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Promoting your blog

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with suggestions about promoting your blog.

Even if you don’t like to promote yourself, it’s a good idea to get the word out to other people about your blog, or else … well, no one will read it.

Here are a few easy ways to promote your blog for the people who shy away from anything even remotely like shameless self promotion.

Links to have on your blog, part 5 – email subscriptions

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with suggestions about email subscriptions for your blog.

“Why do I need email subscriptions for my blog? What’s the purpose?”

Links to have on your blog, part 4 - syndication

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with suggestions about RSS feeds and subscriptions for your blog.

“What the heck is RSS? And why do I need a feed? How do people subscribe to my blog?”

I’m glad you asked.

Links to have on your blog, part 3

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with more suggestions about links on blogs.

Often you’ll see long blogrolls on people’s blogs. What are they for, anyway?

Links to have on your blog, part 2

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with more suggestions about links on blogs.

Once you get started on linking on your blog, you don’t want too many or it will detract from your more important links. So what should be your important links?

Links to have on your blog

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with some suggestions about links on blogs.

(Sorry I've been awol the past few weeks--life and senility just caught up with me.)

Why would you want to link to other people? And what’s up with those mile-long blogrolls on some blogs?

Believe it or not, that helps other web surfers and bloggers to notice you.

Comments on your blog

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, with some suggestions about comments on blogs.

Some people don’t allow comments on their blog, and that’s their choice. It’s also natural—sometimes you just don’t want feedback or opinions on what you’ve posted, especially if it’s something very personal.

However, if you are doing blog marketing, comments are essential. Here’s why.

Posting content, part 5—More ideas for changing things up

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, giving more ideas for keeping things lively on your blog.

Last week I talked about entertaining your readers. It’s a good idea to change-up your blog content with fun, interesting things to keep readers coming back. Here are a few more ideas.

Posting content, part 4—Ideas for changing things up

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, giving some ideas for keeping things lively on your blog.

Contrary to what you might think, your blog is not about YOU. It’s about entertaining your readers. They have to want to come to your blog and read what you have to say.

This means a few things. Obviously, it means you have to have something to say, but it also means you need to write things that both inform and entertain. That way people will keep coming back, right?

Posting articles every day is fine. But if that’s all your doing, it might get boring. Here are a few ideas to still inform your readers, but also entertain them.

Posting content, part 3—Getting people to read the entire post

This is Camy Tang, the loud Asian chick, talking about how to get your readers to read your entire blog post.

Didn’t think about it? Most bloggers don’t, but it’s a very important aspect of blogging. It makes sense—if people don’t want to read your entire post for several posts in a row, they’ll stop coming to your blog.