Top 10 Articles For… Promoting Your Blog

This is the fourth part of the series Top 10 Articles For… which signposts some of the best articles that I have come across to help budding and hopefully, even established bloggers.

First of all I would like to thank Jason Pollock for featuring last weeks post Top 10 Articles for Writing Great Content on his excellent JasonPollock.TV.

I highly recommend that you check Jason out, you can follow him on Twitter @Jason_Pollock.

So you have now designed your wonderful new blog, written some great content, hit publish and you are sitting back wondering why no one has visited!  Every new blogger faces this dilemma at the start of their blogging life and will find that it remains a constant challenge as the blog grows.  I found that the only way to learn was to follow the advice of those who had gone before.  There is a wealth of fantastic information out there, I know that you could never hope to read and absorb everybody’s advice but what I have tried to do is to highlight some of the articles and authors that helped me the most.  Please pay them a visit and be sure to roam around the other stuff that they do so that you gain maximum benefit from your visit.

Please click on the images to read the articles.

1. Review and Plan

An excellent article to start with from @chrisbrogan. This takes you through reviewing where you are, where you want to be and the best way to get there.

2. Driving traffic

A really comprehensive list of the things you need to do to make sure that visitors come to you from @DeniseWakeman published by Social Media Examiner

3. SEO?

SEO? One of those terms you will not be familiar with if you are new to all this stuff. Search Engine Optimization is the name of the game and it’s really important to get a good understanding if you are to have a successful blog. Darren Rowse aka @problogger explains in his excellent article published by Problogger.

4. Social Media

A very important factor in promoting your blog is the effective use of Social Media, Becky Holland wrote this article which explains the basic things you should consider.  I know you will soon spot that this was published as a guest post on this blog but I hope you will agree that it merits a place in this list!  You can connect with Becky on Twitter @BeckyHolland7

5. Websites to leave your mark on

There are a number of websites that you can use to promote your blog. This article from the excellent Misty Belardo, which was published by Ink Rebels, lists the main ones you should use with some tips on the best way to get the most out of them.

6. Promoting content

This article from Hadassah Levy was published by Tech’n'Marketing. The advice offered is from a slightly different angle as it concentrates on blogs promoting content rather than selling a product.

7. Contests

A different angle that you may not have thought of.  This guest post on Shirley’s Zone by James Adams discusses the pro’s and cons.

8. RSS

RSS is of those acronyms that you need to find out about.  Another Ink Rebels article, this time from Diana Adams.  Diana explains what RSS is all about and how to use it effectively.

9. Hot topics

It’s all very well writing beautiful content but to attract visitors you need to make it relevant.  This article from Aalia S published by The Blogging Meta Blog explains how to find out what’s hot and what’s not.

10. Don’t annoy your readers

A great article from a very talented young man Gloson, which was published by Search Engine Marketing Group. Gloson goes through the things you should not do on your blog unless you want to drive traffic away!

Thank you for taking the time to read this article, I hope you have found it useful.  Please let me have your comments and suggestions of any more articles that you have found helpful on your blogging journey.

Next week I will be taking a first look at articles which help you to get the best out of Twitter.