12 Best Ways How to Promote Your Blog in 2017
To know how to promote your blog is important for all bloggers. As a blogger, you usually spend a lot of time for researching, writing and editing your articels. If you also take and edit images or design your own graphics, you‘ll spend a lot more time working on your blog. After pushing the „publish“ button, you’ll probably share your new peace of work on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, Instagram, Linkedin, Xing and other social networking services. If you are clever, you also share your article to communities and groups of the channels mentioned above.
12 Awesome Ways How to Promote Your Blog
But what comes next? What, if your articles are not seen on the web? What if there are not enough people who read your blog? How do you promote your blog to get more readers, more clicks, more shares? How do you drive attention to your articles? How do you „spread the news“?
There are several options listed below, and every single one can help you to promote your blog and to get more readers. Here is my selection of 12 great ways „How to Promote Your Blog“:
How to promote your blog: Tip #1 –> Add Share buttons to your blog and include a “Click to Tweet” box to your article as well. Make it easy for your readers to share your article with just one click!
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How to promote your blog: Tip #2 –> Schedule your tweets and posts on social media with tools like Buffer or Hootsuite to share your articles at the right time (i.e. when your social media followers are online!)
How to promote your blog: Tip #3 –> Build your email list and send emails and newsletters to launch your new posts. Send newsletters to your subscribers regularly (maybe whenever you publish a new article). As an email-service I recommend to use MailChimp. I like it, because it’s very easy to use and it has a free plan!
How to promote your blog: Tip #4 –> Enable social shares directly from your emails and newsletters. Include social icons or links.
How to promote your blog: Tip #5 –> Add links to your email signature. What’s in your signature? Adress, phone-number? Why not a link to your latest blog-post?
How to promote your blog: Tip #6 –> Ask influencers to share your post on social media. Look for influencers in your niche. Email her or him and ask for it!
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How to promote your blog: Tip #7 –> Inform people who are mentioned in your post and ask them to share the post. Do the same if your post is about a brand or a company: Let them know about it! If it is great content, they will share it, too.
How to promote your blog: Tip #8 –> Set up your RSS feed and tell your audience about it.
How to promote your blog: Tip #9 –> Submit your blog to the main blog- and rss-directories. Sign up or register to submit your rss-feed here, for example:
How to promote your blog: Tip #10 –> Share on popular social bookmarking-, curation- and community-sites, like:
How to promote your blog: Tip #11 –> Sumbmit your posts to niche bookmarking sites, like:
- Blog Engange (for blogging)
- Triberr (for blogging)
- BizSugar (for business)
- TechSpy (for tech)
- Inbound.org (for inbound and content marketing)
How to promote your blog: Tip #12 –> Submit your blog posts to content curation tools, like:
I hope you enjoyed my tips and recommendations. Even if not every single service, site or community mentioned in this article is useful for you on the first glimpse, just give it a try.
Good luck and happy blogging in 2017!
