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

Characteristics of Traffic Generating Posts

Blog Promotion, Case Studies, Featured Posts, Social Media 40 comments

When I set TwiTip up look after itself over the weekend (I set up a few posts to go live at specific times) I wasn’t expecting it to be a huge weekend of traffic. The posts were good - but there were less than during the week and past history shows weekends are quiet (particularly […]

Written on November 4th, 2008 at 07:11 am by Darren Rowse

What Blog Carnivals and Memes do You Participate In?

Blog Promotion 87 comments

A year or two back ‘blog carnivals’ were all the rage as a way to put yourself out there and promote your blog. I know that they still exist and many bloggers still get into them - but I’m wondering how many bloggers use them these days?

For those not familiar with the concept - a […]

Written on November 1st, 2008 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

10 Ways to Find Readers for Your Blog By Leveraging Other Online Presence

Blog Promotion, Social Media 85 comments

One of the simplest ways to grow your blog’s readership is to leverage other places that you have an online presence.

Leveraging places that you have presence online could include:

1. Twitter Background Image:
I’ve been using a background image on Twitter that has URLs of other places that I’m online and it’s gotten a lot of interest. […]

Written on October 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Tell us about Your Blog in 140 Characters or Less

Blog Promotion 1423 comments

Update - 48 hours has expired and I’ve now closed this experiment.
OK - here’s a little experiment for us to participate in this weekend. Below I’d like you to ‘pitch’ us on why we should read your blog. Read on to find out how.

I get asked these two questions a lot:

Can you link to […]

Written on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Drastically Increase Subscriber Numbers to Your Email Newsletter

Blog Promotion, Featured Posts 125 comments

Two weeks ago I was seeing 40 new email subscribers per day to my photography blog email newsletter. This week I’ve been averaging over 350 new subscribers a day. In this post I’ll share the story of how I did it.

In this months ProBlogger Newsletter I gave subscribers some inside information on how I’ve increased […]

Written on October 21st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Get Blogs to Link to Your Posts

Blog Promotion 43 comments

Getting other blogs to link to your blog posts is not easy to do - particularly when you are starting out.
Taking a ‘write quality content and they will link up’ approach can work once you have a readership (although even then it’s not that easy) but what if your readership is small and other […]

Written on October 20th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Use Forums To Drive Hundreds of Thousand of Readers to Your Blog

Blog Promotion 75 comments

This short post on using forums to drive traffic to blogs was submitted by an anonymous ProBlogger reader.
My blog is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and other peoples forums are the number 1 source of this traffic. Darren has asked me if I’d share how I do it.

1. Identify where […]

Written on October 17th, 2008 at 05:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Increase Subscribers and Reader Engagement

Blog Design, Blog Promotion, RSS 63 comments

Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search.
I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list - but it struck me as I […]

Written on September 24th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Skellie

The Truth About Creating a High-traffic Blog

Blog Promotion 96 comments

Skellie wrote this post. For more, you can follow her on Twitter.
Did you know that some blogs receive over one million visitors each month?
Have you ever wondered how they do it?
This kind of traffic isn’t easy to attain, but the pay-off for a high traffic blog with hundreds of thousands of page views each […]

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