You’ve spent the morning typing up your best blog post yet. You put so much time into this one, you just know people want to read it, and should. Hmm. How will they find it? How do you get the people to the post? Where do you share the link to get the traffic you’re looking for?
Well, you could wait on Google to rank it and see if it turns up in the search results. But, that takes too long. You could pay for ads on Google or Facebook. But, that’s too costly. So, you do what all bloggers do, you share it.
There are many, many ways to share and promote your post, but I’m going to highlight what I feel to be the Top.
Best Places to Share Blog Content for Traffic:
1-Facebook
is a place to interact with your fans. Most people are going to hit that LIKE button because they want to hear what you have to say. Blog posts definitely need to be landing here. Always include an image, always. Images are noticed. Images are shared. A link with an image is great. You could also post an image and put the link to your blog post in the description area. It’s been said that images get shared more often than links, but I doubt links get clicked when just attached to an image. Either way, make sure some interesting image is included when you share your link
You may definitely using Facebook groups to promote your content. What I have noticed is that bloggers join too many Facebook groups in sake to get more referral traffic. However, it’s not true. If you join limited and quality groups, then you’ll get more productive results.
Follow these steps
- Join limited number of groups.
- Target Niche related groups with the maximum number of members.
- Look for the active groups, joining such groups where members don’t take interest to view your posts is really a waste of time.
- The limited number of the group are easy to manage, you can easily be active there. First like and comment on other’s submission and then share your own links. Believe me, you will get best of the best exposure towards your each post.
2-LinkedIn Groups:
Same as Facebook, LinkedIn also allows it’s users to create and join groups. It’ll be tough to share your content all the time on each place, but do share your best posts in LinkedIn groups.
Points to be noticed here:
- LinkedIn is full of professionals. If you share outdated or non-valuable content there, then sorry to say, LinkedIn groups are not for you.
- Being a group member, you must care about your activeness in the group. Don’t be hungry only to share your articles. Give value to other’s content and help them to get shared their submitted posts. Try to make a bond with them. You’ll notice as a valuable group member and other members will love to read and share your content with their social friends.
- Bonus Tip: Add members from UK, US in your group if you want to attract traffic from these countries.
3-Google Plus Communities
Almost we all have our G+ profile and Google plus the page of our blog. Right?
But sharing with circle friends and page followers is not the best use of Google Plus for blog posts promotion. As Facebook and LinkedIn groups, there are many communities on Google Plus. Make use of those communities in following way:
- Join Google Plus communities where there is your targeted audience.
- Start hitting +1 button on their posts, comment on them and appreciate their content.
- Keep patience to share your own posts, first make a friendly relationship with other members.
- Once you do follow these three steps, soon your name will be noticed by other members. In addition, this should be your goal. Grab their attention and prove that you are not there only to spam the community with your own links.
- Once you feel that you have made a solid presence in those communities, it’s time to share your posts links.
- Share your article’s links, add the attractive description and use #Hashtags.
4-Blog Communities
Blog communities are the best places of active and targeted audience. As same as above places, you have to be active in blog communities too to get impressive results.
Below list, few best communities and places for bloggers that are truly worth using for blog posts sharing:-
Bizsugar
Blokube
Blog Engage
Triberr
Inbound.org
Note: Try to make use all of them effectively. If you are already using them and have any related doubt, query or suggestion, then feel free to leave a comment. I’ll surely the response to your comments.
You must take care about your activities you do there in terms to get your posts vital. For best of the best results, perform below steps:
- Register for an account.
- Log in to your account and fill all of your profile information.
- When you are ready with the basic things, it’s time to submit links. However, wait, some communities set moderation on the submitted links. To get easy approval, you have to be smart there. For first time submission, do submit a post of any big blog. It’ll help you to get instant approval on your submitted links. Once your submissions start getting approval, do submit your own links.
- Vote for other’s post, build the relationship and get votes to your own posts.
- Maximum votes will bring your posts to the homepage of these communities, means your posts will be shown to a wider audience. Hence, more free and targeted traffic to your blog.
5-Twitter
Another, smaller, place to interact with your fans. Do not assume that your Twitter followers are also on your Facebook list. I definitely have some people/sites/things that I follow on Twitter and not on Facebook and vice versa. It’s partly my way of organizing my stuff. You should definitely tweet every blog post! When you post to twitter, include your blog title or something catchy and a shortened link. Be sure not to use all 140 characters, leave some characters free. Your goal is for people to retweet, possibly with a comment of their own
6-Bookmarking Sites
Users of Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Technorati are looking for things to read. Submit your blog post and give them something! You don’t need to use all of these, just pick one if you want. I don’t have time to focus on them all so I plan to only use one. This would be a great place to get blog ideas as well. Bonus!
I don’t recommend doing this for every blog post, but definitely the good ones. Just add a link to your email signature. I use Wisestamp for this purpose, easy to set up, easy to use. It works! I’m running a fundraiser for my son, I put the link in my email sig, and I have actually had people follow the link and donate.
8-Newsletter
Yeah, yeah, I’m telling you to do something I don’t do, yet. Oh, well. If you run a newsletter, add a blog post link or two to the next one you send out. People subscribed because they want to hear from you. I’m sure you’re looking for newsletter content, use what you’ve already written. This is just another avenue to reach out to the people that have expressed interest in you.
At the End
At the last, I just want to say that try your own ideas to promote your blog but never ignore the working ideas tested and shared, I hope to enjoy reading.
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