I am a career coach and I blog about interviewing. I have been writing the blog for 8 months and I am trying really hard to market the site and increase the pageviews. Any suggestions you have that are tried and true would be great!
blog site:http://www.interviewchatter.com/
Many make the mistake of believing that once they create a blog, people will immediately flock to it. There are millions out there so why would they visit your blog?
Here are some ways you can promote your blog
1. Create great content – everything starts with great content. Think ‘Linkbait" — or writing about stuff that would be so great that people will want to link to you. It can be a news hook where you write about something that is contrary to what everyone else is saying; resource hook where you have the only information available or humor hook.
2. Update the content regularly – make your visitors come back again and again to your blog by providing daily updates (even multiple posts per day!)
3. Submit your blog to blog directories such as
BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
Contents Matter http://www.bloghq.com/create.php
PubSub http://www.pubsub.com/add_feed.php
BlogSearchEngine http://www.blogsearchengine.com/submit/
EatonWeb http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
RDFTicker http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
Blogdigger http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
Bloogz http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
BLOG’z http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
Columbia Newsblaster mailto: blaster@cs.columbia.edu
RocketInfo http://reader.rocketinfo.com/desktop/AddRSSFeed.jsp
HeadlineSpot http://www.headlinespot.com/site/suggest.htm
KIOSKEN http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
CRAYON http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
Kmax Bloglinks http://www.kmax.ws/featured.htm
BLOGCATALOG http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
BalticBlogs http://directory.balticblog.com/addblog.php
Blogion http://blogion.com/?p=submit
4. Network with other bloggers – comment on their blogs, read and link to other blogs and request them to link back to you
5. Email other bloggers – pitch your post to other bloggers and hope that they will link or mention your blog
6. Use techniques to showcase your blog – examples include meme games such as the Daily Meme http://thedailymeme.com/ or carnivals http://blogcarnival.com/bc/
7. You can try pay per click programs such as Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com… – though the key is to carefully track your ROI and which keywords actually perform well
8. Make sure your blog is indexable by the search engines – and make sure that your titles have great keywords that your target audience are most likely to use
9. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.
http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index http://www.theopenpress.com/
http://www.przoom.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com/
10. Submit articles with your blog posts. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.
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Maybe advertise on job websites.
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great question. theres alot of things you can do to get more hits on you page for example make sure your site can be searched through yahoo and google if a keyword is punched in, be sure to be very general when picking keywords. If your selling something try putting on online classified ads like craiglists and sites of that nature but what you could do is not have a price or any means of contact other then a link to your website try posting it in a news paper or sending out flyers
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Here is what I found just the other day on this very subject:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/01/31/23-ideas-for-finding-new-readers-for-your-blog/ has some neat tips.
References :
One of the best ways to get lots of exposure without high costs is by writing short articles about your expertise and submitting them to articles submission sites….
Your articles can then be picked up and reproduced in various ezines. Somtimes if it is real informative and well done you get picked up by a news service…..
You can do a search on articles submission company’s, you will find many….
References :
For more info: http://www.levels2success.info
Many make the mistake of believing that once they create a blog, people will immediately flock to it. There are millions out there so why would they visit your blog?
Here are some ways you can promote your blog
1. Create great content – everything starts with great content. Think ‘Linkbait" — or writing about stuff that would be so great that people will want to link to you. It can be a news hook where you write about something that is contrary to what everyone else is saying; resource hook where you have the only information available or humor hook.
2. Update the content regularly – make your visitors come back again and again to your blog by providing daily updates (even multiple posts per day!)
3. Submit your blog to blog directories such as
BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
Contents Matter http://www.bloghq.com/create.php
PubSub http://www.pubsub.com/add_feed.php
BlogSearchEngine http://www.blogsearchengine.com/submit/
EatonWeb http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
RDFTicker http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
Blogdigger http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
Bloogz http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
BLOG’z http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
Columbia Newsblaster mailto: blaster@cs.columbia.edu
RocketInfo http://reader.rocketinfo.com/desktop/AddRSSFeed.jsp
HeadlineSpot http://www.headlinespot.com/site/suggest.htm
KIOSKEN http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/engindex.html
CRAYON http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
Kmax Bloglinks http://www.kmax.ws/featured.htm
BLOGCATALOG http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html
BalticBlogs http://directory.balticblog.com/addblog.php
Blogion http://blogion.com/?p=submit
4. Network with other bloggers – comment on their blogs, read and link to other blogs and request them to link back to you
5. Email other bloggers – pitch your post to other bloggers and hope that they will link or mention your blog
6. Use techniques to showcase your blog – examples include meme games such as the Daily Meme http://thedailymeme.com/ or carnivals http://blogcarnival.com/bc/
7. You can try pay per click programs such as Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com... – though the key is to carefully track your ROI and which keywords actually perform well
8. Make sure your blog is indexable by the search engines – and make sure that your titles have great keywords that your target audience are most likely to use
9. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.
http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index http://www.theopenpress.com/
http://www.przoom.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com/
10. Submit articles with your blog posts. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.
References :
Resources for Marketing Your Blogs and RSS Feeds http://www.powerhomebiz.com/onlinemarketing/blogs.htm