Exposure your blog to the South African market!
Blogging is a great marketing tool that has taken the internet by storm. Companies and individuals use this platform for many reasons, and whatever that reason, being noticed on the internet and having many followers can lead to gain in popularity, market exposure and wealth.
Some simple procedures should be used by all bloggers wanting to “Get Noticed” in the blogsphere;
- When naming your blog keep it relevant to the topic.
- If needs be, have your own unique domain name & brand.
- Write regular & original content regularly.
- Include plugins for the following;
- - All in one SEO Pack, SEO for your blog & posts
- - Contact Form 7, an important feature, keep in contact!
- - Google XML Sitemaps, sitemaps for your blog
- - MailPress, mailing platform
- - WordPress Mobile Edition, make your blog visible to mobile users.
- - StatPress Reloaded – Monitor your campaigns with real time stats.
- - Subscribe to Comments – Allow readers to follow new comments.
- Add a custom header to your theme & add a personal touch!
- Don’t have too many Ad’s that slow your blog loadtime.
- Be active in the Blogsphere, comment on and reply to other bloggers.
South Africa is quite advanced in the Information Technology area and local companies are seeing the benefits of promoting brands in the blogsphere. Here are some additional hints for South African bloggers, to help advertise their blog and brand;
- Subscribe your RSS feeds to Afrigator.co.za & Amatomu.com, this is a great way to publish your posts to the blogsphere.
- Promote your blog on SAblogs.tel, a proudly South African site dedicated to promoting South African blogs.
- Submit your blog posts to local sites like muti.co.za regularly.
- Submit your blog posts to international sites like digg.com, Technorati and Reddit.
- Have a presence on Gatorpeeps, the South African equilivant to Twitter, and tweet often, always including url’s to your blog and blog posts.
- Again, be active with your local bloggers by commenting on other blogs, but also taking the time to write back.
- Attend any local blogging events, meeting other bloggers face to face, which builds a great level of trust.
Happy Blogging
Gordon Bishop
http://SAblogs.tel
