Step 12 to getting to 100,000 visitors and beyond: Find unique places/ways to promote your blog.
There are a ga-zillion small/unique ways to promote your blog that drive a decent amount of traffic if you're small. They won't make sense if you're already getting a few hundred visitors per day, but when you're at 50 per day, every little bit helps. Here are a couple I used:
- The Beltway Traffic Jam -- Nightly linkfest. Good exposure to a new audience. For an example of how I used it, see this post.
- Carnival of the Trackbacks -- Not a "true" carnival (I'll discuss those on an upcoming post) but a Saturday linkfest on popular blog Wizbang.
Again, neither of these will break the bank, but they don't require a lot of time either. And if you consistently use them (and a few others -- readers, what are your favorites?), you could see your traffic grow a good amount.
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This is a cool tip. It would be even better if the previous 11 steps were somewhere in this post that we could easily get to. Just my 2 red cents.
Posted by: Seshu | January 14, 2006 at 06:18 PM
My boss is just now trying to get me to figure the blogging thing out and I am basically clueless. I appreciate your posts but some things sound like Greek to me in terms of actual implementation. We have a small company (about 2 million a year at the moment). It's basically geared to the catalog industry but now we want to get some retail direct to the public stuff going (see the website). Anyway, I've been reading and joining free blogs but who has time for this and to be the office assistant to 2 other people besides assisting the prez???? ARRGGHH!!!!! HELP!!!! LOL!
Posted by: Leora | December 28, 2007 at 11:21 AM