Comments on: 10 Important Facts of Blog Promotion

By: Jeremy from We Took The Bait

Jeremy from We Took The Bait — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +0000

I’m a bit reluctant to use banner advertising. In my experience, it doesn’t seem very good at targeting. For example, on one social networking site with banners, I saw an advertisement for a local band. The particular advertisement chose me, I assume, because I live close to the area where the band is based. That’s it. No delving into my favorite artists to see if I like bands with a similar sound…. nah, I live close by, that’s good enough reason to put a classified post on my page.

Perhaps the band in this case would have better luck searching for groups of fans of a musician or musician that they had previously drawn comparisons to, and sending a message to members of that fan base?

It’s a lot of work, but works a lot better than paying a nickel every time someone clicks your link and stays on your page for 30 seconds or less.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:02:39 +0000

Excellent post. It is all too easy to get hung up on the SEO stuff. Produce good content regularly and the people will come but think in terms of months not days.

Stats wise try to work with moving averages rather than individual days these will tell you a whole lot more and will give a useful prediction curve to measure against.

I had one set of numbers that looked all but random then graphed them with a 30 day moving average and the line was a perfect sine wave.

Again thanks for this – love posts that take me away from looking at the tree and back to observing the whole forest.

By: eve @ letters to breathe

eve @ letters to breathe — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:05:26 +0000

My blog is pretty new, about three weeks old, but I have been ‘blogging’ for several years, only recently trashing my old (profitable) blog and starting over with a whole new ‘idea’. I just hated my old blog at the end.

Anyway, the new blog has had a pretty good response, in terms of traffic, I am getting an average of 80 uniques a day, not nearly enough, BUT those 80 uniques visit 3.67 pages a visit, I have a bounce rate of only 2.44% and am getting a decent amount of repeat visitors. (only 86.5% are NEW visitors)

I am stuck now though, this blog isn’t like my old blog, the old one was a mommy blog, it was pretty easy to promote- and I am still getting ‘mommy’ traffic, but that is not who I think I should be targeting… you know? I think I would get better submission rates and comments from another group of people. I am just not sure where to best promote it or to who…

This comment turned into a book- I am so sorry! I really just meant to say it was an awesome article, and I love the blog LOL I got wayyyy carried away- regardless, I would love your thoughts on what I have mentioned!

Thanks (BTW- this article was third on google when searching for blog promotion!)

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:58:25 +0000

Nice tips I guess, haven’t tried all of them out so what do I know. Anyway I am posting on here because I want a link to my blog. I make watercolor paintings and submit them daily. They are pretty. You should check it out. And become a repeat visitor. I’ll start putting semi entertaining information after posts.

By: Siya

Siya — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:57:09 +0000

Great tips Steven!!
Blogging and new media will continue to grow in importance and prestige because it gives people a larger marketplace of ideas to shop from, a larger platform to affect change in the world and because it is so important in promoting engagement and thoughtfulness.