You have finally launched your blog and now what? it’s time to promote it, you’ve shared it among your friends and you see that with those visits you’re not going anywhere, at first even if you do everything in your power with SEO if you don’t have the support of social networks, it’s difficult to take off as expected.
The traffic of visits that you can receive from Google is practically proportional to the number of posts that you have written and the interest that they arouse, so at the beginning, having few posts, you cannot leave the responsibility of the visits to SEO, but you must work on the networks. social. You can start with the social network that you know best, usually Facebook is ideal because it allows you to belong to groups and create pages to promote yourself for free, although it does not promote them much if you do not have ads.
The best thing is the Facebook groups, there are very interesting groups in which you can make your blog known, apart from some of them like bus, bee bloggers, I write a blog… they have a lot of activities to promote both your blog and their social networks and help you a lot to gain followers and therefore visits to your blog.
If it weren’t for their tags, it would be very difficult to reach so many people and also get comments on blogs. Pinterest is an ideal network for all blogs that take their visual aspect into account, with beautiful images, tutorials, infographics, although it is not the most popular social network to promote blogs, it has possibilities such as being able to create boards about your content, order them and pamper it, which can be very useful to promote it.
Twitter is fine to promote your posts but I advise if you do not publish much that you add similar blog feeds through twitter feed to get more followers on twitter and not have to constantly update content, apart from adding new content you help your colleagues and you can be most valued in your community.
If you want to take a look at this post on how to put social networks on a blog by hand, for those people who do not want to depend on plugins it is very interesting.
Life beyond social networks thanks to blog readers, social aggregators or feeds , apart from networks that have powerful newsletters and can bring you closer to another type of public.
What is a post aggregator?
A news aggregator is a platform that allows you to choose content from blogs or websites to add to a reading list , aggregators also allow you to add your blogs, an aggregator serves both editors and readers.
To get subscribers you can join a very easy network that has a very powerful newsletter but almost none will visit your blog.
Bloguers.net an aggregator that works very well thanks to user interaction and is very beneficial for your blog.
Here I am talking about it and it is the one I like the most, I participate a lot in it.
Paper blog:
It is another network similar to blogs and it is worth it sometimes they promote posts and you earn some extra visits
Blog Lovin:
Another reader, but this one is only limited to managing the blogs that you follow and they follow you, it is quite interesting for some topics, especially fashion, cooking and beauty.
Blogs:
It is a very large platform of readers, well known for its prizes that it awards annually, I recommend you enter and add me! It has a system of pings and user voting.
How do I distribute the time to promote my blog on social networks?
Justin Salley, a crack social media strategy, says that the ideal is if you have an hour to focus on three social networks at most, dedicate half an hour to one, 20 to another, and another 10 minutes. I see it as quite manageable so as not to fall into overwhelm, besides the time I spend on the networks is the time I take away from my posts and I really prefer to spend more time writing and reading. Among other things, choose only three because it is very difficult to have content that adapts so much to all networks, although I advise you to keep them to give a minimum visibility but not on a daily basis. Also, if you already get used to that routine, it is much easier because you have the format of the posts and more or less what you are going to share.
In my case, as web design is the central theme, I distribute time on the networks like this, I spend an hour because I have three blogs and many of the automated tasks. 30 minutes on Google plus, posting in communities and commenting on articles and other posts, solving doubts (that loses me!), in my case I find a lot of inspiration in G+ for my posts, it is actually the social network that I like the most to promote my specific subject. 20 minutes on Facebook participating in tags and commenting on posts in groups in my sector. Actually, I prepare a few posts specifically for Facebook pages, which is a very bad thing that I do, but the policy that it has with the pages has demoralized me so much that I don’t feel like it.
10 minutes on LinkedIn, this is because they post professional articles that interest me a lot, so I comment a lot and I’m very active, believe it or not, most of the work moves on that social network.
Some tips:
- Look for the social network that gives you the best results for your blog, it is useless to have 100 likes if no one visits you later.
- Avoid getting into chats on social networks, comment and share so as not to waste time.
- Do everything you can do automatically, plugins that share your content for you and news aggregators to feed your pages are very good allies to promote your blog on the internet.
- If a network creates more work for you than benefits, try to automate it, don’t waste time!
- Try to join groups and communities where you can contribute something, comment and help other members.
Join all blog networks like:
Bloguers.net
