Blogging now is the new era of the internet. With so many blogs being created every hour, it’s not new that many bloggers how to make their blog stand out, whilst some starts a blogging career! They make a living out of posting what they know on the internet. But will this work really ? can any one make money from their blog. Most blogger believe that if you post good and unique content, then money will come in, referring to the common phrase “Content is the king”. But in my opinion and based on my experience, Marketing is everything. This is the same as Pepsi, mix some sugar and water, do huge marketing and the business is up running

So, How to market your blog and drive loyal visitors to your site. Concisely, I have listed some tips below:

1. Join BlogRush: BlogRush is an effient way for Promoting your Blog on other Blogs that are related to your Blog’s Topic. I must admit that BlogRush appears to be Promising at bringing your Blog in touch with Viewers who are already interested in your Blog’s Topic.

2. Join blog network like 9rules, b5media, and others, there is a considerable networking potential, income potential, and traffic waiting for you  if you’re able to get into one.

3. Participate in forums: Forums with tons of pages, huge lists of members, and a responsive community are an easy way to not only connect with other individuals, but an opportunity to tastefully demonstrate your expertise and a link back to your blog either by posting links to your posts where relevant or placing your blog link in your signature.

4. Participate in larger blogs by writing comments, by participating and commenting you a) get their recognition and b) get the recognition of the blogging community. Also, here’s a valuable tip: try and be one of the first few commenters on heavily trafficked sites to get recognized — most people won’t read past the first 10-20 comments. Here’s another tip for traffic: IF you have posted something relevant that is pursuant to the ongoing conversation and IF the blog has a commenting policy that will allow you to do so, post a link back to a post on your own site (”hey guys, I wrote about how we can solve this problem! — check out the link over here, but let me summarize it for you … “). Sometimes you’ll be surprised at how much traffic comes back.

5. Participate in Darren’s contests, He has enough of them, and often publishes links to all of the participants.

6. Submit to blog directories: So people can find your blog.

7. Submit to Google sitemaps: Really part of “get your house in order”, but when you do, Google will be able to find you so much easier; translation — more Google juice, more traffic, higher rankings faster. Tip: for Wordpress fans, this plugin is particularly useful.

8. Submit to article directories: You might want to submit your favourite posts to article directories, where they will enable you to have a biobox / blurb with a link back to your own blog. Again, demonstrating your expertise, and moreover, the article might get picked up in a ezine or another blog, leading to more traffic and more inbound links.

9. Get listed on a news aggregator, or blog aggregator: Like Techmeme for technews, or Tailrank for blogging news. Hint: some news aggregators will actually accept submissions if you ask them nicely; double hint: try and get listed by linking to a top story within your first 100 words.

10. Create free stuff for yourself and give it away: Like ebooks, digests of your favourite posts, pdfs, and so on. Make sure to include a link back in the document, back to your site. Create free stuff for other people: the same, let them distribute it, get a link back.

11. Pay for pub: Efficient means of using your cash is to buy targeted Adwords, or keywords in Yahoo’s advertising network; you could get other bloggers to write about you using PayPerPost or ReviewMe; or you purchase text link ads through Text-Link-Ads.com.

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