How to Market Your Blog Post: 25 Actionable Tasks
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Social Media
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Day 1: Tweet your post title, link, and featured image w/ relevant hashtags.
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Day 2: Tweet a different title of your post, link, and featured image w/ relevant hashtags to see if you get more retweets.
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Day 3: Tweet 2 short snippets of different stats or quotes from your new post w/ a link, image and different relevant hashtags.
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Day 4: Tweet 2 short snippets of different stats or quotes from your new post w/ a link, image and different relevant hashtags.
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Day 5: Tweet 2 short snippets of different stats or quotes from your new post w/ a link, image and different relevant hashtags.
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Share your post on other social media pages like: FB, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc
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Schedule automatic social media posts over the next few weeks or months. My favorite automated social media tools is Social Pilot https://socialpilot.co
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Tag or mention the influencers you mentioned in your post on social media.
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Use Buzzsumo to contact influencers who have shared similar content https://buzzsumo.com
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Email
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Check that your post automatically went out to your email subscribers.
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Email influencers or brands you mentioned in your post so they share it.
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Email sources you mentioned in your post so they share or link to it.
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Email your co-workers and ask them to share your new post.
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Links
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Edit previous popular articles and add links to your new post.
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Find broken links to similar content and alert the author about your new post as a potential replacement. The Broken Link Bible: https://moz.com/blog/the-broken-link-building-bible
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Use BuzzSumo to find people who have linked to similar content. https://buzzsumo.com
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Expand and elaborate on a specific area of your new post on Medium. Link to your new post so Medium readers can learn more about the topic.
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Expand and elaborate on a specific area your new post on Linkedin. Link to your new post so Linkedin readers can learn more about the topic.
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Repurpose Your Content
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Publish a checklist on Checkli, and highlight important actionable items, stats, facts or details from your post. https://www.checkli.com
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Make and share a SlideShare presentation about your new content. - https://slideshare.net
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Make an infographic and visually highlight the important areas of your content. Share that infograhic in multiple infographic directories: https://goo.gl/LtxSCy
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Record an audio copy of your post and add it to your blog.
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Discuss your blog post topic, research, and content in a new podcast.
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Make a Youtube video from your content and reach a massive new audience.
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Commenting
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Respond to mentions on social media pages.
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Respond to all comments on your new blog post.
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Share your post in the comments section of relevant blog posts. DON\'T SPAM!
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Groups and Forums
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Share your post in relevant groups on Linkedin.
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Share your post in relevant groups on Facebook.
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Search Quora for questions you can answer with the content of your blog post. https://quora.com
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Search and submit to Reddit. Don\'t be spammy and follow the rules of each Subreddit.
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