Comments on: How Not to Promote Your Blog: Top 10 Broken Blog Promotion Strategies

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:04:01 +0000

First off I need to say this, WOW. This blog is one of the most complete ones I have seen online, I am learning alot of stuff from reading your posts that I never though about at all.

Keep the tips coming, I want to learn more =)

By: Richard Matthews

Richard Matthews — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:47:36 +0000

Mine is a question. I have a spiritual blog on Blogger. To the side I have widgets to Ezinearticles.com and HubPages.com which I also write for. At the bottom, I list what I consider interesting sites that are related to my topic. Do you all think that is OK or too much?

Many thanks.

By: Abhishek Gupta

Abhishek Gupta — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:20:20 +0000

I really love this post because you have mentioned each and everything for getting the website top ranked and can you tell, how can we use forum sites and what are FFA (Free For All) Sites. If you have any other information which I want so please let me know through Email which I have mentioned in this Post

Thanks
Abhishek

By: Abhishek Gupta

Abhishek Gupta — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:12:12 +0000

This is really a fantastic strategies to get the website top ranked on all the major search engines….in this post you have given everything which I want and searching on Google or may be other Search engines…..If you have any other post so please send me the link on my Email ID

Thanks
Abhishek Gupta

By: The Briny

The Briny — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:23:46 +0000

I have heard of most of these, and they are definitely to be observed! But what about link swapping? If you organically swap links with another blog, via mutual interest, does that impact your PR positively or negatively? I am not talking about the “pay me $10 and I’ll post your site link on 100 sites” type of links either.

By: tiffany co

tiffany co — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:47:28 +0000

This is one of the helpful articles that I’m reading in building my own blog. Now I know that using google webmaster’s tool is enough to promote your blog. What important is your content, as well as your readers than to have the top spot in google

By: Kirit

Kirit — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:44:40 +0000

Great content!!! I really in search of these types of blogger strategies. This will help me to get traffic towards my blog.
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!

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By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:23:33 +0000

Thanks for writing this, It’s all about common sense I guess and not abusing the amazing free networking tools that are out there. We’re just getting into twitter and already we have some random people starting to follow us – I can’t see why on earth they would be interested in what we’re talking about, I guess some are just looking for a follow back. Hopefully as some of these social networking sites mature these bad practices will become more exposed and frowned upon, people will get wise to it and they will become ineffective, so the technology stays meaningful and useful for everyone. Hurrah!

Notice you already have some comments from people blatantly ignoring your advice! :)

By: Ronny

Ronny — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:30:54 +0000

Darren, great post as usual. What I think after reading this blog post is most of the blogging world knows these to ’some’ extent. But they still make the same mistakes again n again just to cover up the mistakes they are doing by not posting good contents (or I should say not spending much time in research).

By: james oh

james oh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:43:58 +0000

I too have tried is helping to promote for other related blogs. In that sense , I get more content for my blog.

Occasionally, they take my articles and publish them on their blog, getting me more exposure.

Count me in if you are keen for such exchanges.

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By: sonakshi

sonakshi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:34:39 +0000

that was really helpful!
your post left me feeling so stupid!
i’d done about six of those broken things :-( to promote my blog……and still it wasn’t really giving me any traffic….i realize i’d better stop all this!

thanks a ton
off to better blogging…

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:50:54 +0000

Hey Darren, this is a really great top ten list. I hope you will respond to my comment, I am trying to find ways to let people know that they can post their own top ten list to my site http://www.toptentopten.com/. I am always sincere in my comments and read people’s lists and don’t want to come across spammy. I don’t think it is because we never asks for links back to our site and in fact we let people know that they can post their list on our site and reference their site for the original source, which gives them a one way link. So again, just really trying to make sure my message doesn’t fall into some of the pitfalls that you point out here.

By: Chris Beaman

Chris Beaman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:11:45 +0000

That’s so funny, I am a total newbie when it comes to promoting my blog. Thanks for showing me where I went wrong. Take it easy

By: Polarimetric

Polarimetric — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:42:46 +0000

Hmm. I appreciate this post, since it’s enlightened me quite a bit. (Sorry, I sound a bit like Shane…) I’m definitely a newcomer to blogging at the moment, even though it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now.

I generally agree with every point you made, but my most recent strategy for promotion (my blog has only really been up for about 2 months so I’m in the experimentation stage…) contradicts point #4 and point #6. I do tend to submit every link to Twitter, and I’ve just recently started experimenting with StumbleUpon and Digg. I know it’s sinful, and it feels that way when I’m doing it, but I must say that I’m honestly confused about exactly how you get the link out there without using these strategies early on. Considering that my blog (sorry, I’m talking about my blog a lot but this is a relevant question, I swear!) is 100% politics and economics, I’ve definitely had some trouble finding other bloggers to connect with, unless I want to hit up CNN. (Somehow I doubt that they’d have much interest in a no-namer like me.)

So I guess my question would be, how should I start off? If I shouldn’t be submitting to social networking sites and Twitter, what should I be doing instead?

By: Baby Cruiser

Baby Cruiser — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:01:51 +0000

You say right that this kind of comment doeasn’t work at all: “Very good post, thank you for writing it. ”

But if your post is really a great post, how can we say only thank you for this great info?

By the way these 10 tips you wrote are interesting and useful…. so thanks for the great post.

BabyC

By: Sean Davis

Sean Davis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:05:01 +0000

This is a great post. I’m not even going to lie, I have done quite a few things mentioned in this post before. I don’t think I ever had bad or cheap intentions, though.

The one that breaks my heart the most is copying someone else’s style. I hate to say it but I really paid attention to the site of this site when I was designing my site. I felt that this site looked like what a quality content site should look like… so I went with it.

Problogger and my site, SuccessOnMyMind.com, are not in the same niche by any means. How negative of an effect do you all think this will have on my site? I am very creative and none of my other sites are copies. I just really wanted the same feel for this particular blog,

Go or no go?

By: Eemz

Eemz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:16:10 +0000

Thanks for the tips. Actually I was leave my simple comments to others blog. But I think you are right, some people will look like a spam. So, is google read it as spams for simple comments?

By: Nash | nil2million.com

Nash | nil2million.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:02:02 +0000

I would normally allow such comments to be posted in my website – the generic comment like “nice posting, great job” etc.

It’s always better to have some comments rather than no comments at all as it improve the social conformity of your website (the more people comment, the more new traffic will want to look to your website.

Of course, real spam comments is to be avoided as it will downgrade your website.

When you reach a level like Problogger, you dont need to worry about this anymore :)

Nash