You just wrote an awesome post at your fairly new blog,I mean this thing is just perfect, and you know it’s something people will like.
But you just hit that publish button, so what happens now?
Do you just sit and wait for people to come? NO, as soon as that post hits your front page you need to run around screaming about it, on the net that is.

I use post by post promotion techniques here at blogict, which pretty much means I use active promotion methods here. Now it has it’s pros and cons which ill talk about later but for the most part it’s great for newer blogs like this one.

Here’s what I do:

1. Blog commenting

On 45+ blogs
I know everyone in the blogosphere is pushing the whole blog commenting thing on you, including me, but it’s just so easy. Commenting should be the 1st thing on everyone’s post by post promotion list. With every post I write I go to my list of 45+ blogs I like and comment at them. I always see a spike in traffic, ALWAYS.
Just some things to remember:

1. Write GOOD comments, none of those “nice post” comments.
2. Find blogs that use the commentluv plugin.
3. Go back to your comment and check for a reply, and comment yet again.

2. Social bookmarking

is awesome
So many people underestimate the power of stumble upon, digg and all those sites. All you have to do is read this post by Darren and you will change your mind in a hot second. Sure your gonna have to submit your site to a bunch of sites but the potential is amazing

3. Social networks

Are so easy
If your already using sites like Facebook, MyBlogLog and the ever popular Twitter then leverage them for traffic. If you have twitter just tweet about your new post. If you can pull this off in a non spammy way your golden.

4. Leverage them forums

There traffic goldmines
I don’t do this as much as I would like to but if used right you can get traffic from forums. It’s pretty simple, if you check out the last post on pulling traffic from forums, you’ll see how to get your start at the forums. Then all you have to do is give an excerpt and start a conversation in the thread and your good to go.

The Pros

Of post by post promotion
1. Brings in a bunch of traffic each and every post.
2. Can bring in new readers each post.
3. Will slowly build your reputation.
4. Can bring in more

The Cons

Of post by post promotion
1. It’s time consuming.
2. Needs to be done each and every post until your very well established or change up your methods.

So what do you think of post by post blog promotion? What do you do for promotion?

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Some of you many know that this blog launched just 5 weeks ago on November 26th with the first post, and now on January 2nd Blogict has a Google Page Rank (PR) of 3. I have had a few people ask me how I did it, and although its been said before on a few other blogs I am going to tell you how I got a PR3 in a short 5 weeks.

What I have done

Through out the past couple of weeks I have employed a couple of different link building techniques I have picked up in the past, and they worked like a charm for me.

1. DoFollow blog commenting

I didn’t comment all that much on dofollow blogs, but the little bit of commenting that I did certainly helped. Dofollow blogs are simply blogs that allow search engines to follow links in their comments, and the hardest part is actually finding high PR dofollow blogs to comment at. I asked uncle Google and he gave me a couple of lists, like the small one Rajaie pulled together, and a some decent directories full of dofollow blogs. A quick tip: Remember to read Donny’s tips to comment the right way on dofollow blogs.

2. Became a top commentator.

I believe this was one of the biggest contributing factors to the PR jump here at Blogict. All you really have to do is become an active member at blogs that display the top commentators in their sidebar. Not only will you get that valuable PR but a ton of traffic depending on the blogs you participate in. Yan from thoushallblog.com has come up with an awesome List Top Commentator Blogs, check it out if you want to get serious about pagerank.

3. Used Forums For Link Building

I recently talked about pulling traffic to your blog from forums, but it’s no secret that if used right forums are a great link building tool. All you really have to do is drop your links in relevant threads without spamming, and use your signature for links. I found an awesome list of dofollow forums at the linkers blog but I mainly used my favorite forum WTF.

4. A little Social Bookmarking

I honestly haven’t put all that much time into social bookmarking but I can say I’ve dugg one or two of my posts and stumbled a couple of em’ also. I definitely plan on using social bookmarking a lot later on. Hopefully this month I can submit all my posts to the major dofollow social bookmarking sites.

What I Plan On Doing & You Should Too

Along with what I’m already doing and doing it more I want to add a few things into my link building schedule during the next few months.

5. Create WordPress Themes.

Through out 2009 I plan on releasing WordPress themes, one or two for free and a couple paid. I have always wanted to do this, as you can get a bunch of site wide links on the blogs of people that use it.

6. Hold a BIG contest.

Well I want to hold a contest slash raffle some time in the next two months.Why? Because I have seen the effects of contests on quiet a few of my friends blogs and forums; so I want to try it for myself in hopes that it will not only make Blogict more popular but bring in a ton of links for that PR6 that I want by December of 09′.

7. Linking from free secondary blogs.

I just started this today but I can’t remember where I read about it. Anyway, I headed over to the two major sites that give free hosted blogs; WordPress and Blogger, and created sister blogs which I’m really just going to write simple articles at and link to posts here at Blogict through them. It’s an easy and free way to get a few links and I actually hope to have 10 of these free blogs by the end of January. I’ll tell you all how well this goes over and if it’s worth the time.

8. Any more ideas?

Other than paying for links do you have any other ideas that I or any one else can use? Share them in a comment, and if I like it enough I will give you a pretty little link.

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