Do not rely on just larger blogging communities to promote your blog. There are many small blogging communities that can be an alternative way to promote your blog for free. I myself run a blogging network and provide bloggers to gain automated backlinks to there latest posts, youtube videos and more.
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(509) Don’t Tweet Read more links if you want to Keep your Followers
Before Tweeting a blog post make sure it’s the Original Article and Not a Read more link. I often find that people I follow on Twitter will post a link which is only half of the Original Article. I find this offensive and many times I will unfollow people that do this as it looks like they did not read the article themselves and are just tweeting for the sake of posting links.
When on a blog post that contains a read more link go to the original article and retweet it from there. You do not want to be sending your followers to MFA sites and spammy looking doorway pages remember this before you make your next tweet from a read more link , Otherwise you may find yourself loosing your twitter following.
Don’t link Bait, Link Mate A-listers Suck your Google Juice
How LinkBaiting is Sucking your Google Juice
I am going to write some linkbait and post some links to some of the A-listers best blog posts, This might sound like a good Idea to some because they are referring to some the top blog posts on the web about Facebook or another topic, but doing this I am Passing on All my google juice to those A-listers who will never link back to my List post they win I loose.
What happens when you link Bait
You write a list of popular blog posts from around the web and link to them,but most of these blogs are no-follow and you pass your hard earned page rank on to them but get none in return.The A-listers will pay no Attention to your post and never comment on it so there is not much point in creating link bait with high pr blogs because you will just loose much google juice linking to these Articles with much higher page rank.
A better way to write list posts that link to Articles from Around the Web.
Who comments often on your blog or has you on their blogroll what is a good Article from their blog,Why not link to your freinds and then get them to comment on the post this will strengthen the power of the links between you and your blogging friends websites.Give a little Bloggerluv to Blogs that you know and the Author is a Blogging friend not a so called blogging Icon.
Use Nofollow Reciprocity.
At the bottom of this page you will see a link to a wordpress plugin called Nofollow Reciprocity.This means when I link to another pr3 blog it will be do-follow but if I am to link to a site like Amazon there is no google juice passed on.This will give my Blog better linking power when linking out from a blog post.
What else you can do instead of so called linkbaiting
Linking to Blogging friends Articles is much better than linking to the A-listers because you are providing your readers with the chance to read interesting blog posts that they have never got the chance to read.The chances that your readers have read the posts from the A-listers are higher so you are not providing anything new to your readers.
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