Comments on: How do You ‘Sell’ Your Blog?

By: R. C. Beckom

R. C. Beckom — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:23:45 +0000

I need all the info on sellings blogs I can get, never thought about selling them. sounds like a great way to do promotions.

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:58 +0000

me, i sell my blogs over forum postings.

By: lucas131

lucas131 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:00:47 +0000

Good thing in promoting your blog is to attend to discussions in social bookmarking sites, blog comments, put signature on forums where you post.

By: Roffi

Roffi — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:56:32 +0000

nobody reads my blog :smile:

By: duncan ruoddakis

duncan ruoddakis — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:17:42 +0000

thanks for the tips I’m new and hoping to cash some money so if you click on my name or go to my website that would be a plus. again thank you.

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:15:52 +0000

Speaking of blog promotion, I meet regularly with consumers and professionals alike. I have screen-shots of my weblog that I print out and pass along as I meet with individuals throughout the day. Though my blog is fairly new in that I switched platforms and I don’t get much by way of comments, I get ample traffic and generate leads through this approach!

What I would like to do next is gather some business cards much like the one’s in the picture portrayed at the beginning of this post.

All the Best!
Ricardo Bueno

By: Ryan Mac

Ryan Mac — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:22:04 +0000

The only problem I have with blogging is that you need to continually work hard in order to sustain a regular income
is there a better way?

By: Sarah @ Real Life

Sarah @ Real Life — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:32:09 +0000

“– When your friends ask for a tip which you already have in your blog than message them the link. When this happens many times than they will start liking your blog.”

Compuworld is so right! I was shy to talk about my blog to my real world friends at first, but so many times in conversations, I can say, “You know, I just wrote a little about that the other day, you should check it out!”

I have also submitted my articles to printed newsletters and local newspapers and have gotten a wonderful response from those I know.

Another thing I have done is to fill a need that wasn’t met with my Mothers and Daughters Blog Carnival. Make buttons to promote your events like carnivals, etc. Many people who won’t put you on a blogroll yet will display a nicely designed button.

Wonderful tips, as usual Misc Mum!

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:26:35 +0000

There are more to what you can offer in your blog. Free stuffs does certainly help. but it is what the readers are looking for, if you can provide what the users/readers of your blog are looking for then certainly one can sell one’s blog.

In my case, i use:

1) My nickname in my messenger
2) email signature
3) blog comments
4) referrals from friends and associates
5) i also had my visiting card to people who are interested when i take pictures

By: work from home business blog

work from home business blog — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:18:11 +0000

Like you I just migrated my blog from blogger to wordpress and have no regrets. Wordpress offers so much flexibility and you have more control of your blog and postings. Makes you want to write more quality content stuff for your readers. Hope that some of you can vist it and offer some comments since I am still in the final stage of migration. I also have the wordpress installation contacts just in case you are interested too. Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities

By: Derek Baker

Derek Baker — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:54:32 +0000

Another good read, I sell my blog by putting it in my signature at webmaster forums and writing content that is unique and high quality so others will link to it.

By: Glenn -- Write for Blogs

Glenn -- Write for Blogs — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:44:42 +0000

Love the photo-graphic. I use business cards to promote the blogs I write or manage. A business card for every blog.

People rarely remember URLs on the fly, but when I see people I’ve business-carded in the past, they almost always have checked out the blog and have something intelligent to say about it.

By: Maria Cintas

Maria Cintas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:05:32 +0000

Great tips here! It always comes back to the quality of the content, and if you’re able to write about a controversial issue, it can only help promote your blog.

By: CC

CC — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:45:31 +0000

Thanks for the post, although the title was misleading. I was hoping that the post was about actually ’selling’ your blog..as in putting it on the market.

By: Marko Pyhajarvi

Marko Pyhajarvi — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:32:35 +0000

Here’s my ad for my blog!

Check out the skiing blog that will soon dominate the niche! It’s AWESOME!
http://homeboyski.com

Thanks for this good article, Darren!

By: Karen (Misc Mum)

Karen (Misc Mum) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:23:16 +0000

Snafzq – Aye, the permalink thing has let me down somewhat, so all the articles I’d written in Blogger which were then “stumbleuponed” (for example), when people show up for the equivalent post in Wordpress now it goes “Sorry, we are unable to locate that” (or words to that effect). I’ve got an archive search that can help people then go find what they were looking for but otherwise I haven’t tried to fix it yet. I did drop somewhat in search rankings, but it picked up within 2 weeks. Don’t ask me how or why. I don’t understand it!
Congrats on your own move – and I love the toy analogy :)

1001 Noisy Cameras – that’s a nice little synopsis you’ve written there!

By: Snafzg

Snafzg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:00:03 +0000

Recently, I migrated from Blogger to Wordpress; a rather stressful time for me, for I was deathly afraid that over a year’s worth of work and effort would somehow evaporate into nothingness (luckily, it didn’t). I had several reasons for the change; the main ones being I was a little tired of the limits of Blogger, and I wanted a purer control of my own writing and ‘brand’, for lack of a better word.

I just did the same thing last week! :) Granted, I’d only had about 2 weeks of concentrated posting on my Blogger hosted blog, but it was starting to get some notice in my niche and I was ranking for some decent keywords.

I migrated for the exact same reasons as you. To me, Blogger was like a Tonka Toy dump truck while I find Wordpress to be a fully loaded Caterpillar Bulldozer. So much more freedom, control, and power…

How did you find your migration? Wordpress has a cool “import” feature for Blogger, where you can copy all your articles, categories, and even formatting. The only drawback is that your permalink structure changes, so you’ll likely drop in search ranking, no?

I really hated all the ,html extensions at the end of my (forcibly truncated) page URLs on the Blogger platform.

By: 1001 noisy cameras

1001 noisy cameras — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:59:23 +0000

Yes, Andrew Keen’s book blames the internet for almost everything wrong. He also appeared on the Comedy Central late night shows, I forgot whether it was Colbert or Jon Stewart.

But the biggest irony of it all perhaps is that the author (Andrew Keen) is promoting his own book on Amazon.com with …an author’s blog! Yes, he has a blog!

Using Keen’s own reasoning, Keen shouldn’t be having a blog unless he was a recognized domain expert in the field of blogging. He is obviously not, so what is this amateur blogger/author doing, “killing our culture” with his amateur author-blog? :-)

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:34:45 +0000

I launched my blog last week so I’ll be using your tips and so many valuable ones I’ve picked up from Darren. Thanks!

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:13:33 +0000

II am in the process of launching a blog with WordPress (I own my URL and a friend is hosting for me). This site is one of the five major resources I’m using as I research the process and attempt to establish a brand, find my writing style, tweak content, etc. Thank you!

I desperately want to customize my layout, but am still learning to write code. Hopefully I will have a new, custom look by 2008.

I am embarrassed to tell people I know about my blog because of all of the personal financial content. Guess I need to suck it up and start talking about it if I’m ever going to have any readers, huh?