Written by Chad Goulde of The Blog Builders.
Looking for effective ways to increase your blog traffic while growing your audience? Social media marketing is one of the greatest tools around for promoting blogs. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and others give you a forum for extending your reach online. Here are nine effective ways to use social media to create a successful blog:
9 Tips for Using Social Media to Promote Your Blog
1. Use Feed Tools to Post to Social Media Profiles
Feed tools such as Twitterfeed allow you to publish links to posts automatically on your various social network profiles. You can easily configure this within your profile settings. There are also WordPress plug-ins that automate this process as well.
2. Add Social Media Sharing, Liking and Tweeting Icons to Your Blog
Your blog’s sidebar should include social media icons. These invite others to connect with you via your social media networks. It also gives users a very simple way to let others know they like your content by liking, tweeting and sharing it with one click.
3. Link Your Social Network Profiles to Your Blog
Your blog’s URL should always be included in every one of your social network profiles. Make sure that no matter where your audience is, your blog is just one click away.
4. Add Your Blog’s URL to Your Forum Signatures
Posting in related forums is a great way to get more exposure for you blog. Just make sure that your forum profile signature includes a link to your blog.
5. Automate Your Publishing
Cool tools such as SproutSocial, HootSuite, TweetDeck and others like them allow you to automate your posts. You can schedule your posts to spread the word about new posts across your various social network profiles simultaneously.
6. Syndicate All of Your Blog Content
There are various syndication companies that allow you to syndicate your blog content for absolutely free. Syndicated blogs get much more online exposure.
7. Use Social Media Offered Tools and Widgets
Most popular social media websites offer free tools and widgets for promoting profiles. They also help to increase exposure to your blog content. These tools can be found directly on these websites, such as Facebook and Twittter.
8. Add the URL of Your Blog to Comments
Anytime you read an interesting, incredible blog post relevant to your industry or niche, publish comments that will keep the conversation going. Make sure to include your blog’s URL. Not only does this create a backlink to your blog, but it makes it easier for readers to click through straight to your blog.
9 Add Sharing Links to Every Blog Post
Adding sharing links allows readers to quickly share blog posts they like within various social networks. Some popular share buttons include Tweetmeme Retweet Button or the WordPress Sociable plugin.
Written by Chad Goulde of The Blog Builders. They are leaders in beginner blogging resources. Visit TheBlogBuilders.com for more valuable resources on social media blogs today.
