Promote Your Blog: Increase Traffic

I think this Beginner’s Guide will be helpful if you are looking for basic how to’s. I can also recommend a comprehensive tutorial. The Learn WordPress.com tutorial is divided into progressive levels and presented as a series.

In a nutshell promoting your wordpress.com blog will be more effective if you:

Verify ownership of your blog with the major search engines- WordPress.com makes search engine verification easy; and note the factors that expedite search engine indexing of your content — OMG! I can’t find my blog on Google
Link your wordpress.com username to your wordpress.com blog;
Employ basic blog promotion strategies like creating an About page and including a blog description on it;
Create blog title and tagline that define your brand;
Focus on content creation – regularly publish high quality, original content posts and build a faithful readership;
Tag your posts with categories that are specific to the topics in the blog post;
Invest time and energy into relationship building by leaving meaningful comments on other blogs, in forums and on websites related to your blogging topics;
Use wordpress.com in house promotion opportunites;
Join social media sites like Twitter and social networks such as Blinklist, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Fark, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Technorati, etc. and display sharing icons or buttons below your posts for visitors to use.

28 thoughts on “Promote Your Blog: Increase Traffic”

Thanks for the advice, nice tips.
Lynne

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timethief on December 9, 2011 at 8:45 am said:

You’re welcome.

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thanks, very helpful. Im working on this now

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timethief on September 4, 2011 at 8:53 am said:

Best wishes with your blog.

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thank you so, so much! Over the last 6 months, I had been doing my homework on branding, but there was a gaping hole, and that was the specific social media sites. I followed your link to wikipedia, and printed out that list. Then I found the Communities list. Now I have a map of the virtual world, one that no longer requires how to think about the edge of the universe. (Good show on Science channel, with Morgan Freeman, on this subject. But you are a busy lady!)
Again, thank you. I marvel at your breadth of knowledge. Sweet tides, Linda

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timethief on July 25, 2011 at 5:00 pm said:

Hello Linda,
It’s good to hear from you. Your map sounds interesting. Thanks for the visti and comment too.
TiTi

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Nice tips… Thank you to share about that :D

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timethief on June 10, 2011 at 7:52 am said:

You’re welcome and best wishes. :)

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Excellent tips! thankx

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timethief on March 5, 2011 at 10:36 am said:

I’m so glad you let me know the post was helpful. Thank you. :)

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Hello,
thanks for sharing your expertise! I was wondering if you can lose your traffic after you register a domain – thus changing the url of your wordpress blog..

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timethief on March 4, 2011 at 8:56 am said:

You may lose some traffic but how much if any at all is hard to predict. The reason we purchase domain mapping is so resders clicking the root blog URLs are seamlessly redirected to the new domain URLs. For more information read these posts:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/08/bloggers-get-your-own-domain/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/26/how-and-why-to-get-your-own-domain/

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- C&M on March 5, 2011 at 10:31 am said:
  
  Hi,
  thank you!
  
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  - timethief on March 5, 2011 at 10:33 am said:
    
    I’m happy to hear the article was helpful. Thanks for letting me know it was. :)

Thank you for these tips. Some of these social network was unknown to me (furl and fark). Now just a lot of patient is needed and of course leaving comments on other blogs and so.

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