Each point of the following is a topic by itself. I tried to make it short as usual. However, don’t hesitate asking if any is not clear. I personally tested them and I’m writing about these points or factors from my own personal experience.
1- Enhance your ranking on search engines
- Your sitemap should be always up to date and being submitted to search engines periodically. WordPress.com takes care of this for you.
- Try to have good SEO structure on your site.
- Make sure that your site is fast loading – check it yourself on GTmetrix. I might write later how my site scores 100% on homepage and above 95% on most other pages/sections.
- Try to buy or exchange do-Follow Links with others. A lot of scammers are hunting in this market; so take your time before stepping further here…
- Increase your domain authority wisely without becoming obsessed about this point. That’s, don’t waste much time and money on it.
- Try to make visitors spend more time on your site. For example, refer to previous posts or other pages from your site often.
Related readings: Blog’s Statistics & Performance and Why I host with WordPress.com.
2- Engage with others
Likes, replies, comments, … Other bloggers usually pay the favor back and do the same to you. Just be careful of committing spam here. Please refer to WordPress – Ethical Dilemma.
3- Guest posts
Write blog posts on others’ blogs and offer others to do same on your blog. For me, I’m offering this too; you may visit “Be My Guest” for details.
4- Social Media
- Join Facebook Groups that relate to “promote website/blog”.
- Follow Twitter accounts that offer retweets service.
- Join Pinterest and Reddit groups (reddit might be strict in sharing links).
- Search for posts titled “Promote Your Blog or Your Latest Post” on WordPress.com.
5- Advertise your blog
If it’s affordable, advertise on social media such as Facebook, Twitter (read this first), .. and advertise on search engines (Google, Microsoft, …). Personally, I prefer advertising with bloggers themselves – you can read this very clear in my Cash Giveaway post.
Advertise with other bloggers
I got very good results from advertising this way. Please refer to my post Do you display ads on your blog?
6- Submit your site to MK Blog Directory
Finally, submit your website/blog to MK Blog Directory. It’s one of the easiest way to have your blog discovered by other bloggers (for free).
Great info! Thank you! 🙂
Thank you very much, Morgaine. Glad to hear this was helpful.
Thank you for this helpful information, Mohamed. I just followed you on Twitter.
Thank you very much, Franci. I followed back – I’m totally pleased and honored.
My pleasure, as well, Mohamad. Apologies for spelling your name incorrectly.
No worry. My name usually is written in many ways in English so it’s totally fine 🙂
Great info. Thanks
Thanks for your kindness. Glad you like it