Today I wrote a post on my about my marketing techniques that I have been using with my blog for the past 6 months.
I launched Balkhis on Feb 1, 2008 and its 6 months old now. I think this website has grown tremendously. I have 538 subscribed readers via feedburner and numerous that are not subscribed. Balkhis has made me $1923.58 in the month of July from my older posts which contains Affiliate links and adsense. Affiliates were a big part of that income. Direct sales were low but affiliates dominated.
I wrote an ebook and got over 1000 downloads within 1.5 days.
Now do you wonder how did I do it?
Promoting your Blogs through Social Media
Stumbleupon
Digg
Entrecard
MyBlogLog
Twitter
Plurk
Promoting your Blog on Forums
Promoting your Blog on Blog Directories
Promoting your Blog through Giveaways
Promoting your blogh through Paid Advertising Campaigns
Promoting your Blog Locally
Promoting your Blog through Indirect Marketing
Promoting your Blog by commenting on others blog
This is just an outline. I have reviewed each of these methods and which one worked me for me. Which one I am still doing and which were the ones that I left behind.
The post itself is over 2500 words, so I am not going to post it here.
Best performing affiliates varies from different blogs and different niches. What might work on my blog might not work on yours. What work on someone else's blog, might not work on mine.
You have to experiment it out in picking the right advertiser.
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Thank you for a very informative post. There is obviously a lot of good information in there for anyone wanting to promote their blog.
I am pleased to see twitter mentioned in your post and the success you have had from it. Even though it suffers from technical problems or at least it has in the past...its a huge networking tool that a lot of people in this industry overlook.
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twitter needs more/better servers like myspace does. it's incredible how neglecting resources has turned so many people from myspace -> facebook and now twitter -> plurk.
I see your point in the post about entrecard but i am heavily using entrecard right now and my traffic and rev on my blog have gone through the roof. Adsense is going crazy along with many affiliate links.
Like you said it depends on the niche and blog. Since not to many people know about domaining i think reading some of the stuff on my blog makes them interested and they click on the links. Thats an example of using a niche to your advantage. Plus i think this is the exact reason entrecard is doing well with my blog.
Tried twitter, dont like it at all. Maybe i will give Plurk a try
Stumbleupon's traffic is useless IMO. I get a couple thousand hits and hardly any of them stay on the site at all. Even if they do its a quick read they are off to the next site.
Digg is cool so long as you provide a great article that other people will like otherwise its useless cuz no one will find it.
Is Entrecard in a sense like blogcatalog or mybloglog then?
@Ross and @smub - what are your thoughts on technorati?
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"If PHP is peanut butter...then...MySQL would be the jelly. Together they can make one heck of a good sandwich." --- Netzilla 9/14/08
blogcatalog is essentially the same as mybloglog (heck, even their widgets are practically twins). i'd say that they are glorified blog directories with some networking opportunities.
entrecard offers much more, and i would describe it as more of a beefed up click/visit exchange for blogs only. they have a currency called "entrecredits" that people use to buy/sell advertising on their blogs.
Entrecard is a traffic exchange system Period. Now you can drop 300 cards every day and then others will drop on your site as well. Your traffic goes up true, but stop dropping cards and see how many will stay
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