9 Ways to Protect Yourself from Gambling with Your Blog

By: | April 18, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , |
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Blog Promotion Determines Blogging Success.

Dangerous, isn’t it?

You spend hours on your blog posts.  Then you wait for Lady Luck to smile down on you and hope your post brings you traffic.

It’s been said that blogging success comes down to “dumb luck”.

Does it?  Or, can you control the outcome by taking certain steps to ensure your post brings you traffic?

“Dumb luck” is defined as the way in which
 something happens completely by chance, without being planned or deserved.

Completely by chance implies you have no control over the outcome of your posts’ success.

I maintain you do have control over the outcome.  There are definite actions you could take and should take to ensure your blog’s success.

What to Do When You Are Done With Your Posts To Make Sure They Get Traffic

1. Send the post to your Email list.

Some bloggers write the people on their Email list before they publish the post trying to build anticipation about the content.  I have only done that once, and it worked.  How to Be A Successful Blogger: 19 Experts Share Their Secrets was one of my most successful posts.

After the post is published, Email the tagline to your Email list.  You don’t have to send the whole post, just a slight blurb and the link.  You want your Email readers to click the link to read the post.

2. Share your post with social networks.

Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and LinkedIn, are the social networks to use.  Send them all your link.

You should have a Pinterest board for your blog.  Pin your image on your blog board on Pinterest.  If you are members of any shared boards, those are the ones to use since others will be able to find your images there, and hopefully click on your links and come to your site.

3. Put your post on social bookmarking sites.

A social bookmarking site is simply a place that stores your posts.  Users put them there for later reading.  Pinterest is considered a social bookmarking site since your post images are stored on their boards.

In addition to Pinterest, I use StumbleUpon.  It’s easy to Stumble your link after you publish.  I have received referral traffic from StumbleUpon, so I know it works.

Digg, Reddit, and Delicious are also bookmarking sites.  I have heard it’s difficult to get traffic from Reddit unless other people put your post there.

4. Share your post with communities that pertain to your theme.

Google + Communities are a great place to network.  Members share their links and visit other blogs.  Click the link and search communities that pertain to your niche.

I found a community on LinkedIn, and found myself getting traffic from its members after I participated in some of the forum discussions.

BoardReader.com enables you to search for communities related to your theme.  Not every community approves of “link dropping,” but the blogging community I found on BoardReader encourages it.

5. Put your link on content curation sites.

A content curation site is a bookmarking site for posts that allows you to make lists and subcategories.  I found Scoop.It frustrating, but I may give it another try.  I also get referral traffic from ScoopIt, so I know that other members are scooping my posts.

6. Write your contacts and ask them to share.

I have several contacts who have offered to share my links.  While I don’t make a habit of imposing, I have been known to take them up on their kind offer.

Also, when I was writing 20 Experts Reveal Their Secret to Blog Promotion, I got to know the 20 experts.  If I write about SEO, for example, and one of the experts was an SEO expert, I don’t hesitate to send them the link on Twitter and ask them to Retweet it for me.  I add the words Thought you might be interested.

7. Notify people who you blogged about and ask them to share the post.

Including experts in your post give it an air of credibility.  Then, you can ask those experts to share it with their followers.

When you blog about them, link back to their site.  In exchange for them sharing your post for you, you are giving them exposure.  When you link to them, they will get a pingback.  This is a notification that you linked to them, so odds are they will already know about it when you write them.

8. Add an infographic to your blog post.

How to Make Infographics That Will Repeatedly Boost Your Blog Traffic and How to Make an Infographic in 5 Minutes are tutorials on how to make easy, free, and fast infographics.

9. Guest Post

When you guest post. link back to your old posts.  This will give them new exposure.

Blog Promotion Infographic

There are nine ways to ensure your posts bring you traffic.

 What Is Your Plan of Action?

Are you considering picking and choosing what you have time for?  Remember, the more steps you follow, the more exposure your blog will get.

If you feel other bloggers can benefit from these tips on blog promotion, please share.

Readers, do you have any suggestions for promoting your blog content that works well for you?  Any additional ideas to get your posts exposure other than the ideas mentioned here?  I look forward to your views.

Related Posts:

7 Ways You Can Increase Your Blog Traffic Using Google

The Top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites

The Ultimate Guide to Blog Promotion

Sources:

Macmillan Dictionary

Blogging Wizard

  1. Elle Knowles

    Reblogged this on Finding Myself Through Writing and commented:
    Don’t let your blog dwindle away to nothing. Follow some of these tips from Janice Wald to promote your site. It’s really quite easy! Great advice Janice. ~Elle

    • Janice Wald

      Hi Elle,
      Thank you so much for the re-blog. I am excited and flattered. I will go to your site and visit the re-blog later. Thank you again, so much.
      Janice

      • Elle Knowles

        You come up with the greatest ideas and I know how much time it takes to research all that! ~Elle

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  3. Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life.

    Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
    Some very useful advice on how to get your blog posts read. The number of followers that you have does not always translate into views. If they cannot find your post amongst all the other blogs that they follow they might miss it.

  4. Jordan Dumer

    Reblogged this on Open the Vox and commented:
    Fantastic Article on increasing blog Traffic! I’ve used Stumble Upon myself with great results (over 40,000 traffic referrals in the last year alone). If you like one of my posts, please share so others can also enjoy! Otherwise, take a gander at this post for great ideas on how to improve your blogs traffic flow!

  5. Dr. Margaret Rutherford

    Thanks for these! Doing some but others sound great! Especially Stumble Upon – have never used it but will go check it out!

  6. kcg1974

    Excellent post to help educate all of us ‘Bloggers’ out here! Thank you for this terrific information!! 🙂 🙂

  7. mypersonallthing

    Reblogged this on my personal thing and commented:
    Some handy tips for people who want to promote or increase traffic to their blog or to a specific post. Thanks for writing these tips up 🙂

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  9. Christy Birmingham

    Very useful tips here, thank you! As well, when you reblog and comment on others’ posts I think that encourages other people to reblog and comment on your own posts 🙂

    • Janice Wald

      I agree. My readership has grown so much through the good graces of others reblogging my writing, I was thinking of writing a blog post about it. The problem is that in my head it seems really short, so it’s in the thinking stages right now.
      Thank you for reading what I wrote and writing me.
      Janice

  10. Shel Harrington

    Great tips, Janice – will need a second trip back to check them all out!

    • Janice Wald

      Hey My Friend Shel!
      How ya doin? Thank you so much for the compliments. “9 Ways to Protect Yourself” was very well received. I’m glad you enjoyed the post. How is the divorce business going? Nice to hear from you.
      Janice

    • Janice Wald

      Hi,
      Thank you for coming to my site and writing me. I’m pleased you liked the post and that it was so well received. Nice to meet you.
      Janice

  11. masgautsen

    Found you via a re-blog from Smorgasbord – Variety is the Spice of Life, so I guess this means that some of your strategies work 😉

    Great post and good tips to keep in mind when one blogges!

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