Best Ways To Promote Your Blog Posts

By Julia Khusainova • March 18, 2010 • Posted in Blogging • No Comments »

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Driving traffic to you blog might seem to be quite hard but don’t be threatened. There are a lot of ways to promote your blog content when posting it. Some of those practices are about socializing and building the network in your niche, others demand some technical skills, also the third type requires a plenty of time. All together these tips are gathered for you to help you spread the word to the web audience and get yourself notice. If you follow best tips to promote your blog post listed below you may find post promotion is easy to do task and will see the result of your efforts without fail.

Socialize!

1. Twitter
Yes, this is number one. I use it more often than any other tools or services. It’s fast, free and powerful. And it targets the wide auditory of people involving in web development area – the auditory you are able to build yourself! Use it to tweet about your own post or retweet other great posts you read and want to share with people.

2. Facebook
The second handy way is to share a link on your Facebook homepage – the world’s largest social network.

3. Digg it
Dig it and digg it! All of your friends will be able to see that you have come up with new awesome post.

4. Post on Yahoo profile
I connected my Yahoo profile with my Yahoo messenger so that when I share a link it also appeared as my status message – very dynamic and useful.

5. Post on MySpace Profile

6. Posting to LinkedIn network.

7. Google Buzz it: Similar to Twitter, you are able to see your network updates via gmail web interface.

8. Join community on MyBlogLog and start building your network.

9, Join community on Bumpzee

10. Join community on BlogCatalog

Bookmark and be bookmarked

8. StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon is a favorite network for discovering fun websites and useful information, so make sure that you give the post a thumbs up. You can use StumbleUpon Toolbar.

9. Delicious: Delicious is great for not only sharing posts, but for helping categorize blog posts for others to find.

10. Reddit: Reddit is another great social media site for sharing and voting on articles. It’s quick and easy to submit a link.

11. Posting on Tumblr or Posterous: If you want to share something via a blog, but don’t want to write a full blog post about it, there are great options for that as well, primarily Tumblr and Posterous. They are the quick and easy versions of full-fledged blogs, ideal for posting about pictures and blog posts.

Tools

12. WordPress plugins like Sociable, Digg Digg, Meebo bar, etc.

13. Install and use All In One SEO Pack.

14. Automatically ping lots of ping services:

15. TwitThat: TwitThat is one of the quickest and easiest tools for sharing blog posts. It will post to your Twitter quickly and easily. Just add the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and click it whenever you come across a great post.

16. Shareaholic Firefox Extension: There are a lot of great social networks where you can share a great post, but who wants to visit Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn to share a post? If you are a Firefoxuser, then install Shareaholic, an extension that goes on your toolbar. It provides quick links for sharing to all of the major social networks.

17. Ping.fm: If you’re a busy person, you might not have time to share on all of these social media websites. Isn’t there an easy way to share a blog post everywhere, all at once? Ping.fm links to all of your social networks and sends your updates to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, to any other website you wish to link to it. You can even update from your instant messenger. It’s the perfect solution for those who like to share content all over the web.

18. Emailing: Email has always been a good way to share articles, especially with close friends and family. But please don’t spam.

19. Changing IM Statuses: You probably have dozens, if not hundreds of IM contacts. Share great posts with all of them by changing your IM status to a great post you just read or wrote.

Submit to directories

If you run a new blog this might be frustrating in the beginning as no one knows how good you are yet and you might find yourself been rejected very often. But it’s only the matter of time. Be patient and persistent and keep submitting to different type of directories – CSS, RSS and blog directories – and your efforts will be rewarded. The list of directories to help you promote your blog:

Comment on other blogs

Yes, building strong relationships with other bloggers is the key of success. It’s all about communication. Make sure you are polite and friendly to others when you are talking to them, do build a strong community around you (not a bunch of spammers). To archive this you need to grow yourself and be on top so people will be interested in you and your thoughts and ideas and will keep going back to your blog to learn more from you. Do promote yourself and your blog posts – leave the relevant comments on other blogs, not just “Great post!” or “Keep going”, this is really stupid. You should express yourself – make people see how creative you are and post comments to those posts you have something to say about. Don’t spam.

And leave the link back to your blog as it is allowed when you post the comment. If people find your comment wise and relevant they will click on the link to your blog and will be coming back to find out what you have to say on the subject.

You can make a conversation with the author of other plog post or with any of other commentators inviting them to come to your blog and see what you got on the topic (of course if you have something).