Promote your blog

For the Content

1. Updated daily
2. Good content, keeping focus on the blog primary subject!
3. Medium lenght content (not short, not large. Posts that are easy to read)
4. A weekly diggest
5. Create a "sense of community" with my commenters
6. Create podcasts for the blog

Having it linked

1. Comments on forums, trying to add more value to the discussions.
2. Comments on blogs (idem forums)
3. Write papers for the users
4. Making a contest with the returning visitors, (win an Ipod every month)
5. Posting on newsgroups
6. Signature on my emails, forum posts, blog comments and newsgroups.

by Javier Cabrera
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