5 Ways to Spread the Brand of your Blog Like Fire
This is a guest post written by Melvin Dichoso from MelvinBlog Dot Com
Each and everyone who owns a blog definitely wants to build an audience towards the brand of their own. And of course, we want to spread it and have it exposed to as much people as possible. Since millions of new blogs are created every day, it’s an uphill battle for us, bloggers to spread our own and stand out from the rest.
But we should never get worried. Obviously most of the blogs are just junk blogs, either blogs who are just created for SEO benefits or blogs that are created by inexperienced bloggers. Overall we still have a good chance of getting recognized, acquiring new readers and reaping good benefits for spreading our brand.
So without further ado, here are those 5 top notch ways and methods to get the brand of your blog across vast demographics:
1.Facebook Fan Page
By just surfing around the internet, you could easily notice that a lot of blogs are now starting to add that Facebook Fan Page widget. What this thing does is enable your site to have its own Facebook page where Facebook users could keep track of it by becoming Fans. It’s very evident how powerful Facebook is as a social tool and by having it, you’re expanding your blog to a wider audience while reaping the SEO benefits of getting listed in Facebook. Do one now for your blog by going here.
2.Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect, although is not new, is something that hasn‘t been yet utilized by a lot of bloggers yet. I‘ve seen few blogs using this and obviously it‘s another solid way to get traffic. It basically works like Facebook Fan Page but with different demographics and focus. If your blog doesn‘t have one, consider using it now.
3.Issue a Press Release
Who says press release is dead? Press Release is another powerful way to get a blog out there if done properly. Press release works in 2 ways, first is the traffic and second is the links. Most press release sites cater great traffic and if you write a good release then chances are your writeup would be viewed a lot. Then because press sites work like news sites, a lot of website and blogs pull RSS feeds and data from them. In a few weeks Google will have indexed thousands of websites with your info in it. Doing press release can be challenging at start. You might even get rejected for a couple of times but that‘s part of learning. Eventually in the future once you get how it works, you can really maximize it to your advantage.
4.Doing Guest Posts
Guest posting is the quickest way to get readers and spread the brand of your blog if you‘re not going to spend any dime in advertising. By guest posting, you are entering the door of another variety of audience, audience who probably have never heard of your blog before. It‘s like you are reaching for a totally different viewers. If you have a superb quality guest post (which you should!), then they will more likely add your blog to their feed readers as well.
5.Creating a Twitter Account for Your Blog
We‘ve seen how Twitter users have skyrocketed since the day tweeting has started. Not creating one for your blog is too much of a good opportunity to pass for. By creating an account, we don‘t really need to use it like a personal twitter account, but we can utilize it to bring more and more brand awareness and traffic to our blog.
Conclusion
With those five steps, it‘s evident that it isn‘t really hard to bring a blog up from scratch and have it recognized by a huge audience. Doing all of those things that I mentioned above, you can be assured that your blog can be recognized as well as get read by more and more people. And if you already have that good amount of traffic and readers in your blog, it‘s now time to start reaping the benefits. 
Article written by Melvin
Melvin is a young blogger and internet marketer who is in this space since 2007. He writes @ MelvinBlog.com where he shares all his useful stuffs. He has recently done an eBook entitled Blog Marketing for Fame which has received a lot of positive responses. The eBook is free for newsletter subscribers so subscribe now!Melvin has written 6 superb article(s) on this blog
February 9, 2010
6:29 pm
Thanks for the nice tips. Guest posting is surely the best way to spread the word about your blog.
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February 9, 2010
6:46 pm
It is important that you interact in the community to gain stature. Being “out there” is not enough.
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February 9, 2010
7:26 pm
i would love to do a guest post every now and then but it leaves me with less post for my blog
February 11, 2010
7:14 pm
its normal but just try doing it now and I’ll assure you, you would get used to it.
February 10, 2010
1:05 am
Good post, yes when press release is used in the correct way to draw attention to your site on the web is one great way of going about the successful publicity of your site. The information that you give throughout the press release must be newsworthy, its must not sound like an advertisement rather it should be newsworthy information about the product or service you are offering to customers.
February 10, 2010
5:45 am
I have number 2 and 5… I still don’t have a fan page… maybe sooner… guest posting is one of my goals this first quarter of 2010… Bdw, thanks for this article, Melvin…
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February 11, 2010
7:14 pm
you’re welcome fellow Filipino native!
February 10, 2010
10:33 am
Hi brother how are you? I am back to my work again.
Well branding is very much important for build good reputation within blogsphere. We have try to build our name brand like John Cow, Shoemoney.
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February 10, 2010
6:26 pm
I dont know why you didnt mention about CoMMENTING ?????
Its very essential for all blogger
February 10, 2010
9:22 pm
1. We shouldn’t worry about millions new blogs, that appear every day. We should worry (maybe) about those, who are still active after a while (e.g. half a year)
2. I’ve uninstalled Google Friend Connect, because its loading time was too long.. And I find it useless unless you’re using newsletter feature of it.
3. Totally agree with you about the rest tips. Especially, about guest posts. Guest posting simply blows up your blog’s number of subscribers. Of course, if you have some awesome strategy…
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February 11, 2010
1:50 am
Thanks for this great tip! I will add Google Friend Connect..
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February 11, 2010
3:16 am
guest posting is a very great way to build traffic…higly recommendable..
February 11, 2010
5:16 am
I’m not sure of FB, but my new twitter account is coming back soon! Stick around my blog, I’ll be looking for advice about it.
Nice tips.
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February 11, 2010
7:52 am
According to me, guest posting on blogs in your industry is the biggest source to create branding, links, subscribers and lots of valuable traffic to our website. rest of things are also effective, but not much effective as guest blogging is.
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February 11, 2010
7:15 pm
it works wonders for any blog in any niche.
February 11, 2010
10:43 am
I keep reading about how Guest Blogging is the best way to increase the exposure to your blog. Currently I just use Ezine on the weekends to publish articles when I don’t post on my blog. I think posting there is similar to a guest post without the hassles of trying to get someone to post your articles on their blog.
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February 11, 2010
7:16 pm
well I haven’t really done some ezine posting so I am welcoming your opinion about it. The good thing about guest posting is that its like getting the authority of that blog for you w/c is a good thing.
February 11, 2010
9:00 pm
Can you post few press release sites?
February 12, 2010
11:03 am
There are many press release sites out there…Some are free and some are paid…Instead of telling you so many press release sites in this comment, I would like you to have a look at these post which list press release sites:
http://www.avangate.com/articles/press-release-distribution_69.htm
http://www.subhub.com/articles/the-best-free-and-paid-press-release-websites-and-when-to-use-them
I hope you will find them useful.
February 14, 2010
3:23 am
I agree with these 5 ways, but they are hard to implement. You have to spend a lot of time doing them, and then you just end up getting nofollow’s, or twitter followers just looking to spread their own word…
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February 16, 2010
8:09 am
you can also do an announce on craiglist, just pick a big country. set your “launching” date of your blog.
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February 20, 2010
10:04 pm
Those are really great tips to increase traffic to your blog. I like the Facebook tip because I’m on it all the time, and it won’t feel like work. I had never thought about the Google Friend Connect tip before, it seems like and interesting approach. I will have to give it a try.
February 21, 2010
5:50 pm
Some great tips for getting your blog noticed, I agree also with Sudharsan re: commenting as it’s also a goodie also forum marketing is also a goodie
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February 25, 2010
5:40 am
Surely everyone wanted to spread and exposed their site to as much people as possible things may seems so easy but the hard thing only is to devote even an extra time during your first campaign steps. But of course the hardship is worthwhile…
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March 2, 2010
2:58 pm
just because you use these social services doesnt mean that you will get any further. You still have to work on sharing your content.
March 2, 2010
3:50 pm
Exactly… But at least using these social services paves the way on how you are going to share the contents of your blog.
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March 3, 2010
8:41 pm
Guest posting… who woulda thunk?!! Turns out it’s a really great thing.
As a professional dog trainer, I found my niche in teaching people how to understand dogs and their behavior through the reflection of your own behavior. Then applied how to get out and play more, view the world through the eyes of a dog not only gets you a trained dog but more people with balanced lives, successful businesses, and better relationships in general.
Many dog trainers are afraid to “give anything away”. I’ve learned teaching people through my writing brings so much back in so many ways.
Guest blogging has been a great way to do just that! I highly recommend it regardless of your niche!
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March 29, 2010
6:55 pm
i never knew how to do press releases. going to research it more. is it free?
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March 30, 2010
4:14 pm
not everywhere..