Researching a topic, then preparing a proper layout and writing a killer article – the perfect process to build a thriving readership for your blog.
Most of the bloggers think that it is enough to write quality content and once the post gets indexed in search engines you will get huge traffic flow. But the truth is completely different. Your so-called quality post might take a long time in getting indexed in search engines and even if it gets indexed it might not be able to register a spot in the first two pages of search results.
And thus your quality post might not attract the traffic you had expected. So what should you do to get the results. After researching and writing a killer article, you need to promote it hard to give it the initial boost of traffic and when search engines will see the post all around the web, it might get indexed fast and can rank well in SERPs.
So how should you promote your post ? I will help you with that. I have tried many methods to promote my published posts but only some gave results, but that results were quite good. So here are some of the best ways to promote a post after hitting the publish button.
The Best Ways to Promote a Post :
The First Step.
- Become a Guest Blogger.
Whenever I sit down to come up with blog post ideas, I try to come up with ideas where I can expand it more. It’s like you think of one post which in turn can give you 2-3 more post ideas. Keep the best post idea for your own blog and write a detailed post on your blog. After it is published, its now time to start working on the 2-3 ideas you got. Prepare at least 2 more posts and submit it as a guest post on top blogs of your niche. Be sure to include a link to your published post with proper anchor text. Not only will this practice give you high authority backlinks but some loyal readers as well.
- Blog Commenting
Commenting on other blogs is a great way to build relationships with other bloggers in your niche and driving targeted traffic to your own blog. So start commenting on other blogs.
I prefer commenting on Commentluv enabled blogs because I get two links by commenting there. You can too do that. At this moment, don’t forget to leave a thoughtful comment relevant to the article. If you are commenting just to gain backlinks, your comment will get deleted. So always comment in a way that it triggers a conversation. And don’t forget to have the link pointing to your latest published article.
This step was for link-building. When Google sees that quality backlinks are coming up for a particular article, it will index it very fast and the chances are that your future articles will get indexed immediately once published. Link Building isn’t limited here – you can do article submissions, use web 2.0 properties etc. but that’s not quite necessary as the above two methods would be quite enough.
Another thing, don’t just rush for dofollow backlinks, you must have nofollow backlinks as well for your blog otherwise search engines will suspect that some unethical activities are going on and may ban your site. Not good na.
Second Step.
- Use Blogging Communities.
There are many blogging community sites, where you can submit your post url and once it is approved and published, you will see visitors coming from these sites as well. I personally like Bizsugar very much as I get a lot of visitors compared to other such sites. Other sites worth trying include BlogEngage, Blokube, Serpd.com, Famousbloggers.net (Community News Section) etc.
- Social Media Rocks.
Social Networking Sites are the best places to gain many visitors. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, StumbleUpon and others can give you hundreds of visitors. Facebook can give you the initial boost but Twitter can also work magic. Use sites like JustRetweet.com to get the most out of Twitter. Google+, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg etc. can help you get indexed and ranked easily. In fact, StumbleUpon and Reddit are the traffic sources that can give you a hundred hits within moments but that traffic is not worth it. You can read why they are best traffic sources but not worth it.
- Content Curation Sites
Start using Scoop.it and Paper.li to get another boost in promotion of your article. You can also contact the owner of the Scoop.it and Paper.li pages and submit your article there. Always remember the the quality of the content matters a lot here. I have not used it till now but heard a lot about it and it is worth trying.
The Third Step (Most Important One)
Actually there is no third step. Whatever I do on a regular basis after publishing the post are listed above. But people get successful when they apply their own personal strategy. Do you agree or not?
If you just copy what others are doing you won’t get long-lasting success. You will get the initial boost but only your personal strategies, the strategies that you have mastered will benefit you in the long run. So think of some great and the best way to promote a post, and start bringing more and more visitors.
Note: I didn’t mention anything regarding email list. I know that email list is one of the best traffic source, but what if you don’t have an email list at the moment. Once you have traffic, you can build your email list but before that you can apply the above steps.
Don’t forget to give your feedback to the post. What do you think are the best ways to promote a post, according to you?
Hi,
After publishing a post, the best way of promoting it is to take the help of social networking sites. Social media sites do help in increasing your interaction with your visitors and also helps to drive traffic to your site. Apart from this, guest posting and blog commenting are the best options so far and as you have suggested. Thanks for the share!!
Hi Aditi,
Sharing your posts on social networks works great wonders as it gives the initial visitors to your post and furthermore it helps in your post getting indexed fast in search engines. Thus you an get organic visitors as well.
Thanks for your comment
Good ways to promote your blog post as soon as you have published it. Always start with twitter, facebook and linkedin. Then some other social sites and commenting. Great post.
Hi Shalu Sharma,
I always share my post first on facebook and twitter as they are great to give you targeted visitors.
Hello Dear
good points i am very impress to your post really and social media is very biggest way and very useful way for your business rally thanks for the sharing me
Thanks & Regards
Sarika
Hi Sarika,
Thanks for your feedback
For me the first thing once I’ve published a post is submit it to twitter and LinkedIn. So far these have really helped in bringing the traffic. The next thing is blog commenting. Thanks for these tips. I’ll definitely be putting more these into use.
Hi Chadrack,
Nice to see that you will implement my methods to promote your post.
Cheers
Of course best way to promote a post is to share on social networks, but if you only share links people will irritate with that.
Create a discussion thread which create interest in readers mind or ask a question. If your post is about to promoting post after publishing you can ask “Is sharing your post on social networks are enough?” When people respond to thread share the link.
Thanks
Hi Vipin,
That’s a cool idea.
I never have thought of it. I share my posts on my blog’s fanpage and in the groups where people won’t get irritated.
However thanks for the tip
Hi Arbaz,
I have gotten a lot of traffic from Stumble upon and Reddit. Sometimes I share my links on these sites but mostly my readers do it for me.
Also commenting is another great way to get traffic, sometimes long after the post was published.
Hi Justin,
StumbleUpon and Reddit do give traffic but it only increases your blog’s bounce rate.
I prefer blog commenting as it gives me backlinks and new readers too
For me, promoting the post in social media immediately after it goes live works great! Especially Facebook helps me drive a lot of traffic. Twitter is secondary.
For long term and high quality traffic – my go to strategy is guest blogging!
Hi Jane,
Yes, Facebook can give you great traffic and I love to share my posts first on FB and then on other networks. I also do guest posts to build new loyal readers.
Hey Arbaz,
Excellent post. I do not about scoop.it or paper.li before. I will try them.
Usually i do shares on facebook and on some forums. I guess you can share on forums as well
Thank you
Hi Jennifer,
Of course you can share on forums as well but for that you need to build a proper reputation for yourself before doing the sharing stuff or you will get banned.
Hi Arbaz,
Your tips have helped me generate new ideas and inspired me to create better blog posts!
thanks a lot
Hi Melissa,
Good to hear that I can help you. Thanks for your comment
Hi Arbaz,
Great tips bro. I like the 3 step (though you think it doesn’t exist – developing of personal strategy
Hi Enstine,
Thanks for your comment bro
Great tips. I’m often amazed at people who don’t utilise as much as possible to get their blog read. It’s not as if we’re writing just for our own pleasure. Thanks for sharing This Post
Hi Salman,
Thanks for giving your valuable feedback
Hi,
Nice methods. I have a post-note attached on top of my monitor with my 11 shares that I do after every post. Works well for me – obviously you need some followers for the social media stuff. I like blokube too for the blogging community side of things….
Regards,
John
Hi John,
That’s one nice thing that you do. You won’t ever forget to share your posts after publishing it. I personally like BizSugar as I get more traffic from it compared to other.
Thanks for sharing your tips.
Being a Guest blogger is the best one to publicize a blog and it even earns a good fame to us. Blog commenting helps us build friendly conversations with the authors and thus we can publicize our site.
Hi Ajay,
You are right. Guest Blogging and blog commenting are the best ways to get some exposure for you and your blog. I have done these two things only and the results are awesome.
Wonderful post!These tips would be of great use for building juicy back links to your blog.Thanks alot!
Hi Rajkumar,
Thanks for leaving your valuable feedback
Great article and a good list of things to do to get your articles read. I think that many people are still overlooking the importance of social media and glad you covered more than just the usual suspects of Facebook and Twitter in your article.
Arbaz, great topic for a blog post my friend. It’s interesting to read the comments and check out what others views are on this topic.
You have laid out some great steps to follow here. Personally, I use a couple of paid tools to help me distribute my content to the social media sites. “Work smarter not harder”. Right?
Like you I also engage other commentluv enabled blogs and forums. Always looking for more link juice.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
posted by Galen Morgigno
yes you are right on top many things can help to get traffic including social media and commenting.
Hi Arbaz,
Nice point you have shared via the above post. It’s really indeed to promote your blog post in best ways. Thanks for the post.
As someone who has used social media every day for years to promote my radio show and promotional work with independent bands, I found this article to be insightful, easy to understand and straight-forward. Easily one of the best social media articles I have ever read! Thank you.
Article is good, But anyone tell how to increase adsence earning
hey Robin , you can go ahead and read http://www.seoallrounder.com/increase-adsense-earnings/ , you might get an idea how it works.
Social media has always been the best way to get publicity and traffic. You figured it out here in a nice way. It was good reading this post. Keep it up.
Here I was weak. I posted many articles on How To Words but did not bother to share with others like on social media. You helped me. Thanks You Bro
Hi Arbaz Khan, Great Article bro. I use Social Media to promote my blog post immediately after publishing it and then moves to blog commenting. Thanks for sharing this great post
Use standard sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, Digg , Pinterest and Stumbleupon to index your blog posts faster. I prefer automatic update to these social media sites using plugins like RSSGrafti etc.
well i started blogging about one year ago and i usually share my all post link on social networks but i staring i got good traffic from everywhere but from last one and a half month my traffic is decreasing day by day can point out what can be the prob or reason for this ………
Very nice .. It made me the pick of the blog for today
Hey Arbaz !
Well these tips are simply awesome. But in my opinion guest posting is the famous way to promote a post, Although social media, blog commenting are equally important. Well I totally agree with you on this point “people get successful when they apply their own personal strategy..”
Thanks.
Matt
Hey Arbaz,
Nice post with great information and I totally agree with you that guest posting and commenting on others blog is the best way to promote a blog post and helps to drive more traffic. Thanks for sharing this post.
really some awesome ways to increase traffics. But, i have a doubt that Will Google take this as real traffic.