Best Way to market a blog?

[jdjohnson21]

Anyone have some ideas on the best ways to market a blog? Im looking for ideas to bring more traffic to my blog.

Does anyone have any great ideas?

[badhairdude]

it's been answered several times but again, social networking, ppc, other people blogs, forum posting.

for social networking, i find that digg does get me a few hits, twitter does too.

[lezzi]

Basic SEO is must. And links to your site from other sites drive additional traffic.

[karthikrajg]

check out this thread - i got a lot from it and it might help you too:
Cant post the link myself as i have less than 15 posts...in the blog marketing link check the following topic:
/blog-marketing/11686-what-three-ways-do-u-drive-traffic-your-blog.html

[maccam87]

there are so many ways to promote your blog alot of people say traffic exchanges are a waste of time but if you have a affiliate link or a product to sell with a great eye catching splash page you could make a killing, also post on forums social networking sites, write articles, submit to directories.

[neonguy528]

I agree with the SEO. If your topic is not a good one, forget it.

[klutze]

There is no one size fits all answer, or else everyone would be doing it and we'd all be rich and famous. Your best bet is to have a tool box full of ways to market your blog to keep it diverse.

[gtodd09]

Post daily, have unique content and you can use twitter to get some extra traffic. If you have a newer blog, less than 6 months old, it is really hard to get a lot of traffic unless you really know a lot about seo . I got an e-book for nothing at bloggerspaybackpro.com that helps explain how to drive traffic to your blog using twitter. It was a quick read, but i did get some cool pointers out of it.

[~kev~]

Visit trade shows, interview some of the people with displays and post those videos on youtube.

While you are at the trade show - hand out free pens, tee shirts, hats and business cards. Maybe rent a booth at the trade show and set up a display on the topics that your blog is about.

[chosen1]

Hey. Im new to blogging but so far I found this information to help. I couldn't post link sorry.

1. Effective writing: I posted information that was valued (and linked to) by my peers. This built the foundation of the rankings.
2. Defining a niche: I targeted phrases and words that represented my areas of expertise.
3. Naming categories: I used the targeted phrases as names for the categories on my weblog. This repeated the phrases over and over across the weblog.
4. Weblog format: Each time an entry was posted, it displayed the category name not only as a repeated keyword (as in #3 above), but also as a link to the category archives at the top of the page. This created linked category names across the Weblog.
5. Consistency: I posted to the categories on a regular basis