How To Make Money Blogging In 10 Steps: Step 10 – Ways To Promote Your Blog And Get Backlinks

Finally we’ve reached the last step in our how to make money blogging guide.  You’ve got a nice looking blog that is search engine optimized, you have chosen a method to monetize it, and you’ve submitted to top blog and website directories, and you are periodically adding good quality relevant content to it.  So now it’s time to do some serious promoting and get traffic to your site.

This step is very important and is a continuous process.  It requires a bit of leg work, money to get your site promoted, or a little of both.  You have to do all that you can to bring attention to your blog.  People need to know you exist and unless you call attention to your blog no one will know you exist, no matter how “pretty” your blog looks.

Just having good content is not enough to get traffic.  Don’t wait for people to accidentally stumble into your blog.  The key is the more traffic you get to your site, the more money you have a chance of making.  Providing that you have good useful content on your blog of course, because if you have garbage or non relevant content your visitors will just leave and not come back.  Take action and let the world know that you exist!

Mainly when you’re promoting your blog you want to get backlinks.  Backlinks tell the search engines that you are popular.  The amount and quality of in links to your site can help you get very popular, therefore improving your search engine position, and even ranking.  This leads to more traffic, and more traffic means more sales, more sales equals more money for you.  Getting a lot of traffic is one surefire way to make money blogging.

There are tons of different ways to market your blog.  The best strategy is to pick a combination of several different methods.  It’s important to get a variation of backlinks from different sources.  There are plenty of programs and software that can automate the link building process to make it easier for you.  You can also outsource your link building.  There are many promotional and link building services but some can be quite costly.

Below are ways to get you started building one way links and diving traffic to your blog.  Some of the top sites are listed so you can get started right away!

Article Marketing

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is a great way to get backlinks and traffic to your site. People will read the article and follow the link to your site.  There are many article directories, some are well established and get decent traffic.

Article Directories

Social Bookmarking

A great way to promote your site and create backlink is through social bookmarking.   Just like you bookmark a site you like, the same way you bookmark your own website by telling the world, “hey check out this exciting site”.

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Networking

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter has become a big source for businesses to marketing their product and services.  Even big corporations understand the value.  They have taken advantage and are profiting from these types of free marketing venue.  You should be too!  This is a great way to network and can help you make money blogging.  Some of the networking sites have forums, groups and classifieds that you can post in.

Social Networking Sites

Press Releases

Press releases are not just for major brands, big businesses, and celebrities.  This is one method that should not be overlooked and you can get some “juicy” links from this.  There are several paid press release websites that will get the word out for you.  Most likely you won’t get television and news coverage, but the possibility is always there if your site is unique enough.  However though, you will get some traffic and link juice.

While there are free and paid press release submission services, the professional paid ones gives better results.

Press Release Services (Free)

Press Release Services (Paid)

Online Forums and Discussion Groups

Forum and discussion group promotion is yet another way that can help you make money blogging. This is an old school (social networking) way of getting backlinks to your site.  It is still is a good way to get backlinks.  The web is filled with this type of medium.  However you want to find quality forums and groups and not the ones that are abandoned or are spam haven.

The best strategy is to find search online for group or forum within your niche or topic.   For this to work you will have to actually become an active member and participate in the conversation.   You then include your website link in your forum signature.  By participating and adding to the discussion without being too “sales-sy” and overtly pushing your site people are more apt to click on your link and check out your site, product, or service.

Forum & Discussion Group Sites

This is the conclusion of our quick start guide of how to make money blogging. I hope you have found it very useful and that you are implementing it by creating a blog and getting started right away.

There are more resources on this site so use them to successfully make money blogging and site creations!