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The most effective ways to promote blogs

1. Set Goals for Blog Traffic

When you start to promote your blog, you need to indicate how many visitors and by what date you plan to attract. For example, first, try to get 100 visitors a day, then 300, 500, or 1000. Keep your goals in mind or write them on a sheet and hang them in a prominent place. Track your traffic at Google Analytics.

This will help to focus and not be distracted by secondary tasks.

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2. Collaborate with Other Bloggers

Other bloggers already have loyal audiences. If the theme of their blog overlaps with yours, then this is potentially your audience.

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3. Turn Visitors into Regular Readers via Email Newsletters

Most blog visitors leave after the first visit and do not return. In order not to lose them, post a newsletter subscription form on the blog, and offer to receive new articles in the mail. Use high-quality ready-to-use email newsletter templates to save your time.

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Having the contacts of visitors, you can tell them about new articles in the email newsletter and attract them to the blog again, but with less effort.

4. Write Regularly

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The frequency of publications indicates how lively the blog is and how seriously you take to fill it. This is important for keeping readers and for finding partners.

Once on an interesting blog, the reader is waiting for new articles. If they appear regularly, you are more likely to retain an audience. If the articles are rarely published, with an indefinite interval, the person will come in several times, see that the blog is not updating, and will not return.

5. Promotion in Social Networks

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For many users, social networks are a way of communicating with friends and peers. And for a blogger, this is a good platform for promotion. Since most modern youth sits in such networks, they can act as your target visitors, making reposts of your article.

As my experience shows, people in social media love when your profiles look great. It should have great pictures, nice fonts, etc. To save your money on web design courses or specialists, here can help you with a large variety of social media templates for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and so on.

Other ways how to promote your blog?

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Participation in contests for bloggers - In addition to the opportunity to win a prize, this is a great chance to get a lot of links to the site, and recognition in the blogosphere.
Social bookmarking services - Bookmarking your blog will help speed up indexing and increase blog traffic.
Promotions, gifts, or giveaways of anything.
Wikipedia - This service is constantly filled with new, interesting articles on various topics. If you are well versed in a topic, write an article about it and post it on the wiki with a link to your blog.
Audio and video podcasts - Today it is one of the most common ways to popularize and promote your blog.

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DeChamp

This is really solid and great information. I've been struggling for a while to promote my own blogs but this will help a lot so I think you.