You've probably already figured out, write a blog post is only half the battle. We must make an extra effort (and get creative!) To attract users to your blog so that they can read and share your content.
Unless you have a base wide and active fans, means checking your stats visits and that few people visit your blog can actually be quite daunting for any web editor and blogger.
You know how your articles are well written, and your blog is interesting, but how to tell the rest of the world? To achieve this, I have compiled for you a list of strategies that will help you promote your web essays and articles in your blog, to generate new visitors and maintain a good traffic.
Most of his strategies should not take you much time. Spend 15 to 30 minutes at strategies each time you publish a new article will be very useful in the short, medium and long term.
1. Make use of social networks
Use Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Viadeo and Google+ to share your blog posts and attract new audiences. Promotion via social networks is the first thing you need to think about when it comes to promoting your blog post. Regularly publish and distribute engaging content, useful or entertaining.
But we must take into account that each social network to clean utility, a specific audience and different practices to observe. So you have to adapt your web content strategy and your publication times the peculiarities of each platform for maximum visibility and interaction.
Unless you have a base wide and active fans, means checking your stats visits and that few people visit your blog can actually be quite daunting for any web editor and blogger.
You know how your articles are well written, and your blog is interesting, but how to tell the rest of the world? To achieve this, I have compiled for you a list of strategies that will help you promote your web essays and articles in your blog, to generate new visitors and maintain a good traffic.
Most of his strategies should not take you much time. Spend 15 to 30 minutes at strategies each time you publish a new article will be very useful in the short, medium and long term.
1. Make use of social networks
Use Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Viadeo and Google+ to share your blog posts and attract new audiences. Promotion via social networks is the first thing you need to think about when it comes to promoting your blog post. Regularly publish and distribute engaging content, useful or entertaining.
But we must take into account that each social network to clean utility, a specific audience and different practices to observe. So you have to adapt your web content strategy and your publication times the peculiarities of each platform for maximum visibility and interaction.
If you are not yet using Google+, I encourage you to start now for more seo profits! Sharing your blog posts in your Google+ circles is not only ideal for generating referral traffic but is also becoming increasingly important for SEO of your blog.
Use the pictures when possible and make sure that the sizes of images of your blog articles are adapted as the pictures good size and good quality greatly increase click-through rate on social networks!
You can follow the example of how I'm promoting my web editors and my blog articles via my social networks: Twitter, Facebook and Google+
2. Promote your blog posts on digg-like websites
The term "Digg-like" is used to refer to all websites that are based on the same concept as Digg.com.
Digg.com is a link sharing network and discussion. Users post links to photos, videos, articles and other web content they deem interesting and likely to be shared.
Each member can vote for the other links if they find them interesting. Each link is associated with a title and a short description. If a link gets many voting shortly after it is published, it is likely to appear on the home page of Digg-Like, which guarantees high visibility. Digg-like sites are very helpful in terms of traffic and SEO. Here is a digg-like website useful and that I regularly use to publish my web essays and blog posts: Scoop.it.
3. Use newsletters
Send a newsletter with the latest articles you have published to your list of subscribers. The transmission frequency can be daily, weekly or monthly, depending on the frequency of your web essays and publications on the blog. Personally, I think once a week is more than enough. More than that you may annoy your subscribers and push them to unsubscribe.
The newsletter will include the title of your blog post and a little description, not forgetting the famous button "read more" that will take users to read all of your article directly to your blog.
4. Comment on other articles in the same niche as your
Build your reputation in quality blogs dealing with the same subjects as those of your blog. Submit intelligent comments and contribute significantly to the ongoing discussions.
Select a specific research and make your choice based on the players you want to attract. With the objective of bringing readers of other blogs to your own blog, accentuate your visibility among readers and let you know as an actor / blogger. Keep it writing reviews but without much you spend. Remember: quality over quantity.
5. Write articles guests (Guest blogging)
Enjoy other bloggers networks to be more visible and to reach new audiences. Do your research, please contact the editors of good quality blogs and offer to writing a guest article.
How to promote your blog in the article? You can include in the article (by agreement) a few links to your blog. Each of these links can point to either the home page or to a category page, or to an article of your choice. Remember to include BIO author will introduce you to the bottom of the article readers.
Articles guests have many advantages: Prove your writing skills, your knowledge and areas of expertise. Increase your visibility and visibility. Acquire new readers. Get traffic and improve your SEO.
6. Become a contributor on a popular website
Websites moderators sometimes will offer to join their team if they consider the relevance of your interventions and web writing skills can benefit their community.
Generally, become a contributor does not require any commitment which prerequisites. However, this status gives access to some features and therefore additional responsibilities. It is therefore understood easily as moderators of blogs hardly give the status of contributor to a member who has never participated in their forum / blog or who registered for just two days, for example.
If you are already well known in your niche, do not expect them to come to propose it. Take your chance and ask to become a web editor and regular contributor to a blog or a quality online magazine. This can be a great way to build your reputation as a thought leader and to drive traffic to your blog.
7. Participate in forums, groups and communities in your niche
Let me be clear: Do not embed other forums, web communities or groups for the sole purpose of promoting your blog. Participate in them in order to help others. Answer the questions and share your ideas. Develop your brand image and build a relationship of trust with users which will push them naturally to want to know more about you.
8. Optimize your blog and web editors for search engines
While optimizing for search engines has changed considerably his last time the SEO is definitely not dead!
Optimization for Search Engines Seo is a set of techniques to promote and maximize the understanding of the theme and content of the pages of a website by web crawlers and search engines such as Google.
First:
• Organize the pages of your website or blog with a clear hierarchy and internal links to a good navigation between pages.
• Give your web pages relevant and useful titles for users. Avoid titles such as "Welcome to my website", "Home" or "Index" that are not carriers of meaning.
Second:
• Think about the quality of your incoming links, ie links from other sites pointing to your pages. To increase the popularity of your site, find sites with common themes with yours or may be interested in your content and let you know about them.
• Outbound links (your web site to another site) are also to be considered. When you add an outgoing link, it is always good to ask "Is this link useful for my visitors? "Do not participate in link exchange networks that go against quality guidelines of search engines such as Google. Exchange networks or "link farms" can have a very negative impact on the ranking of your blog.
finally:
It is important to add original content to your blog on a regular basis for several reasons: To encourage visitors to return to your blog more often. Also encourage indexing robots back through the pages of your blog regularly. Attracting more quality inbound links.
Make sure your blog articles contain relevant keywords. Give special attention to the inclusion of your keywords in your titles, your subtitles and throughout your articles, intelligent and moderately, without forgetting to include them in the meta tags.
These are good first steps to optimize your SEO and develop your positioning strategy.
9. Create Slideshares based on your blog articles
Grow your audience by reformulating your blog posts as slideshares that you can share on slideshare.net and similar platforms.
I invite you to discover reformulations of examples of my items in my account presentations editorial Slideshare.net
10. Recycle your old blog posts
Do not be afraid to re-promote your ancient times blog articles to time. It's a good trick when you do not have time to write an article but you still want to have traffic.
Many of your customers will not remember your earliest essays, or if they do they will probably appreciate the reminder.
11. Try advertising on social networks
Try the Facebook ads, linkedin ads or sponsored tweets. This form of advertising will not only drive traffic to your blog, but can also increase the basis of your fans and your followers.
12. Put the social sharing buttons prominently on your blog
Make sure that your social sharing buttons are conspicuous and readily accessible to users to facilitate the actions of sharing. Include in the main players of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn etc.
13. Include a link to your blog on all your social networking profiles
Does this sound obvious? I assure you it is not for everyone! Be sure to always include a link to your blog and this on each of your profiles on social networks, including those that you use only very little!
14. Mention the URL of your blog on all your documents and print marketing
Do not forget offline marketing! Be sure to always include your blog URL on your marketing materials: Business card, brochures, flyers, business case etc.
Here are some easy and very effective ways to promote your blog articles. I encourage you to implement at least three of the above-mentioned strategies, you will be amazed at the results obtained in a short period of time!
Use the pictures when possible and make sure that the sizes of images of your blog articles are adapted as the pictures good size and good quality greatly increase click-through rate on social networks!
You can follow the example of how I'm promoting my web editors and my blog articles via my social networks: Twitter, Facebook and Google+
2. Promote your blog posts on digg-like websites
The term "Digg-like" is used to refer to all websites that are based on the same concept as Digg.com.
Digg.com is a link sharing network and discussion. Users post links to photos, videos, articles and other web content they deem interesting and likely to be shared.
Each member can vote for the other links if they find them interesting. Each link is associated with a title and a short description. If a link gets many voting shortly after it is published, it is likely to appear on the home page of Digg-Like, which guarantees high visibility. Digg-like sites are very helpful in terms of traffic and SEO. Here is a digg-like website useful and that I regularly use to publish my web essays and blog posts: Scoop.it.
3. Use newsletters
Send a newsletter with the latest articles you have published to your list of subscribers. The transmission frequency can be daily, weekly or monthly, depending on the frequency of your web essays and publications on the blog. Personally, I think once a week is more than enough. More than that you may annoy your subscribers and push them to unsubscribe.
The newsletter will include the title of your blog post and a little description, not forgetting the famous button "read more" that will take users to read all of your article directly to your blog.
4. Comment on other articles in the same niche as your
Build your reputation in quality blogs dealing with the same subjects as those of your blog. Submit intelligent comments and contribute significantly to the ongoing discussions.
Select a specific research and make your choice based on the players you want to attract. With the objective of bringing readers of other blogs to your own blog, accentuate your visibility among readers and let you know as an actor / blogger. Keep it writing reviews but without much you spend. Remember: quality over quantity.
5. Write articles guests (Guest blogging)
Enjoy other bloggers networks to be more visible and to reach new audiences. Do your research, please contact the editors of good quality blogs and offer to writing a guest article.
How to promote your blog in the article? You can include in the article (by agreement) a few links to your blog. Each of these links can point to either the home page or to a category page, or to an article of your choice. Remember to include BIO author will introduce you to the bottom of the article readers.
Articles guests have many advantages: Prove your writing skills, your knowledge and areas of expertise. Increase your visibility and visibility. Acquire new readers. Get traffic and improve your SEO.
6. Become a contributor on a popular website
Websites moderators sometimes will offer to join their team if they consider the relevance of your interventions and web writing skills can benefit their community.
Generally, become a contributor does not require any commitment which prerequisites. However, this status gives access to some features and therefore additional responsibilities. It is therefore understood easily as moderators of blogs hardly give the status of contributor to a member who has never participated in their forum / blog or who registered for just two days, for example.
If you are already well known in your niche, do not expect them to come to propose it. Take your chance and ask to become a web editor and regular contributor to a blog or a quality online magazine. This can be a great way to build your reputation as a thought leader and to drive traffic to your blog.
7. Participate in forums, groups and communities in your niche
Let me be clear: Do not embed other forums, web communities or groups for the sole purpose of promoting your blog. Participate in them in order to help others. Answer the questions and share your ideas. Develop your brand image and build a relationship of trust with users which will push them naturally to want to know more about you.
8. Optimize your blog and web editors for search engines
While optimizing for search engines has changed considerably his last time the SEO is definitely not dead!
Optimization for Search Engines Seo is a set of techniques to promote and maximize the understanding of the theme and content of the pages of a website by web crawlers and search engines such as Google.
First:
• Organize the pages of your website or blog with a clear hierarchy and internal links to a good navigation between pages.
• Give your web pages relevant and useful titles for users. Avoid titles such as "Welcome to my website", "Home" or "Index" that are not carriers of meaning.
Second:
• Think about the quality of your incoming links, ie links from other sites pointing to your pages. To increase the popularity of your site, find sites with common themes with yours or may be interested in your content and let you know about them.
• Outbound links (your web site to another site) are also to be considered. When you add an outgoing link, it is always good to ask "Is this link useful for my visitors? "Do not participate in link exchange networks that go against quality guidelines of search engines such as Google. Exchange networks or "link farms" can have a very negative impact on the ranking of your blog.
finally:
It is important to add original content to your blog on a regular basis for several reasons: To encourage visitors to return to your blog more often. Also encourage indexing robots back through the pages of your blog regularly. Attracting more quality inbound links.
Make sure your blog articles contain relevant keywords. Give special attention to the inclusion of your keywords in your titles, your subtitles and throughout your articles, intelligent and moderately, without forgetting to include them in the meta tags.
These are good first steps to optimize your SEO and develop your positioning strategy.
9. Create Slideshares based on your blog articles
Grow your audience by reformulating your blog posts as slideshares that you can share on slideshare.net and similar platforms.
I invite you to discover reformulations of examples of my items in my account presentations editorial Slideshare.net
10. Recycle your old blog posts
Do not be afraid to re-promote your ancient times blog articles to time. It's a good trick when you do not have time to write an article but you still want to have traffic.
Many of your customers will not remember your earliest essays, or if they do they will probably appreciate the reminder.
11. Try advertising on social networks
Try the Facebook ads, linkedin ads or sponsored tweets. This form of advertising will not only drive traffic to your blog, but can also increase the basis of your fans and your followers.
12. Put the social sharing buttons prominently on your blog
Make sure that your social sharing buttons are conspicuous and readily accessible to users to facilitate the actions of sharing. Include in the main players of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn etc.
13. Include a link to your blog on all your social networking profiles
Does this sound obvious? I assure you it is not for everyone! Be sure to always include a link to your blog and this on each of your profiles on social networks, including those that you use only very little!
14. Mention the URL of your blog on all your documents and print marketing
Do not forget offline marketing! Be sure to always include your blog URL on your marketing materials: Business card, brochures, flyers, business case etc.
Here are some easy and very effective ways to promote your blog articles. I encourage you to implement at least three of the above-mentioned strategies, you will be amazed at the results obtained in a short period of time!