This post is all about blog post promotion questions and your answers. The answers will come from your comments. I want to know your immediate routine after posting to your blog. Answer as much or as little as you like. Your answers will help others promote their blog content and together we can increase our blogging success.
- What steps do you take after posting to your blog?
- How do you promote your blog posts?
- Do you submit it to social networking sites? Which ones? (Feel free to link to your profile or page in your comments)
- Do you hit the bookmarking sites? Which ones? (Feel free to link to your profile or page in your comments)
- Do you start commenting on other blogs? What are you looking for when choosing which blogs? Friends, CommentLuv, Sez-Who, Top Commentators widget, Do-Follow, Page Rank?
- Do you Digg it? Tweet it? Stumble It?
- Do you shoot your friends an email?
- Do you log into a chat room to discuss it?
- Do you post it on forums?
- Do you send the link to your list?
Ok, I think you get the idea. Please list every and any form of blog post promotion method you use. Don’t worry if it’s already been mentioned, list it again. That will add more weight to the tactic. Explain why you take these steps if you like.
Again, feel free to add a link to your profile pages in your comments.
Hey Brian,
I do it all!
Ok, I do not email it.
I do not Digg or Stumble it.
I also do not enter chat rooms.
So I guess – I do some of it.
Hi Sheryl, I used to Digg each post but I read somewhere that it’s a bad idea.
I’ve read in a bunch of places that Stumbled Upon is better than Digg for traffic and bounce rate. I’ve seen that it’s true in limited usage. I’ve only Stumbled my site and one post as I’m new to it. I’ve tried smaller things like BlogEngage or Dizzed b/c they’re easier for newer blogs to get traction.
I will use a niche forum to promote a post only if I have something that I know the readers will find useful. Like a free things to do in____ for a backpacker forum.
I comment on sites too, but often to learn more about blogging or other topics. Not so much to promote a post. Most blogs that have CommentLuv or a lot of comments, in general, are outside my niche (travel), but provide me with valuable info.
Hi Gennaro, I’ve heard that about StumbleUpon too. StumbleUpon, like Twitter, is one of the things I’m trying to make a daily activity.
It sounds like you have a good grasp on forum posts and I already know you are great at blog commenting.
Up to this point, blog commenting. And it’s worked quite well. As i get myself more organized in the new year I will add social networking and get back into forums…
…the first marketing method I ever learned and still one of my faves.
Hi Comment King
I’m with you Dennis, I think social networks are going to be a big part of our future.
I would say that the social networking has come & gone as it was.
The social sites have to change. Many of them have become spamland. You can use them for getting a few links but, not customers or readers. Once the business people found the free sites they just sling links & PM ads.
I have tried many sites and found that many of the people there are only spammers, that will even tell you that if you join a social site it is just for sending ads. You have to pick and choose the sites you join or be ready to block allot of people.
Heck, I even spent 2 years running those type of sites. I bet many will go to a paid membership of some kind. Forums are also going to start following the same.
Hi Sheryl, I was just watching one of Garry Conn’s videos and he seems to have a similar opinion on social networking. You may be onto something but I’m not quite ready to give up on social networking yet. I’m just starting to understand it so I hope it’s not going anywhere lol
Who do you think Gary calls when he needs help? I have been trying to tell him this for a year & Garry just caught on. He is sooo yesterday. LOL!
You can use them & some are good. BUT, I have done better sales using forums that I ever got using social sites. I also get more hits to my blog from forums. Now, things like Twitter will be around but, the user has full control of who they hear from.
Both of these things take time to get results, that is why I am also working at getting my articles to the top of SERS.
Ok, gotta go I think another Guru is calling. LOL!
hey Brian,
~ Steve, the trade show guru
A good and timely question. To clarify one thing though, your title made me think this was about promoting one’s blog, but I think from the post it is actually about promoting individual posts – which I think are two different things. I was actually thinking of writing a post saying if you had a fairly new blog and you had $100 to spend on promotion, how would you spend it? One of many post ideas, but few seem to make it out of my head.
I guess I did have blog post promotion in mind but I’m really just looking for great promotion ideas. Blog, site, posts, I’m not picky. As far as the comments go, well, we kind of go all over the place here but it’s fun.
A $100 promotion post sounds like a great idea. A $100 promotional contest sounds even better. Either way, I’ll be there. Let me know when and where and I’ll be ready with my keyboard and typing finger
hi Brian,
Just to clarify, I’m not planning any $100 giveaway contest anytime soon.
I was more thinking I might ask the “experts” if they had a budget of $100 to promote a blog, what would they do with it? I’ve seen services that say they’ll submit your site to 1,000 directories for $9.95, but something tells me you get what you pay for. I was just wondering if a person has a limited budget, what gives the best bang for the buck… ~ Steve, the trade show guru
BTW, your about page says you have 110 domains? Are they all up and running, or are most of them parked?
Hi Steve, I understand and think it’s a great post idea. I just thought it would be cool for a bunch of us to take $100 of our own money and see who can get the most of it.
Almost all of them are parked right now. I may start pulling a handful out and try a little ppc and ppa sites.
Hi Brian
I am actually doing those things and I think it is working for me in building more traffic to my sites. Thanks.
Your First $100
I promote new posts in the following ways:
Social network status updates/broadcasts: Twitter, Facebook, Blog Catalog
Bookmarking: I send to my friends on StumbleUpon, and I submit to Digg and put the badge at the beginning of the blog post for easy digging.
Commenting: I have a Google Reader subscription folder for blogs with DoFollow, TopCommentator, and/or CommentLuv. I comment on these sites first, then I move onto my next folder of people who frequently comment on my site.
Groups: If I belong to related groups or forums in any network (Facebook, BlogCatalog, Friendfeed rooms, etc), I make a post with a link to my new blog article.
I think that about covers the primary things I do.
~ Kristi
That’s a fantastic list Kristi! I subscribed to your Friendfeed, StumbleUpon and I think a couple others. I’ve spent an hour going over your methods. I just updated my StumbleUpon which was very outdated.
I haven’t used the group marketing much but I’m going to start again. I’m taking these ideas from friends and making a checklist I can use after each post.
Thanks for all the details, it means a lot
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Hi Brian,
The first thing after I post, I promote to Warrior Forum to get a linkback and backlink. If I think it’s a good one, I’ll have it inserted in my signature. My next promotion after I post is submit to Propeller. These are the 2 must haves. I don’t digg because a long time ago, I got banned without knowing why. I do lots of blog commenting to promote the posts. I let others stumble my post because stumbling your own post is considered bad.
Peter Lee
Hi Peter, I’m not surprised you are a member of the Warrior Forum. They have over 120,000 members and virtually every successful marketer posts there. I’ve been a member of the Warrior Forum since June 2006 and have only posted four times. How pathetic is that? I’m going to make it a point to start posting there. I just sent you a friend request. I’ll follow your posts a little to see what I can learn if you don’t mind. I need to see what is accepted and what’s not.
I never joined Propeller but I will now
Great advice, thanks for sharing that with us.
Yes social networks are a great way to promote posts, and allowing for comment luv as well. Allowing do follow comments will definitely increase your readership.
We’ve got it all here. We’re a Do-Follow blog, we use CommentLuv, KeyWordLuv and the TopCommentator Widget.
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I personally hope the social networking does go out of style. I agree with Sheryl – it’s full of spam, and the biggest majority of people are just their to promote themselves.
As far as my blogs, I ping them, bookmark my posts occasionally, comment on other related blogs and link to them from articles. Seems to work pretty well!
Thanks for sharing
Hi Tess, I don’t think social networking is going anywhere anytime soon. I’m glad you mentioned pinging, I started doing the same thing since Sheryl’s post