How do you promote your blog so you get more visitors?
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Find forums where peole go for your specialized topic. Post comments in the forums and invite people to your blog. Join Facebook pages that have to do with your topic, and market to these people as well. If there is a website that you frequent about the topic, send a message to the webmaster to see if he or she will link your blog.
Another thing that you can do is to find other writers that write about the same topic. Send them messages to ask if they can send some views your way. As a freelance online writer, I have requests for this all the time. If I like what I see, I send fans over to the blogs.
Remember, starting out a blog can be like starting out a business. You might not have many customers at the start, but if you keep up with it, the people will come through others suggesting it, or by direct links.
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M$First off, and most important, is to look at your foundation and analyze its effectiveness and stability. That foundation is centered on your content. What your purpose and function in having a blog will determine the content, and thus determine the audience. Naturally, organic, fresh, and relevant blog content that is updated on a frequently consistent basis will ultimately bring content to you potential visitors and target market (and sometimes those that are not in your targeted demographics). Automated pings to different RSS / Blog feeds such as Pingomatic.com will increase your exposure when you write your blogs, assuming that your blog function automatically tells Pingomatic (Wordpress does this). If not, you can log into Pingomatic.com and enter your info and post URL every time you write a blog.
Side notes on this content updates is how well your call to actions and action positioning/placements are doing for your blog. What is it that you want your users to do when they are done reading? Or maybe when they are in the middle of reading? What are you telling them to do (or in some cases not to do) after they see your post? Visitors are one thing, but conversions are another. If your blog is getting 25000 visitors a month but not engaging with you, then that's a failure, not a success.
Second, and almost equally important, is the external methods you use to promote your blog. Meaning, what types of marketing are you using, either well or poorly, that are getting (or not getting) you visitors/traffic/business? Are you fully engaging in SEO and SEM best practices? Do you use high-ranking keywords and keyword phrases in your blog and within your call-to-action phrases to get your contents searchable?
If or when you tweet, do you use hashtags to get you connected with tweet conversations? How do you engage your friends and acquaintances in Facebook and Twitter and all the other social media platforms? Do you practice word of mouth marketing online inasmuch as you do online marketing?
In addition, how well do you analyze your search and tweet metrics? Or do you even do that at all?
If it were me, I would put the amount of "visitors" as secondary to the amount of "quality conversions" my blog is accumulating. For example, if my purpose of my blog is to get people to sign up for a newsletter, and only 3 people do that out of 8000 visitors a month, then I need to adjust my promotion tactics and marketing techniques to increase the number of people signing up for my newsletter while keeping the visitors.
Sorry to answer a question with a question, but hope this helps. Also, check out this tip from ProBlogger.com about increasing your conversions.
Good luck!
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M$Facebook is obviously not the one and only resort. It's best to try out Twitter, Blogster, Vox or Xanga
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