Continuing my blog series on how to market your blog effectively and get more traffic to your blog using special tactics that the pros use.
If you missed Part 1: Comments, read it here.
Tactic 2: Social Media
There are many different types of social sites you can submit your site to for blog promotion. This includes not only social media sites but social bookmarking sites as well.
Social bookmarking sites are a great way to get quick backlinks, and if you have a great blog and people vote for it, you can get a lot of direct traffic also. Posting on these sites varies by site. The basic process is:
- Set up an account. You may have to go through an approval process.
- Each time you publish a blog post, open the social bookmarking site and enter your url, keywords and a short description.
It’s really that easy. Here are a few sites I recommend:
As we all know by now, social networks are tremendously popular and have millions of active users you can harness! By posting actively and making “friends” with people who are interested in your niche, you can increase your blog traffic.
When you post your blog, write a quick summary and create a short link (using a service such as goo.gl.com). Post this on the social networks you belong to such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. I recommend posting to each site individually to take advantage of site specific features but you can also use an auto posting service such as Hootsuite to schedule the posts.
Join me on Friday for another tactic to increase your blog traffic.
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