Effective Free Advertising for Blogs
Once you have written your first blog post, you are probably eager to see the number of visits to it grow; however, this growth doesn’t come easily. You have to be willing to work hard to get traffic to your blog. One way you can do this is to take advantage of free advertising.
- Social networking websites are excellent ways to advertise your blog. When you write a blog post, put up a link to it on your wall or tweet the link. Ask contacts you know well to do the same. This opens your blog up to numerous people. Just don’t overwhelm your friends and followers with posts about your blog. Generally, stick to no more than one link to your blog per day.
- Put up links to your blog on relevant forums. You don’t want to put up a link to a blog about barbecue on a forum for vegetarians unless your main focus is on grilling vegetables, and a photography blog probably isn’t going to get many hits from a food forum unless you are teaching people how to photograph foods.
- Social bookmarking services can let people know about your blog. In some cases, these services can also boost your search engine ranking.
- Trade advertising with website owners or other blog owners. This can be one of the most effective forms of free advertising for your blog. Part of increasing your search engine ranking and getting more visitors to your blog is getting other websites and blogs to link to your blog. Older and more established websites and blogs generally have a better effect than newer websites.