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Blogging can be sometimes frustrating when everything seems on a hold, it is essential to promote your blog even if your blog is well known. Blog promotion stage is where most blogs returns to dust (RIP), if you don't know the techniques to do this, mehn.. you are out.

I like keeping short notes because I don't like reading long articles, so I won't take much of your time.

There are many ways to promote your blog but I will enlighten you on the ones I use. Yes, I share only what I have tested with my readers.
If you are a newbie or maybe you just setup your blog, its advisable to have at least 11 articles on your blog before using this promotions technique. You have to learn how to do onpage seo ( internal linking of posts in posts, I will find sometime to write up on this). This will help a lot because you will gain readers staying long on site, access to other linked articles and a low Bounce rate. After this is in place, you are open to this methods:

Blog and Forum Commenting: This really helped a lot. Visit forums and blogs related to your niche and make comments on posts, reply posts in a matured way, make your reply blend with the main post. In addition you may refer the post author to read a related article to what he/she posted from your blog.
Other ways, you can add your link to signature on forums if allowed. I tell you, this works well and will send visitors to your blog as long as the forums and blogs are active.

Social Media Sharing: A lot of bloggers misuses this, they just barge into any discussion and spam them with links which is very bad. Facebook is mostly used by me, Here is what I did and still do; I joined groups and liked pages relating to my niche, check through the already posted messages and read peoples comments. While doing this, I will take note of questions people ask, amount of people mentioning a particular word/ keyword, how desperate they need something.
Yes, after noting these things, I will do some research and write a good article about the topic, publish it and also I will write a summary of it which I will share in that group. After I am done, I share and I get them as a reader.
That's just it, comment on peoples post and try solving their problems.

Word of mouth: Imagine this right? it true, it works. I am a blogger and people know (friends), when I am asked questions about blogging, I will answer and refer them to my blog to learn more. They do this to and that's how it spreads, that's why its best to use a simple and easy to write domains.

I already said there are many ways to promote your blog and I only mentioned the ones I use and that are working for me. You shouldn't expect to see same day results friend, it's just good to be patience and keep working.

God bless Bloggers.

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CocoBee:
Nice Article OP. More MB to your modem. It ain't easy at all, even designing a template to your taste is another World War III to a newbie. Lol, talking about "No damn Ads" there are some blogs that once you arrive the landing page, 5 different tabs have opened and before you know you're in play store to download jiji app. That was how I was automatically subscribed to AIRTEL Football and my ₦40 was taken without my consent.. Is your blog powered by Blogger or WordPress?

WordPress

Sapiosexuality:
No, the About me at the lowest part of the blog. I want it to appear in just the homepage. Thanks.

since you are on blogger, you can only remove it or if you are a coder u can do that in template's editor.
to remove,navigate to widgets area and locate footer, remove it.

Sapiosexuality:
Please guys, how do I stop my About Me page from appearing in all my posts? I just want to it to be in the homepage only and not on every single thing I post. www.mortalpoet.com

you mean about author ??

oyienootieno:
Too many threads about blogging. The truth is blogging is long dead in Nigeria.

You think so mate?
oh no....just the lazy ones, Blog is not dead, only bloggers determination is.
when you have passion for blogging, you wouldn't relent. but, when all you want is quick money, its bad.

tectonotimes:
This is a good write-up. OP, you forgot to mention that e-mail marketing can be used to draw traffic to blogs. You can click on the second link on my signature for detail.

thanks for the info.......

Everyday, the blogging world (blogosphere) is expanding. Everyone wants to own a blog if not to make money but for entertainment. well, when you blog for passion, money rolls in.

I have highlighted 5 tips new bloggers must know about their blog if you don't want to be the runaway type...(sorry for that word but that's the fact).

1. Never Switch: Switching is very common among new bloggers, you can switch anything, it might be theme/template, plugins/add-on, niches and so on. Anything you change from its normal state is switching.
I remembered when I started blogging, I made this mistake too. I would change my theme every time I find a more descent one. this killed my blog's traffic and also I do change niches, I may be on technology news this week and by next week, I am on blogging tutorial niche. This is not a good action and it kills blog.

2. Never be Afraid or Shy: This is funny right? but that's the point. Being afraid or shy kills your blog 95%. Why 95%? I gave this score because your blog's success depends on you.
If you are afraid to share your blog on social medias thinks you will be spamming others, its bad. If you are in a niche that warrants you to interview an expert in your niche and you are thinking approaching the expert will make no yield because your blog is new and small, you are damn wrong.
Everything warrants boldness, Spam the hell out of social media and be kicked out (which is rear) and attain your goals. I do spam groups and pages too on Facebook and I see good results on statistics.

3. Don't Stay on Your Blog: No, get me right with this. Ask yourself these questions:
who owns the blog? ME!
Is the blog running away? NO!
Then why do you have to keep watching and wasting time there, you have work to do friend. go out there and advertise, if you can't do paid adverts, go and join forums and make comments referring to you blog posts in a mature way to avoid ban.
Time waits for no one, leave that coding, even leave seoing at first. get that traffic and then do your seo.

4. No Damn Adverts!: though its cool to monetize blog from day one but it does look frustrating to visitors if placed in a bad order. don't loiter your blog with ads, its not a PTC site uhm.
Okay, just eradicate them for now, give your visitors space to browse for now and then you can have them occupied later...

5. Patience: Yes, you need to have this, without this, blogging is nothing. it takes over three years for blogs to glow, so why rushing, ask the big fishes in the game, they have lot to say.
With all these words piled together, I think you know what it means now to own a blog and what to do. Never be on the runaway side!!! *winks..

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well N1m may be small but its better to start from somewhere.
have you considered the geo in terms of products in ur store?
if yes...its advisable to make a bill board listing some goods with their prices ( compare with market price, if market sells #300, you should be planning at #295 if it profits you).

that's what I think about it for now, Good luck

All is well sir.... and do you think commercial driving is the best option?

God bless you OP.
I HV an issue with CB. I opened up an acct with them 2years ago,after successful registration, it got suspended. i open another 2 accts bt same thing happen...
i use cyberghost vpn then..

but will give this a try again.....

thanks again

cool but I think the price should be indicated..

Yeah,maxbounty is the nest for me...
but mehn,it ain't easy earning, my blog has 40% Nigeria 40% USA and oda countries 20%.. that helps me esp. US traffic, Nigerians don't click my offer but the US does...

my point: I make my blog on US setup, I don't mention Nigeria or anything related in my articles. that's what helped me have low bounce rate from US traffic.. and believe me,CPA pays well with them

which bookie pls??

ban is active...... seek help from a foreign friend...

From your post (the way you expressed your thought) I guess you are not a citizen of PH..
if I am right,you have to seek for consultants in PH. they know much about market flow...
but if wrong, get a list of business that makes sales and are legal..choose the one that suites you and that you can afford its startup capital.
most important is to seek advises from those who are already into it.....

great work @op..
according to me, where your shop is located will determine sales rate. I don't know where its located but for now,physical markets that i see trending is selling of wines and some beverages..
its also a business to make account for even when you are away....

doing real great since its a new blog... try do some seo stuffs to also rank well on serp..
thumbs up!!!

yeah,nice one... Maxbounty is the best cpa network so far,even I don't do cjs.. I run some on my blogs and earning some bucks... good to see you do too

congrats but as a blogger,you should make ur URL visible.
and as per knowing your traffic source and getting competitors, that's not a point because even the niche u are into is of high competition...

congrats again...

I guess its a new website cos there ain't enough projects there..

OK...09057104804....

@OP, Iam with you but hope you ain't trying to get some impressions on your gig...