7 Tips on Promoting Social Media for Bloggers
Written by Administrator7 Tips to Help Your Promote Your Blog with Social Media
Congrats! You jumped on the blogging bandwagon and started shelling out articles a few times a week. Are you surprised to find that nobody instantly started reading your blog? That nobody seems to know it exists? The truth about blogging is that you may never have any more readers than yourself, and maybe your mom. If you're passionate about what you're writing or desperately need it to help your SEO, then you need to help your blog by promoting it. Probably the easiest way to promote your blog is by using social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (for some of you) and even LinkedIn. You can take your chances and wait for Google to start indexing your blog and pray you outrank everyone, or you can be proactive and promote your blog yourself.
Follow these easy tips to help your promote your blog using social media:
Use Social Media Sharing Icons
If you haven't started using social media icons or "share me" icons on your website, you are missing out on some serious content sharing possibilities. By including a Facebook "Share" button or a retweet button for Twitter you provide an easy way for your users to quickly share your article, so even if they only read the intro paragraph, you still get the article shared to their entire list of friend or followers.
BE SURE TO USE META DATA! If you're blogging platform gives you the option to set meta keywords and descriptions, be sure you use it. Most of the time it will snag the first few sentences of your blog post, but if Facebook gives you the option to summarize the article on your own, why not take advantage of it?
Provide an RSS Feed Icon
A lot of people are using RSS feeds to grab articles from sites they trust so that they can stream them all in one place. At this point, even Google+ profiles can be streamed over RSS meaning that the potential for exposure via RSS feed is extremely high. Providing the option for an RSS feed not only allows people to stream your content, but also provides the opportunity for website owners that find value or interest in your blog to integrate your blog into their website, providing you with more exposure and even external site links to your blog.
Stream Your RSS Feed on Social Media
If you aren't using LinkedIn to pursue professional and business networking, stop reading this article and go sign up and create a profile. Once your done, come back and finish this. Once you've set up your RSS feed and your LinkedIn profile, it's time to plug your RSS feed into your profile. Adding your RSS feed to your LinkedIn profile and labeling it with the "Blog" option will not only list your Blog for others to find, but it will also automatically stream your new articles through your LinkedIn profile. Now if you're blog is not really related to your professional career or pursuits, it may not be the best option to merge it with your LinkedIn profile, but it's an option. In addition to LinkedIn's default RSS feature, you can also acquire 3rd party products like HootSuite and TweetAdder to stream your RSS feed to your Facebook business pages and Twitter accounts. It makes it much easier when your posts are automatically streamed to all of your accounts than having to go through and post the new article one by one.
Promote Your Blog on StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a great site to find random content on. StumpleUpon users simply enter what they are interested in, everything from travel to marketing, and the system feeds content to them that they may have never seen before, based on the tags associated with the page or site. It's a great way to find new users and takes very little effort on your part. As soon as you finish a new article, take a quick minute to submit it to StumbleUpon. Make sure you have analytics installed to find out if it's generating any traffic and so you're able to make adjustments.
Try Out Pinterest for Blogging
I know guys, you're laughing at me for saying it. And while the reason you've heard of pinterest might be from a bunch of women sharing recipes and fashion tips, it's starting to become a very popular method for promoting blogs and website content. So long as you have something of value, or good knowledge to pass on, you may come across some success through the use of Pinterest. At this point, you still have to request an invite, but if you're able to get one, it's one more avenue to pursue to help promote your content.
Trade Posts with Other Blogs/Guest Blogging
Every once and a while, it's nice to throw a new voice into your blog and allow someone else to produce content for you. Not only does it benefit you, but it benefits the guest bloggers by letting them creating a back link to their website. It's a win, win for everyone. You get new content, they get a link. And the same works from the other direction. Submit requests or email bloggers and request the chance to guest blog for them. The more popular the blog, the better your chances that you will acquire new readers and increase your blog traffic (which for some of us means increased revenue). If you're not willing to give away back links, you can either "no-follow" the site link to the guest blogger (which is pretty disrespectful and bad for networking well) or you can pursue guest blogging on other websites yourself. Just remember that you're writing for someone elses blog, so you should not duplicate the content you've written for them on your own website. The same applies to writers posting on your website, be greatful for the free content but make sure that you agree beforehand that the content must be exclusive to your blog only.
Post on Support Forums
Depending on your blog content and your expertise, you may find it profitable to spend some time of support forums or self help forums interacting with members. I am personally a member of a number of forums, including the Joomla support forum. I find quite a bit of opportunity to drive visitors to my blog as many of the articles I have written are often solutions to problems that people are asking about. If you're a sales expert, find a sales forum and take a look around. Some of the topics being discussed may give you the opening to link to one of your articles. Keep in mind that you shouldn't go around spamming your links on forums, but rather use them as a means of assisting others. Attempt to interact with an actual post, and hint towards an article that you've written that may be useful to the original poster in solving their problem.
The information presented in the above article is not warranted or guaranteed by myRise Design to be effective and should not be construed as fact. The information is provided for educational and entertainment purposes to provide foundations for the reader to use in personal ventures. myRise Design will not be held liable for any negative consequences incurred from implimentation of the content in this article.
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