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The 7 Worst Ways to Promote a Blog
For every example of successful blog promotion that I see online, I see a dozen examples of people making terrible mistakes in an attempt to promote their blog. To help you avoid making those mistakes, here are the seven worst ways to promote a blog:
- Blog Comments: If you are only leaving comments with a couple of words, or adding links to every one of your comments, don’t be surprised when bloggers start flagging all of your comments as spam.
- Directory Submissions: Not only will submitting your website to 100s of low quality directories fail to result in generating any traffic, but doing so could actually result in a penalty from Google.
- Forums: Telling others to “Check OUT my sig link” in every forum post you make won’t help you gain new readers, but it is a quick way to get banned from participating in a forum.
- Link Requests: Although there are effective ways to send out link requests, if you are sending large amounts of generic “Dear Webmaster” requests, you will quickly get a reputation as an email spammer.
- Social Icons: With the exception of The Huffington Post, social media users are only interested in a blog’s top posts, so there’s no reason to cram your posts full of icons that link to every social media website on the Internet.
- Social Media Websites: While it’s acceptable to Digg or Stumble a few of your best posts, not every post you write is going to be good enough to work as link bait, and submitting every post you write to these websites is never going to get you to the front page or bring in a flood of traffic.
- Twitter: Unless you are a well-established blog like TechCrunch, no one is going to follow you on Twitter if you are only using your account to drop links to your latest posts.
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