5 Effective Ways to Promote Your Blog By Getting Others Involved

The following article is a guest post by Dana Sitar! You can read more about her in the bio, below the article. Click here if you'd like to be a guest blogger for Reviewz 'N' Tips! 

Blogging, at first sight, is a very independent and sometimes lonely task. You can feel that you are alone on one side of your computer, screaming into the blogosphere and social networks trying to be seen. One of the most organic and genuine ways to promote your blog is to get others involved. Why? When someone else has a stake in a post on your blog, they'll likely share it without being prompted. Rather than screaming at them and their readers through Twitter and email, you have simply invited them to share in your community, and offered them exposure in return.

These five types of posts are often utilized because they add value to a blog, but they also present fantastic networking opportunities:

3,068-Word In-Depth Guide to Getting More Retweets

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The world is nowadays full of gurus, who despite not having basic knowledge on a topic, make money consulting and “helping” others to be successful. Unfortunately it isn’t any different when it comes to the internet.

Known and unknown experts from around the world are selling blogging, social media and internet marketing advice.

Social media and more precisely Twitter is what the following article will focus on. With over two years of Twitter experience, in contrast to the “experts” mentioned above, I will give you sixteen practical tips that have helped me get hundreds of retweets on almost every article on this blog. And it will cost you nothing but a couple of minutes of your time!

Best Articles of the Month Overview (Part 1)

 

Many of you have probably already come across the so called "Roundup" posts. They are basically a collection of the best articles for a specific period of time, that the author of a blog has come across. Guess what? As a big fan of those kinds of posts I decided to start my own rubric of the same kind.

In the last Sunday of every month I will be sharing with you the best articles I have found on networks, such as Twitter and StumbleUpon, as well as from my RSS subscriptions or any other kinds of sources. The articles I will be including in the monthly rubric will range in topic from social media and blogging through writing and traffic generation.

If you feel that you have an article that applies to one of the above topics and which can be of value to the reader, feel free to contact me with your request.

Quitting Blogging? Stop - Detailed Guide to Keep You Going!

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Throughout 2011 blogging had almost turned into a drug to me. Addicted is probably not a word, strong enough to describe how I felt about writing articles and expanding my social media presence. Everything seemed pretty good, months past and things were going well. Until November that is. That’s when things took a turn for the worse. I had to stop. The break was supposed to be no more than a week or two long. In the end however it ended up lasting almost three months.

In the following article I will overview what made me quit and more importantly how you can avoid the same happening to you. I will also shed light on a couple of blogging benefits and some points to consider for growth in 2012:

Blog Optimization - Tools that Helped Me and Tips I Followed

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Design is a topic around which controversy tends to bloom. When it comes to designing a blog, it’s not any different. On the one hand there are the supporters of the ‘Good design matters’ theory and on the other are those who are not really keen on eye candy.

Although both sides have their strong points, what I believe is that supplying your content with some good looking graphics is always a bonus. That is why I decided to make some alterations to my blog’s design to make everything a bit more appealing and improve readability.

In the following article I will overview what I did, why I did it, how I did it and which tools I used in the process, so stay with me!