Many ways could be done to promote a blog to be known by others, but there are half people don’t know and don’t understand the ethics in blog promotion, not rarely they do anything to promote their blog. The most important thing is deliver visitors into our blog, so they could read and absorb the essential information which is contained in it.

This post give useful information for blogger who just start to blog and intend to promote their blog in order to be recognized and visited by lot of readers in good ways. This post is made and designated to newbie, and don’t you ever ask me whether I whom read this am a professional blogger? I am newbie too, but I try to share my knowledge that I got from others to the others.

Below are few things could be useful to promote your blog:

Use Search Engine to Promote Your Blog

The practical way is using auto web submit. There are many free services offer this kind of job, you could find it by yourself using search engine like Google. To make simple registration process, I suggest you to use mypagerank service, Google blog search and blogdigger could be the alternative to search, this two services are best services right now. Almost every blog service provider has search feature which indexing link on their database, and we could get more advantage when they have ping service that will help us to promote our blog.

One of web auto submits is mypagerank, this service will facilitate blog registration process into several outstanding search engines:
www.google.com
www.searchengine.com
www.infortiger.com
www.scrubtheweb.com
www.searchuk.com
www.entireweb.com
www.maxpromo.com
www.aesop.com
www.whatuseek.com
www.splatsearch.com
www.walhello.com
www.acoon.de
www.szukacz.pl
www.daypop.com
www.fybersearch.com
www.biveroo.de
www.infoseek.co.jp
www.yandex.ru
www.amfibi.com
www.bigfinder.com
www.metawebsearch.com
www.jayde.com
www.cipinet.com
www.infotiger.com
www.websquash.com
www.Search-o-rama.com
www.unasked.com
www.uk.abacho.com
www.mixcat.com

To promote your blog into those search engine click here. I just want to say, it is not guaranteed your site will be registered in a few short times, it depends on those search engine method in indexing site/blog page.

Leaving a comment is the best promotion ways:

• Leave a comment on every blog you’ve visited, this is one effective ways to promote your blog.
• Make positive comment on other’s blog.
• Fill in guestbook, online chat or tag board if it is available.
• Give a simple and suits compliment to blog author, don’t to excessive in giving complimentary, there somebody accept compliment as humiliation.
• Give a weight comment according to the topic.
• Don’t do spam word, like “Visit to my blog”, “hey, Come to my brand new blog”. This is not good ways to promote your blog, blog owner which is you leave a comment will be annoyed about it.

Join Mailing List and Forum:

• This will build strong relationship with other bloggers.
• Find the suitable and match your blog’s topic with the forum’s topic.
• Try to answer all questions on forum, and give nice comment on it. Once again, don’t do spam.

Banner Exchange

For new blogger:

• Find well known blog that has high rank, besides leaving a track, this make your blog will be indexed by search engine.
• Link exchange among blogger is not only making your blog being known, but this is as media to recognize blog URL address which had you visited.
• Don’t you ever feel angry, sad, humiliated if there is no link back to your blog. Think positive and always think positive.
• Give useful comment wisely and in proper way but containing great and look promising, like “This blog give me a lot of great things, I will bookmark it and subscribe to your RSS. I will surely revisit”. This is good way to make blog owner feel warm and happy, and it is big possibility he/she will do the same thing to you.

For old blogger:

• For famed blogger that has blogging in such a long time, share your link to others especially the new ones, because you are nothing without their support.
• Link exchange with new blogger will not give you any beneficial from page rank side, in fact this give them page rank support, but you have to remember that your blog will keep visit all time and will kept in new blogger’s mind. This has simple reason; they will feel appreciated and also give positive impression.
• Don’t you feel irked with new blogger manner, you should tolerate their action because they are new (including me myself) and need more time to learn a lot, try to remember the past when you were still learning how to promote your blog, maybe you did the same thing like new blogger do in this time.

Email Publication

This is an effective way to publicize your blog, for example you send email to your friend, family, and business partner. Leave your blog URL address as further information about your business without any compulsion to visit your blog.

Avoid SPAM Utilization

Spam is an action to promote a blog without considering time and place. Make sure you choose the right place and tools to promote your blog.

Advertise Not Only In Virtual World

Besides promotion in virtual world, you should consider to buy ads in real world.

Register Your Blog to Third Party

Service from third party allows your blog to be known to all over the world. Some of them are good in doing promotion, those are:

• Technorati
• Blog Pulse
• Blog Digger
• Mybloglog
• Digg
• Del.icio.us

Tips to Technorati: you have to ping this service frequently, most of this service’s users are blogger too, so use appropriate keyword and tag which is related to your blog niche.

Above are the effective ways to promote your blog to date, the important thing is always keep away from SPAM, use normal method, proper, and wise as well as guidelines above.

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If you have read my article about Build Community Blog Using Wordpress must be know with this plugin, What Would Seth Godin Do. This plugin actually purposed to give few notes to visitors, like this example below.

We could make a message to newly visitor and return visitor, in its default, it contains a message that ask reader to subscribe to RSS feed. This message box could be set before and after post, I prefer to put after post.
We can set the message, it could be used to many purposes besides asking to subscribe to our RSS feed, like:

1. Offers to several affiliate products, bloggers who have bunch of traffic should exploits this chance and your advantage to monetize your blog. Promote your affiliation link with this plugin, put the link after your post, make it open in new window, so the readers are not leave your blog so fast.
2. Announcement maybe? If you have important notification or make a quiz, you can use it as your notification media.

If you have something want to share about this plugin, please leave your comments, OK!

Build a community is a necessity, even unconditional disposed. If you still think that site/blog that based on community is not quite effective to earn more money compared to site/blog based on search engine, may be you need to brainwash action thus always update with current trend ? Try to reflect the reason by yourself.

I just want to describe about this. I take a simple sample, digg.com as outstanding web based on community with large number of visitors and returning visitor reach up to 50%. Try to imagine that Digg without rating system, no comment column, no karma, and what Digg is going to be? Whether Digg will be famous like now?

“So now, how to build blog based on community using Wordpress?”

I’ll give simple answer, use plugin! Actually this won’t be like Digg that allow user to write content, this matter can exactly we handle by our self. The needed plugin are:

1. Comments Plugin, comment is one important thing to build community, below are the lists:
   • Plugin Brian’s latest Comment, this will shows the latest visitor’s comment.
   • Brian’s Threaded Comments, this will change your comment look to threaded forum style.
   • Karma Comment, this will allows visitor to rate all comments on our blog. Read this Karma Comment article for installation guide.
   • Show Top Commentators, this will shows visitor that leave comment frequently.
   • Subscribe to Comments, allows people to receive update comment via email to one specified post.
   • Mungky Smile, Tuzki Smile, give your blog extra smile icon, Tuzki Smile is not supported WP 2.5.
   • Comvatar and Comvatar Images, this will shows commentator’s avatar. Gravatar and Favatars is the similar plugins.
2. Rating System, this is unconditional for site/blog based on community or web 2.0 that allows people to participate giving opinion or giving rate about things that you inform.
   • WP-Post ratings, the most famous plugin, you must be install it.
   • Popularity Contest, will give your post a rank, it’s so easy to install.
3. Sharing and Subscribe System, this means we ask for others help to promote our blog and one of tools to attract loyal community.
   • Share this, this will give an ease to visitor to bookmark our blog to hundreds social bookmarking site.
   • What Would Seth Godin Do, this is one way to catch visitor’s subscription to our RSS feed.
   • WP-Email, allows visitor to send our blog post to somebody else through email feature.

With all of those plugins above, we are ready to build community site/blog using Wordpress easily and free of charge. It is better than leave your blog with default plugins and default template as well.

Here I will describe about “Factors which influence Google pagerank”. When pagerank is updated, there are certain change happens to blog’s pagerank. There are blogs still in its present pagerank, some blogs decreasing down, and some blogs increasing its pagerank.

We will discuss about pagerank phenomenon, why most of domain remain in its pagerank, not move to better pagerank level, in fact there are some blogs jump down. This actually influences by certain things, those are:

1. Low PR blogs do link exchange with high PR blogs can cause the lowest PR blogs up to higher PR. With note, link exchange done with higher PR blogs. May be this chart below will give you more idea.



Chart above means to get PR 2, and then you have to collect 101 backlinks from PR 1 domain or 18 backlinks from PR 2 domain or 3 backlinks from PR 3 domain and so on according to the chart.

2. Aware to your inbound and outbound links, inbound links is another domain, which link to your domain. While outbound links is, link from our blog to another blog. You have to keep outbound links less than inbound links. When outbond links more than inbound links, then it causing a certain blog will remain in its PR, or even get lower PR. When your inbound links more then outbond links, then you just have to wait your PR move up to the higher level.
3. Leave a comment on other blogs will get backlink, you can check your backlink using backlink watch, you can see how many backlinks you get and which blogs are set their link using no follow attribute.

Those three factors above are factors that can uplift our PR to higher level. Now we will se factors that can cause blogs PR remain on its PR, those are:

1. Not yet qualify to above chart requirements.
2. Inbound and outbound ratio is not suits to Google standard and there are inbound links changes in last 3 months when Google update their PR.
3. Your blog are selling link like Text Link Ads (TLA), paid review without inbound link counterpart. This can causing your blog remain in its PR, you have to be careful, and you will fall into lower PR in such a time.
4. Blogs which give you backlink undergone to lower PR. If it is happen, your blogs will remain in its PR.

Below are the reasons why your blog PR decreasing down:

1. Too many Outbound links then inbound links.
2. You are doing Paid Review, Text Link Ads (TLA) and other kind of this program and you are not counterpart with enormous inbound links.
3. Your links is been gotten off on your friends blogs.
4. All of your backlinks blogs are dropped.

That is all I can say, if there are something you want to add, please leave your comments, and subscribe to my full rss feed.

Most webmaster/blogger definitely want their site/blog has many visitors, SEO Moa creates 21 tips for increasing traffic. This could be your starting point who wants to increase their site/blog traffic, or trying to apply SEO basic concept (Search Engine Optimization). Here is concise of those tips:

Creates title with two targeted visitors

First and the most important thing is creates title for people who visit your blog through search engine or for your feed subscriber. Try to make it short, on-topic, and eye-catching. Secondly, think about search engine when you want to give title, search engine will be helpful to give you traffic. The best way is to write article and title first, then search through Overture to find out suitable and orderly phrase.

Covering properly topic

Each thing always has topic and frequently ask question. This behaves on all kind of site, but easily done on blog. For example, if everyone always asks about nice broker characteristics on a certain forum, give them your answers. In other case, when lot of people ask about what kind of stock that has good chance to success after terrorism attack on online stock trading, you can give them your answers. Do your researches, make documentation, and compose it.

Use smart URL

The best URL structure is the succinct URL, thus people could guess its contain. I do not like URL with 10 hyphens in the long title, which is made automatically by most CMS, but this is better than using dynamic parameter in URL. May be you do not take it seriously, but you have to know that by rewrite ‘?id=530’ becomes ‘/450’ will produces better result and easy to remember.

High traffic days harness

If you get much visitor, do not know how it goes, may be comes from popular blogs/sites that linked to your blog, use this chance. Make two or three high quality posts in that time that shows your skill as writer and tell them your sophisticate. Make your visitor aware that ‘this is the content they should be sticking around to see more’. If you do not do this within 48 hours after you got visitor bump, you have to forget this and start again from the beginning.

Build an image

One important thing from blogging world is brand building. To have outstanding name, then you have to build an image where people have intention to join, an image where people can get added value. Exclusivity is not good choice, visitors will feel inconvenience and knock out, but this is important for your old loyal visitors. Keep your old visitors might be much more significant then to attract new visitors. Be careful with an image, when people like it, then it will be difficult to be changed. It is need more effort to change an image then to create this from zero point. If you make one new blog, or your blog has low traffic, may be you need to write down your blog objective with your brand image to help you make a post.