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There are many ways of promoting blog or website. We discussed few of them in our earlier post 5 Ways Of Promoting Your Blog For More Traffics. Today I am going to write about the role of social media (facebook, twitter, google plus, youtube etc.) in the promotion of a blog or website.





Todays Internet life is all about social media. Almost all of the Internet users have their accounts in social media sites. Even we conversate with our friends more through social media than direct conversaton. Social media is becoming part of our life. So we can see how much important is social media in our life.

If you own any blog or website, social media could be a great platform for promotion of your blog or website. A large number of visitors could be gained through social media. By seeing popularity of social media you could imagine how much effective it will be in promoting your blog or website via social media. 

Talking about social media, the most popular social media sites includes facebook, twitter, youtube, google plus,  etc. Create your account in these sites and promote your links there. These social media sites could drive endless traffics to your blog or website.

More readers that is what all writers and bloggers wants. Readers don't come easily. If you are having a blog then you need to promote your blog. To get more traffic to your blog you need to try all possible steps that drives visitors to your blog. I am pointing out some of the common methods that can lead your blog for more visitors easily.




Here goes the 5 ways of promoting your blog for getting more traffic. 

1--> Use Social Media:-

Social Networking is the most effective way of increasing traffic as most of the people in this world is using social networking sites.  So a large no of visitors can be achieved via social networking . Create pages and groups in social networking sites for your blog and try to increase nos. of fans and followers in that pages and groups. Facebook and twitter are the most popular among all social networking sites.    

2--> Join Blogging Communites:-

Join blogging communities to make your presence in blogosphere. Follow other bloggers and make them follow you. Share your posts and views with other bloggers in the communities. I am using communities like techonorati, bloggers, indibloggers.  

3--> Leave Comments on Other Blogs:-

Leave your valuable comments on other blogs that are more higher in ranking than yours and also do not forget to leave a link of your blog there. Try to leave comments on the blogs that are more related to your blog otherwise commenting on blogs that are not related to your blog may leave an impression you as spammer. 

4--> Guest Blogging:-

Guest Blogging is one of the good idea that every blogger should try. Writing articles for blogs that are much higher in ranking than yours could be a good decision towards the success of your blog. As you are writing in a blog that gets a large number of visitors and has a large number of regular readers, a portion of that blog readers may get attracted to your blog too. As guest blogger try to use unique posts since blog allowing guest blogging will approve your post only if your post is unique and related to his blog.

5--> Update Blog with Unique Post Regularly:-

Write more and more posts regularly. Your post must be unique since that is what all readers wants. More posts will give you more page-views in return. Readers will coming back to your blog more frequently if you update your blog with new and unique contents regularly.

 

Adding Email Subscription Box in your Blogger is one of the good SEO tactics. Whosoever subscribed to your posts will get updates in their email whenever a new post is published in your blog.


So I will tell you the steps to add Email Subscription Box in your Blogger




Steps To Add Email Subscription Box In Blogger Blog-->

1--> Go to feedburner.com

2--> Select the feed for which you want to add email subscription box.

3--> Go to Publicize >> Email Subscription option and click on Activate.

4--> Now select the language and widget platform (Blogger) and click Go.
You can also copy-paste the code given in the box to a new HTML/Javascript widget.

It's done!

Labels or Categories list related articles or posts. Visitors eyes gonna catch easily to your Labels link if you place your blogs Labels link just below your post title. So by placing Labels just below the post title will help your blog visitors to see and read related articles. 


This Tutorial will help you to place the Labels just below your post title


Steps To Follow For Placing Labels Under Post Title In Blogger:-->


1--> Login to your Blogger Account.

2--> Go to Blogger Admin Page > Template > Click on Edit HTML.

3--> Check Expand Template.

4--> Ctrl + F and find <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>


You will find codes like given below:


<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'><span class='post-labels'>
        <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
          <data:postLabelsLabel/>
          <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
            <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
          </b:loop>
        </b:if>
      </span> </div>


5--> Cut and Paste these codes under the script <div class='post-header'>.


6--> Save The Template and finish.

This tutorial will gonna help you to customize your read more link in your Blogger. Showing summaries of your blog posts in your homepage is always a good idea since showing full post of your recent post will gonna occupy a large space and your readers would have to scroll to see your below posts.






By showing summaries of your posts you are also enabling your readers to look up at the posts below your most recent post. Blogger includes this READ MORE feature but for more better look I am gonna explain you step by step procedure to customize your READ MORE link in your Blogger.


Steps To Customizing Read More Link In Blogger:-


1--> Login to your Blogger Account.

2--> Go to Blogger Admin Page > Template > Click on Edit HTML.

3--> Check Expand Template.

4--> Ctrl + F and find  <data:post.body/>


You will find codes like given below:-

      <data:post.body/>

      <div style='clear: both;'/> <!-- clear for photos floats -->

    </div>

    <b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>

      <div class='jump-link'>

        <a expr:href='data:post.url + &quot;#more&quot;' expr:title='data:post.title'>   <data:post.jumpText/></a>

      </div>

    </b:if>


5--> Now replace the blue codes with codes given below:


 <!--READ-MORE-STARTS--><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> <a expr:href='data:post.url'><div style="text-align: right;">Read More ->></div></a> </b:if>            

<!--READ-MORE-STOPS-->

You can Replace the Red text with anything you want to show up in your Read More link. You could also show up image in ths link now. Just replace the Red text with <img src='Link-of-the-image'/>

6--> Save your template and its done.