I'm not a big fan of blog-rings, and I see plenty of auto-updated listings. But I'm curious, I run a professional type informational blog, beepSNORT about experimental electronic music and I'm kinda at a loss as to how to promote it.

I'm aggregating visits thru my portal, NetNewMusic and I've got Syndic8 and a few other things monitoring it, but what is the general approach to professional, informational, (not diary-ish) blog promotion?

I'm not even sure how I get my blog listed on the MT front page!

Clueless and curious...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum... not sure where to put such a question and I like the MT user community!

jeff harrington - composer
http://jeffharrington.org - music
http://netnewmusic.net - portal
http://beepsnort.org - electronic music blog

to get your site listed on the front page of mt, you will need to dontate at least 20 dollars to mt, to get a key. Once you have that and put the key in your blog, everytime you post an entry, you will show up on the recently updated list on mt.

Best Regards,

Travis Morgan
www.jaymorgan.com
www.rockfordfx.com

Some thoughts:

1. Put a link in your sig on emails and everyone else you post your name (newsgroups, etc.) Slow, but effective.

2. Check out Anders Jacobsen's excellent post on getting more readers: Optimizing MT - Get More Readers

3. Optimize your entries for Google, other search engines, etc. Again, Anders has some nice tips: Optimizing MT - Googlejuice

I'm pursuing these same tips, but can't say yet whether it's working! Takes time, ultimately...

Cheers,
Gary

Chris Pirillo just published a "BlogTraffic School Guide through Lockergnome that you might find helpful. It costs $10 to download, but Pirillo usually knows his stuff.

I haven't actually read it. I just noticed the post on his site today and remembered this forum question.

I hope you find some answers.

I'm trying to get the word out about my site, reelidentities.org, while simultaneously trying to get the word out about the festival it's for. I do a search for "gay film festival bbs" or "gay film festival forums" and I found quite a few established communities. I lurked in their forums for a few days, so I could get a feel for the people, then posted a few brief messages introducing myself as the director of competitive division of the festival... I made sure to have my link and site info in my signature. After a few days I posted a brief formal announcment of the site, and of the festival itself. Seemed to help a lot after doing it to several boards and newsgroups.

If there's already a scene for your topic, then exploit, ummmmm, use, let it know about your site.

Yea I saw that too. Seemed to be sort of a ripoff. $10 for a PDF file full of information you can glean with a few minutes searching google.