Promote your blog with blogging award sites

by Dan Keller on 19. May, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion

Yesterday my blog was nominated for best blog about blogging in the Blogger’s Choice Awards.  I am writing this short post not so you will vote for me (I am hoping that you will ;-) ) but rather to let you know that this is a great way to promote your blog.

A couple of days ago I wrote a post about branding your blog.  This is an excellent opportunity to associate your blog with the movers and shakers in the blogosphere.  It is kind of like at the Academy Awards when the new comer says, “I am just happy to be nominated.”  If you can share the stage with blogs like ProBlogger (the winner in 2008) why wouldn’t you jump at the chance?

This is also a great way to drive traffic to your blog.  People will click on your blog to see if they want to vote for you or not.  In one day, I received 24 new visitors from the Blogger’s Choice Awards website.  That is not a ton of traffic but in a month it will add up to 720 new visitors, and if your content is strong you should be able to convert a percentage of those visitors into readers.  After all, these are bloggers who like checking out blogs, what better audience could there be for a blogger that blogs about blogging.

To make this a highly effective source of traffic you will want to try to get to the first page in your category.  That sounds like a huge task but in reality in many categories 30+ votes will get you on page #1.  I am willing to bet that if you are the front page for your category that will translate into hundreds of new visitors a day.

After one day, I have 12 votes and that puts me on page 3.  I don’t think I have a chance to win, but I am aiming to be on page 1 for my category.

Do you want to help me out?

You can vote for me by clicking on the image below:

My site was nominated for Best Blog About Blogging!

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5 Responses to “Promote your blog with blogging award sites”

  1. clickktdotcom 19. May, 2009 at 8:37 pm #

    Oh nice site, I just submit ClickKT on.
    Thanks ^_^

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  2. Dennis Edell 20. May, 2009 at 3:36 pm #

    Very cool little tip I never would have thought of, thanks!

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  3. Tycoon Blogger 20. May, 2009 at 7:10 pm #

    @clickk and @Dennis, I just hope that not too many people read this post and bump me off of page 2 :-)

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  4. Milo@Free Xbox 360 29. May, 2009 at 7:03 am #

    I THINK I voted. I pressed vote, then it went white then redirected me to another page.

    Good luck!

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  5. Miles on a Budget 05. May, 2010 at 8:02 pm #

    Oh my, your site is like a haven for the newbies like me! I just dropped on your EC but I ended up clicking one post after another! Thanks for all those tips!
    .-= Miles on a Budget´s last blog ..A Trip to Ocean Adventure =-.

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