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Another way to promote your website

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I was just thinking the other day that I’m going to get some business cards made up so that I can promote my websites.

I used to have cards printed out that listed my exotic pets websites so that when I’d go into a pet store that sold exotic pets I could hand out my cards to customers that I met in the store that wanted to learn more about their potential new pets care.

Now that I have a ton of blogs I might as well do something similar with business cards. It would certainly be easier to hand out a card than wait for someone to find a pen so that they could write down your website address now wouldn’t it?

Do you have business cards with your blog or website address printed on it? If so, has it helped you promote your site in any way?





Promoting your blog

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I was wondering … what kinds of things have you don’t to promote your site?

If you haven’t already, I’d recommend that you add your site to all the big search engines – Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Then get your site listed in Dmoz, Truth Laid Bear, and any a web directory that suits your sites topic.

Niche directories are great to be listed in if your website or blog is about a specific niche topic.

Another thing that I do try to try to promote my site is comment on blogs. Now, I haven’t been quite as good about this lately as I used to be, but it’s a good thing to do. Think about it. When someone is kind enough to leave a comment on your site you probably visit their blog. Especially if they’ve left a great comment. So it makes sense to visit other peoples blogs regularly and leave a comment. You should get some return traffic by doing this and if a blogger likes your site enough they might even add you to their blogroll or write a post about your site.

What else do you do to promote your site?

RSS Feed Subscriber Campaign

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Jimmi from over at JMH Techtronics has started this new RSS Feed Subscriber campaign.

Every blog, no matter what platform it’s on has an RSS feed. Right? As you might realize there are feed readers out there such as Bloglines, Google Feed Reader and many others that people use to read all the sites that they enjoy in one place.

In order to read those RSS feeds in a feed reader a visitor to a site must subscribe to the RSS feed. My rss feed subscription area is located in the lower portion of the right sidebar if you are looking.

Jimmi created this RSS Feed Campaign so that those on the list could get more subscribers to their RSS feeds. When the list is copied and added to, more people end up getting RSS subscribers and thus more readers of this site.

Having subscribers is a great way to get return traffic to your blogs. If readers use their RSS Feed Readers frequently you should get more traffic than you have ever had before.

What can you get out of encouraging others to subscribe to your rss feed? Well, if you monetize your site you might end up getting more money for your advertising as many of the places that allow us to monetize our sites base their payout/price calculations on our Alexa rank, our sites Page rank, our Technorati rank, and our RSS subscribers!

Now I know that many of the people who read my sites monetize their sites in some form or another. Whether it’s through Google Adsense, Adbrite, Yahoo ads, Text Link Ads or other forms of advertising … the more readers and the more traffic you have the better.

Are you with me?

Ok. The most basic thing that all of us want is more readers. No matter how they read our posts it’s great to have readers isn’t it?

If you want more readers and want to raise your standing with some of the sites that help us monetize our blogs join the campaign.

Here’s the rules:

***Start Copying Here***

1. Create a post and link back to the person that put you on the list in the first paragraph with a brief thank you and description of why people want to use the campaign. DO NOT copy their paragraph. Write your own unique one and link to their site.

2. Copy the ENTIRE list of Feeds and create an OPML File to import into your feed readers so that you can subscribe to all of the blogs on the list. You will want to read my post entitled Mass RSS Feed Subscribing with an OPML so you understand how to do it. (You will want to copy this link over to your post so those you add know how to do this too.)

3. Copy the ENTIRE list of Feeds AND blogs and put them into your post like they are here. Move the “My Adds” from the blog that added you into the “Originals” lists for each. This list is unique because I want you to be able to copy the feeds with out having to delete the blogs before making the OPML file so I separated the two links into 2 lists.

4. Add any blogs you want to the list with whatever keywords you want. Then get their RSS Feed and add those to the list of Feeds in your “My Adds” section.

5. Publish your post.

6. Comment on the post that originated the list here so that new additions can be subscribed to as well by the lists before yours.

My Blog Adds:

LifeCruiser
Pointless Drivel
Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind

Original Blogs:

Whatever I Feel Like
Tricia’s Musings
Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot
A bit of this and a bit of that
Wordpress Plugins
Internet Serious Business
Julie’s Journal
Utterly Geek
jon lee
Pencil Thin
No Average Mom
Marisa’s Dandelion Patch
Scribble on the Wall
The Sovereign Journey
Digital Nomads
msdanielle
Mr. Gary Lee
Windows Tips, Tricks, and Hacks
Get a First Class Degree
SiteLogic Web Development
Geeky Speaky
Little America
As the Garden Grows
Celebrity Scoop
WebStyle
Odd Planet
Guitar Licks
Breath of Life Photography
The Web Files
My World
Celeb News
John Chow

***Stop Copying Here***

If you have any questions about how to do any of this just leave me a comment and I will answer it for you as soon as I can. Remember to come back and comment once you put the list up as well so that I can subscribe to your feed and others can too.

Also, if you want to promote your site and get more readers check out The Do Follow Blogroll, The Technorati Fav List, BumpZee, the Mybloglog Community exchange and Truth Laid Bear.

Are you listed in The Truth Laid Bear Yet?

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Have you listed your site on The Truth Laid bear yet? No??? Why not!

Getting listed in the Truth Laid Bar is said to be one of the most important things you can do to promote your site along with listing your blog in Google, Yahoo, MSN and the Open Directory Project.

I like the Truth Laid Bear because you can connect with similar sites, see how many other sites link to yours, and your site is ranked with really cool ecosystem names that describe where you site stands in the blogisphere. This site is listed as being a Higher Being” where as some of our newer and less promoted websites are Flippery Fish or even a Slimy Mollusc.

Sign up, get listed and find out what part of the ecosystem your site lives in.

When I look at my stats I see a lot of traffic coming from the Truth Laid Bear site too. That’s perhaps the best reason to visit the site and list your blog.

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