Archive for Blog Promotion
Written on October 31st, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
How I Use Email Newsletters to Drive Traffic and Make Money
Yesterday I shared 6 reasons that I find email newsletters to be a more effective way of driving traffic to and making money from blogs than RSS.
Today I want to show you exactly how I do it.
Firstly a word about technology – I use Aweber to deliver my emails (I talk about why here). However [...]
Written on October 30th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
6 Reasons Why You Need to Consider Email as a Communication Strategy on Your Blog
Email is back!
Earlier in the week I mentioned that one of the emerging themes in the monetization sessions at Blog World Expo was the idea of membership sites as a way to make an income from a blog.
The other theme that emerged in a number of the sessions was that many bloggers were placing increased [...]
Written on September 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
A Simple Way To Funnel New Traffic & Sales From Buried Blog Archives
In this guest post internet marketer and full time blogger Lynn Terry of ClickNewz shares one of her newest tested blog marketing strategies.
On the current theme of Content Marketing, I have a super simple strategy I have been testing to increase exposure and profit that you’ll really enjoy. It’s simple, it’s free… and it works.
Darren [...]
Written on September 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom
Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ’seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers.
Today I want to take the ’seeding’ idea a step further and give a few examples of ways [...]
Written on September 1st, 2009 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
The Myth of ‘Great Content’ Marketing Itself
One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content.
“Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last year.
“Write it and they will come” [...]
Written on August 27th, 2009 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How to find Readers for a Business Blog
Later today I’m speaking to a couple of groups of business people about the power of blogging and social media to help market a business.
One of the question I’ve already been told to prepare a question for is – How do you find Readers for a blog?
The question is of course one of the most [...]
Written on August 10th, 2009 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How To Promote Your Blog with a Giveaway
A guest post from Olivia from Frugal Bon Vivant (a blog about enjoying the good life on a budget).
We’ve already established that doing a giveaway can be an excellent way to promote your blog. So now that you’ve decided to do a giveaway – and it’s been live for three hours with zero entries – [...]
Written on August 8th, 2009 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
How To Get Featured By the Press (Repeatedly) Even If Your Blog is New
In this guest post Celestine Chua shares tips on how to get your blog some press coverage.
Getting featured in press and media is probably like a dream come true for many bloggers. If you are thinking that you need to be an accomplished name online like Darren Rowse or John Chow who gets a six-figure [...]
Written on July 15th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
6 Reasons Your Blog Traffic Might Be Declining [And What to Do About It]
Over the last few days I’ve read a few comments here on Problogger from bloggers who are feeling low because they’ve noticed a plateau or even a decrease in the traffic coming to their blog.
While we all want to see our traffic rise the reality is that every blog has days, weeks and even months [...]


