Blog Promotion for Beginners

If you have just started a blog you may want to check out this article about blog promotion:

7 Easy Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed
Starting your first blog? Here are a few very simple things you can easily do to start getting visitors:

Leave Blog Comments
Issue Trackbacks
Utilize Social Bookmarking tools
Participate in Blog Carnivals
Add Your Blog to Directories
Consider Traffic Trading Sites
Participate in Related Forums
Get Organized

Something not mentioned is the concept of keeping your blog active. It takes a lot of time and effort to develop good content on a regular basis. Shoot for a schedule of at least once a week and try to be consistent. When your blog is more established it won't matter quite so much though.

Building An Empire

I've been at this for a while now. For example, I have some web sites that have PR 4, PR 5 and right now one single PR 6 blog.

I also have a fair number of newer sites that aren't as established as these. However, once a site does become more established, it is a lot easier to monetize it. It also becomes easier to help your own new sites become more established.

Something I haven't done, but that I'm going to do, is see about using chat again. I used to chat, in the past, before it was so widespread. So, I'm not sure if it will be the same place it once was...

Pay Per Post Review

I've recently tried the PayPerPost network as an advertiser. It is a little confusing at first, but if you are willing to be patient, something I'm not, then you can hang out in their public forums and become acquainted with how things work before you jump in.

As with any type of business, Internet or otherwise, there are things that work well with this model and things that don't work so well. Obviously, to protect your investment you have to review and approve individual posts. This works well if you are on a tight budget but have lots of time.

For larger corporate activities I suspect it will more be a matter of limiting who can participate in a campaign based on PR and Alexa ranks. With these basic quality metrics (as well as PayPerPost's proprietary "tack" rating) in place, a larger company will simply fire and forget, trusting the systems in place. These systems ensure that the requirements of the paid posting opportunity are in fact met by individual bloggers before they earn revenue.