11 Ways to Promote a Blog Post
Note: please be careful in using these techniques. Don’t use them all with every post you write. Choose your best posts and promote them selectively, in ways that are helpful to other people.
1. Pitching to Other Blogger
Ask another blogger to consider linking to your post. There’s a real art to this; read more on how to do it at 11 Ways to Increase Your Chances of Being Linked to By a Blogger.
2. Social Messaging
what social networks like Twitter and Facebook are you registered with? Attempt to leverage these to promote your post. The key is not to incessantly spam your followers and friends with your link, but use your network to seed the link and let your followers spread word of it for you. This won’t happen every time but as your network grows, it can become more and more powerful. Consider using powerful Social Media Tools like Hootsuite which will help manage multiple networks and you schedule your messages to go out to all of your social media networks with just one click.
3. Social Bookmarking
Promoting selective links on sites like Digg or StumbleUpon can lead to amazing results. Further reading is available on this topic at How to Get to the Front Page of Digg and Using Social Media Sites to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic. Check out previous post on Social Bookmarking and also List of Social Bookmarking Sites
