Growing a Blog - Market, Promote, Drive Traffic, Find Readers and More
By Susan Gunelius, About.com Guide
Take your blog to the next level with these blog marketing and promotion techniques and tips.
First Steps
Follow these steps to start the process of building an audience for your blog.
- Submit Your Blog to Search Engines to Boost Traffic
- Using Blog Trackbacks
- 15 Tips to Increase Your Blog's Traffic
- 15 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic with Social Media Marketing
- 10 Free Blog Promotion Tips
- 11 Free Link Building Tips
- Link Building vs. Linkbaiting
- Where to Find Linkbait Blog Post Ideas
- How to Develop a Blog Marketing Plan
- How to Find Online Influencers to Promote Your Blog
- How to Get Visitors to Stay on Your Blog Longer
- Introduction to Guest Blogging
- Top 10 Tips for Guest Bloggers
- How to Be or Find Guest Bloggers
- Directory of Sites that Accept and Publish Guest Blog Posts
- Free and Affordable Email Marketing Tools for Bloggers
- 10 Blog Resolutions
- 10 Best Social Media Marketing Books for Bloggers
- Content Marketing for Dummies Book Review
Networking
Learn how to leverage the social web and build relationships to increase traffic to your blog.
- What is the Social Web?
- What is Social Networking?
- Top 10 Social Networking Sites to Promote Your Blog
- Facebook Overview
- 10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with Facebook
- 5 Steps to Add Your Blog to Your Facebook Profile
- 4 Steps to Start a Facebook Group to Promote Your Blog
- How to Get a Custom URL for Your Blog's Facebook Page
- LinkedIn Overview
- 10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with LinkedIn
- LinkedIn Profile FAQs for Bloggers
- LinkedIn Account and Connections FAQs for Bloggers
- Google+ Overview
- 10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with Google+
- MySpace Overview
- Interview with BlogHer Co-Founder and COO Elisa Camahort Page
Sharing
Learn how easy it is to share the content on your blog through the social web.
- What is Social Bookmarking?
- Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites
- Overview of Digg
- 5 Tips to Use Digg to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
- Overview of StumbleUpon
- 5 Tips to Use StumbleUpon to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
- Overview of Delicious
- 5 Tips to Use Delicious to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
- What is Sphinn?
- Entrecard Review
- Interview with Entrecard Founder and CEO Graham Langdon
- Tutorial: How to Sign up with Entrecard
Microblogging
Learn how to use microblogging to drive traffic to your blog.
- What is Twitter?
- Understanding Twitter Limits
- 10 Ways Bloggers Can Use Twitter
- Understanding Twitter Terminology
- 10 Types of Twitter Posts
- 10 Twitter Scheduling Tools
- 5 Tips to Get More Retweets
- Top 10 Twitter Etiquette Tips
- Free and Custom Twitter Backgrounds
- Free URL Shorteners
- How Short Are URL Shorteners?
- Sites to Find Free Twitter Badges
- Tutorial - How to Find Friends and People to Follow on Twitter
- Use SponsoredTweets.com to Make Money with Twitter
- What are Twitter Apps?
- Twitpic Review
- Twitterfeed Review
- TweetBeep Review
- TweetDeck Review
- Tweetmeme Retweet Button Review
Participating in Blog Events
Blog events are not only effective in giving your blog a traffic boost, but they're also fun!
- Promoting Your Blog with Blog Carnivals
- How to Start a Blog Carnival
- Sites to Promote a Blog Carnival
- What is a Blog Contest?
- Top 10 Tips for Successful Blog Contests
- 3 Free Sites to Promote Your Blog Contests
- 10 Blog Contest Giveaway Ideas
- How to Write Blog Contest Rules
Search Engine Optimization
An easy way to boost traffic to your blog is through the searches people conduct via search engines. Get the basics here to help you optimize your blog for search engines.
- Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips
- Top 5 SEO Don'ts for Bloggers
- 5 SEO Tips You Should Never Follow
- SEO Terms Quick Reference Guide
- How to Increase Organic Google Traffic to Your Blog
- Blog Post SEO in 60-Seconds
- Internal Link Building and Link SEO Tricks for Bloggers
- 5 Tricks to Boost Google Page Rank for Your Blog
- Sites to Calculate the Number of Incoming Links to Your Blog
- 5 Tips to Increase Incoming Links to Your Blog
- Top 4 Keyword Research Tools
- 5 Tricks to Use Keywords in Your Blog Posts
- How Many Links Are Too Many Links in Blog Posts?
- How to Increase Blog Page Load Speed to Boost Search Traffic
- Boost Blog Traffic with Long-Tail SEO
- Search Engine Reputation Management Introduction
- Beginner Blog Search Engine Optimization Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
- Intermediate Search Engine Optimization Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
- Advanced Search Engine Optimization Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
RSS, Feeds and Subscriptions
Learn what RSS, feeds and subscriptions are and how you can use them to increase your blog's traffic and turn casual visitors into loyal readers.