How to Promote Your Blog without Using Search Engines
We all know that search engines were not having any relevant existence 10 yrs back. When it entered into the internet world, it took it by storm and spread like a wild fire. We all started using search engines to search anything we want to know or gather information about. So, nowadays we can easily find people targeting only the search engines to promote their blog.
Their main way out to reach to more and more readers are though search engines. One should remember that to get indexed in search engines may take a long period of time nowadays as there are thousands of sites launching everyday on the web.
When there is a Problem, there is a Way Out
Let me tell you there are several other ways also which you can use to promote your blog and make it popular. As I told you in earlier days, when search engines were not that popular that time also we were aware of several websites to look for when we want to know certain information from web. Here, I will tell you the good old method of Promoting your blog which can draw good amount of visitor into your blog if done successfully. Moreover, you build up a strong group of readers for your blog who themselves help you in promoting your blog and referring it to others.
‘Word of Mouth’ can Create Huge Traffic
We don’t search for ‘google’, ‘Youtube’, ’Yahoo’, ’orkut’ , ‘Microsoft’ or even ‘Problogger’ (in case of any blogger doing the search) on search engines. They are known to all of us. When you make a really good and positive impact on the mind of people reading your blog, they remember your site by heart and don’t need search engines again to enter your site. They even refer your site to others and this way your site is known to lots of other group of people. So, when you make your blog user friendly, interesting and informative keeping in mind your reader’s needs then you always have chances to get the ‘word of mouth’ advantage for your site. This can draw consistent heavy traffic to your site in a short span of time.
Social Communities and Blog Lists also Helps a Lot
There are many social communities you find in net where you can register your blog and make active participation in them. This way you can mix with several other blog writers writing on the same topic as yours. You can share your ideas with them. You can exchange your links too if you want. So, your blog is reached to wider range of people and there are chances that people will bookmark/subscribe to your blog and become a regular reader of your articles if they are impressed by it.
In addition to that, there are many sites which maintain a list of blogs on various categories and rank them according to the number of visitors they get to their site. If you manage to get higher rank, you will be noticed soon and will grow the number of readers of your blog. You should also remember that the readers you gain following this way of promoting your blog are always authentic and they also promote your blog by referring it to others or sharing them in their site. They usually spread your content to a new group of users and thus, increasing your reader base instantly.
Hope this article will help you in promoting your blog in a different way than you usually Do, but will definitely help you gaining some good visitors to your site.
How do you promote yourself ? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
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i have read similar articles on other blog also…nd ya it is a other way of thinking if there does not exist google…we can Do Promoting word of mouth good way nd the best way now is social communities like Facebook…stumble…so on…..
I think word of mouth can really bring in some good amount of traffic. Especially if it’s spread a lot.
Yes, it a good technique, agreed, but we need enough friends, i my experience please don’t tell anything about your blog to your friends, chance to lost your Adsense account.
Why u saying there is a chance of losing Adsense account if we tell abt the blog to our friends???
I would like to know the reason too. I think you can tell your friends about your blog but don’t tell them anything about Adsense.
Simple Logic, They will try to help us by clicking the ads regularly, Google will consider this as fraud clicks and you will ban. No Doubt.
Do not tell them to click your Adsense. Just tell them to spread the word that you have your blog and ask them to visit it. Your goal is to increase traffic and gain popularity, right? Don’t ask them to click your ads because, that is cheating.
Well, did any of your friends clicked your Adsense?
None as of now. They Do know about being Banned because of invalid clicks from friends. But they do read my posts. Actually, some of them already believed me and joined my network. If they are reading this post, they know who they are.
I’ve told many people like, friends, family and random people, but I just tell them about my blog. Don’t tell them that you can make money when people click your ads. Just let them naturaly Do anything they want.
So far I haven’t had any increase in Adsense or anything.
Ya true just ask them to visit and if they wish to click they can but dont tell them to click
Haha if that’s the problem, simply use software plugin to prevent Adsense click fraud. Well, it’ paid one but usefull.
That is true Anish. Your Adsense account might get Banned.
Shabnam Sultan, are you a victim of the same ?, But Asds showing on your blog, 3 PR Great.
Anish no i am not a victim but in forums you find of Adsense Publishers complaining of being Banned.
You don’t have enough friends Anish? I Do have enough friends and it helps my blog to spread around.
ZXT, I have enough Friends, Now i am not Spreading Blogs manually. I am getting enough traffic.
I have enough friends too but I still haven’t disturbed them to tell my blog because, until now I still don’t have my own domain name.
No problem about your domain matter. Since the article is usefull, viral marketing is happen always
Try to promote your blog by giving it to your friends (the url) and for sure they will like it and they will visit it more often.
What Do you mean by that? Are friend’s click on Adsense not valid?
they are valid but they will click frequently to help us earn more
if you tell them that doing so will Harm your Adsense account, I think they will understand and will not click your ads unless they are really interested.
Everything is valid as a click is a click, however just make sure people don’t click on your Adsense ad like 10 times in 1 minute. It will look suspisous and Google will ban you. Just keep everything under control and nothing will happen.
Tell them to click the ads once or twice a week it will be natural and we will get money for the clicks
it can bring in traffic as well as loyal readers
in return good earning 
Yes word of mouth is good too. Especially if you have lots of friends.
I think your loyal readers will be mostly your friends if you Do word-of-mouth strategy.
i dont think loyal reader will be our friends only they can be visitors who like our blog very much
Actually I have a couple of friends (real friends) who visits my blog regularly.
I’m beginning to like your blog too ZXT. What is your niche by the way? Is it really random posts?
No need a lot of friend, if you just want to make word of mouth effect. Just prepare very very great article, and try to get reference from popular blog. And then, wait for traffic
Especially if word of mouth come from opinion leader/popular blog. The effect will be great. It will be snowball effect.
i have some tips
1, Set Blog Url as IM Status
2, Use Forum Url as signature in your email id
“Use Forum Url as signature in your email id”
I don’t understand how I use Forum URL as signature in my email id.
Can you elaborate on this please.
maybe he’s talking about “[ ]” tags. It’s like html but instead of using , it uses [ and ].
ZXT, Sorry its mistake, correct it as ” Use Forum Url as signature in forums “.
What’s a forum URL?
It’s when you participate in forums and everytime you make a Comment your, you can place a link to your blog under the comment.
LOL, that’s why the usage of “forum url” term is wrong. Anish mean blog link on forum signature, right? Haha…
Well, i’m also Do it in a lot of forum (10-15 forum)
Thank you for replying. I know what it is. Use my blog url in my forum signature. Yes I’ve been doing that and it helps a little.
Yes don’t depend too much, it just giving less traffic. And also, some big forum unactivate the signature system
Do not forget blog commenting and forum commenting. Both of it surely can be great promotional Tools.
Yup i agree commenting will surely bring traffic nd backlinks that too on Dofollow blogs
Dana @ Online Knowledge, Yes that is also a very good trick, but choose the right blogs and forums.
1 will recommend forums like DP and HTML forum.
Twice benefit, chance to get back link and traffic.
Yes high traffic forums does help a lot.
Also don’t forget about local forum, especially if your target market is a local reader.
For blog commenting, i Do it but not consistence. But for forum commenting, believe or no, i’m make about 2000-3000 post total in all forum where i’m joined, in a month.
I promote my blog by leaving comments on other blogs like this one. I learned that its one of the most effective way of Promoting your blog.
Another thing is by making your blog url as a signature on forums.
Social Bookmarking is one thing too.
Frequently commenting on same blog can in return drive u traffic nd loyal readers for ur blog…social Bookmarking is the best way to drive lots nd lots of visitors…
I haven’t had much success with social Bookmarking sites, but only some people have success with social bookmarking sites.
i also dont have success with social Bookmarking but i think we can get lots nd lots of visitors from social sites
But don’t give up on it. Ever read also in this blog, there is people get 5000+ traffic just from SU account.
ZXT, great, but remember to visits more blogs (don’t limit it to 10-25) and drop Comment, please find great blogs and bookmark it, practice regular visit and comment.
10 to 25 are too many for me already. Usually I only have like 8 regular blogs that I visit. Then the others only visit it like weekly.
Wow, 8 is also too many for me. Do you have no real life activity? Visiting 8 blog daily surely need >1 hour per day.
I also promote my blog by leaving comments on other blogs and through social Bookmarking sites.
I find this effective. Because I’m leaving comments to TZI and some other blogs, I got consistent traffic from these sites. though the volume is to low.
As you grow older as a blogger, you’ll learn these things. For now I see you are on the right path.
Traffic from TZI is must be come from me, anish, ZXT, lax, etc…
You’re also visiting other TZI reader blog, right? Thanks then.
without search engines we can promote blog’s through contests
We can promote blogs with blog contests like lax is doing here
@ crazy blogger, How, how the people know about your blogs ?, contests are ok,
Yes thats one way to promote too…but you still need to spread it around.
Spread it to 10-15 people is enough, it will be viral automatically and rapidly.
Send your contest information to some contest topic blog such submityourcontest, mukhangpera, etc..
Yes, the technique is so simple. If people wanna join to your contest, make their should Do following thing (example) :
- Tweeting any of this blog article
- Make blog review
- Digg, FB, SU
The most important thing here is, you need some cash to be a prize. Well, cash prize is most interesting.
I understand word-of-a-mouth is a great thing to promote the blog, I also Do offline promotion for my blog. I have got visiting cards made and I give it out wherever possible and also I love to Comment on other blogs
Wow thats nice. So you give physical cards to people? Maybe a bumper sticker of our blog url is nice too.
I think you can ask taxi drivers’ permission to post stickers in their cab for free. Just give the driver some cheap freebies.
Well, thank you for you advice. On the other hand, why not go straight with the Taxi owners and talk to them? Not sure tho what deal you can give to taxi drivers to allow you to put your url…well if its a well made stickers then maybe they will allow it for free.
Doing transit advertising as we already discuss in the past article on this blog? Yes, it’s a kind of getting traffic without SE technique.
How to measure is it effective or no?
A good Way of Promoting is offline also by giving visiting cards nd lax has already mentioned about this earlier
I would like to see the photos of your pshysical blog card. Is design of it matter and affecting to get new traffic?
some blogs the main resource of traffic is search engines, and some other blogs something like subscription, directory and stuff… so if there are bloggers who think he can tackle the SEO stuff, he will doom.. that absolutely rubbish..
@izzat
What Do you mean? No one knows SEO that well?
i think he means very less people knows about SEO that well
I think he means that SE traffic is more important. He have different opinion
apart from search engines, social book marking sites are much effective than blog directories….its my personal experience
I think so too. On my Google Analytics account, referring sites such as TZI gives me good traffic, next to Google.
See, I told you everyone is a winner here. Just make sure you have a back up internet the next time around.
Not everyone. There is a loser –> who only posting in a purpose of contest, and the one who spamming.
IndianCashMaker, yes my traffic from directories is too low. are you using Indiblogger and blogadda ?.
What directories are you using? Maybe you need to add more or look for more high traffic directories.
Almost now a Day everyone is on social sites so the best way to get traffic(great amount
) is social sites only…
Agree with your opinion, but the strange thing is that people crazily looking for link on blog directories. Why?
Yes traditional way of traffic is good. Like newspaper has its own charm in this IT age.
I think commenting and interacting with other bloggers is a good way to build traffic. As too linking to others is also a great way to get noticed.
Commenting is the first thing I’ve learned for effective way of Promoting your blog. I actually get visits from you guys.
Commenting is surely a great way since the people come to know about us when they see are frequent comments nd they will visit our site for once that is sure and this can fetch visitors
I agree to lucifer. blog commenting is work, at least for now.
Word of Mouth is difficult for me
I think blog commenting will continue to work as long as we continue to Do it and visit each others blog.
WoM is difficult? Don’t you try giving freebies technique?
Yes, and when we’re already build strong circle of friend, then your blogging journey become more easy. But too build it, you need to patient not just for a month but a year.
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As for me, make contest is the best way of creating viral marketing effect. It’s proven already by many blog.