7 Easy Breezy Ways to Get In the Swing of Push Marketing Your Blog

Results come with effort.

No matter what platform you choose to blog on ActiveRain, an Active Rain Outside Blog, Wordpress, or Typepad, activity, research, and prospects come with effort.  Once you push clients to you than your pull efforts will finish the marketing job. 

Don't overlook the momentum of push marketing just because we are a socially enabled and 2.0 savvy community online. 

Here are 5 Easy Ways to Get In The Swing of Push Marketing Your Blog

1.  Register your blog with blog directories.  There are a sea of blog directories to help you get exposure.  Start with Technorati, Google, Dmoz, and Yahoo.  Then commit to registering your blog to other blog directories, tasking yourself at 2 a day.

2.  Advertise Your blog offline.  Advertise your blog's URL on your business cards, newsletters, car decals, print advertising, home buying seminars, sign posts.

3.  Advertise your blog online. Podcasts, online radioshows, market conditions reports, email signature line, online flyers, and social networks.

4.  Network with Local Bloggers.  Get involved in your local online community.  Seek out local bloggers on microblogging and blogging platforms and read and comment on their blogs.  Making an investment of your time locally with bring awareness and readership to your blog on a local level.  You might even get a little link love to your blog in the process.

5.  Mobilize Your Blog.  Mobile search is increasing at a fast pace.  According to a recent study by the Kelsey Group,

"... local searches make up about 28 percent of mobile searches....That figure will grow to about 35 percent by 2013." 

Regardless of the platform you blog on, in or outside of a network, mobilizing your blog is pretty simple.  Research your platform and get mobilized.

6.  Utilize your whitespace.  You have got great real estate Internet property right on your website so make the most of it.  If your blog isn't built into your website platform you can still add links advertising your posts or get a simple feed from feedburner added to your website to feed your blog posts.  There's also a whitespace on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In called a business profile.  Add a link on your business profile to your blog 

7.  Become Keyword savvy. Savvy?  Put in the time to check your keywords on Google before creating your headline and writing on a topic. Write the keywords down that you want to write your post about and then check them on a keyword search tool.  If your keywords aren't searched by consumers on the search engines you can't expect the traffic to flood to your posts. 

Use your keywords throughout your post.  Use your keywords more than once and use variations to increase your keyword density.  Do not worry about keyword density after you you have written your post or you will sound robotic and lose your blogging voice in your post which will be a big turnoff for blog readers.

Add keyword friendly footers to your posts so they will get picked up in the search engines.

Every great swing into marketing deserves a push and pull effort.  Build your momentum with these 7 easy ways to get into the swing of push marketing your blog.