There are plenty of blog promotion ideas for bloggers to attract right traffic, leads and revenue.
Instead of deciding on our own, we ran a survey on MoneyCTL since last few months, asking our readers “How do you promote your blog?”
We received a total of 221 responses from our visitors for different blog promotion ideas. The 4 different ideas or options we had given to choose (one) were:
1. Social networking
2. Guest blogging
3. Search Engine Optimization
4. Blog commenting
The result was almost inline with expectations, but with a little surprise.
RESULTS: SEO and Social networking got 70 votes each and emerged as the most preferred blog promotion ideas for bloggers. Surprisingly, it’s a tie!
Followed by “Blog commenting” which got 59 votes. And “Guest blogging” is the least preferred method and received only 22 votes from the participants.
The results remind me of a survey conducted in 2012 for B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumers) marketers and SEO became the first choice for lead generation. Marketers have been showing more faith on SEO for sales and brand awareness. Checkout the article here.
INFERENCE: No doubt, social media sites are quite effective for traffic generation (Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest etc). But, SEO has got some edge over social networking, in terms of generating highly targeted traffic and leads. May be this is due to the increased faith of web-searchers on Google due to better user experience day by day.
Guest blogging is more of a tool for authority building, brand awareness and backlinks. Traffic generation is the secondary benefit of guest blogging.
So, what actually is “Blog Promotion” which we are talking about? It means – Promoting your blog for traffic which results in brand awareness and lead generation. Driving highly targeted traffic, who performs the desired task or action on your blog.
Share your most preferred blog promotion ideas for traffic and revenue generation in comments below.
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Oh no, I never contributed to that survey..
Vivek recently posted…Prevent Negative SEO : Important Tools And Methods
Hi Vivek,
There is always a 2nd chance. So, please cast your thought in my next survey.
Wish BlogVKP all the best.
Social interaction is very important when it comes to blog promotion!
Aseem Pahwa recently posted…Apple iPad Mini vs iPad 3rd Generation(Comparison)
Hi Aseem,
Now, Social networking is the talk of the time. A blogger should leverage it to his maximum for better publicity.
Yeah, I agree to that. That are the best practices to do to promote your blog… even I did that…
Jeet recently posted…Airtel Once Again Introducing iPhone 5 In India:
I missed out the poll too. I usually use a combination of SEO and participating in forums and replying to Question&Answers websites ( Yahoo answers, Quora etc).
I’ve been getting a lot of traffic (almost 50 % ) from these type of websites!
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Hi Hayder,
Bloggers are so focused on Facebook and Twitter that they completely forgot the real gem of social media – Yahoo Answers. It’s orthodox, but it works (Crowd pulling).
It’s still sinning as a star in social media sky.
Hi Nadita,
i’ve personally experienced about the role of social media in blog promotion however facebook stands #1 in getting lot of referral traffic.
Rajkumar Jonnala recently posted…A Part Of Search engine optimization Advertising Online
Hi Raj,
Facebook may be the best. But Twitter and StumbleUpon are also not far behind. Give them a try
StumbleUpon are really good. You will get thousands of hits within a hour if you are lucky.
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Best traffic source for a site totally depends on site niche. For sports niche site, social media is best and for others SEO is best.
Rajib Kumar recently posted…Strategies for Using YouTube to Promote Your Business
Hi Rajib,
Good point! For sports and entertainment niche Social Media promotion drive more traffic than SEO.
Thanks.
Hi Nadita,
Apart from blog posting i usually contribute other popular blogs as guest posting and also blog commenting which makes my blog some good backlinks and traffic too.
However the social sharing is also a daily practice..
Thanks for the wonderful tips
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The top 4 ideas of promoting the blog are awesome and it really brings a lot of change and it attracts more traffic to the blog.
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According to me all the methods are very important its just which method suits your blog.
where is social bookmarking sites?:( my 60% of traffic from social bookmarking sites like stumbledupon,digg,delecious and reddit.
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