Work at Home Based Business

[digg=http://digg.com/business_finance/More_Blog_Boosting_Ballyhoo]
We’ll continue on from my last post concerning the promotion of your blog to boost visitor numbers. In order to escalate the exposure and ultimately the popularity of your own blog, you need to use all the free promotional techniques at your disposal to spread the word as widely as possible around the internet. Here is another great, zero cost method of exposing your blog to a greater number of readers.

Do exactly what I’m doing right now!

Yep, writing as a guest blogger in other people’s blogs is a sure-fire way to get yourself and your blog(s) known to a much wider circle of blog readers and fellow bloggers. It works beautifully because the concept is so simple.

Simply write in your usual style and standard so that your guest blogging posts are every bit as good as you would write in your own blogs. The readers of the blog you are guest blogging in will naturally see and read your posts. Assuming they like what they see then natural human curiosity takes over and they’ll most likely click on your link at the end of your post and visit your own blog to see what else you’re writing about.

If you author several blogs of your own, you can make this great method work for you by doing this intelligently. Simply by changing the links in your sign-off paragraph to point to a different blog for every post you make and you’ll spread the word around about all of your blogs.

Of course you need to be sensible about this and don’t go spamming lots of links in a single post as that will likely get you banned from further posting in someone else’s blog.

Perhaps you don’t want to keep changing links for every guest post you make, especially if you have a lot of other blogs. The simple solution to getting all of your blogs seen is to only link to your main blog and from your guest posts, then make sure you have prominent links to all your other blogs from there.

You don’t need to go crazy, but it’s a good idea to do one or two guest blogging spots per week in different blogs. That way you spread yourself around enough so that lots of different people will see your posts.

Try it. You’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Terry Didcott

Author of The Honest Way Blog amongst many others!

Writing for Work at Home Based Business

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Following on from my last post about using comments in other people’s blogs to raise awareness and the profile of your own blog as well as to attract a large number of targeted visitors right to your own door, here is another powerful method of attracting visitors.

Using social networking sites like MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog to name probably the top two of many such sites, you can make a name for yourself while promoting your blog or blogs to a high number of potential visitors.

The great value of belonging to social networking sites is that all of your potential new reader base are other bloggers who are in the main as passionate about blogging as you are. This boils down to the fact that once they get to know you, they’ll be beating a path to your door as long as what you’ve got to offer is what they want.

And what do most bloggers want?

They want to know how to make money with their blogs of course. Even the ones who vehemently shake their heads when you mention earning a few bucks for their trouble won’t turn down some free money if you tell them how to get it. So for internet marketers who run their own “make money” blogs, this is an excellent way to attract a large number of curious blogger to your own information stockpile.

But you better be ready to give away some juicy secrets and money making techniques that really work, or they’ll soon get bored and go someplace else. The trick is to have some really top quality articles ready and waiting for their inquisitive eyes to soak up. If they like what you’ve got and you show them that you’re following up regularly with quality posts, then they’ll keep coming back for more and hey presto – your site visitor stats go way up.

I’ll bring you some more inspiring insights into the fascinating world of social networking and the eternal quest for more quality traffic in future posts.

Terry Didcott

Author of The Honest Way Blog amongst many others!

Writing for Work at Home Based Business

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Hi, I’d like to introduce myself here in my first guest appearance. I’m Terry Didcott and I write rather a lot! You’ll get to better know me and my own special brand of scribblings over time!

Being an avid blogger with a perpetually growing menagerie of blogs, Squidoo lenses and websites, I know full well the importance of promoting those windows onto the various rooms in my creative writer’s mind. There are several methods of getting the word out to the general content hungry public and I’ll cover each of them over a series of posts.

To cover them all in one post will likely take a lot of time and end up being so long it’d probably put you to sleep!

So. what do I mean by comment your way to the top?

Blogs are very special media, in that they allow a two way interaction between blogger and reader in the form of comments. If a visitor to a blog likes what they are reading, they may feel moved to comment on a particular post. If the blogger is enthusiastic about what he does, he’ll reply to the comment. Other readers may also get involved in the conversation and what you end up with is a social meeting place of like minded people who are all able, thanks to the beauty of the comment box, to exchange thoughts, ideas and information.

So a blog can also become a social networking platform.

So far, so good. How does the blogger (like me) take advantage of this?

By getting into the bloggosphere and visiting lots of other blogs that inhabit the same niche, a blogger can not only get a good deal of inspiration and alternative viewpoints on a variety of subjects, but he can comment on other bloggers’ posts.

That has a severalfold positive effect.

1. He becomes known to the blog owner he just commented in - more so if he comments regularly
2. He becomes known to the regular readers of the blog
3. Those readers may well click his link back to his own blog out of interest
4. If the blog is a “Do Follow” supporter, he gets a free, one-way back-link to his blog

Let’s analyze these points a little.

Points 1 and 2 are obvious - networking gets you known and raises your online profile and that of your blogs/sites.

Point 3 is a major benefit, because it means more targeted traffic to your blog. If you write well and your posts are interesting and entertaining enough those people may well become regular readers of your blog too.

Point 4 is the killer benefit. There is a growing number of “Do Follow” supporters and a good number of higher PR blogs are joining the movement.

Note: For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, “Do Follow” is a plugin that cancels out the hard-coded “rel=nofollow” in the HTML of most blogs which effectively blocks the search engines from accrediting you with the back-link from your comments. In other words, “Do Follow” blogs give you back-links from your comments.

This means that newer bloggers have an incredible chance to not only get indexed by the search engines fast by commenting on these higher PR blogs, but they also boost their chances of a higher page rank for their own blogs by creating enough of them from lots of different sources.

This in itself makes it so worth while writing and hosting an excellently written blog and making friends with high PR “Do Follow” bloggers by writing good, relevant, creative and thought provoking comments in their blogs. Because don’t forget, “Do Follow” bloggers strictly moderate their comments and simply won’t approve any old rubbish. Spammers don’t get a look in!

It also helps to be a “Do Follow” blogger yourself - give and take is the buzz phrase here. Don’t expect to receive if you’re not prepared to give in kind. You’ll gain more respect amongst your peers and make a lot of friends along the way to your own blogging success.

Is this a great way to promote yourself and your blog(s)?

You bet!

Terry Didcott

Author of The Honest Way Blog amongst many others!

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!