How to get The First Visitor To Your Blog?
Sunday, March 8, 2009 3:16Do you know some of the bloggers made their blog to sit stand still at least for a month? They won’t get potential visitor for at least three months. Most of the bloggers won’t realize that they have missed blog promotion. Not only writing unique content fetch you good traffic, but promoting the same will help you to get more visitors as well as make money online.
Although there are numerous consultant and SEO specialist can be hired, you can do blog promotion without spending a dime.
If you start the blog and drive it in a right direction, you’ll get your first visitor within few hours of the start.
The common steps involved in blog promotion are-
1. Squidoo
2. Social Bookmarking
3. Social Networking
4. Commenting
5. Email signatures
6. Forum signatures
SQUIDOO
Squidoo is nothing but a hub of one-pager websites that are easy to create. Most of the bloggers prefer to go for this site, where you can create lens with a link to your blog. Google loves Squidoo very much. you can create a lens within 60 seconds. ( I have created a squidoo for this blog also…)
Social Bookmarking
Most of the bloggers get confused with social networking sites. Bookmark your blog with the following sites- Digg, Delicious, Stumble upon will help you to get more visitors. Create an account in these sites and start bookmarking each and every post of your blog.
Social Networking
This is another great way to expose your blog without spending single pie. Create an account with all social networking sites that you know, primarily Orkut, Twitter, Gather, and Facebook (Follow me on Twitter…). Please include your site link in the profile page to get more unique visitors
Commenting
This is also an important aspect of blogging. Try to comment at least five blogs per day. You can choose few blogs that relates to your niche and subscribe for the RSS feed. Then comment on the blog immediately you get a new post through feedburner. This will help you to get your comment in the top most place and also exposed to more visitors.
Email Signatures
Instead of sending a mail with no signature to your friends, just include a simple punchline and a link to your website below your name. Use this signature in all your communications. At least 50 percent of the mail recipients will visit your site through your email signature
Forum Signature
Including a better forum signature will help you to get more interested visitors. Most of the forums are accepting the signatures from their reputed members. Have an account in the forums related to your niche and start relevant posting with an interesting punchline in your signature.




