How To Promote My Blog Post - A Must Have Tool [Infographic]

So you have spent hours researching, writing, amending, hopefully optimizing and then publishing your blog post – but it doesn’t end there! Now you have to promote your blog.

You absolutely have to have a strategy to promote your blog as it doesn’t matter how great your content is if nobody can find it! Look at the info-graphic below and use it as a tool after you publish your blog.

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A few caveats to keep in mind. When it comes to bookmarking sites, submitting your own content to places like Reddit may not be the wisest of ideas. The general guide is that you should take a real part in such communities, honestly sharing your own content along with content from others, if you want to directly be involved.

Similarly, commenting on blogs — even relevant blogs — shouldn’t be just an exercise in dropping a link to your blog. Unless there’s a real reason to leave a link, that’s a tactic you might want to leave off from doing.

Submitting guest posts and joining blogging communities that seem only about exchanging links is a definite no-no if you want to avoid problems with Google (see also articles on our Search Engine Land sister-site about the Google Penguin Update).

Promoting on Twitter makes sense, but running the same tweet 2-3 times per day for 30 days might be overkill and perhaps be downright annoying. The amount will really depend on other content you have and what makes sense for your particular audience.

Have your own favorite tip? Please share below!