Promoting your new blog posts in any valid way you can is not something optional but is necessary for your web site\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
Every time you publish new content, it\u2019s a great opportunity to reach out and inform your existing audience but also gain new readers, followers or customers.<\/p>\n
A mistake that many people make is to publish new content and expect that it will be magically promoted on facebook or twitter and gain attraction or thousands of visitors on its own.<\/p>\n
This may be true for established web sites with a huge readership. For smaller web sites or blogs, it\u2019s your duty to go out and spread the word about your new blog post.<\/p>\n
What you will read below is complementary to my existing post how to increase web site traffic<\/a><\/b> \u2013 where I explained the most important web site promotion strategies you need to use.<\/p>\n In this post, you will learn about the 11 most popular ways to promote new content.<\/p>\n You will also learn how not<\/span> to promote your posts, if you want to stay out of trouble and minimize your risks of getting penalties from Google, Facebook or other search engines<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Let’s get started.<\/p>\n Add your new post on your web site\u2019s Facebook page. This will get the message out to your fans.<\/p>\n In order for this method to have a return i.e. traffic from facebook or likes to your new blog post you need to have A LOT of facebook fans (likes)<\/strong><\/a> on your business page.<\/p>\n Share with your facebook friends (using your personal facebook account), the facebook post you have already posted above.<\/p>\n In other words go to your personal timeline and like and share the post directly from your business page.<\/p>\n Repeat the same process with your Google+ business page and Google+ personal page i.e. Share the new post on your google+ business page and then share that post with your personal google+ circles.<\/p>\n Tweet about your new post. You can do different tests to find out which is the best time to tweet in order to have the best possible return.<\/p>\n Actually you need to do the same with facebook and google+ and find out the particular timeframe that you have most of your fans\/followers online.<\/p>\n The easiest ways to do this is post or tweet in the morning, afternoon or night for a week and identify which time period gives you more likes, tweets, +1 etc.<\/p>\n Try to avoid automated posts on facebook or twitter. Instead of posting automatically on facebook or twitter do the postings manually and follow up any comments.<\/p>\n You can still use a scheduling tool like buffer, but try to make your titles\u00a0 interesting so that people will click or share.<\/p>\n Use a catchy description with your social media postings. Sometimes the title is not enough to get readers attention, so try to be creative but to the point (avoid long sentences or paragraphs).<\/p>\n Pin to your pinterest boards. Assuming that you always have an image associated with your posts (if you don\u2019t, it\u2019s time to start using images for your most important posts \u2013 at least), pin that to your pinterest board.<\/p>\n Add to stumbleupon<\/a><\/b>. Stumbleupon was online before facebook, google+ and twitter and it\u2019s a great way to get traffic to your web site and spread the word about your new content.<\/p>\n I like stumbleupon because it\u2019s very easy to use; it works and gives you the opportunity to discover really cool web sites and blogs available on the web, you otherwise wouldn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n Many web sites allow users to register to their newsletters but they never actually send a newsletter out.<\/p>\n If you have an email newsletter configured make sure that your new posts are emailed to your subscribers.<\/p>\n Read also<\/strong>: 25 Email Marketing Tips for Small Businesses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n RSS is still one of the most effective ways to promote your web site and content.<\/p>\n People who subscribe to your feed do it for one particular reason i.e. to get your updates so they are more likely to interact (share on their social media channels) with your posts as well.<\/p>\n This is one of my favourite methods. If you have a native mobile app (android, iPhone, Windows phone etc) for your web site, every time you publish a new post your users will be notified in their mobiles.<\/p>\n It is a great way to promote your new post and get direct visits to your web site.<\/p>\n If you don’t have a mobile app, you can use a service like onesignal<\/strong><\/a> (free), to send notifications to your subscribers.<\/p>\n The 11 methods explained above are in my opinion the best ways to promote your blog posts without losing too much time.<\/p>\n While doing my research to write this article (originally posted in 2013),\u00a0 I came across a number of other suggestions that should be avoided if you want to minimize the risks of getting a penalty from Google or Facebook.<\/p>\n Adding your blog post link in the comments section of other blogs:<\/strong> I personally don\u2019t approve comments that have links because in the majority of cases their purpose is not to provide a useful comment but to get a link from my web site.<\/p>\n As I matter of fact I consider such technique spamming and I doubt if it worth\u2019s your time.<\/p>\n Nowadays, all comment links are nofollow anyway, so you don’t have anything to gain in terms of link building<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n10+1 ways to promote your new blog posts<\/h2>\n
#1 – Publish your new post on your Facebook Business Page<\/h3>\n
#2 – Share the Facebook post with your friends (facebook personal account)<\/h3>\n
#3 – Share your post on Google+<\/h3>\n
#4 – Publish your post on Twitter<\/h3>\n
#5 – Customize your Social Posts<\/h3>\n
#6 – Use a catchy description<\/h3>\n
#7 – Share the post on Pinterest<\/h3>\n
#8 – Use StumbleUpon<\/h3>\n
#9 – Let your email subscribers know<\/h3>\n
#10 – RSS Feed<\/h3>\n
#11 – Send Notifications (web and mobile)<\/h3>\n
How NOT to promote your blog posts<\/h2>\n