If you are someone who uses chat programs such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN, or Googletalk and have a lot of online friends, it can be a great way to get people to read your blog and to leave comments on it.
As it is with your signature on your email, you don’t want to just send an instant message to people everytime you update your blog. You also don’t want to simply send a message to someone asking to read your blog.
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Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are
available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues. They are a great way to meet other people who have a
common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.
There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject. These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.
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If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submited cover.
Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs
there.
Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.
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No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject. It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.
There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries,
where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools
that you can use for your own blog.
Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog. Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.
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If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there
are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.
One of those ways is something that you do everyday, and that you may not even consider as a way to share
your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature. Chances are that you send out emails more times than you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email’s signature.
It’s always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have.
The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement in your signature for your blog is to make it short, but eye-catching. You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don’t want to scare them off.
Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising. Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people abuot it and want to visit? That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.
