I’ve been looking into ways to promote this blog. So far there’s no noticeable progress, but sooner or later more people will come to check the world of liquid maze out. Anyway, there are several ways to promote that I could think of or that were suggested by a friend:

1. Submit the blog to regular search engines
2. Submit the blog to blogs specific search engine and directories
3. Create a mirror blog in a community of blogs, where the blog will get listed and promoted automatically
4. Sign all my posts on the internet and e-mails I send with the link to the blog
5. Reference other blogs and track back link will appear automatically, or at least it should in most cases
6. Ping (report to a sevice when a new post is created) weblogs.com or similar place

I will spread description of each approach across several posts. At some point in time I might also think of some other way to promote and in such a case I will write about it too. Before I move on I should mention that these are the possible steps to take in order to make people more aware of the blog. Quality and freshness of content and presentation is also important and I intend to keep on writing posts on topics that I consider interesting. Still, if nobody is aware that the blog actually exists and it is not listed anywhere than there’s a slim chance of anybody stumbling across it. I also want to point to a good article posted in the blogger.com help system – Promoting Your Blog.

1. Submit the blog to regular search engines

It's obvious that for the blog to be indexed by the search engines they must have the link to it. In most cases, they get the link from the front page of the website or from some other website referencing the blog. I don’t have a front web page up yet and I also haven’t really left the link anywhere on the net. Event if I would have left such a link somewhere the search engine’s bot would probably take it’s time to reach and index the blog. To help the bots out I went ahead and submitted the blog to MSN and Google . I’m not sure if this will help people find the blog in a short run, as I understand it takes a while before the search engines start showing the indexed website to the users who are looking for something. In the long run though I hope people will be able to find a post or an article that will help them to solve a problem they’re having.

In the next post I will talk about blog communities and the concept of the mirror blog.