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It's All About Your Blog!

So you've written a top notch blog and now you want to get it out there to the world.

But don't just sit back and expect your blog to get the visitors you want without doing a bit of blog work yourself, other bloggers and commentators need to know that your blog is out there.

So here are a few sites and tips on getting your blog out to your public

Where To Start Your Blogging Career

Starting a blog can be daunting, but the first thing you need to do is wither choose between a free hosting account with one of the many blog hosting websites around the world or a self-hosted blog on your own domain.

I have always opted for a self-hosted blog on my own domain and also always gone for the WordPress platform as this is probably one of the most used and customizable blogging platforms out there at the moment.

With the use of many themes and plugins to help you on your way such as SEO plugins for better search engine results. WordPress is certainly my weapon of choice.

Learn More About Blogging

Check out these interesting and informative books that can help you be a more successful blogger.

Top WordPress Plugins for Your Blog

So now you got your own domain and installed WordPress you will need some plugins to help with your blogging, here's my top list of plugins.

GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin: The number one WordPress plugin for removing SpamBots. Used by some of the top bloggers in the world.
Akismet - Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam: Helps combat comment spam
CommentLuv Wordpress: Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, with CommentLuv for Wordpress and Wordpress MU you can give something back to your community straight
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress: Automatically creates sitemap of you blog and sumbits it to Google, yahoo, bing and ask
WordPress Plugin - KeywordLuv: KeywordLuv is a WordPress plugin, which rewards your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website in the comments section, giving them improved anchor text.
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer: Only ping when you need to
Keyword Density Checker Tool for Wordpress: Our Keyword Density Checker Tool for Wordpress is automatically generating the keyword densities (single and multiple words) of a single pages or posts content.
WordPress.com Stats: Collects the stats of visitors, sites sending traffic and more
WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin - Powerful Anti-Spam Protection!: The WP-SpamFree WordPress plugin virtually eliminates blog comment spam, with no CAPTCHA's, challenge questions or other inconvenience to site visitors.
WordPress Super Cache: Makes WordPress Faster Introduction WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress: Adds a selection of your related posts to your current blog post
Automated Submission to Social Media Sites | OnlyWire: Auto-submit your online content and social status to the top social media sites with one click.
jQuery Image Lazy Load WP: Speed up your WordPress loading time, by only loading viewable images

Use Wordpress plugins sparingly as too many can reduce the performance of your blog!

Promoting Yourself With Commenting

Commenting on other blogs is one of the most important things that you can do with your blogging carrear, not only does this allow you to meet new bloggers like yourself, but, it also allows you to promote your blog to other blog readers.

Commenting on blogs using the superb CommentLuv plugin will allow you to show off your last 10 blog posts in your comments without the need for adding links yourself and looking like a spammer.

Try to find like minded blogs to comment on and write well written comments, not things such as "good post", "informative read" or "added this to my RSS". Bloggers can't stand comments like this and 9 times out of 10 you will be marked as a spammer. Instead write comments that show that you have read the post and you have some interest in the topic that the post is about.

Also comment on your own blog! When you get comments on your blog posts, try to answer them if they are questions, or join in with a conversation on the comments that have been written, you wouldn't ignore someone talking to you in the street, so why would you ignore someone talking to you via the comments on your blog posts!

Well written comments are appreciated by bloggers, do not leave SPAM comments or you will be ignored by future bloggers!

Submitting Your RSS Feed

Instead of going around and posting your latest blog post to all the current newsreaders the best way is to add a list of sites to ping in your WordPress settings under "Writing Settings" and then in the bottom section "Update Services".

This will then allow your WordPress blog to ping all the sites in one go.

This is the list I use to ping

http://ping.feedburner.com
http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php

You could copy this list in the box on your WordPress blog settings

Promote your blog to the masses, the more the better!

Learn to Schedule

An all important part of keeping your blog flowing is learning the art of scheduling your blog posts, try not ot be to over keen by posting all your posts in one day, spread them out.

There can be times when you have sudden burst of inspiration and this in turn will allow you to write several articles in one day, but there may be days, when you have a loss of inspiration, this is where your scheduling of your posts comes in very useful.

If your blogging platform has scheduling and most of them do, take the time to use this to place your collection of posts over a period of days, this will allow you to keep your blog posts flowing smoothly, this way it looks as if you've posted every day instead of a massive rush of posts flooding your readers in-boxes or RSS feed.

Wordpress! The Perfect Blogging Platform

Need to find out some great tips about Wordpress then check these out

Sites to Submit Your Blog Post to....

Ok there are the standard social networks that you already maybe using but how about sites that are for bloggers, this collection is sites that you can submit your blog posts to and interact with other bloggers

Blog Engage Blog Forum - Blogging Community and Social Network: Blog Engage allows you to submit your Blog Article(s) that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted by me or our visitors to the main page. If you have any questions please visit us inside our Blog Forum.
BloggersBase: BloggersBase increases exposure to you, your posts and your blog - get discovered by our huge audience, team-up with fellow expert bloggers and gain links to your site. With one-click publishing, full attribution and no content or link restriction, BloggersBase is the easiest way to get discovered
YouSayToo: Make Money Blogging with You Say Too Ad Revenue Sharing and Blog Promotion Community
Bloggers - Meet Millions of Bloggers: Know the best bloggers around the globe, discover them and connect yourself with this lively community.
Blokube - Search Engine Marketing And Blogging News: Blokube allows you to submit your Blog Article(s) that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted by me or our visitors to the main page.

Submitting your blog posts to DoFollow sites and Blog Catalogues improves your blogs visibility and search engine rankings

Promoting Your Blog Through Advertising

Advertise Your Blog And Others

When it comes to promoting your blog, advertising is a great way for other sites to have links back to you either buy banners or text links, the majority of the time banners are the most popular and the sites below are an ideal way of advertising your blog and for you to earn money by allowing others to advertise on your blog as well.

Advertise with BuySellAds.com: BuySellAds.com Online Advertising Network, various Ad sizes and now also Sponsored tweets and RSS feed Advertising allowing you to earn that little more.
Buy Ads on - AdvertiseSpace: Simple site that allowing various sizes of ads for your site and a good database of site for you to advertise on as well.
CMF Ads: A low cost, high value advertising network. Advertise on over 700 blogs at rock bottom prices!

If you use banner advertising, then make your banner interesting enough to a viewer to want to click on it!

What are your blog promotion tips?

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Camden Oct 11, 2010 @ 10:43 am | delete

Thanks for the list of ping sites...this will definitely help with blog promotion.

I also like to social bookmark my best posts - that seems to help with getting backlinks and the odd bit of traffic.