There’s always a fine line between trying to publicize your blog and being a part of the barrage of spam that Akismet and CAPTCHAS are designed to filter out. The most uncreative way I can think of to promote you blog is to comment on as many posts as you can with, “What a great post! I totally agree! Check out my blog here.” Next time, try one of the following:
- Make a post on craigslist asking if anyone would like to exchange links or would like a guest writer for their blog.
- Find someone who blogs about similar topics as you, but is not too famous. Add a link to their site on yours and then click it. You’ve now added yourself to their list of referring sites and if they’re anything like the rest of us self-obsessive bloggers, they’re addicted to their Google Analytics and you will peak their interest as to how someone found their site from yours.
- Write a short, complimentary description of a blog that interests or inspires you for whatever reason. Send off an email or comment to the owner of that blog with a link to your post.
- Find a Christmas or Chanukah present you don’t want or random trinket around the house and offer it as a gift to the top commenter.
- Do an short email “interview” with someone in your industry.
You should number your lists so your commenter are able to refer to them. People like ordered lists rather than unordered ones anyways. Anyways, we all know #4 doesn’t work because it’s just too much effort for either parties to keep up with.
you know darn well number one doesn’t work as well.
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