3 Really Easy Free Ways to Tackle Blog Promotion

There are lots of ways to promote your blog. It can be frustrating at times to drive traffic to a new blog, and it’s easy to get discouraged. When I first started creating niche blogs I had the toughest time driving traffic to them. I would spend weeks agonizing on how to create the blog, and even more time with RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and writing articles.

The job of maintaining a blog and generating blog traffic can be so tiresome and stressful, and when you go back to check your own stats, it just seems like other blogs always have the advantage of more backlinks, and top search positions for the keywords that you try to rank for.  There just seems to be more work than hours in the day.

I have found some easy and often overlooked ways to drive traffic to my blog.  I use Firefox because of all of the amazing add-ons that the browser offers.  One of my favorite add ons is Zemanta.  It fits in your control panel on Wordpress, and you can quickly add related links at the bottom of your blog posts.  You may wonder why add other blogs links to your posts, doesn’t this just redirect traffic to another blog?  Yes, in a sense it does, but the links are at the bottom of the posts, and by linking to other authority sites, you are creating a backlink to your website.  Linking to an authority site with related content is also good for search engine rankings, increasing your blog traffic.

Another easy way to drive traffic to your blog is to comment on other blogs.  The trick is to find other blogs that offer “do-follow” links.  I found free software called Fast Blog Finder that will find other blogs and allow you to add comments with a link to your blog.

Finally, my third method for driving traffic to my niche blogs is to choose low competition keywords with lots of searches.  Google has a free keywords tool, and you can type in your keyword ideas and narrow them down to a few select keywords.  Create posts around the keywords using the keyword in the title, and at least a few times throughout your blog post.  This helps to attract visitors to your blog.

These are just a few of my secrets for increasing traffic for my niche blogs.  I have learned many more methods for blog promotion, and I continue to learn new strategies and tips for promoting my blogs through my membership with Wealthy Affiliate.  If you are looking for some clarity with all things internet marketing, I highly recommend joining.

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