Blog Marketing Tips- 25 Techniques to Market and Promote your Blog

#3. Use most suitable Keywords in your Blog

#4. Always follow the present SEO Rules 

They are the most important points for SEO. Use nofollow tags for outbound links to the sites that are not of high authority.

Never forgot to use Alt tag for images. Do not over do use of key words. Key word density must be between 1-3%.

Template designing – Make your template a search engine traffic friendly template using the Technical optimization tips. This comes under on-page SEO.

For comments on your Blog: Use Facebook comments, Gplus Comments, Disqus comments, etc to fight spam.

#7. A Sitemap is very crucial for your blog

Prepare a blog Sitemap for your blog. If you are unable to generate xml sitemap, at least create a page and list all important links there with proper hierarchy. 

Enable automated trackback and ping performances. Use Pingomatic or Pingler.com regularly. Again, dont over do it other wise your blog might be labeled as spam by ping directories.

Setup a Feedburner account for your blog and use all of the features available in Feedburner. Feedburner is a very important source of free traffic for millions of blogs worldwide.

#10. Be regular with Content Sharing and url submission

Determine authoritative blog sites, directory websites and social sharing sites for generating good number of quality web links. While Posting bookmarks of your blog urs you need to be cautious and you should submit your content to ONLY the best bookmarking sites.

#12. Submit RSS feed and your Blog post urls to popular RSS and Blog directories and free online search engines.

#13. Take part in a reciprocal web link exchanging projects. Only take links from relevant and good sites.

#14. Submit your blog post to PDF uploading websites. They are good source of traffic as well as backlinks. Though, some wont backlink you, but traffic coming from them does matter when concerned to Google rankings.

#16. Add your blog site link to some good paid directory sites, like-Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, etc.

#17. Write some optimized articles and disperse them to some good press release websites.

#18. Request responses or testimonials of your blog site in appropriate online forums, conversation threads.

#20. Analyse and explore incoming web links for your blog, notice the source of traffic, remarks and discussions of your blog site. 

Use Google Alerts to get such information or mentions of your blog, and respond the bloggers wherever they have talked about your blog/ url.

#21. If feasible, make contact with similar minded blog writers and explore the possibilities to work together for mutual gains.

#22. Usage of social networking solutions – online forums, conversational threads, and social media sites are good platforms to get in touch with various other blog writers. They will certainly connect to you if they like what you write about.

#24. Visit good blog directories, create free accounts there and submit your blog url. Some ask for a reciprocal link, others will submit your blog free without asking anything. This is a good way to market your blog online.