This blog is new. I’m using the following techniques to market my blog. Check the analysis at the bottom.

Prior to setting up my blog, I spent some time to select wordpress theme, made some SEO tweaks, modified few default setting in wordpress.

Now I’m turning to next 5 ways

1) Social media marketing: More than marketing my sites, I’m trying to learn from places like twitter. If you take a look at the tweeters I’m following, you’ll find that most of them are experts in their fields. That is where I can get the best of information from. As Lynn Terry quoted on twitter the other day “you are the average of the 5 persons you are with”. I also added mybloglog widget on this blog. I’m yet to see traffic with this.

2) Article marketing: This is a great way for beginners. I am writing informative & relevant articles and submitting them to 6 article directories. Yes, I do have an article submitter which looks great. But I don’t think it is necessary to post the same article to hundreds of directories. Select top 5 or 10 and rule them on your topic. Don’t miss ezine articles. Its google’s favorite.

3) Forum posts: I hand picked 4 forums for different reasons. One ranks very high in search engines, second one has loads of members, third one is where I belong, fourth one has a “follow” tag. I got as many ‘track backs’ as my posts. I’m yet to score good number there. I’m planning to work on this in the next few days.

4) Commenting on other blogs: I post comments on 3 niche blogs. No-follow on comments in wordpress blogs is default. If you are expecting link backs, it will be a big time-waster. What you might gain is identity building. If you post thought provoking, relevant, informational posts and share a link (at times) depending on the relevancy of the topic, you might expect some click backs. I downloaded “Comment Kahuna” last night. Looks like a handy tool. Yet to try. Will post a review on its functionality tomorrow.

5) Social Bookmarking: I’m still working on this area and was surprised to see that ‘Technorati’ referred one visitor today. This suggests that social bookmarking services work even for beginners. I’m planning to use either socialposter or socialmaster to semi-automize the process.

Results so far:

Social media worked well & brought in 40% traffic

Forum & Comment posting put together brought 40%

Social Bookmarking sites: 10%

Misc: ( email marketing): 10%

With this analysis on hand, I now have a clearer picture of the marketing techniques I will be using in this week.