Sometimes if I particularly want to promote a post I will schedule 1 update per day in Hootsuite every other day for that article for a week or two. I particularly don’t like the default Blogspot comment system and everyone on a BlogSpot blog should be using CommentLuv for their readers. I really like blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin as I tend to leave more comments on these type of blogs than IntenseDebate or Disqus only blogs with no trackback.
I try to visit at least 3-5 blogs every day at night before I go to bed and read a few other articles leaving comments and feedback for the writer. Mostly though after an article goes live I will interact with my readers by responding to comments in a timely fashion and when I do promote my article on social networks I ask people to share their views, comment or provide feedback rather than just read the article to try to incite interaction. I also recommend Social Marker which can help submit your article to many directories in a short time span. You can read more about onlywire and how I use the service. If I feel an article should be on all the networks I leverage OnlyWire to submit my article to all my article directories at once. I sometimes will submit an article to Sphinn, Reddit and other networks but my combined traffic from other submission networks is less than 1% of my total blog traffic so I do not spend much time submitting to these networks. StumbleUpon network will tend to ban or penalize users who only stumble their own content so I make sure I stumble and submit other articles fairly often as well. I only do this on rare occasion and only 1 out of every 10 of my articles do I submit to StumbleUpon to avoid saturation. I also submit my articles manually on my poetry and personal blog still to BlogEngage.Īgain, Digg now allows you to feed in your articles via RSS so I don’t have to submit the articles to Digg manually anymore. This means I am not doing this manually for but I still take the time to vote on my articles and other articles. Again I don’t have to manually promote on Facebook as my profile is already updated from this feed.īlogEngage is one of my highest sources of referral traffic and I actually am paying per month to submit my articles automatically via my feed. I do this via NetworkedBlogs which auto sends the feed of my blog to my Facebook profile and my Facebook fan page. I do this via the Feedburner Socialize plugin and don’t need to retweet my articles manually except I may do it once or twice a day hours after the post goes live just as a refresher. So as a general rule of thumb I follow the exact steps below when I publish a post on my blog and this pretty much sums up all the promotion I do for an individual article. I am also not someone who spends more than 20 hours per week blogging, I only blog a few hours at night and in the very early morning hours and would rather spend my time writing articles than doing major promotion because with running 3 blogs it takes so much time to generate content if I spent too much time promoting I would have no time to create content. I thought about this and will share my exact step by step on what I do for each article that is published on but you may be surprised to see that I actually don’t do nearly as much as most people would think. I had a good question from who runs a computer tips and tricks blog about what I do after I publish a new article to help drive traffic to the article and promote it.
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