Promoting your Blog.

So now that you have finished putting up content on your blog it's time to make it known to the world.

1) The first step is to recheck the your content for spelling, grammar errors and just make sure your putting up what your trying to convey. The reason you want to be this accurate is because if you do make errors and then you fix them it may take sometime for the search engine to re-index your page thus your site in the page rank page of google might show inaccurate descriptions even though you may have fixed the error. So for every post always wait until you have everything. It is better to post nothing at all if you haven't finished your content rather than publishing half baked content.
2) Get your site listed on google
Go to
http://www.google.com/addurl/
to do this. Google is where almost everyone first goes to search for a topic so your aim for each blog post is to make the post high on google's page ranking page.

How does the google page ranking system work?

Well the page ranking system is run by an algorithm (an equation run into a computer to produce an output). The exact algorithm is not known and it changes all the time. But the creators of google have released the following information that the system is run like the citation system of academia. Basically lets say you have 3 research papers one was on breast cancer published from the US another on lung cancer published from Denmark and another was on skin cancer from Japan and they all cited for one of there sources Dr Breken then Dr Breken would become more credible. It’s the same with websites the more websites that have links to your site the higher you'll be in the page rank of google.

3)So how do I get my links into other sites?
Submit your blogs and news articles to sites like
digg.com
newsvine.com
slashdot.org
i-am-bored.com
isnare.com

These are directories, forums or news portals. There are many of them but digg is the top one.

You could also start a group to promote your blog in your favorite online social network like facebook here is an article on that:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/25/using-facebook-pages-to-promote-your-blog/


4)How else do I get people to view my blog?
a) Go around view websites, blogs and forums and then comment on topics. Leave constructive feed back not fluff. Sign your name and blog address at the end of the message maybe the owners of those sites come to your blog.
b) Promote your blog in real life print some flyers throw a party.

5)Change your content regularly.
Google likes when you change your content regularly more topics made equals more search hits equals higher page rank.

A lot of what I'm saying can be summarized in the site

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/28/19-strategies-for-finding-readers/

So I hope this helps,

Happy Blogging

CJ Staff