Chad Ledford

I have been trying off and on to increase the popularity of my blog and get involved more in the world of blogging. I have been very aware of the importance of a blog but I just never got around to doing one for myself. It has taken me a while to filter through all the worthless blog promotion tools out there but I believe I have a pretty good list of resources. Undoubtedly I will update this list and if you have anything to add, it would be greatly appreciated. I hope this helps anyone who is in the same boat.

SEO Tricks / RSS Syndication

1. Socialize your blog and optimize it with the rest of the blogosphere.
2. Add the buttons you see everywhere
3. Sign up for a feedburner account
4. Submit your RSS feeds (90 RSS submission sites)
5. Submit to as many blog directories as you can without going completely insane. Toprank also has a nice list.
6. Additionally - spend $1.99 and use feedshot
7. Sign up for a digg account and link to your digg account from your blog to make sure it gets indexed, once you have signed up start digging your blog posts
8. Sign up for a reddit account and link to your account from your blog to make sure it gets indexed, once you have signed up start submitting your posts
9. Repeat for netscape.
10. Start looking around for other blogs you like and leave good comments that make the blogger feel warm and fuzzy inside

Traffic Generation Tips:

Want to instantly get 100+ visitors to your site in the next hour?
(spoken in the infamous infomercial voice)
1. Sign up for a digg account
2. Wait for someone to post a picture that gets enough “diggs” to make the first page of digg.com
3. When the article hits the first page, quickly copy the image and post it to your blog (example)
4. This works under the assumption that being on the first page of digg will crash the site hosting the image.
5. Be one of the first to comment on how beautiful/vulgar/freakin awesome the image is and post a link to your blog - hosting the image.

Want to continuously get more traffic?

Do everything stated above and continue to look for new ways to promote your blog. Keep in mind that your titles are very important when it comes to creating posts. I would encourage you to use a keyword tool to figure out what keywords people use to query information related to your posts and develop your title’s around trafficked keywords (hence: 325- blog tips | 128- blog promotion | 25 blog trick). Ultimately, content is king.