WordPress.com Forums » Topic: offsite blog promotion - how much do you do? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do WordPress.com Forums » Topic: offsite blog promotion - how much do you do? en Sat, 25 May 2013 16:59:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 plasticdaffodils on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-616066 Tue, 31 May 2011 17:58:17 +0000 plasticdaffodils 616066@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How I promote my blog:
-Post to Facebook
-Post to StumbleUpon, DIGG, and Reddit

I'm thinking about starting a Twitter that's linked to my blog too.

]]> teamoyeniyi on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615849 Tue, 31 May 2011 10:12:58 +0000 teamoyeniyi 615849@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster - The writer doesn't think it is spam! That is the crazy part. His blog is actually very legit, if you are onto US politics.

Like you, I classify it as spam.

]]> raincoaster on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615797 Tue, 31 May 2011 06:16:07 +0000 raincoaster 615797@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @teamoyeniyi That's spam. Unfollow the person who suggested it to you and ignore it.

]]> habituatedbuddhist on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615581 Mon, 30 May 2011 21:42:19 +0000 habituatedbuddhist 615581@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Given that my insite blog promotion has has dried-up (no longer a new blog, and a bit niche, the showcase post don't pull in like at first) I'm promoting off-site more by visiting posts promoted on twitter (topic similar) and commenting... so far got a few connections with others.....

]]> timethief on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615570 Mon, 30 May 2011 20:57:50 +0000 timethief 615570@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yo Ian. You can call me TiTi as everyone does. ;)

]]> lettershometoyou on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615524 Mon, 30 May 2011 19:08:36 +0000 lettershometoyou 615524@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @timethief - you can call me Ian! I always sign my comments ian in hamburg, but here, it just comes up with the blog name

]]> teamoyeniyi on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615354 Mon, 30 May 2011 14:24:23 +0000 teamoyeniyi 615354@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How about very odd off-site promotion?

I got a private message on twitter as follows:

Leave a comment on my award-winning blog http://%5Bremoved%5D.blogspot.com/ and I'll find 5 of your Tweets I like and RT!

My response?

I don't see the ROI in that, somehow. How about you read my award winning blog and then I'll visit yours? :))

If he'd said something about "You might be interested in my blog" or "I think we have some content in common" or something............. ANYTHING other than trying to buy a comment with retweets..................

]]> laavventura on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-615310 Mon, 30 May 2011 12:22:47 +0000 laavventura 615310@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ciao.
I try to promote my blog as much as I can, wherever I can. I mean, that's why I'm writing it, right?
So, I facebook and twitter my posts. And Im a member over on http://www.virtualtourist.com where I have my blog linked up to my profile.
When I read, I comment and thank. I think that's also important in promoting a blog.

]]> teamoyeniyi on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614459 Sat, 28 May 2011 23:02:59 +0000 teamoyeniyi 614459@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ After reading TT's above artivle, I have submitted myself to the Google Directory (I think I have - it was rather confusing) and also submitted a membership to WritersFace.

TT, you are just trying to get us all into trouble, I can feel it in my bones! LOL

]]> timethief on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614384 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:57:26 +0000 timethief 614384@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @betweenthemusic
re: your poetry orientated blog and social networking
I'm wondering if this post my readers and I constructed (note the comments) would be of any help to you. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/26/promoting-your-writing-or-poetry-blog/

]]> betweenthemusic on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614383 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:52:14 +0000 betweenthemusic 614383@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My first blog, http://www.wordsasunder.wordpress.com was fairly easy to propogate as being mainly poetry orientated I had gotten into some extensive poetry prompting sites which a) increased my posting rate and b) greatly increased my reading traffic. I also utilised the wordpress dashboard tool of automatic Facebook publishing when I uploaded a new post to the blog. I also built up a fair amount of subscriptions (21 last count) and get a reasonable amount of views per day even now without having posted anything for a couple of weeks.
The reason for the non posting is my second blog, under this user name. It has taken up all my time since early may. I get a lot more satisfaction from writing it, but my reader base is considerably less than Words Asunder. I manually post a Facebook link when I'm ready and I also advise a couple of other forums I subscribe too that I've updated. I do get far more search engine visitors with this blog though and I also rely quite heavily on these forums for readers (so what are you waiting for??)

]]> timethief on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614370 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:31:00 +0000 timethief 614370@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Good grief! I mean "Canuck" as in Canadian.

]]> timethief on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614369 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:30:34 +0000 timethief 614369@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @letters
It's so good to see you post here. I have never heard of ToyTown and now I'm curious but I'm no an ex-pat. In fact I consider you to be a Cancuk and I always will. :)

]]> lettershometoyou on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-614356 Sat, 28 May 2011 20:10:53 +0000 lettershometoyou 614356@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm on a forum called Toytown for English-speaking expats in Germany. I drop a link to my blog on occasion if a topic is discussing something I've blogged about, but I never create a topic just to promote a post - that's bad form.

]]> timethief on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-613600 Fri, 27 May 2011 17:57:29 +0000 timethief 613600@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My thanks to everyone who is posting to this thread and sharing their approaches to offsite blog promotion and experiences too. :)

]]> teamoyeniyi on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-612443 Thu, 26 May 2011 09:01:56 +0000 teamoyeniyi 612443@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm still working that one out with Support, but it seems not.

I'm trying to get Support to write CLEAR documentation for those who are effectively "converting" to a domain upgrade, rather than getting it from scratch. There is still the question of needing a "new" Google account if you want the email addy - which I did, of course!

I'll let you know what I find out, but it would seem hold off on the re-verify.

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-612433 Thu, 26 May 2011 08:31:26 +0000 momfog 612433@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster I know that's not how it works. I was being...ironical? Whatever the word, I didn't pull it off. Just to make sure I do understand, it's

1. Make Google my bitch.
2. Post daily for a year
3. Look for the magic point.
4. Get 3 million hits (after 5 years of hard work, daily writing, and wicked good content)

@team I am upgrading. To be clear, don't re-verify. It's done automatically?

]]> teamoyeniyi on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-612430 Thu, 26 May 2011 08:21:45 +0000 teamoyeniyi 612430@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was starting to see the beginnings of real results from search engines - until the instructions for a domain upgrade were not clear and I re-verified only to discover later I should not have.

So I am recovering from that little glitch, I suppose!

]]> raincoaster on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do/page/2#post-612399 Thu, 26 May 2011 06:08:36 +0000 raincoaster 612399@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, you're misunderstanding. It grows not in a linear fashion but in exponential fashion once you've caught on. Once you've made Google your bitch. There's a magic point, often about a year in of daily blogging and Click, all of a sudden the internet is putting out for you.

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612360 Thu, 26 May 2011 04:50:45 +0000 momfog 612360@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm a complete dork, but I figured it out. Based on my first four months of blogging, it would take me over 90 years to reach 3 million hits.

11,000 (#of hits in 4 months) x 3 = 33,000 hits in a year

3,000,000 / 33,000 = 90.909090 years

Do you know any 123-year-old bloggers? :-)

]]> raincoaster on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612351 Thu, 26 May 2011 04:22:11 +0000 raincoaster 612351@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I think I started on WP.com five and a half years ago.

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612341 Thu, 26 May 2011 04:00:15 +0000 momfog 612341@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm putting out and intend to keep it up but 3 million is a big number. When did you start blogging?

]]> raincoaster on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612210 Thu, 26 May 2011 00:25:11 +0000 raincoaster 612210@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had 64 hits my first day, and 12 the next. It was pretty disheartening. But the internet is like high school: you've got to put out to be popular, so keep blogging. I passed three million hits last year.

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612105 Wed, 25 May 2011 22:21:30 +0000 momfog 612105@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Try Blog Surfer. Most might click through but you might gain some readers. Especially if you have entire posts showing.

BTW, Don't get depressed. It takes lots of time and effort. My lowest day was 4. Everybody was new at first.

]]> habituatedbuddhist on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612093 Wed, 25 May 2011 22:12:28 +0000 habituatedbuddhist 612093@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Mighty depressing... I hope for 20 a day right now... and don't always get it

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612043 Wed, 25 May 2011 21:28:48 +0000 momfog 612043@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just realized something I've done differently this week.

I removed Blog Surfer. It's great for bolstering the confidence of a new blogger and it hurt, but it had to go. Most of the hits are click-throughs and I'm not interested in huge home page numbers since all my posts have the read more feature.

The stats page looked better, but it felt like cheating. Anyone else use Blog Surfer and disagree with my take on it?

]]> momfog on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-612031 Wed, 25 May 2011 21:09:02 +0000 momfog 612031@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I never thought about putting a link on my goodreads reviews. I guess I should get in the habit of putting a link on everything.

My hits vary so much and I really don't see a pattern. Weekends are usually the worst and then last Saturday I had 176, which is on the higher end of the spectrum. Then this past Friday I had 79, the low end. The time in between is all over the place. Weird.

]]> thequietvoice18 on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-611970 Wed, 25 May 2011 20:13:11 +0000 thequietvoice18 611970@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sometimes I use the publicize feature to share my posts on Facebook, but I have to be careful because some of the things I write about my peers might not be too fond of... I also post a link to my blog on every book review I do on Goodreads, and that brings in a couple of hits every day. I probably should get a twitter soon. Lately my average hits per day has been 100-150, which is nice.

]]> sayali611 on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-611836 Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:51 +0000 sayali611 611836@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Wow I have a long long way to go before I get a 158!

I use facebook. I am looking for facebook groups too now.
I dislike twitter. Besides I would have almost the same crowd on both the places anyways.
I am registered to another networking site (which is for management studies aspirants and students only) so I get a little traffic from there as well.
But the traffic from all these places is sporadic and certainly not enough!

]]> tltcl on "offsite blog promotion - how much do you do?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offsite-blog-promotion-ho-much-do-you-do#post-611826 Wed, 25 May 2011 16:38:20 +0000 tltcl 611826@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ 158 page views is a slow day?! Now you're just showing off!

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