1.) Comment on other blogs.
2.) Share your new posts on Twitter.
3.) Share your old posts on Twitter.
4.) Use http://su.pr to keep track of clicks and make it easy to Stumble your posts.
5.) Use Digg to promote your posts.
6.) Be a guest blogger.
7.) Champion other bloggers.
8.) Create videos for YouTube.
9.) Create a Facebook fan page.
10.) Write an e-book.
11.) Submit your blog to directories.
12.) Create support blogs.
13.) Use link bait to encourage links to your site.
14.) Use signature links in your blog comments where acceptable.
15.) Start a forum.
16.) List your blog in your e-mail signatures.
17.) Link to other blogs often.
18.) Thank everyone who comments positively about you or your blog.
19.) Use exciting headlines or titles.
20.) Use important key words in your titles.
21.) Don’t forget to use internal links.
22.) Create a newsletter.
23.) Advertise your blog using AdWords.
24.) Advertise on Facebook.
25.) Tag your photographs well for image search.
26.) Use a site map.
27.) Set up a social network through Ning.
28.) Interview a guest on a podcast.
29.) Ask to be a guest on related podcasts.
30.) Create a Squidoo lens.
31.) Create a business card for your blog.
32.) Create a Polldaddy survey
33.) Create a press release and send it to locations like PR Web.
34.) Use the promotion tools available through Feedburner.
35.) Offer to speak to groups related to your blog theme.
36.) Use categories and tags effectively.
37.) Answer questions on Yahoo answers.
38.) Share relevent links on LinkedIn.
39.) Attend conferences.
40.) Attend local Tweetups.
41.) Offer an RSS e-mail option.
42.) Ask your readers for testimonials.
43.) Write an article for traditional media.
44.) Create T-shirts with your blog name.
45.) Create a blog promotion contest.
46.) Submit how-to articles to sites like Ezine.
47.) Post often; the more you post, the more traffic to your site.
48.) Use Tweetmeme to make it easy for people to tweet your posts.
49.) Offer e-cards through Fomoto. Make sure to watermark your blog name on the photo.
50.) Make sure your Permalink names relate to your post.
51.) Ask related bloggers to trade links.
52.) Use link shorteners to test headlines in social media.
53.) Promote your best blog posts with a unique ad on your blog front page.
54.) Trade commercials on other podcasts.
55.) Pull your blog RSS feed into your Facebook account for automatic updates.
56.) Enable Trackbacks.
57.) Claim your blog on Technorati.
58.) Create and use images from a flickr account. (I like the Flickr Widget plug-in for WordPress.)
59.) Create a public Google wave about your blog where others can share ideas.
60.) Create smart phone application for your blog.
61.) Offer an award for top people in your blog niche.
62.) Create a flickr group for your followers.
63.) Display a best of gallery of your flickr group images.
64.) Establish a call-in line for people to ask questions.
65). Create a LinkedIn Group.
66.) Create a list of 66 ways to promote your blog.
Rosh
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Great Post Rosh ! these are all great starting points for getting more blog exposure.
thanks again
Matt
Fantastic post. Some of these things I already do, some never occurred to me. Great job.
Thanks Rosh,
I love a good list to work down when trying to optimise my site and this has added a massive amount to think about and do. The brilliance of most of it is that it can be automated and be absorbed as normal practice.
Thanks again.
Great list!
This sort of ties in to a couple of items on your list like #17 (link to other blogs often)-I like to do a monthly “link love list” of interesting blog posts I’ve seen in the last month related to Midwest travel (my blog topic). I get some nice feedback, build good will, see the occasional new reader, and putting it together at a certain time each month keeps me on track with reading other good blogs within my niche.
Excellent ideas!
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I shall follow these steps! I just started my own photo blog a couple of days ago and it is no easy task but I gues the hardest part is getting people to notice it.
thanks!!!
Good luck with your blog. Feel free to post a link below this comment.
Rosh
Hey Rosh
You could add another opint. Write little lists full of redundant made up things so people will tweet your post.
Kinda half kidding .. its a helpful list .. but perhaps a little padded.
Cheers
Carl
Hey, you are welcome ignore what doesn’t work. But, who am I judge which variation of an idea will resonate with you. I say the more options the better.
hey Rosh
Sure – of course that’s true of any information. But don’t you think, for example, this kind of things is almost a little incestuous at times .. it feeds on itself .. we’re blogging about blogging, and social mediaing about social media. And the ‘fluff’ becomes overwhelming. Simplest example:
<em"2.) Share your new posts on Twitter.
3.) Share your old posts on Twitter."
I mean .. come on, isn’t that just ‘noise’? Isn’t a simple ‘share your posts on Twitter’ more than enough?
Cheers
Carl
Actually, you picked Good example. Many people get submitting their new posts to twitter, but totally forget about sharing their old posts. Posts older than 3-6 months are generally forgotten. But, they are totally new to your new followers and community members. Just saying submit photos to Twitter is a disservice. You know as well as I, sometimes you just need to spell it out.
As far as the post itself. GUILTY. The post is link bait. So is my 189 business ideas for photographers and 505 marketing ideas. People click on lists, questions and great headlines. Sprinkling such posts among the more serious posts (that get a lot less traffic) helps to spread the word about your work.
My 2 cents.
hey Rosh
Agreed – people love lists. It’s bizarre, to me. Effective though, for sure.
Re, the example – simple ..
#1) share your posts, new and old, on Twitter
The point isn’t the specific example .. it’s the dizzying madness of everything being blurted out at the same time, often about nothing more than how to blurt more. It hurts my head.
Cheers
Carl
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