Promoting a Blog.

What do you do differently?

[willbl]

I have had a lot of experience promoting standard websites but my latest site is actually a blog. I plan to promote it using the methods I usually use such as link exchanges, submitting to directories, maybe a press release etc...

Are there any other methods that you can use to specifically promote a blog? Are there any blog-only directories that must be submitted to? Do blogs tend to rely on search engine traffic or is it better to focus on getting click throughs from other blogs?

Thanks for any advice,

Will

[caveman]

Try this:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[Small Website Guy]

You need to completely change the way you think about getting traffic, forget everything about SEO. Really. You need to play by the rules of the blogosphere.

Google traffic is not important at all for promoting your blog, the best incoming blog traffic is from other blogs.

Offer to exchange blogroll links with other bloggers, not because it increases Google traffic but because other bloggers will click on the link and visit your site.

Link as much as possible to other bloggers and everywhere. This is the opposite of how SEO-meisters think, they are afraid to link out because they think it will dilute their PageRank.

[caveman]

...afraid to link out because they think it will dilute their PageRank.

Just an FYI: Any SEO who thinks this is not worthy of listening to. This is more a beginners conclusion than anything else.

Closer to the truth: Sites are measured nearly as much by who they link to, as who links to them, and any good SEO knows this.

Small Website Guy, sounds like you're on the path to having a good understanding of SEO, which at its finest, is not manipulation at all, but rather, smart, reasoned marketing and site develpment, with an eye to quality and user needs. Thinking too much about how to fool SE's is often exactly what gets site owners in trouble. ;-)

[Content Writer]

[webmasterworld.com...]

...another interesting thread on blogs.