Niche of the blog should always be something in which you are interested and have certain knowledge about the topic Once you decided your niche, Go for related domain names. Hosting is easily and cheaply available of many websites.
Now the Question is How to promote my website?
Here are my tips and ideas as how to start the blog so that it gets promoted well.
Search for long-tail keywords in Your Niche.
Write at least 15 post before starting any type of promotion.
Claim Your Blog on Technorati - It's very easy to do. Just follow some tutorial on any website.
Digg all Your post or stumbleupon them.
Make a facebook page. Invite all your friends and ask close ones to invite their friends too.
Make Facebook Group related to your niche and add all your friends. Facebook groups give me good traffic.
Go on Bloggers.com and register your blog and make a good profile.
Use Twitterfeed.com to connect your twitter and facebook profiles so every post made can automatically be posted at both places.
Search for do follow blog and comment on them. They create backlink for the website which increases the value in search results.
Do all these things and wait for Google to crawl your website. In case you haven't added your website to search engines ,Do that also. In the meantime , Keep adding relevant content to your blog and believe me no. of visitors in a month will double themselves. Rinse and repeat is the process of other posts.
How to promote and get traffic from Blog Carnivals?
Getting traffic on a blog is the main thing after creating a blog. In fact getting traffic is the most important part. There are many ways of getting traffic on a blog. Blog carnivals are one of them.
You can submit your blog to Blog carnivals. Blog carnivals are also websites which publish your link on their website with little bit of information. They will publish it on their website in due course of time.
1. You will get lot of traffic if you submit each blog of yourself over time.
2. You will get backlink to your blog.
3. You will get new subscribers for your blog.
4. Your fan following will gradually increase.
So, the conclusion is that you must submit the articles of your blog in the blog carnival.
How to promote, get traffic and earn money from Hubpages ?
Hubpages is a page rank 7 website. It carries a high authority within the Google search results. Any article written on hubpages get indexed very quickly on Google as compared to a normal blog or website. Hubpages also provides author score within the hubpages which determines the authority among hubbers on the website. Whenever the Author score goes above 75 , all the links inside the post will become outbound links means they will act as backlinks.
Now suppose you have written a no. Of articles that support your website or blog or they are written in relation to your content then putting a link of your website will get you a backlink. As the Article appears quickly on Google and other search results, those people will certainly look out the article and will go to other links on the page i.e. your website.
Generates traffic for your websites – You might be interested in knowing how much traffic can be generated from hubpages, them let me tell you “A Lot”. I wrote few articles and they got listed on Google which gave me enough traffic indirectly thorugh hubpages to my blog.
Adsense Revenue Sharing - Hubpages Supports Adsense revenue sharing system. You article can generate money for you if you have a adsense account. You just have to put the publisher code in there and hubpages does the rest for you.
Amazon Affiliate – If you are an amazon affiliate then you can promote the amazon products on the website in middle of your post as hubpages provides widgets to add products related to article.
Kontera Integration – If you have signed up for Kontera intext advertisement then you can enter you code for the same on the hubpages website and you will generate revenue thorugh in text advertisement alongside Adsense and Amazon.
Some of these features make hubpages different to other website and It's one of the facts of it's popularity.
1. Digg Your Post - Digging my post is one of the first things I do after publishing. Digg.com is one of the best websites in the world to promote your content. Best thing is that it will get indexed in Google very fast which will bring some good traffic to your website.
2. Facebook like: If you have a lot of friends then liking your post generates a vast amount of traffic and as you might know if your friend likes the same post, that news will be seen by all of his friends. If your post is really interesting then it may go viral.
3. Twitter: If you have a lot of followers then You should tweet about your new post and website regularly and often. Twitter gives good traffic and visitors if your content is good. If you don't have a lot of followers then follow the rule : Follow me and I will Follow back.
4. Comments on other website: Commenting on other websites does two thing. It gives you traffic and secondly if the comment is made on a dofollow blog , it creates a backlink. So search for dofollow blogs and websites and comment.
5. Good Content - Writing good content is the first thing you should do. If the article written by you can do wonder then certainly it will go viral within the interent. So, enhance your writing skills and broaden your mind. Search for topics which creates an impact on Society.
These are my tips for website promotion. You need to choose your techniques and see which one brings good traffic for you.
How to Promote your website via Digg?
Digg.com is one of the famous websites for sharing interesting website links, photos or other news. Digg.com has a high page rank and a good authority in Google search results. Digg.com can be easily used to promote your website or blog by submitting your blog link to Digg.com Registration on Digg is free. Register Yourself or connect with facebook or twitter and submit your links on the website.
Links Once submitted can’t be submitted again.
Change the title of your post in the title box while submitting, the Digg will fetch the post title but change it. When you change it google will have two things or say two different titles which directly goes to your website.
Write a good description so that it can hit the Digg pages. If your story gets more diggs by the people then you will get tons of visitors on your website.
Top 10 Hollywood films – The Top and no. 10 make a different effect on people while viewing the story.
11 Most Advanced Technologies - The title looks interesting so those who are interested in technology will certainly look out these 11 advacned technologies.
If you have people working under you website, tell them to digg each story of your blog or website because once the story gets high diggs in it’s category, It will get unbelievable amount of traffic.
Keep Digging and Generating the traffic.
Please Give feedback as well on how these methods workout for you.