A Discussion and Promotion Forum?

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    jamesneolodger · Member ·

    Hey,

    I’m really new here and I thought just to get some word out about my new blog on gaming I’d post a topic, i assumed in the support section and have been told its tagged for closure, despite some people actually wanting to read my blog and have me read there’s and replying on it.

    So why don’t we have forums like these where we can do that without the topic being taken down?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Please read this > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-code-of-conduct?replies=1

    If those rules had been respected the forums we had previously would still exist. But the forums we had for such purposes were not used as they were intended to be used. The opportunistic spamming of both the Off-Topic and Showcase Forums and trolling involved far to much Staff time moderating and closing threads and sorting disputes and that brought and end to them.

    That why we have only technical support forums that cannot be used for blog promotion or discussion purposes. It’s why we now have a policy of telling bloggers to promote their blog in the numerous social networks available to them. It’s also why we encourage leaving valuable comments on blogs with similar content. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-housekeeping?replies=1

    This thread has been tagged for closure. Please do not continue to post into it and/or create additional threads of this nature.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are
    (1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and
    (2) being active on social networking sites.

    On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
    The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

    These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

    If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

    6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/

    Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
    1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
    2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
    3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
    Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
    4. Make your blog posts look professional;
    5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
    Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
    6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
    7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
    8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
    9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
    10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
    11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
    12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
    13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
    14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
    RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
    15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
    16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
    17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
    18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
    19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
    20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
    21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
    22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
    23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
    24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
    25. Create newsletters and/or Ebooks for your subscribers.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    @ jamesneolodger
    If you are interested in promoting your site, I’d suggest looking at threads on this link. You can also search these forums with other tags related to “promote-my-blog” and so on.
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/increase-traffic
    Please respect the use of these forums for technical advice: we volunteers do answer thousands of questions about how to do this or how to do that, or something is wrong and how do I fix it. That is the reason we are here and there are many folks who appreciate that these forums provide useful advice. There are lots of other ways to promote your own blog.

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