Promoting your Blog/Increasing Visibility and Hits

SEO is the best way to promote a website/blog and increase visibility and hits, but that needs some time and expertise. Here are some tips, which will help you in promoting a blog and increasing hits –

When you send mails to friends and co-workers, put your website’s/blog’s URL after the closing salutation. The moment that person will read your mail he will notice the URL and click on it and if your website is really interesting and insightful the person will congratulate you as well as ask others to read your blog. Putting the website’s URL as a customized message, which gets displayed in your Google Talk or Yahoo or company’s internal messenger. Whenever you are online, the blog URL will get displayed and people in your friend’s list will click it out of curiosity and if they find it interesting rest will be history. There are Blog search engines where you can search blogs on the topics, which can be of interest to you. Search such blogs, read articles, if you like the articles comment on them and in that comment also put the URL of your website. Next time the person on whose blog you have commented, will read your comment he or she will definitely visit your website. These tips are not as efficient and accurate as Search Engine Optimization but they work thats for sure. The more your website gets visibility and traffic, automatically it will gain visibility in search engines also. Also, don’t forget to add the Google Meta Tag for indexing from the Google Webmaster tools. Also, you can add your blog to blog directories like Topblogarea, Blogged, Blogflux, Technorati, Fuel My blog etc. Just Google for Blog directories and you will get hundreds of them, shortlist 5 to 6 from them and add your blog to these directories and relax. Last but not the least, after you do all these things, don’t forget that the most important factor that will help you gain visibility is the quality of your posts, so make sure that whatever you posts appeals to your readers.