Increase Your Exposure

One of the quickest ways to increase your exposure is to guest blog on another blog. Not only does it bring traffic in from the visitors of the other site but it also allows you to post about topics that might be off topic or even more specific from the subject of your main blog.

Remember though, if you are blogging about a completely different topic than your main site, the visitors might not be interested in both subjects and it won't necessarily increase your traffic substantially. If will however give you more experience as well as a chance to write about other interests.

The biggest roadblock for most people though is finding a blog that will welcome your posts. For those just getting started or with limited options for guest blogging, there are several services which will happily take your blogging submissions.

HubPages: An online publishing ecosystem it calls posts "Hubs" and allows them to provide commentary or rich media utilizing images and videos. Since Hubs are free floating posts, you can write about any topic in any niche and are not tied to just one subject. Hubs can be organized into groups so that visitors can view Hubs from different authors on similar topics quickly and easily. Hubbers (HubPages authors) have a chance to share revenue from their posts as well by imputing their Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliates ID, or Commision Junction ID into the system. My favorite thing about HubPages is their Requests System. Through the Requests you can get great ideas for Hub topics by looking at what other people are hoping to read and not finding.

Squidoo - Squidoo is also a no long-term commitment service that allows you to publish individual posts on varied topics. Squidoo calls their version of the single post or page a Lens and also allows you to share the revenue or donate your portion to charity. Squidoo is very popular as a method of sending traffic to your blog.

Gather - Gather socializes the content it's members create allowing posts, images, and audio created by it's author community to come together for similar topics. Gather also shares the revenue from the ads that are displayed on your content that is published at their site.

Qassia - Qassia helps new bloggers promote their site by adding "intel" (their word for content) to the Qassia network. The more intel you contribute, the more "credits" you earn (backlinks) thereby the higher the rank for your site. Qassia also has a revenue sharing system promising 100% gross revenue to the authors of the intel. Unfortunately, Qassia is currently in a closed beta period so if you want to get started before it is opened to the public you will need a referal from someone who already has an account (you can click signup from a members' profile page).

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