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Where to Promote Your Blog

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As we count down to 2013, the next few days will feature the most popular posts of this year. Enjoy!

This post is an ongoing directory of promotional communities and directories for bloggers.

I have been slowly bookmarking various communities and directories for bloggers as I have been reading through other people’s blogs. It’s a frustrating process, particularly when you dimly remember there was a badge you wanted to check out and you can’t remember where it is, or the source code behind the badge doesn’t work! So I wanted to put everything I have found together in one spot so everyone interested can benefit.

All the links below will open in a new window to take you to the page, plus I have left them in text form so you can print this post off or save it as a .pdf  Please note: I don’t use all these services, so I don’t know if they are good or bad. Use is solely at your own risk.

A word of wisdom, many of these directories want to know what your RSS feed is for your site. If you don’t know, try RSS include. https://www.rssinclude.com/

If you want to promote your site, you need as many options as possible: join by email, allow WordPress and Blogger Follow buttons, RSS feed, Networked Blogs, Google Friend Connect. Everything you can get your hands on. The more ways you have to connect, the more followers you will get. I get so frustrated when I see email sign up only on blogs. I need more options! My email is too cluttered for posts to be noticed.

Don’t forget to add your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google + and other social networking details so people can find you. It all helps. I know it looks scary, but many of these options are just copy and paste their code. You don’t have to be a web developer.

Blogging Communities

Blog Directories

Other Interesting Publishing and Promotion Ideas

  • Scoop It allows you to publish web magazines which you can use for promoting your work in an attractive manner. This is a cost for use service. http://www.scoop.it/
  • Paperli offers a similar service where you can promote your work or web pages you wish to pass on, in the form of a newspaper. http://paper.li/ I have had my tweets published in other people’s papers, which has given me promotion. I am unsure if there is a cost. The site was down for maintenance when I checked it.

Responsible Web Users

Take the pledge and add a Blog With Integrity badge to your site. http://www.blogwithintegrity.com/

If you are sick of spammers, hackers and weirdos on the web, you may also like to join the Pledge Of Responsible Social Media Users on Causes. http://www.causes.com/causes/570107-pledge-of-responsible-social-media-users They have a badge, which again isn’t WordPress friendly. It will be fine on Blogger.

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Spiritually Inclined? Christian Writer’s Directory

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I had never done an extensive search for Christian writing groups and resources before. I was surprised at how many I have never heard of. There are also many local writer’s groups which you can search for.

In addition to these, there are quite a number of excellent Christian bloggers online who write about… oddly enough, Christian writing! Plus a wealth of Christian writing conferences held around the world.

While I have been a part of Faithwriters for a number of years, I haven’t had any contact with many of the sites. So please use at your own discretion.

Please let me know if any of these links don’t work. They are the blue text in the description.

  • FaithWriters.com: The home for the Christian writer!

http://www.faithwriters.com/ Helping the Christian writer and the freelance writer manage their writing career or start an online ministry.

  • Christian Writers Guild: What’s Your Story?

http://www.christianwritersguild.com/ The Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild will help you grow as a writer. We offer online courses for adults, children, and teens.

  • Christian Writers

http://www.christianwriters.com/

  • Christian Writers’ Market Guide

http://www.stuartmarket.com/ Market guide targeted to Christian writers, including periodical, book, greeting card, poetry, and specialty markets. Also links to conferences contests etc.

  • Association of Christian Writers

http://www.christianwriters.org.uk/ This is the official website of Association of Christian Writers.

  • Christian Writers Downunder 

This is a blog that supports Australian Christian writers. It has some great posts on it. http://www.christianwritersdownunder.blogspot.com/

  • Write His Answer

http://www.writehisanswer.com/

  • InScribe Christian Writers’ Fellowship

http://www.inscribe.org/ Canadian organization of Christians who write, encouraging excellence, hosts conferences and workshops, publishes newsletter, etc.

  • American Christian Writers: “locating, educating and motivating!”

http://www.acwriters.com/ American Christian Writers can help you get into print.

  • Bartlett Christian Writers

http://www.bartlettchristianwriters.webs.com/ Bartlett Christian Writers is a chapter of (ACW) American Christian Writers.

  • Heart of America Christian Writers Network

http://www.hacwn.org/ Heart of America Christian Writers’ Network could be the organization for you! HACWN is designed to help beginning, intermediate and advanced writers grow.

  • Inspire Christian Writers: Equipping Writers to Inspire the World

http://www.inspirewriters.com/

  • Christian Writers Group International, Inc.

http://www.christianwritersgroup.org/

  • Fellowship of Christian Writers

http://www.fellowshipofchristianwriters.org/

  • Ready Writer Mag, For Christians Who Write

http://www.readywritermag.com/ Welcome to Ready Writer Mag (RWM), the online magazine for Christians who write.

  • Irish Christian Writers’ Fellowship

http://www.irishchristianwriters.org/ The Irish Christian Writers’ Fellowship seeks to encourage and stimulate Christian writing throughout Ireland, through fellowship with one another.

  • Godly Writers: The Beginner’s Guide For Christian Writers

http://www.godlywriters.com/

  • Christian Writers Submission Information

http://www.christwriters.info/ This site features current writing opportunities for authors of all genres, with a preference for Christian publications.

  • ChristianWriterHelp.com

https://www.christianwriterhelp.com/

  • The Word Guild

http://www.thewordguild.com/

  • Poetry Markets for Christians : Utmost Christian Writers

http://www.utmostchristianwriters.com/markets/poetry-markets.php Christian writers poetry markets, poetry guidelines and poetry markets for Christian poets.

  • Christian Writers from Christian.org

http://www.christian.org/writers Christian.org exists to help you grow spiritually with other Christians. Follow Christian writers and topics, learn the Bible with daily devotionals, Bible study and more.

This is a very old looking page, but it may be helpful. Terry Burns has an extensive list of Christian Writing sites which includes many categories I haven’t covered here. http://www.terryburns.net/Christian_writing_sites.htm

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Blog Promotion Directory

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This post is going to be an ongoing directory of promotional communities and directories for bloggers.

I have been slowly bookmarking various communities and directories for bloggers as I have been reading through other people’s blogs. It’s a frustrating process, particularly when you dimly remember there was a badge you wanted to check out and you can’t remember where it is, or the source code behind the badge doesn’t work! So I wanted to put everything I have found together in one spot so everyone interested can benefit.

Please add to this page: if you know of a directory / community / blog only search engine I have missed, please let me know in the comments and I will check it out and add it. I moderate all comments to reduce spam, so it won’t appear instantly.

P.S. I found this great picture of Rosie the Blogger on Pinterest. I have no idea of it’s source, so if you know, please tell me so I can attribute it properly. It’s brilliant! March 13th, finally found the original image source (minus the laptop and blogging graphics) thanks to Critters and Crayons on Pinterest. She was originally Rosie the Riveter, a U.S. cultural image representing the American women who worked in factories.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter

All the links below will open in a new window to take you to the page, plus I have left them in text form so you can print this post off or save it as a .pdf  Please note: I don’t use all these services, so I don’t know if they are good or bad. Use is solely at your own risk.

A word of wisdom, many of these directories want to know what your RSS feed is for your site. If you don’t know, try RSS include. https://www.rssinclude.com/

If you want to promote your site, you need as many options as possible: join by email, allow WordPress and Blogger Follow buttons, RSS feed, Networked Blogs, Google Friend Connect. Everything you can get your hands on. The more ways you have to connect, the more followers you will get. I get so frustrated when I see email sign up only on blogs. I need more options! My email is too cluttered for posts to be noticed.

Don’t forget to add your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google + and other social networking details so people can find you. It all helps. I know it looks scary, but many of these options are just copy and paste their code. You don’t have to be a web developer.

Blogging Communities

Blog Directories

Other Interesting Publishing and Promotion Ideas

  • Scoop It allows you to publish web magazines which you can use for promoting your work in an attractive manner. This is a cost for use service. http://www.scoop.it/
  • Paperli offers a similar service where you can promote your work or web pages you wish to pass on, in the form of a newspaper. http://paper.li/ I have had my tweets published in other people’s papers, which has given me promotion. I am unsure if there is a cost. The site was down for maintenance when I checked it.

Responsible Web Users

Take the pledge and add a Blog With Integrity badge to your site. http://www.blogwithintegrity.com/

If you are sick of spammers, hackers and weirdos on the web, you may also like to join the Pledge Of Responsible Social Media Users on Causes. http://www.causes.com/causes/570107-pledge-of-responsible-social-media-users They have a badge, which again isn’t WordPress friendly. It will be fine on Blogger.

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

This blog post by Cate Russell-Cole is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You are free to share and adapt it.

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