How To Promote Your Blog and Increase Visitors

1. Optimise Your Blog For Google

• Use a plugin called All In One SEO Pack to add title, description and keywords to your blog, pages and blog posts.
• Change the permalink setting of your blog post so that your blog post title is included in the url, instead of a number. For example, the url for this blog post is http://www.ketsangtai.com/promote-blog-increase-visitors/.
• Link your posts to other posts in your blog and also to other popular websites

2. Social Media

• Sign up to 10-20 social media sites and use ping.fm to post your latest blog posts to all these sites.
• Participate in conversation in social media and use your blog post to answer questions.
• Ask your social media friends to comment on your posts. More comments = higher google ranking

3. Social Bookmarking

• I use a service called Onlywire to send my new blog posts to various social bookmarking sites.
• Make sure you use appropriate keywords or tag for your bookmarks.

4. Cross Promotion

• Build relationship with other bloggers and cross promote your blog posts.

5. Utilise your contacts and leads

• If you have a good blog post which gives good value, send it to your leads or contacts. Don’t forget to ask them to comment.
• You can do the same if you have a facebook group or fan page.
• If you tweet about your blog post, ask people to retweet it.

6. Post good content at regular basis

• Content is king. The more content you have on your blog, the more google likes you.

7. Blog Communities

• Submit your blog to blog communities like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog,Blogged and NetworkBlogs. Not only you will get followers, you can get indexed by Google faster.