How NOT to Promote Your Blog

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I’ve stumbled upon many articles that tell you how to promote your blog, how to build backlinks, how to do this and that. What I’ve also seen, is that some people fail to completely understand this and do it all wrong. In this article I will point out a few ways how you should NOT promote your blog.

You should NOT

Submit your blog to 500 paid directories that bring zero traffic.
Use automated bots to comment on other blogs to build backlinks.
Link to your blog in every comment.
Sign comments with your blog name instead of your real name.
Leave a comment saying “This is great”.
Use search engine and blog directory auto submitters.
Tweet about you and your blog all the time.
Join forums only for promotion of your blog.
Write for search engines.
Put 30 badges for all social bookmarking sites on your blog.
Ask random people for link exchange.

What say you?

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Rose

Great break down of what not to do. Perhaps you can do a follow up post on what to do.
heathermanning

This is great!

Just kidding! I mean it is, but I couldn't resist. Great tips though! I've been guilty about just tweeting my blog posts the last couple of days (but just each post, usually 2 or 3 a day). I please innocence because I have sick kids and can't sit at my computer for long.
Marko

This is great! Thanks!
Hey, nothing wrong with a few links a day :)
trinadionnetilson

I especially like not joining forums just to promote your blog and asking random people for link exchange. I find myself on the receiving end of both of those strategies. One "friend" posts to my Facebook inbox this generic letter each week starting with, "Do you have a blog or website?" I am trying to get to know my friends....then "I like what I saw...yata yata" pretty unauthentic. That type of response is a real turn off and killed my motivation for blogging at all.
Rod

I agree with 95% of your thoughts here. I don't totally agree with DO NOT #4 "Sign comments with your blog name instead of your real name." I think it's ok to leave a comment like this, "Rod @ The Success Center." It kind of kills two birds with one stone.

I do believe that a lot of new bloggers take too much from automation and as you mentioned, that's when it all falls a part for them. Great observations, keep up the good work!
Marko

Thanks for the comment. Yea, the way you put it, is not even that wrong. :)
Rod

Lol, glad we see eye to eye. One must understand that there aren't any exact rules written in stone when it comes to blog promotion, only best and worst practices.
tonyknuckles

What about using a mixture of blog titles for linking back to your blog/site via comments? Would a random mixture of twitter user acct names help?
Marko

It's nothing wrong if you link to your blog in a comment, if it's relevant. What I meant is, if someone intentionally links to his blog in every comment, that's kinda of spammy IMO.

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