Written on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Social Media - Should You Use it Or Focus Upon Building Your Own Properties?

Blog Promotion, Social Media 21 comments

Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question - should you rent or buy social real estate?
In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on someone else’s property) versus having your own blog on your own domain (buying).
My immediate reaction […]

Written on June 25th, 2008 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

How To Promote Other People’s Content and Drive Traffic to Your Own Blog

Blog Promotion, Social Media 41 comments

Much has been written on the topic of how to utilize social bookmarking and networking sites to promote your own blog posts. Submitting your posts to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit - posting about your posts on Twitter and Plurk….

All of these techniques can work to drive significant traffic to your blog - […]

Written on June 10th, 2008 at 09:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Offline Blog Promotion Tips - Part 3

Blog Promotion 16 comments

Over at ScribeFire they’ve just published the 3rd part of my offline blog tips series (read part 1 and part 2). This one includes 7 tips from some of my Twitter buddies as well as four more of my own.
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Written on June 6th, 2008 at 05:06 am by Darren Rowse

When Guest Posts Become Too Self Centered

Blog Promotion 39 comments

I’ve written numerous posts over the last year about how I think that submitting guest posts to other blogs is a great way to promote yourself and to grow the readership of your own blog - however I’ve also noticed a trend in guest posts that could actually hurt you as a guest poster (and […]

Written on June 2nd, 2008 at 09:06 pm by Darren Rowse

More Offline Blog Promotion Tips

Blog Promotion 17 comments

This week my post at Scribefire continues my examination of offline blog promotion techniques with another 5 tips on the topic (part 1 was here). Looking forward to hearing your tips on how you promote your blog offline.
Point #9 is about allowing offline publications to print your content. I saw the power of this again […]

Written on May 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Offline Blog Promotion Techniques

Blog Promotion 19 comments

In my weekly column over at ScribeFire this week I started a series on Offline Blog Promotion (ie promoting your blog through means that have nothing to do with the internet).

You can read part 1 (it’s a 3 part series) here. In this post I introduce why offline blog promotion is worth considering and 4 […]

Written on May 27th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Get The Readers You Want

Blog Promotion 49 comments

In this post JEMI from InMyHeels.com explores the age old challenge of bloggers - finding readers for your blog.

I’ve been trying to ‘hack’ the secret that the big bloggers clearly utilize to charm new readers in by the hundreds on a daily basis.

Great content? Got it.
Social Media, yup - I already know […]

Written on May 9th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

How I Increased Page Views on My Forum by 66.7% in a Month

Blog Promotion, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 27 comments

Last month at Digital Photography School I ran the biggest competition that I’ve ever run (on that blog). I put a $729 Nikon DSLR up for grabs for one lucky active member in my the forum attached to the blog.
The competition was successful in my mind but today while I was doing a little analysis […]

Written on May 8th, 2008 at 10:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Would You Read Your Blog? - A Guest Post by…. Me

Blog Promotion 16 comments

Over the coming weeks and months I will be joining a team of bloggers to blog on the new ScribeFire blog. ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that allows you to blog from within your browser. They’ve just announced the release of version 2.1.
I’m going to be covering some similar topics to what I’m doing here […]