So you have written the most amazing, most spectacular, most brilliant blog post EVER. You’ve optimized it for SEO. It is unique, fresh, and even a little witty. What now? How do you ensure the world knows about this tremendous piece of art?
You could always fork out the big bucks for paid advertising in Google Ads, Facebook Ads, or premium ad space on other well-known blogs and websites.
Or, you could go a more financially efficient route and use the following five ways to promote your most awesome blog post:
1 – Post to Social Media
While this may seem obvious, the use of social media to promote your blog post cannot be overstated. Make sure you have created a Twitter account, Facebook Page, and Google+ Page for your blog. Other platforms like LinkedIn and Pinterest can also be leveraged effectively. It is a good idea to use a social sharing app like Hootsuite or Buffer to consolidate your social media accounts as well. In addition, these apps give you the opportunity to share across several social media accounts all at once. Utilizing hashtags related to your post can also get your post noticed more often.
2 – Comment on other blogs
Now I am not advocating that you leave a link to your latest blog post in the comment section of every blog you visit. However, most commenting systems on other blogs will give you the option to link back to your blog. So commenting on other blogs can drive traffic to your homepage. Or, if you use the URL for a specific blog post, that traffic will be headed straight to the post you are trying to promote. An even better option is commenting on blogs that utilize the CommentLuv plugin, which automatically links back to your most recent blog post. As a side note, treat others’ blogs with the same respect you would want for your own blog — don’t leave comments that have no real value or don’t contribute to the discussion. Be a part of the community.
3 – Submit your post to voting sites
Submitting your post to sites like Reddit, StumbleUpon, and BlogEngage are also great ways to get your post noticed. While these sites may not raise your rankings in search results, they do provide valuable backlinks and traffic to your blog. In addition, several of these sites are more than just voting sites; they are communities of bloggers — places where you can connect and network with many great bloggers as well as learn from them and catch up on the latest blogging trends.
4 – Communicate with your readership
One of the best ways to maintain regular communication with your readers is to develop a way for them to subscribe to your blog by email. Using a service like MailChimp will accomplish this for you and it will also allow you to send regular updates, thank you notes, and targeted blog posts to your subscribers.
5 – Utilize Twitter as a networking tool
This process has been particularly successful for me, so I would suggest you try it as well. Develop a network of blogging friends and acquaintances on Twitter. Read and comment on their blogs. Cultivate a real relationship with them. Then, when you have written that amazingly spectacular and brilliant post, mention or DM them with a link to your post. If you have shown yourself to be a true blogging friend, they will most likely read your post, comment on it, and retweet it for you — the blogging trifecta!
Thank you so much for reading! I would love to hear the ways you promote your blog posts! Leave a comment and then share the love with a Retweet, Facebook like, Google+ share, etc.
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Thanks for these great tips for promoting our blog. I think we should use guest posting and blog commenting for this purpose.
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Great post! Very informative. Everything you’ve mentioned are effective in promoting a blog post and in increasing the traffic of a website. Thanks
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These are great points shared by you. I am using it for my Digital Granth . But these are little tradition, can you share which are something new in the industry.
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Nice article!
For promoting i work firstly on SEO.
Than on social promotion, on Facebook, Goggle plus and Twitter.
Not to forget also YOUTUBE.
All of this is Free promotion, on the other hand it takes a lot of time.
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Hootsuite sounds interesting. I never bothered with social media before but I’ll have to give it a try if I can easily manage them.
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I agree with the above ideas but I guess to successfully promote blog in bookmarking site like reddit is quite difficult if you are new and don’t have interaction with the members. Social networking sites work very in case of promotion. In fact one should invest 60% time in writing good content and 40% time in promoting the blog.
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I think Commenting is much better way.. Though Promotion via Twitter needs time and effort.
Thanks for sharing these..
i have used this technology in my blog
view my blog :)
regards
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Five good tips! Twitter followers could retweet more but everyone is trying to speak at the same time. My top tips as a blogger is to secure a unique domain and write compelling post that relates to it. Then be active in that community.
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Great article. Thx
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Thanks for the info. I am learning the next steps for exposure and cost effective methods are definitely a must. I am going to apply these different ways for my women’s blog http://www.properhoney.com/blog.html Thanks again!
I think you’re right about these 5 tips, but it is also important to have a good domain name
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I think commenting on comment luv enabled blog is the easiest way to create baclinks as well as high ranking which is equal to better search engine traffic :P
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Totally agree.
From total of 5 strategies listed above, one thing that really works for me is blog commenting.
Not only do i gain direct traffic, i also get better position in search engine overtime!
It does takes time, but it’s worth it!
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Thanks for sharing man! Just started blogging and investigating how to promote my blog. I like your title – says what it is. Need to revise mine :)
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Thanks for the great tips! For now I just want to get people into my blog and hope that they enjoy reading my posts as much as i love writing them :)
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Thanks very much for the tips – really useful!
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I am glad I went to this site, these are great ideas you suggested. I belong to a few social networks, but someone I never thought or heard of. I will join some of what you suggested. Thanks.
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Thank you for this article. I am a brand new blogger and this was very helpful
Thanks for the great tips, Tom. I just signed up for StumbleUpon, so hopefully that will increase my readership by a few! There’s also BlogHer, a great blog publishing network that targets women.
Andrea
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Thanks for the list. My favorite is CommentLuv because it actually shows the post headline. Good reason to use a compelling one (I did read your other post on that topic).
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Thanks for this post. I guess I’m following one of your recommendations and commenting on this post to get more links and hopefully eyeballs to my content.
Good luck and good traffic everyone…
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Thanks for your sharing!
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i agree that commenting is the best way, but if you are targeting wide audience, i find voting sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit and BlogEngage to be the most effective for my blog.
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I’ve been looking into BlogEngage but I’m not comfy with paying for blog article promotion as I already use Google Adwords to secure clients.
Would you say that is 100 percent worth the cash?
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Great post, getting your new posts noticed is really important. The more places you submit it to the better.
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Be open to both positive and negative comments as you solicit every form of feedback your subscriber base will provide. Learn from each and every comment and use the feedback to fine tune your marketing efforts.
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Thanks, it’s good to know that I’m doing most of these consistently but have perhaps overlooked the sharing sites a bit. I may open a Reddit account.
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for this post. I recently launched my blog and I’m really enjoying the writing process. I have been using social media to promote my blog and that has been going well. I will use your other tips also.
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This is very helpful for me since I am starting an online business this is one way of generating visitors on my website. Hopefully this will work.
Excellent tips. I am one of those who desperately wants some tips on promoting my blogs. Though I use to do 1 and 5 for my blog promotion, 2,3,and 4 are new to me and I hope it will give me a better results and lot of viewers for my blog. Thanks for sharing this.
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Posting in social media could helpful to promote a blog post in the best way. But in Digg i think it is not possible because of the new design which is having.
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“It would definitely be helpful and a good guide for all the bloggers. Well, I think that it is the dream of all the bloggers to make their blog an outstanding one. Comment on other blogs & Posting to Social Media are very important. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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These are very effective ways to promote a blog post. I have been commenting for some time now and it has really helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing this informative post.
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Thank you so much for this wonderful post. I have been searching for link building tips. Here ends my journey. Detailed post on promoting a blog online. Thank you once again.
This is a very helpful tips on how to your blog post. Looking forward to read more informative topics on you blog.
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Hi Tom,
That’s a great article with lot of resources for bloggers to gain traffic to their blog posts, in addition to the resources that you have mention and if your blog posts provides answers to questions people regularly asks then you can gain traffic from Question answering website such as Yahoo answers, also another way is to gain traffic by sharing your content on Forums that help you gain more social shares.
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Great Post!
Among the mentioned ways social media promotes the blog in an effective way .
I like all the tips which you had shared. According to me Social media and commenting on other blogs these two methods are the best to promote a blog. Thanks for sharing such great post keep on posting.
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Nice tips. If we think of each one individually, then they seem too small to work, but when we combine all the small methods, we can achieve very much from them. Small things pay large in the end..
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Nice steps to promote blog posts. Social media sites playing important role in promoting any blog or business. Mostly people love to use social sites and bloggers love these sites to get bunch of traffic to get better rank in search engines.
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With a lot of the social media stuff I admit I am way behind. I’ve never personally been a fan of those services so I’ve delayed using them in my businesses but I really need to turn that around.
As far as what always works well for me on my various websites, I’ve found that posting comments on blogs is always an effective way to drive traffic consistently to your site and the beauty of it is that it doesn’t take long for things to get rolling. You don’t even need to wait for Google to spider as people will just follow your posts from Day 1.
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You have some good ideas, I really like the twitter friends. I have not had much luck with twitter but I am sure there is more I can do. thanks
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I like this blog, which I just recently discovered. I will be using your advice to make my blog better. I especially like that you advise wit being part of one’s content.
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Social media fans play major role to see success in our blog
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A simple blog installed with Premium theme loaded with useful content and information is surely a characteristic of a highyl popular and successful blog. Posting the blog to social media has a lot of potential in exposing the blog to the world. One can have a good exposure of what he is trying to say. And commenting on other blogs is also worth it. Good post, thanks for sharing.
Another great post, I also way comment on other peoples blogs if I have gained something useful out of it. If its a commentluv blog then I will utilizes that by leaving a link to my latest post. But I never thought of using my social media platforms to do the same. I have mainly been using them to promote the business. But then thinking about it the blogs are related to the business and therefore also promote my business. Great ideas.
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I do comment on a lot of blogs and have connected my blog to social media sites too. Now I will add to my task those voting sites.
Great post Tom! Thanks for sharing.
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I love the Twitter suggestion. It is often times underestimated but I have been able to drive over 75% of my blog traffic from there. I have to fully agree with what you said about Twitter, I would even recommend pushing it to the top of the list!
Great tips for promoting fresh blog posts. I have been looking around for information on how to get my posts seen by the masses.
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Thanks for the tips am new at this so any techiques I can use that will help me get my site in a better position is great.
Thank you!
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ya i also agree with social media sharing especially facebook
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Hey Tom,
You just mentioned an important point that’s working fine for me too.
I have created a blog alliance where members share each other’s post. That’s very important and the results are great. BTW, if you read 10 week game plan by Kiesha, you will understand my point.
Thanks for sharing this man. Great job
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Nice Post! I am Totally agree with you which you have explained. In my Opinion blog commenting and social media are the best method to generate the more traffic and to promote your blog.These methods is so easily to apply. Well thanks for sharing.
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I’ve never heard anyone called sites like StumbleUpon and Reddit “voting sites” that’s a really interesting way of looking at them. At the same time it seems like an obvious way to describe them but when you’re someone like me who’s entrenched in the SEO industry you tend to get stuck in that box. Thank’s a lot for the out of the box point of view.
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Thanks for your sharing. I think if you comment good, no spam, it will good for this blog and good for your promotion.
Hello Tom,
Thank you for your article, do you believe that the ability to blog should be incorporated into more web designs of business websites?
Or is the fact of commercialising the blog space taking away the special relationship that one has of being able to openly discuss any issue and be heard?
Thank you for your article again.
Be aware that when you post frequently to voting sites, especially like reddit, they may lock you out for spamming them with self-serving links. It’s not just that your link could be downvoted, you could get blocked.
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Thanks for the tips! This topic has been covered tons of times, and yet it’s only here that I’ve read the tip on submitting to popular sites. Might try that.
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I’m glad you found something useful. Thanks for reading!
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how do you feel about article and press release marketing?
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Getting your blog post noticed is no easy task with so many blogs out there now. I agree with you on all of the above as means to get your blog noticed I would only add that having a compelling post title can go a long way especially when you post it on social media since people on there will only see the title of your post.
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That’s a good point about the post title! Thanks for that tip!
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This is a very good article and these methods are very easy to apply. Thanks.
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I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for reading!
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Interesting that you don’t mention Digg in with the voting sites. Maybe its not important at all anymore. I don’t like that they removed all my history and my account and are making me login with Facebook. I did find a service to export all my Digg links to another site, pretty nice.
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Unfortunately Digg is undergoing another major redesign. I’m not even sure how useful Digg is anymore.
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I’d also recommend including the content in an email newsletter to your opt-in subscribers. These people have chosen to receive messages from you. Be sure to add social sharing buttons to the post to make it easy for others to share it with their networks too.
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Thanks to share these useful ways with us i think you are a well writer and blogger also. I can easily get all your point because you have clearly explain all you points not as a blogger but as a supporter.
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I’m glad you found these tips helpful. Thanks for reading.
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Awesome Logic to promote blog…now a Days social media are play great platform to generate huge traffics as well as brand awareness
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I agree — social media plays a huge role in blog promotion and traffic generation. You have a good point about brand awareness as well. Thanks for reading!
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Posting the blog to social media has a lot of potential in exposing the blog to the world.One can have a good exposure of what he is trying to say.And commenting on other blogs is also worth it.
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You are right — commenting on other blogs is worth it! Thanks for reading!
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I think Commenting is much better way.. Though Promotion via Twitter needs time and effort.
Thanks for sharing these..
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I appreciate your input. There are many bloggers that feel the same way you do about commenting. Thanks for reading!
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