blog posts and the rest of us simply scan them for pertinent information. I have to be honest, as a reader and a writer I found this to be a shocking number and had a bit of a hard time accepting it. But, as Jeff explained to me, most of us are thrown so much information in one day that we simply don’t have enough time to read it all. I think that’s only part of the reason though. Truthfully? There are a lot of badly written, boring posts and articles floating around on the web and most of us can’t be bothered to read them to get the information we need out of it. But, the good news is that I do believe if something is truly well written or entertaining that people will read it. Therefore, in order to get… Continue reading

For more Useful Blogging Tips to help you improve your blog and blogging, visit www.BloggingMix.com!If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the… Continue reading