Assuming that you’ve made the decision that you want to be a successful blogger, Darren Rowse (the six figure blogger) has added his tips on How To Market Your Blog in 2007. The shortlist:
Get Your Own House In Order
- Write well, write consistently, don’t give up
- Become an expert on something
- Design is more important than you think
- Get Your SEO On
- Publish full feeds
- Do interviews with other bloggers
- Break important stories
- Have a contest
- Publish original research
- Put out Press Releases
- Work your long tail
- Answer your comments, in your comments, and off blog
- Spend time to create links and trackbacks
- Get Your MyBlogLog widget and work it, work it, work it (in a nice way)
Getting the Word Out
- Join a blog carnival
- Join blog network
- Participate in forums
- Participate on larger blogs in comments
- Join Blogburst
- Participate in Darren’s contests
- Submit to blog directories
- Submit to Google sitemaps
- Submit to article directories
- Get interviewed
- Get listed on a news aggregator, or blog aggregator
- Create free stuff for yourself and give it away
- Create free stuff for other people
- Pay for pub
Connect, Connect, Connect
- Make friends with other bloggers
- Guest blog
- Volunteer, intern, scut-monkey your way into a blogger’s graces
- Get hired
- Network in person
- Join virtual groups
- Cross promote
Make Social Media Work For You
- Join Helium
- Yahoo Answers!
- Create a Squidoo Lens
- Use MySpace Marketing
- Get Dugg / Netscaped / Reddited / Stumbled upon
Oh, wow! I can’t even count the items listed that I never would have thought about. Of course, that means I’m not doing them.
Providing full feeds? I wasn’t doing that, I am now. I think I’m going to go through this post, item by item, and start some positive new activities.
