Multiple Blog Promotion - Forums
If you maintain multiple blogs, then you know how challenging it can be to not only come up with fresh ideas but also how to promote each blog. There are a number of ways to get the word out about your blog from forums to directories. Making a plan of action for each blog on an individual basis can ensure that the fruits of your labor are indeed productive.
Have niche blogs listed in forum signature.If you plan to use your blog in your signature on the forums you regularly visit, only list those blogs that are related to the topic at hand. Forum viewers will be more interested in visiting a blog that is on the same subject at the forum instead of a whole list of your blogs. Listing just one or two will give you space in your signature to enter that tagline of your blog or a brief description, which should entice forum viewers to visit your website.
Feedburner.com has a blog promotion tool called Headline Animator that drops your RSS feed into a nice little portable text box that you can use in your forum signatures. Now forum visitors can see a rotating headline of your latest posts that will help to generate more interest in your blog and increase traffic.
Answer forum questions and link to more information on your blog. Another effective way to promote your blogs on forums is to answer questions posed on forums. Link in one of your blog posts that explains the answer further into your reply answer. In your forum post, giving an answer and an option to learn more will be more helpful than just a link saying “Hey I answered that on my blog here.” You can give an answer to the question but also provide the link where you go further in detail about an answer. One thing is for certain about popular forums: there will always be newbies who will seem to ask questions that have already been answered. Blogging about commonly asked questions on blog will help increase your chance of having a post that fits a future forum question.
An example of this might be a forum about local attractions. Making a post about the best dining places in your city or the best places to take the kids are good blog posts that are likely to be questions posed by new people to a local forum. Answering such questions will help newbies as well as gain exposure for your website.
Forums are a great spot to meet people and to promote your niche blog that is related to the forum topic.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I use the feedburner headline animator in my forum signatures and it really is awesome and works well.
It looks nice and updates to show your latest articles automatically which is worth thr trouble.
The only thing I wonder is if it would be better to just link to my blogs main-page in my signature to help improve my sites page-rank by all the links in all of my posts in a forum that doesn’t use rel=”NOFOLLOW”.
For now im sticking with the headline animator since im hoping to attract more readers, but still worth thinking about how a link could be better SEO. Ahh!