How to Promote Your Blog Post for Free
You've worked hard on writing a really good SEO-friendly Blog Post. Now you want your audience to read it. Here are some great tips on how to promote your blog post for free.
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Make sure all your sharing widgets on your blog are working. Do you have Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest widgets?
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Place your email opt-in form on a few different places on your website (within blog post, end of blog post, side bar, pop up, etc.)
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Post your blog to all your social media accounts (facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, etc)
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Create 10-20 shareable tweets or quotes from your blog post that you can tweet out over the next few months on Twitter. You can also use HootSuite.
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Make sure you are on Google +
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Give whoever you mentioned on your blog post a shout-out on social media and/or email them
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Create a sharable guide or infographic from your blog post
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Create a content upgrade for you site to get readers to sign up for your email. Create a pinnable image of your content upgrade to share on Pinterest.
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Send out a email blast to your readers
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Comment on at least 5 to 10 other blogs
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Link your post to other related blog posted on your website
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Link older related blog post to your new post
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Create a blog round-up of similar blogs on your website
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Create beautiful pinnable images (at least one should be on your blog, add two more to Pinterest and link to your blog post)
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Resend out an email blast to everyone who didn't open your last email. Write a new intriguing subject line
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Find a podcast or two to be interview on
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Get your blog listed in Google News
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Join Quora and see if you can help by answering any questions
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Join H.A.R.O. and see if you can respond to needed content or be willing to be interviewed
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Join Facebook, reddit, or other online groups related to your topics
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Guest post on someone else's blog
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Go on Instagram Live to talk about your blog post or topic. Or find someone to interview you live.
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Go on Facebook Live to talk about your blog post or topic. Or find someone to interview you live.
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Share your other relevant blog posts to social media. Make sure those post blogs are linking to your new post
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Join and use Triberr
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Create a video or slide-share for Youtube
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Create and publish Slides to Slideshare
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Engage with your audience. Respond to all comments or questions
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Analyze your Google Analytics to see what keywords are doing well or what you are ranking for. Add more content, images, and boost SEO on those blog post
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Improve your website speed
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Share again on all social media platforms, one week later, one month later, three months later