You have wrote an awesome post and it’s starting to feel that no one’s paying attention on it. No comments, no retweets on your blog posts.
Let’s face it, there’s no sense in creating a blog that only you are going to read. You need traffic, which in turn will turn into commentators, subscribers, which in turn will make your blog more successful.
If you are looking to promote your blog posts on your blog more effectively, here are 5 ways to promote your blog posts:
1. Social bookmarking sites
One of the most easiest way to get targeted traffic. It is really a great way to boost traffic, backlinks, marketing to your blog. I usually submit my blog posts to BlogEngage, Sphinn and MMOSocialNetwork.
More bookmark links of your blog posts means more popularity of your blog posts.
Here are 30+ Inspirational Social Bookmarking Sites.
PS. For Blogegnage you have to be invited to be part of the community.
2. Discussion Forums
You have to actively get involved in discussions and try to be as resourceful as possible, most of the discussion forums allow you to post links in your signature these links help you to drive visitors to your site. I usually active on Digital Point and warrior Forums.
Digital Point also allows you to put up your own blog posts as threads.
You can find forum that suits your niche on BigBoards, this site lists hundreds of forums arranged according to categories and traffic.
3. Blog commenting
It is very effective method for getting traffic to your blog posts. Commenting on related blogs is one of my favorite way to drive targeted traffic, backlinks. I usually comment on some blogs such as FamousBloggers, Problogger, Dailyblogtips and techcrunch, which are all related to my niche. The more you interact with the blogger, the more they’ll notice you.
Take the time to leave a useful comment often enough, don’t just write “nice post” or “thanks”. Keep in mind spamming will only hurt your blog.
4. Newsletter
Are you building mailing list on your blog and you’ve written a killer blog post, then include a link to it in your next newsletter. Doing this will drive traffic but also signal to your readers that it’s a Killer post that you feel deserves their attention. If you not have a mailing list, than start building it now.
5. Social media
It’s simply an incredible viral means to drive a large amount of sustainable traffic to any website over a period of time.
One of the best ways to succeed on Social media is to get really involved. It was built for genuine people who want to talk as humans and make connections.
I try to submit every article to social media websites like Twitter, Digg, Delicious.
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Article by Devesh
Devesh is a young entrepreneur & founder of Blokube, a social blogging community. He is also running a WordPress Marketing Blog. Hit him up on Twitter if you need anything, Dev will be quick in responding and helping you out.
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You need to publish content, that’s interesting and relevant to your prospective readers. And make your blog interesting to the search engines. Content plus Search Reputation leads to traffic, and in turn to Followers, readers, and subscribers – and there is your desired marketing and promotion to a larger audience.
Thankyou for sharing with us
Awsome ways to promote blog post. I’m looking forward on it.
Hi Dev
I first thought this site today was just full of technical stuff used by ‘expert bloggers’ but it’s not, it’s really educational for someone like me who is just starting to use Blogging as a major marketing strategy. I’m mastering them all one by one so just moved onto blogging now and so much to learn here, I’m wondering ‘where do I start?”
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise, Trish
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Hi Dev,
One of my favorite ways to drive traffic to my blog posts is social bookmarking. My favorites are twitter, facebook and stumbleupon. Plus, I have my own mini social bookmarking area on my blog. I call it TGIF Links. Come over and submit the URL to one of your posts.
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Hi Dev,
I love blog commenting, hence the 100 blog comments challenge! Ooops on that one. I think that challenge was a lot bigger than everyone thought it would be!
I have only just started getting into social bookmarking. I am a little slow at picking things up sometimes, however once I understand the concept there is nothing stopping me! It is just coordinating a routine and that can be tough around a 3 year old!
Hope everything has been going well for you with the challenge. I have tallied up the comments on both the posts you have submitted. Fingers crossed everyone eventually gets around to everyone’s blogs and comments.
See you back here soon!
Cheers
Jacinta
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Thanks for a great post on how to promote your blog posts I use all that you’ve mentioned on your list and know that they are good traffic generators and adding the comment luv plugin to your blog is another way to promote your blog posts.
Nice to meet you
Dawn Kay
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Dev-
awesome site. I love the layout. It is very clean and refreshing to check out!
I think something that is often overlooked is creating a bigger ping list. There are some great resources out there that help you broadcast that you updated. It can never hurt!
Jerry
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Hello Devesh,
It is a great information you are sharing here. Like what you said, the social bookmarking site is very effective, and it can connect these related bloggers together. Now I only use Twitter as a start since I am a new blogger, and I think I am going to focus on creating my new content and visit forums as much as I can. Thank you very much for your post.
Cheers.
Connie
Hi, Dev
This post and all the comments have been really informative!
I hadn’t even considered social bookmarking and newsletters! Do you happen to know if there are widgets that automatically submit to various social bookmark sites?
Also – I love the way you’re really money-tized your blog. Please can you tell me how you get those attractive little “box” ads down the right hand side?
This 100 Comment challenge is really turning into a “100 lesson” course for me!
Jennifer
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Hey Dev,
Great article on promoting blog posts. I know you do a good job promoting your posts since I’ve seen you all over so many other blogs. Thanks for the link to those forums too!
Peace,
Darren L Carter
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Hi Devesh
Sometimes bloggers get carried away with blogging and forget that the only reason they are doing it is to either get traffic or make sales so your advice is excellent!
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Hi Devesh,
These are excellent ways to promote your blog post.
My favorites are “1. Social bookmarking:
By social bookmarking your post you will easily get backlinks from authority websites and new people can find your blog.
However my top way is “4. Newletter:
By emailing your list about your new blog post, your subscribers trust your more and build a better relationship with them. Of course if you have a big list (and a good relationship with them) you can receive lots of traffic in 1,2 days or in just a few hours!
This is my opinion..
Take care,
Andreas
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Hi Devish,
Wow, you’ve got a lot going on here! I had a hard time getting down to the comment section, kept getting distracted and signing up for things, etc.
You certainly know what you doing with regard to promoting your posts! Also, I hadn’t even heard of some of the sites up there where you can share your posts. I bet having that really helps.
Take care,
Sally
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Hi Dev very interesting to read the advice of someone who does this as part of there business, I must admit commenting ob blogs is something I’m rather remise at but after reading your comment its something that I intend to correct. Plus all the information I have learned as part of the 100 blog challenge.
Cheers
Rob
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Hi Dev,
Seen you around some of the blogs I check out so your techniques must work
Guest posting is a massive traffic builder if you can get a spot on the right blog. A good tip is to write a killer post and then guest a killer one also. This gives all readers nothing but good content from two blogs. It will keep them coming back.
Excellent post Dev
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