Most bloggers fail simply because they can’t drive traffic to their blogs. Bloggers who succeed will tell you that they spend more time promoting their content than writing. Writing quality content without making it known to the relevant audience is one of the biggest mistakes made by bloggers. In this article we are going to look at ways in which you can promote your blog content freely.
Identify top communities and Q & A sites in your niche
Sites like Quora , Yahoo answers, Facebook groups and any other Social media communities etc. can be a good source of traffic, all you need to do is to participate in relevant popular discussions and occasionally include a link back to your blog.
Leverage hashtags when promoting your articles on social media
You can boost your readership by using #hashtags when promoting your articles on social media. By using relevant hashtags you make your content easy to discover when people search for content in your niche and this can benefit you should the hashtag trend while using it.
You can also read: Content Promotional Communities that every Blogger needs.
Master the best time to post
Research has shown that the success of a viral campaign can be influenced by the time that campaign started. Find out the best time to post an article on your blog and use this knowledge to effectively promote your content.
Use images in all your blog posts
Research shows that articles with images get 94% more views compared to articles without images. Ensure that every article on your blog includes one or more relevant and appealing images, and this will significantly boost traffic to your blog.
Recommended: Internet Marketing Resources for Content Creators
You can also read: 10 Common Mistakes made by bloggers
Retweet old articles
Since only a small percentage of your Twitter followers will engage with your tweet, make it a habit to occasionally re-tweet your old blog posts to increase the engagement with your followers. Most successful bloggers routinely share their old articles, this ensures that people who did not see their content at first will see it later.
Write for the scanner
From research, most web users won’t read more than 28% of words on a website. This means that, while having longer, comprehensive posts will help your search engine rankings, it won’t increase the chances of your content being read. Note that the more people read your content, the more shares it has, and hence more traffic. It is advisable to write your content for scanners by using Headings and subheadings, bold italics, numbering and bullets. This way you make your blog content more presentable and scannable, boosting traffic to your blog.
Listen to your readers
Ask your readers what content they want to read about the most and create your content based on popular demand.
Implement basic SEO
Taking write measures when it comes to SEO can double your blog traffic within a short period of time. Simple tasks like using the right title tags, having a catchy description, ensuring that your site is easy to navigate etc. can lead to a significant increase in traffic to your site.
You can also read: Basic On-Site SEO Techniques for Bloggers
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Invite others to guest post on your blog
If you invite others to write for you, especially if they have a much bigger reach than you do, they are more likely to share their guest post with their readers, this can result to more traffic to your blog.
Link to authoritative sources
If you blog constantly links to authoritative websites and resources that are relevant to your niche, Google will assume that you are a good and authoritative resource in your niche, and they will rank you better, leading into more traffic.
Use Internal links
Internal links are part of your on-page SEO and quality internal links will impact your search rankings in the search engines. Ensure you regularly link to relevant pages and articles on your blog.
You can also read: 10 Effective ways of building links on your blog.
Promote your blog on top forums in your niche
Focus on making valuable contributions to the forum in form of ideas, response to discussions then link back to your blog in the forum signature. This can increase the traffic to your blog.
Feature other bloggers in your articles and ask them to share
Regularly link to other bloggers in your articles and email all of them to let them know about your articles, many of them will share your articles, resulting in lots of traffic to your blog.
You can also read: Blog and Reviews for Digital Business Marketing
Comment on other blogs
The right comment on a highly authoritative blog can send you lots of traffic. Identify top blogs in your niche and start interacting and commenting on a regular basis. This will get the blogger and his/her audience to notice you and visit your blog leading to an increase in traffic.
Optimize your blog for search engines
Note that search engines are the major source of traffic to the most established blogs like Shoutmeloud. Therefore don’t ignore SEO.
Guest blog
Look for blog that is bigger than yours and write an article for that blog. You will be allowed to have a bio that includes a link to your site in your guest post. This can result in a lot of traffic for you.
Publish more articles
No matter your niche, research has shown that publishing more content will always lead to an increase in traffic to your site.
Publish longer content
Research has also shown that Google and other search engines give preference to longer, comprehensive articles. Articles that are 3000-10000 words get twice as many shares than those that are less than 1000.
The bottom line
The above are just but some of the ways you can promote your blog. They are more other ways some free and others paid which I haven’t mentioned. Some of them are a must do for those who want to succeed in the world of blogging. It is upon the blogger to choose which is the best way to promote his/her site.
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373 responses to “Free Ways to Promote Your Blog”
Good information! I am saving this to implement the things that I am not doing.
Hi Tiann, glad you found this post helpful!
Great tips for free blog promotion! I look forward to reading more articles!
Hi, as always am grateful for your comments.
Thanks for this article! Great promotion ideas!
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Great tips!
Such great info in the post! I try to implemented many of the suggestions but will need to try and be more regular about it, especially the SEO.
Hi Tracy, keep working otherwise am grateful for your feedback.
Some excellent tips here and all really practical too. Thanks for sharing.
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These are all great tips! Thanks!
These are all fantastic tips thank you so much some I do but there are some I will be looking at… great information
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very nice Post thanks for sharing
This is so true. The hardest part of starting out is getting traffic. Thanks for putting so many great ideas to bring free traffic to your site in one place.
Hi, I appreciate your feedback. You are most welcomed.
The only thing you mentioned that i haven’t tried yet is retweeting old tweets. I will give that a shot.
Hi Shana, thanks for visiting. Glad you found something new to apply from this post!
Very helpful and informative. I’m only stuck on how to know when or what time to post to gain readers.
Hi, you can test by posting at different times and see how much engagement you get. Then choose the times with the most engagement.
Indeed Quora is a great way to drive traffic to blog. I also have to add interaction like in facebook groups, it’s not only posting and done you’re gone. Interacting is good because you get to learn and maybe karma will work in your favor making this person visit your blog as well.
Great post, thanks for sharing these tips 🙂
Hi, I appreciate your additional insights to this post. Thanks.
This is such a helpful post – I am always looking for new ways to promote! thank you so much! 🙂
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As a new blogger, this is so helpful!
Thanks Olivia.
I need to work on promoting my blog more, so thanks for the helpful pointers! x
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Amazing ways and I’m doing some of them and will try to do the rest because I’m sure most of the ways you mentioned are very good and helpful.
Hi Jack, thanks for your feedback!
I never thought of retweeting old posts! That’s such a good idea, thanks for it.
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Great post – I always struggle to find ways to promote my blog posts so thanks for these ideas.
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I have been using Quora and Pinterest to drive traffic to my website and it has worked wonders. I will look into the other means you have suggested.
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These are great tips, most importantly something i didn’t notice was the use of social media. Social media is a great resource to promote a blog specially Pinterest. With the right graphics and wording any blog post can go viral!
True, I too drive most of my traffic from social media.
Hi Lee, True, thanks for the visit.
Thanks for the comments.
Its all about the promotion and getting your blog seen definitely takes time! We found Pinterest is a good source of traffic – we just need to use it more as a tool
Yes social media networks are a great way to promote your blog. Thanks for visiting.
I am so glad to came across your interesting post. I think that this is really helpful and awesome tips!
Hi Chelle, I appreciate your visit.
I need to optimize for search engines to find me too. Everything takes time and I run so short on that lately.
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We can all try free ways, In fact, I ahve been using it too and it has been very helpful for me.
Thanks for the feedback!
Sometimes we need to be practical on how we can promote our blog. Theres on harm in trying free ways adn its verry effective.
True. Thanks.
Super useful tips. Many of these things I was aware of, but a lot I did not know. Going to start implementing several of these tips to increase my traffic and will also be bookmarking this article. Great advice for newbies like me.
Hi, thanks for the nice feedback.
These are great tips! I think a lot of people don’t realize how much time should be put toward promoting the blog posts. Thank you for sharing!
You are most welcomed Farmhouse Mama.
These are great tips. I always use seo in my posts!
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These are some great tips. Even I, as a blogger of many years, am always looking for new and hopefully free ways to promote my blog and I’ve found some new ones today, thanks to this post.
As always, am grateful for your visit and taking time to comment on this post.
SEO & hashtags are something I need to work on. I started blogging just for myself and realized that it could inspire others. Getting the word out is the hardest part. Thanks for all the help.
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Very helpful tips and advice here! Thank you for sharing.
Welcome Catherine.
It’s so crucial to find free ways to get traffic to your site. Thank you for this post.
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I definitely left reading this piece a lot social media smarter, and if anyone doesn’t become successful after reading this, they just weren’t reading
Wow! I can’t help but agree with you. Thanks.
These are all such great ideas. There are many ways to get your name out there. A good way is to find a community.
Yes, in fact that is where I get most of my traffic from. Thanks.
Ahh this is super useful! Always good to have some new ideas for how to get more attention to my blog. Thanks so much!
Hi Eli, thanks for visiting.
Some great ideas here thanks for sharing i will have to have a look at the seo side of things as i still need to work on that
Thanks for the feedback.
I really need to work on promoting my articles more, I only used hashtags on Twitter and IG. Thanks for this information
Welcome Miranda.
It’s so important to find free ways to marketing your site, especially when you’re first starting out.
Yes, that is where bloggers need to focus more on.
It is so amazing to me how technology has advanced so much, and so many things can make an impact in one’s business model. Thanks for sharing these great tips!
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Search Engine Optimization is very important to me; these are great tips and are very eye opening!
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these are all great tips for promoting your blog. it takes somuch time for promotion, some people just don’t think of it. I spend way more time promoting than i do actually writing!!
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Excellent tips. Blogging is more than just putting something out there and waiting on people to come to you. You have to make sure people can see what you’re putting out there.
Yes, most bloggers make that big mistake, of only writing, with the hope that people will visit their content without promoting it, otherwise thanks for commenting on this post.
Thanks for sharing this post. It’s invaluable for tips and ideas, and I’ll be bookmarking.
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Thanks very much!
All great ideas. I am working on my SEO right now. #trafficjam
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Great tips here! We just started blogging and are still in the learning curve stage. I definitely want to master the best time to post; it seems difficult in pacific time because the rest of the world has already finished their day.
Hi Caitlin, glad you’ve picked some tips from this post.
I have gone to Quora and it is a really good resource to getting my questions answered, however I personally have never actually said my two cents on it. But good information and I think I would give it a try. Thanks #trafficjamweekend
Hi Roni, thanks for your feedback.
These tips are so helpful. I am so glad i stumbled on this blog. I have a learnt a lot in such a short time.
Hey Joseph, thanks very much for the positive feedback. Am glad you’ve learned some blogging tips from this site.
I all the time used to read paragraph in news papers but now as I am a user of internet therefore from now I am using net for posts, thanks to web.
Love the article & that you mention Quora! I would add to it that you should use your links cautiously because Quora does remove answers that seem spammy with links to blogs. You can’t just leave a link with a few words or they will 100% remove it. You have to have thoughtful answers that include links in order for it to not be deemed spam.
Yes, I use Quora, and yes you can’t just drop links on their site, you have to provide insightful answers and where necessary include a link.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll definitely try to implement these into my site!
Hi Chris, thanks for visiting.
These are awesome tips, especially for a new blogger. SEO is something I’m trying to figure out and tackle. The tip on longer posts is new to me. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
Hey Stephanie, I appreciate your visit, and taking time to read!
Lots of great information here. A great read if you are inspiring blogger!
Hey Keith, thanks for visiting.
Hi John, as always great post filled with actionable tips. I just want to know, if we want to link to a big authority website, should we ask for permission from that website ? Thanks
Hi Gursimrat, yes it is recommended that you ask, but in most cases people just link without asking. Provided your site is good and in the same niche, linking without asking may not be a problem to the site you are linking to otherwise thanks for visiting.
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I was unaware that longer posts gained so much more traffic. Thinking about it, it’s unsurprising, but still helpful to know. Thankyou for sharing these tips! I’m going to revisit my content to see how I can lengthen it.
Hi Kristen, Yes Long posts work well if you want to gain Traffic especially from Search Engines since they boost Rankings. Thanks for reading.
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Great tips! I will be following up on some. Thank you. Visiting today from the Traffic Jam link up.
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Nice tips. I can see there is a lot of reading here for me!
Hi Alicia, I appreciate your visit.
Very helpful article. I do interviews once in a month. Does that count?
Yes, if conducted well, interviews is another good way to promote your blog.
It promotes
i’ve mostly been focusing on facebook and pinterest but i will definitely check out these other network sites you mention as i’m not too familiar with them. thanks for the info!
Hi Ashram, I appreciate your visit. It is always good to try out others too, until you find out what works and what doesn’t.
One thing worth adding to your post is getting free traffic from Facebook groups. This is a really easy way.
Hi Peter, Yes Facebook groups bring in free traffic but with some effort put in like engaging and promoting other peoples content too.
Brilliant! Thanks a lot for sharing 🙂
Hi Michelle, I appreciate your visit.
Hi, I have never tried Quora and Q&A communities. Thanks for sharing new stuff with me and also providing further readings on the topics.
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Hi John, I am new to your site and often struggle with which technique of traffic generation to follow most given limited time. If you have a choice which are your top three? Thanks for this post and I find that participation in Q&A and Forums most helpful.
Hi Jimmy, thanks for visiting, I drove most of traffic using Facebook and Pinterest. That is where I put most of my effort though I use some of other networks like Stumble upon, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, Quora to a small extent.
This is so useful I’ve been struggling to get traffic now I know how to get free one. Thanks
Hi Joyce, thanks for visiting. Glad that you’ve found something helpful from this post.
Thanks for sharing this! I just launched my blog and I still struggle a little with bringing traffic and promoting it but Facebook groups are such a huge help. Who knew?
It takes time, I too use Facebook groups to drive most of my traffic. Thanks for visiting.
Thanks for this, very useful information!!
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Great tips and advice, will look in some of these myself, thank you!!
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Thanks for sharing these tips, they are very helpful! Guest posts are a useful way to promote the blog, at least this works for me.
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I’ve never really thought of some of these tips.
Really cool list!
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Thank you for the tips!
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Guest blogging and having other bloggers guest post on your blog are both great ways to increase traffic so I’m glad you included them in your article here 🙂
Thanks Christy.
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I currently only promote in a few places but would love to grow my blog more, so glad I found this article!
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Never thought of using quora as a way to drive more traffic. I frequent that site quite often because I enjoy the message board interaction. I will have to link my self now. Thank you for these wonderful tips
Hi, thanks for visiting, Yes Quora can provide you with some additional traffic. All you need to do is provide links to your site when you are answering questions.
I love posts like this. I’m going to take any help I can get to drive traffic to my blog. If it is free, I’ll take it twice.
Hi Jeff, am glad that you are already putting these tips into action.
Indeed these are great guides and very informative.
Hi, thanks very much.
These tips are amazing! I am a new blogger and these tips are certainly resourceful as I and still learning all these strategies. Thanks
Thanks for the helpful insight.
Besic SEO is really a must for new bloggers like us.
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These are great – especially for us beginners. Thanks so much (followed and pinned :))
Thanks very much.
OMG what an awesomely post this is.
You brainy, keep going.
Hi Hemanth, appreciated.
Nice round up of tips to promote our posts. I need to learn more about SEO.It still befuddles me.
Hi Herlina, thanks for visiting again. Are you using Yoast SEO plugin on your blog? It can guide you to write SEO friendly posts. With time, you get to learn what SEO is all about.
Not only social media or engaged with some blogger groups but you need to put some keywords on your blog, this is will help your blog easy to find in any search engine like: google, yahoo, bing. Go to semrush to find what kind any popular for your blog before you start. Its’ free. You can use daily. This is also will help you to find high cpc keywords if you want to apply for google adsense.
Yes, Writing SEO friendly articles is a good way of getting them ranked. I would recommend Yoast plugin plus keyword search as the best way to start to writing SEO friendly posts.
A very useful post with the quick tips. You may focus on the Ad networks suggested, with their pros and cons!
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Hi, thanks for visiting, actually physics was one of my best subjects in high school and am glad that you are writing on the same topic. Welcome.
Great tips. I use these on adaily basis and i admit these help!
Hi Monika, welcome.
Great tips. Though I’m not so sure about the “post more often” one. There re many bloggers who’ve made lots of case studies on the topic and showed how they’re blog was just fine with one article per month. Given that you do spend the rest of the time promoting and getting backlinks to that article.
Hi Livia, you can keep the frequency of posting lower, but keep consistency that your audience know that they will get a new post at a given day of the week or month.
Thanks for sharing these tips! I’m always interested in learning more about promotion and gaining traffic/followers. Bookmarking and sharing! 🙂
Thanks for your comments, yes learning is the key to becoming better blogger.
I tried using Quora but I found that it was all spammy type of stuff.
Hi, you need to pick a given niche and be active for better results with Quora. If you can portray yourself as an expert in a particular topic or niche, then Quora can work for you.
These are very helpful tips. My blog is still young and there are many things I do not know yet, like most of these tips. Promoting my blog is something I have just recently really started putting my energy to. This post was perfect! Thank you so much!
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I knew some but not all! I will try to impliment them into my promotion routine!
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There are some great tips here and ones that I totally need to implement. Thanks for sharing.
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Great tips. Sharing on twitter <3
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Good tips. I’m currently working on most of these. You’re definitely write when you say that bloggers spend most of their time promoting their content!
Hi, Writing quality content and promoting it to reach desired audience is the key to successful blogging, otherwise thanks for your comments.
I always love to read your posts as they are very much important for all blogger. I have bookmarked your site. Thanks again for sharing the post.
Appreciated. Welcome again.
Thank you for sharing, this really helps a lot!
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These are good ideas!
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I love to reshare old articles! A lot of them are good so why just post them once and forget about them? You have some great tips!
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Great tips! I’m still figuring out this whole SEO thing. I know that’s a big deal when it comes to getting your blog seen. Also, I also make it a point to pay close attention to what my readers say and what they respond to.
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Very Informative post! Thanks.
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Amazing tips here, I knew some of them, but others are new. I love the part of writing for the scanner, I find doing that myself, so its good to think about it while writing. Great psot!
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Thanks for sharing these tips!
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Thanks for taking the time to write this article. Definitely bookmarking this article to come back to in the future. Have a great day!
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You know I always learn so much from your blogs and this one was definitely needed. Thank you for sharing!
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You have some really good pointers. I need to post some of my older blogs on my social media.
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Very helpful and informative. I have already bookmarked the post.
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You live and learn from the mistakes made. There are some great tips on this.
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Helpful tips for this newbie 🙂 thanks for pulling together and sharing!
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Thanks for the tips! Will definitely try to implement them 😀
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A very good article and ideas that I will
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Great post. I will be coming back to it a lot for the helpful tips! Awesome site by the way:)
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This sure is useful… as a new blogger this is where I struggle too…
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I just launched my blog today so this came at just the right time! It was full of great information, thank you for sharing. I had read somewhere that a good blog post needs to be 600 words or less due to short attention spans these days so I tried to keep my content around that. If longer is better I’ll have to change that. 🙂
Hi Annie am grateful for your visit and for the insightful comments. I wish you all the best in your blogging journey.
Thanks for useful tips! I’m still trying to get my blog out there. 🙂 I am working a lot on my blog post length- I used to write blog posts a little over 500 words but now I easily can write 1000 word long posts. 🙂
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Great tips, thanks!
Great tips! Thank you for sharing. I never thought about featuring other bloggers in my post. Typically I’m focused on linking out to authoritative sources, but those can be fellow bloggers, too! Can’t wait to try that one.
Hi Kate, thanks for your comments. Yes, you can try one in your niche, who is established and this can even improve your ranking in search engines.
Great tips! thank you for sharing these!
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Great tips! These are useful.
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Holy cow! So many great tips on blog promotion! I have been looking for the name to Quora for a LONG time because I wanted to make an account but forgot what it was called. Thanks for the great tips, I will definitely put them to use.
Hi Briana, appreciated.
These tips are pretty much all that I do. I’m still to experiment with guests blogs though. Thank you for sharing
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Very helpful. Thank you for sharing
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This was very helpful. I am struggling with writing vs. promoting. I had no idea how time consuming the promoting is! All of these tips are things that I can implement immediately.
Hi, It is recommended that you promote more than you write not vice versa. I have seen tremendous results when I do promotion more than do the writing. These tips if implemented well can take a blog to another higher level.
I’ve never try to promote my blog by forums but I may try this now. Thanks for sharing this tips! 🙂
Hi Anita, your comments appreciated.
These are such good tips! I’m just starting out so I’ll be using them.
Hi Kelley, thanks for your comments. Welcome again.
I do a combination of a lot of the things you posted here. I guest posted, post retweet old posts (buffer), and comment on other blogs. I also use pinterest!
Hi, that is great. Keep doing that.
Thank You for the tips and suggestions! I’m always looking for new ways to promote and share!
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There’s a TON of valuable information here, thank you for sharing
Hi, appreciated.
Thanks from a new blogger!
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Thanks for this article! so interesting and useful.
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These are great ideas! I definitely found a few more strategies to try from this article.
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Great tips, thanks!
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All very valid points. Saving this for future reference.
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THis is quite informative! thanks for sharing these tips.
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So many great tips! I could definitely improve on a few of these. I have a post-publish checklist just to keep me on track and make sure I don’t miss any ways of promoting my posts…I’ll have to add a couple of these though! Thanks so much.
Hi Deryn, thanks for dropping by. Yes, a checklist keeps you on track.
I have read a few blog posts that were similar in content but this is the most comprehensive. I am just starting this blogging thing. I don’t know how everyone keeps up with all of this. I really enjoy writing and reading other blogs but it does take time.
Hi, you don’t need to work on all of these at ones, just start somewhere like Optimizing your blog posts for search engines, writing your posts for scanners. Don’t read all blogs you come across, just pick few established blogs in your niche and comment on them.
This is such a great roundup of information! I’ve been working on a few of these for a while, but I’ll definitely try to add more of these into my routine!
Hi Trish, thanks for your comments.
Wow these tips are great! Definitely going to invest some time in SEO now…
Hi, I appreciate your comments.
Great tips. Several of them really hit home. Write for the scanner. This is very important to utilize proper H tags as most will only scan headlines. Great reminder.
Hi Brian, thanks for your comments, yes, writing for scanners comes in handy especially if you write long article.
These are some great tips! I am definitely needing to get more views right now.
Hi Lesli, thanks for dropping by. Your comments appreciated.
Yahoo answers and quora…never would have thought of that!
Hi Kaylee, I use Quora and I would recommend it to help you drive some traffic to your site.
Only problem is all this needs a lot of time and energy,
If you work on each step one at time, then it isn’t that difficulty. Just start implementing each step slowly, with time you will be there.
There were some great tips! I will definitely give it a try! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Bernardo, grateful for your comments.
As a new blogger, I appreciate these tips and will give them a try.
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Great tips thank you 🙂
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Thanks – I’ve been sticking to the 300 word mark but I’ve seen lots of reference to 2000 words being the new ideal…maybe time for a rethink.
Yes the more words you have the better, but make sure you also consider writing it for scanners..i.e. make it attractive to the readers using Bullet points, bold titles etc.
I have saved this as a reference and will try to apply it to both content and marketing. Thank you
Thanks Cath.
Great tips. I recently found out about Yahoo answers. I haven’t given it a try yet but that’s what I should really look into.
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Yahoo answers is good but I personally use Quora, and I have found it to a good driver of traffic especially if you are active.
This gets me excited to try these out first I’ll spend some time on quora thanks alot
Hi Dre, I use Quora and so far am generating some traffic from it. The key is to be active. Find simple questions that you can provide good answers, then do these frequently.
Your tips are so helpful. I have just starting blogging n I struggle with the problem of traffic and subscribers… Your tips and tricks are definitely going to help me and people who are new to this blogging world
Hi Farhaj, thanks for your comments.
Definitely saving this page to come back to as I work on my blog.
Thanks for the tips!
Hi, thanks and welcome back.
Great informative post. surely helpful.
Thanks for your comments.
These are all such great tips, I’ll definitely try them!
Hi, grateful.
These are some really great tips and strategies! I’m fairly new to the blogging scene so I really need information like this to help me along.
Hi, thanks for your comments.
Some amazing tips, thank you. I will definitely be using what was said to boost traffic to my own blog.
Hi, thanks for passing by.
Great tips! Thanks for sharing!
Welcome.
Thanks for a good read. Being brand new to the blogger world I will definitely keep these tips and tricks in mind.
Hi Heidi, very grateful for your comments.
I learned a few things from your post, so thank you for taking the time to share this important information with us! I have a question about hashtags if you could help. How can I utilize them to help promote my website/blog site? I don`t really know much at all about hashtags, how to use them, and what would be most effective in terms of what hashtags get better results and things?
Hi, It’s easy to use hashtags, take an example of Twitter, just type in the search, “#blogging” and you will see so many articles in form of tweets with that hashtag related to blogging topics. When you tweet say your latest post, you can add #Blogging or # SEO or # Blog if it about those topics. You can do a simple research to find the most trending hashtags in your niche or you can come up with your own hashtags. I hope this helps.
That’s perfect thank you so much! New to twitter, honestly not too fond of it but the results are outstanding, so I am learning how it works still.
Hi, welcome.
Hey John,
I appreciate you for this article, It is full of informative article for newbie and also for those who is doing mistake. they will learn lot of thing from this article.
Thank you.
Hey Nishant, thanks for your insightful comments.
Thanks for the informative post.
Welcome.
These are awesome tips! Retweeting older articles (re-sharing in general) makes social promo so much easier!
Hi shelby, your comments highly appreciated.
Great tips! I especially like the Write for the Scanner! I like to write in-depth posts, but will begin to make things more prominent for those who like to scan 😉
Hi, yes writing for scanners will be helpful to your readers and even the search engines.
What a helpful post! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcomed.
Very useful articles I really learnt a lot. I think uyou forgot to add some social bookmarking sites like reddit n Pinterest .
I use them to gettraffic to my blog.
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Hi Collins, thanks for your insights. Though I didn’t mention Reddit and Pinterest, I use both of them but most of my Traffic comes from Facebook groups.
Love your list. Many are things I never thought of.
Hi Lois, thanks for your comments.
Awesome tips! I always struggle with the word count. I know I need to write longer posts!
Hi, long articles do well for search engines but in order to make them appealing to readers you can use good bold titles, bullet points etc.
The issue of guest blogging has always been a critical one and I am glad you have mentioned it because if you can leverage the traffic from your guest’s site, then you can grow your email list as well as leads. I agree with this, John!
Hi, thanks for dropping by. Guest blogging can work well especially if you choose established blogs in terms of Traffic and rankings in search engines.
I agree. I believe sourcing for established contacts can prove difficult but when it works, it works like a gem!
Agreed, with time you get to know some of them. Just to mention one blog that if you manage to guest post can bring in big traffic shoutmeloud
These are some great tips! Thanks.
Hi Emily, really appreciate your passing by. Welcome again.
Great list of tips! I’ve definitely noticed that publishing longer, yet more resourceful, content has done well for my blog.
Hi Mia, thanks for your insights. Yes long articles work well especially in ranking but you need also to take care of other important things to avoid scaring away readers. You can make your content more appealing using Bullet points, Bold titles, Subheadings etc.
Indeed knowledge is power, thanks for the empowerment.
Grateful for your comments.
I was quite sceptical about commenting on other blogs. Lots of people were recommending this method as a great way to generate traffic while others said quite the opposite. Commenting on other blogs AND leaving a no follow link back to your blog as a ‘signature’ does work. At least for me. It’s not a lot of traffic, but at least I know some people find it useful.
Hi Cristina, thanks for your insights. Commenting can bring in reasonable traffic if you choose carefully the blogs you comment on. If you choose high traffic blog, and make meaningful comments, there is high chance that not only will you attract author of the post, but also his/her readers.
Very helpful tips. Definitely worth implementing. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Jessica, thanks for dropping by.
There are some great tips here! You’re right about spending more time promoting content than actually writing. I wish that weren’t the case. One thing I’m struggling with is finding the right long tail keywords. Any advice?
Hi, you can use Google Keyword Planner which is free or Semrush
these are all very helpful tips, will use them. thanks.
Hi Sadiya, grateful for your comments.
Hey John, thanks for these tips 🙂
Hi Abdul, thanks for dropping by.
I had no idea about the longer articles! These tips are super helpful, especially for a newer blogger like me. Thanks!
Hi Sarah, becoming successful in blogging is a long learning curve, you discover more tips and tricks on the way. Thanks for dropping by.
Great tips, thank you!
Hi Adrienne, Welcome.
Some great tips over here! Will definitely give it a try!
Hi, thanks for dropping by. Your comments well appreciated.