So you’ve started your blog, and you’ve been writing a bunch of quality posts. But the traffic isn’t quite what you wish it were. What do you do? Turns out, the real work starts after you’ve got your blog up and running: you need to promote your blog.
Well, Brian Lang from Small Business Ideas Blog asked precisely that question to over 40+ experts from fields as diverse as SEO to (believe it or not) Real Estate. We took the information and laid it out in a coherent infographic. Enjoy!
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<a href="https://www.referralcandy.com/blog/9-powerful-blog-promotion-tactics-top-marketing-experts-infographic/"><img src="http://cdn.referralcandy.com/images/9-most-powerful-blog-promotion-tactics-top-marketing-experts-590g.png" alt="The 9 Most Powerful Blog Promotion Tactics From Top Marketing Experts [Infographic]" title="The 9 Most Powerful Blog Promotion Tactics From Top Marketing Experts [Infographic]" width="590" /></a><br /><a href="http://referralcandy.wpengine.com">ReferralCandy - Refer-a-friend Programs for Ecommerce Stores</a>Here’s a transcript:
1: Before everything else, your blog’s gotta rock
2: SEO – Make sure it’s searchable
- Do proper keyword research
Learn more: The Way Of The SEO Master [Infographic]
3: Use visuals
- Create original images
- Make images more effective with text overlay
- Use images to attract traffic
- Invest in your content’s design
- Create visual content
4: Build Relationships
- Build real relationships with people first
- Build a loyal audience
- Share others’ content
- Use social media to network and engage– not spam
- Be human on social media
5: Know your target audience
- Really, really understand your audience
- Match your content to the needs of your targeted audience
6: Use Email
- Email the people you’ve mentioned
- Collect leads
- Send better email
- Email people according to content topic and interest
7: Perform targeted distribution
- Share with those who’ve already shared similar content
- Send your content to specific targets
- Reach out to influencers
- Prioritize promoters
- Tag/mention relevant people
8: Maximize the potential of social media
- Take note of timing
- Share in more places
- Retweet for visibility
- Multiple tweets/shares at intervals
- Milk older content for their worth
- Use Pinterest
9: Make it happen! One step at a time
- Take action!
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Thanks a lot for featuring my tip here and mentioning ViralContentBuzz.com! This is a great graphic and looks like you have put much effort into it! Great job!
The pleasure is ours, Ann! Hope all is well with you! 🙂
Thanks for the mention, it’s always nice to be recognized.
Quality is always worth recognizing, Carol! Thanks for dropping by. 🙂
Thank you for mentioning me in your interesting infographic. These are all great tips!
The pleasure is ours, Cendrine! 🙂
Hey thanks for including my thoughts 🙂 Great infographic all in all.
Cheers, Peter! 🙂
Thanks for including me!
Our pleasure, Mike! I still think about your awesome blogpost (http://www.thesocialmediahat.com/blog/content-marketing-may-be-most-useless-impractical-non-measureable-term-marketing-02072014 ) from time to time, great stuff!
Thanks for this fabulous article and all the visuals are great!
Fabbytastic infographic! SO pleased some of my favs are featured — @carollynnrivera:disqus, @Peg Fitzpatrick, and @Ana Hoffman, for starters. 🙂
I’m not usually a fan of infographics and the like, but this is actually helpful! Well done.
There is lots of great advice on here so I’m going to Evernote in order to start creating a blog system. As usual, the simplest is the best advice “Ask is this helpful? If not, start over! Thanks Chris Brogan
Awesome infographic, can i be cheeky and ask what do you use to create this? I use photoshop currently but always looking for faster ways 🙂 thanks
Glad that you found it awesome. Thank you!
I created this using a Wacom Tablet and Adobe Illustrator (AI). I could have done the exact same thing in Adobe Photoshop but I prefer AI because everything is vector-based (which is less memory hogging and loads faster) as opposed to raster graphics. Furthermore, scaling vector graphics is painless as it doesn’t get pixelated. Hope that answers your question? 🙂
Great infographic. We are happy to inform you that we published your awesome infographic on our infographic site: http://infographicplaza.com/the-9-most-powerful-blog-promotion-tactics-from-top-marketing-experts/
Looking forward to more eye-catching infographics from you.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing, Daniel! 🙂
Thanks for sharing marketing experts infographic. I am really amazed after reading the blog promotion tactics. Keep sharing such ideas for us.
Thanks for your infographic. That’s really helpful. I have a question for you though. Here’s the deal. I’m working on a video course so that I’m not just a dude from that site but a dude who’s the author of that video course about SEO. What do you think about this way of building credibility online?
Can you give me the full embed code please? I’d like to feature this on my blog – thanks 🙂
Hi Jane, the embed code for this infographic can be found towards the bottom of the blogpost, before the “Want more customers for your store?” call-to-action box. Let me know if the code’s faulty (it shouldn’t be; I’ve just tested it), and thanks in advance for featuring our infographic on your blog!
If you you look, you will see that the embed code is truncated. Which is why I asked you for the full one.
Hi Jane, would you mind emailing us so that we can send you the full embed code via email? We can be reached at marketing@anafore.com
Also, do remember to paste the code into the ‘HTML’ or ‘Text’ input format (instead of the ‘Visual’ input format) in WordPress for it to work!
On my iPad the infographic is just a big empty white box. Apparently not visible on mobile devices (using Safari). Disappointing.
Hi Cindy, we’ve tested the page on our end using iPhones and iPads, but they seem to load fine. Could you send us screenshots of the page, so that we can work on the issue? We can be reached at support@referralcandy.com. Cheers!
I’m not a great fan of infographics but this one is an exception, Desmond because I could follow it immediately! Thank you for including the recommendation about promoting older content. With an archive of 3 years worth of posts, I was doing a spot of updating and checking links recently and discovered posts that are relevant even today. Time to dust them and share again. Season’s greetings!
No words to say about it. Making infographic about any topic is very very difficult job. Well done.
Informative article you got there, and theres a transcript too, Well done ReferralCandy!
Thanks Chad! Glad you liked it! 🙂
Hallo,
ich finde diesen Artikel echt super! Habe auch gleich noch einmal über meinen Fashion Blog (http://www.juliesdresscode.de) geschaut, ob ich da was verbessern kann! Besonders Punkt 8 ist super!
LG
Julie
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You should definitely submit this great infographic at http://infographicplaza.com/ and we will publish it on our infographic blog asap. Thanks.
Loved this article.I found too many useful things for me.
This infographic is really informative and helpful, i will surely bookmark it for future usage.
Thanks