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on 10-01-2009 at 09:37 PM (872 Views)
Attracting new visitors to your website and maintaining a healthy traffic is one of the biggest challenges of a growing blogsite. Webmasters can spend considerable amount of money to promote their blog and yet fail! Celebrity blogs are a huge hit with a loyal visitor base. Ever wondered why? The key is that they are the news makers, their every move draws media attention and their style becomes a trend. Can you create similar magic with your blog? A lot of it would depend on your approach to this question.
A successful blog must be positioned according to the niche. Like a product, its marketing mix should be studied and a broad plan must be made to cater each parameter of the mix. For Example, A Cell Phone blog will draw more attention from 15-60 year olds and could be suitable for teens, elderly and merchants. However, a Jewelry blog would be interesting for woman and gold merchants. Therefore identification of audience is the most important aspect for marketing your blog. You must conduct secondary research to understand the needs of your audience and create a standard audience profile. The next step would be to build your blog content around the needs of your audience.
Bookmarking, Backlinking and bloglink insertions in articles are some of the most common ways to draw traffic and promote your blog. The next level of positioning would be to hire a professional writer to write press releases and a Wikipedia slot. This will be a huge plus for your blogsite. You can broaden the horizon of your website from time and again. For example a Cell Phone blogsite can broaden its scope from a mere cell phone reviews and news to e-tailing by offering a variety of cell phones at a bargain and earning a commission on each sale.
Affiliate marketing is the ultimate step for promoting your blog. Revenue sharing model is a win-win for both blog owner and ads service provider. You can become a member of Adsense by Google or Adbrite. To further benefit from the power of web marketing you can create Adwords account by Google. And start promoting your website through banner ads which are placed on other?s website. The bi-directional marketing efforts would give your traffic a boost. And more unique visitors will visit your blogsite. Eventually your page rank will increase and the worth of your blogsite increases. You can also consider selling your blog once you have a page rank and sizeable amount of traffic with some earnings.
Depending on your niche, always get your facts right. Audiences? needs are ever changing. So your blog should be in tandem with what?s in and in-demand. Therefore relooking at your current marketing strategy for your blog from time and again is advisable.
Your blog should have rich template with sharing capabilities. It should incorporate multimedia applications ? video, text, graphics etc. Refer to some of the best in class blogsites to gain more ideas and tweaking them accordingly to suit your business requirements.









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