Getting traffic to your blog by doing some blog promotion can be a really hard task. It can be really frustrating at times and time-consuming if you don’t know anything about blog promotion. Promoting your blog can be as simple as A, B, C… or 1, 2, 3…

In this post I will be showing you how you can promote your blog in 13 different ways, and if you follow each of these 13 tips then I guarantee that your traffic will more than triple in then next 2 weeks.

Here are your 13 free blog promotion tips to help you gain traffic…

13 Free Blog Promotion Tips

An easy way to give your blog a promotional boost is by commenting on other blogs. Each time you comment, enter the same name and URL in the corresponding fields in the blog comment form. Doing so will help your search engine optimization efforts over time. When you leave relevant, interesting and useful comments on other blogs (particularly other blogs that are related to your niche), people will notice and follow the link back to your blog to learn more about you and read more of what you have to say.

Replying to comments left on your blog is another way of promotion. This will help to strike a conversation. Other visitors or readers will see this and will also want to join in the conversation.

Join forums related to your blog’s niche and become an active, contributing member, always help others on the forum. Include a link to your blog in your forum signature, so it’s always available to other members. This is a very great way to promote your blog.

Join social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn and include links to your blogs and recent posts in your profiles. Join social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious and submit great content (not just your own). Additionally, consider jumping on the microblogging bandwagon and join Twitter. All of these efforts will increase awareness of your blog and give it added exposure.

I recently blogged about guest blogging giving you some tips on how to become a great guest blogger.

If you offer your services as a guest blogger for other blogs in your niche, particularly ones that get more traffic than your blog then you will be gaining lots of traffic if you write great contents.

Setting up a RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content. So this will make it easier for them to read your article and come back to make a comment.

Blog contests are a great way to attract new visitors to your blog. The most important thing to remember when using a blog contest as a promotional tool is to get the word out about the contest by announcing it.

For example, a tweet and win contest. This will help you to gain lots of traffic from Twitter.

As the saying goes in the blogosphere, “Content Is King”. Writing unique content is the best way to get automatic promotion.

If you have unique content and your readers really liked it, they will want to share what they have read with friends and others who will also find your article interesting. This has happened to me lots of time where I write great content and I get lots of retweets, trackbacks, etc.

Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first step to building your blog’s audience. The content you write is what will keep readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.

Most search engines provide a ‘Submit’ link (or something similar) to notify the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and include your pages in their results. It’s important to understand that simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn’t mean your pages will appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.

Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.

You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you’ve linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People do click on trackback links!

Taking the time to submit your best posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and more can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.

I always use BlogEngage, created by Brian, which is a great social bookmarking site for bloggers. I encourage you to join and have fun.

When you write your blog posts and pages, remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include relevant keywords and links but don’t overload your posts with too many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from Google’s search entirely.

Images don’t just make your blog look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can easily boost your traffic.

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