55 Top Website Promotion Tips
Free website promotion with our superb list of 55 Top Website Promotion Tips to boost your online visibility & ultimately increasing your website traffic.
When it comes to website or blog promotion, you really need focus on one important fact, the more eyes see your website address, the more traffic you will get! In most cases it will not matter to you where the traffic is originating from just as long as it keeps on flowing.
You may well find that one or two of these options may not appeal to you, but that is fine, just leave those out and focus on the rest, after all you do have 55 options to work with here hahaha.
55 Ways To Promote Your Website For Free!
1. Submit your blog to any specialist directories in your niche.
2. Submit your blog to as many RSS directories as you can find.
3. Submit your blog to all the free directories and search engines.
4. Submit your site to free website review sites like My Blog Review or Rate My Blog.
5. Submit each and every post to social bookmarking & networking sites using your favorite “Add to” software. This is often more successful in creating backlinks, when using different usernames & email addresses when registering with the social media sites.
6. Write & submit articles to article directories like Article Base, Go-Articles etc. (use article spinner software to change the article by at least 30%, this helps to ensure that it will not be flagged as duplicate content).
7. Use Pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
8. Make a hubpage for your blog, with a little information about your blog.
9. Make a Squidoo lens with a link to your site.
10. Sign up at 43things.com and write things related to your blog and what you want to achieve. (you will be surprised by the number of people, simply reading other users lists)
11. Create a MySpace page for your blog.
12. Create a FaceBook page for your blog.
13. Create a Twitter profile linked to & promoting your blog.
14. Create a profile on BlogCatalog and add your blog.
15. Create an account with Technorati and with every new post, ping it.
16. Post related videos on YouTube with your blog address in the credits.
17. Use such WordPress plugins as SexyBookmarks, this enables your readers to add your post to a huge selection of social bookmark / network sites.
18. Create an account on Stumbleupon, and stumble each and every article you write. (one of the best ways to drive traffic to your site for free)
19. Ask your friends and family to Digg and stumble your posts. A post with more diggs or stumbles, means more visibility.
20. Use Comment notifying plug-in & also a RSS Comment Feed, to let your readers know about new comments. Many people enjoy reading other peoples comment on your post, because it often offers another perspective on the issue.
21. Use Yahoo answers & any other question & answer site, to answer questions related to your niche, leaving your link in the resource box.(This can be a great method of establishing yourself as an expert)
22. Join as many forums as possible, especially forums related to your niche / blog.
23. Either use a forum plug-in to create a forum or you can choose from the many Free Forum software packages (SMF & BB3), that can be linked to your WordPress Database. This gives your blog readers somewhere to chat & discuss related issues.
24. Use a free keyword tool such as “Google Adwords” to find and use the best ranking keywords in your niche.
25. Use the “all in one SEO” plug-in to make sure your blog is search engine friendly & fully optimized.
26. Use common questions related to your niche for the title of an article, but also remember to research the keywords first !
27. Use keywords in the title of your post & place as far to the left as possible. Keywords in a title are one of the easiest and most important techniques of search engine optimization.
28. Make a free favicon to be easily found in your readers favorites list. This acts as a spotlight on your blog and makes it much easier to find your blog in a large list.
29. Use free press release services to gain visibility. Remember that every set of eyes that sees your blog title, is a potential visitor!
30. Use free advertising sources like Craigslist and US Free Ads to post ads about your articles or blog in related categories.
31. Talk about or if you can interview a trusted person in your niche.
32. Leave comments on other blogs, but please avoid spamming & offer something of value, not just “nice blog”
33. Make a banner ad for your blog and exchange with other interested bloggers or on banner exchange sites. If using the latter method I would suggest a separate page solely for banner exchanges.
34. Use your blogroll to link to other bloggers in your niche in exchange for a link to your blog on their blog roll. ( Whilst reciprocal links no longer have the link value they used to have, they can still bring you traffic if not page rank.)
35. Whenever appropriate, link to other bloggers articles in your post. they will return the favor.
36. Use WP-Directory plugin to create a directory where fellow bloggers may add their blogs & at the same time retrieve your site URL for reciprocal linking.
37. Dedicate a post about a top bloggers in your niche. it will catch their attention and they may link to you.
38. Ask other bloggers to write a review of your blog in exchange for a link to their site from your site.
39. Use quality articles to post on other blogs as a guest writer (this is a great method to gain visibility and a new audience)
40. Ask other bloggers to post on your blog as guest writers (while they enjoy some new readers, it will bring new readers to your site as well)
41. Provide freebies, like free ebooks, free downloads etc, for your readers. Especially useful for membership sites.
42. Run occasional contests related to your niche/blog and encourage visitors to participate for a prize. This is particularly effective on photo blogs.
43. Set up a custom site search using Google, (how many times have you left a site, because you weren’t able to find what you came for?), this will also add to your Adsense revenue.
44. Use numbered list for your informative posts, like “7 Tips to…?”. People tend to like these kinds of posts. It helps prevent excessively long articles & gives you more material to post to your blog!
45. Shocking and surprising articles will draw people to your site, but remember if your blog attracts all ages, then please keep it clean!
46. Be on the look out for new developments and news related to your niche, the first person breaking a new story, gets the most traffic.
47. Videos are increasingly becoming popular, use them on your blog to your advantage.
48. Use tags for your post, as its becoming a very popular way of finding related content.
49. Post frequently, but more importantly post with regularity, search engines and readers like fresh content.
50. If you have any other blog or site, place a link to it on your site. (you can even create a blog to talk about your journey with your blog/site).
51. Read and respond to your readers comment.(if I feel that what I say is being ignored, then I am less likely to return to that website !)
52. Put your blog URL in your forum & email signatures.
53. Use your blog name as your user name in forums, social bookmark & network sites also when leaving comments on other blogs.
54. Put your blogs name and url on a bumper sticker or something like that, and attach it to your car. big corporations pay people to place their ads on their car, you don’t have to pay anyone, use your own car and also give some stickers to your friends and family and ask them to stick it on the back bumper.
55. Make flyers with your blogs name and a short captivating description and pass it out in the mall or parking lots. if you use a good headline, at least 60-70% of the people will visit your blog out of curiosity, and who knows how many will become your diehard fans!(readers)
Finally, please be patient, give it some time for our 55 Top Website Promotion Tips to work, because nobody goes from obscurity to hundreds and thousands of visitors, over night. This all takes time and effort, but when done correctly you will soon start to notice an increase in website traffic. In fact if you used 50 of the above methods & each method only got you another 10 visitors per week, that would be a nice 500 + on top of what you already have.
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on Jan 5 2012. Filed under Blog Promotion.
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Yeah Rashi, I got a little carried away with that one
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