Promoting Blog Posts | #2 Social Media & Sharing
Share on major social media sites.
Social Media sites are amazing at spreading something like wildfire, it's the quickest, fastest way to make your content popular. Don't be selfish when it comes to retweeting and sharing, you have to give a little to get a little. Share you favourite sites relating to your blog topic (in other words, what you're readers/followers have an interest in), explain why you like and ask for opinions or other peoples favourite. Be interactive and when you share your post, maybe someone will return the favour.
- Facebook - Share on Personal/Blog Pages, Groups, Ads...
- Twitter - Schedule 3 tweets ( Morning, Afternoon, Evening)
- Pinterest - Create a board for your blog & pin each post (images are important here!)
- LinkedIn - If it is relevant, share on LinkedIn & groups.
- Google+ - Gives extra SEO benefits because of Google Search.
- Share images on Tumblr, Lookbook and other sites revenant to post topic.
- Share posts on groups & forums related to your topic.
Share on Bookmarking Sites
The more you can hit, the better really. These kind of sites allow content to be randomly found, searched and shared by a much wider audience.
- StumbleUpon.com
- Digg.com
- Reddit.com
- Delicious.com
- Technorati.com
- Pinterest.com
Summary video
Turn your blog post into a summary video, add watermark and share on video sites. Again, reaching a new market and driving people back to your site for more information.
- Youtube
- Vimeo
- Dailymotion
- Videojug
- Podcasts
Optimize each blog post for specific keywords
- Learn how to increase your SEO here.
- Include keywords 5 times for 500 word posts.
- Don't over do keywords..
Newsletter contacts signed up because they want to be updated
- Email Newsletters and include latest posts.
- Create an RSS Feed to be automatically updated.
Comments & Community
- Leave thoughtful comments on relevant blog posts.
- Chat to people in a similar niche.
- Participate in the community. Find groups, chats, forums and sites related to your topic.
- If the opportunity comes up, guest blog to reach a wider audience.
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