Bloggers and webmasters these days are always looking for ways to promote their site. There are a lot of ways to this: optimizing your site for good SEO, buying text links from other sites, participating in blog communities, etc. What most bloggers forget is that it is still possible to promote a website successfully the old fashioned way. And that’s by direct email marketing.
Mark from 45n5 has recently posted up a video of himself showing us a little secret on email promotion. In the video, he shows us how he has emailed 28 of the top bloggers in the blogosphere, and got a reply from 11 of them. Before you watch the video below, here are the the three main tips for promoting your site by emailing bloggers.
- Promote your best content. Remember, first impressions are everything. If the blogger sees how great your posts are, there is a better chance that they will actually take time and check out the rest of your blog…
- Don’t ask for anything. By this, that means that you should not (and never) try to ask for a link. Your goal is to promote yourself and let others know about you.
- Limit your emails. Email a blogger too much and they will start to dislike you. Mark says that the maximum times you should email someone is 2 times a month. I think that 1 is good enough though.
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I don’t find time for this
It’s worth the time. If you make an excellent resource list, tool or something of that nature and email the top bloggers, there’s a good chance that you’ll get some links. It’s a great way to get a new blog out of the sandbox or revitalize and old one.
I’m definitely going to put this one into practice
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ha..! that is great dear.. and am sure that he should have received atleast 20 quality(blogger) hits because of that..
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