Promoting your site, additonal information

As indicated in my last post, Promoting your Affiliate Marketing business is extremely important and those who master this will help to ensure their survival and success. Today's post will provide a few more tips on how you can promote your Affiliate Marketing business, more specifically your blog.

So, you as blogger, might have great things on your site. This could include good content, a good website design, informative video's, good graphics, etc.  However, these things alone will not get you more blog readers since there are thousands of blogs being created every day and you have to establish yourself on the internet. People do not know that your blog exists, so you have to let them know you are there. You have to let them know that your blog is here and will be for some time. You also have to show them that you are an expert in your niche, since thats important for Affiliate Marketing.

Here are some tips to promoting your blog posts...

Blog directories
Submit your blog to the top blog directories on the internet. Technorati is a great place to start.
is a huge directory that gets hundreds of visits every hour and getting your blog listed in this website is highly recommended for the first time blogger. Technorati has its own ranking system which ranks blog in their directory and the most frequently updated blogs usually are ranked higher on their site.

There are lots of other directories that you can submit your blog to. Submitting your blog to a directory has a lot of advantages, including the following:

• Your blog gets some referral traffic from these directories because some of their categories rank higher.
• Your new blog posts will get incoming links
• This is a one time job you submit once and forget about it.

Rss Feeds

Rss feeds can be used to promote your blog to interested people or repeat visitors. If you have a very good content and regularly post new information,  then the chances of visitors coming back to your blog is higher. Rss feeds can assist in increasing the number of repeat visitors.
Google has a free tool that can help and should be utilized.
has this wonderful service called email subscription once your signed in you will be given a small code which creates a email subscription box that you need to place somewhere appropriate on your blog for your readers to subscribe. Once a reader subscribes then feedburner will send them a mail whenever you make a new post, this helps you get repeat visitors and engage them regularly on your blog posts.

Video sharing sites
Make video about your blog posts and submit to the top video sharing sites with your link in the description. Videos tend to rank higher and works great when you target long tail keywords, these videos can get you some long term traffic.

You can use a free tool – OneLoad  will distribute your videos to several video sites and its a highly recommended resource.

Social Bookmarking
The social bookmarking sites can get your site a good number of backlinks and get your blog posts indexed in a matter of minutes. These type of sites usually have a huge user base and if they find your site useful they share your link on their profile getting you more traffic. It is worth submitting to at least the top bookmarking sites and manually doing all this will take a lot of time, so make use of a free service like socialmarker.com which will cut down the submission time greatly.

Additionally, try providing a bookmark option to your blog readers at the end of each post. That way it's easy for them to share and bookmark your content if they find it helpful. If you are using a wordpress blog, then you can download a free plugin that allows for this.

Social Media Sites
With social media you can take your content to the readers making it easier for them to access. So whatever you do, do not overlook social media.
Today just about everyone uses social medial and as a blogger we can use social media sites (below)  as a valuable promoting tool for our blog.

For each blog that you create, try to have a separate account with twitter and/or facebook. Then build loyal followers and regularly interact with them. Whenever you make a new blog post share it with your followers ask them for feedback and encourage them to leave a comment on your blog, try to reply for all their comments. This will build a good relationship with your readers which leads them to coming back to your site more often.

Submit Press Releases
Today anyone with a newsworthy content or event can publish their press release and the good thing about these services is that these press releases will be distributed to hundreds of feeder sites which are read by users all over the world. They not only get your blog more reference link but it also gives an instant surge of traffic and you should try to retain most of these visitors using the feedburner or newsletter service.

There are a lot of press release websites which offer free service try to make the best use of them.

Forum Posting
Forum posting really works, so why not use it to your advantage. You can promote your blog or reference it whenever you find it to be relevant in a  discussion of the particular thread. Some forums may not allow to post links to external sites and might not help, so may sure you look. However you can post regularly and get some traffic from these sites.

As a blogger you want to retain your readers and attract new one. So make use of all the blogging resources you can so that you can acquire more visitors and engage existing readers. The important thing is to good/quality content  so that people keep coming back to your site. They will even share your content with their friends and family which promotes your blog even more.