4 Ways to Advertise Your Blog at Little Expense

Oct 05, 2008 in Blog Avertising, Blogging Profits, Free Tools, Help

During your initial foray into web logging, you’ll find that it will take some conscious effort on your part to promote your blog. Of course, you could just simply write feverishly and hope that your blog takes on a life of its own.

But that’s putting your hopes on randomness which might not work in your favor. If the thought of advertising your blog has never crossed your mind, it’s time that you gave it some consideration, especially if you’ve only begun blogging.

Here are ways you can start advertising your blog at little or no cost:

Share information for free.

Don’t expect or demand to be paid for information just yet. You’re still trying to build your reputation and nobody knows you. Focus on putting out excellent quality entries or posts in
your blog. Good content, coupled with enough promotional activity, will put you in the blog
universe’s map. The way to do it is to write articles about your specific topic, articles that are related to your chosen content. Include a short introduction about yourself and your blog and place a link back to your site.

Writing articles helps establish your reputation as a reliable source of information and makes you recognizable. Take article writing a bit further and send it out to article databases or social bookmarking sites where it can generate more buzz and get free promotion. Social
bookmarking sites allow visitors to vote for your article, so the more it gains in popularity, the more exposure your blog will receive.

Target Online Forums are today’s bulletin boards, the equivalent of the office water cooler. These are sites or pages on the internet that people frequent to ask or answer questions, share
their opinions, tell a story, rant, rave or just simply say something.

Seek out online forums where topics related to your blog are found. Forums offer free advertising opportunities for your blog and let you network at the same time.