Do you Digg your own stuff? Stumble over your posts? Tweet your latest?
How far can and do you go to let people know what’s hot where you are?
Because my company specializes in promoting our clients and their work, promoting blog posts is on my mind. How can bloggers maximize their efforts?
Here’s how my own promotions stack up . . .
Twitter: post a link and a headline for almost every post
LinkedIn: thinking of adding a link to major posts on my status, mention posts when answering questions or write a post to answer the question and then link back there
Digg: don’t do now, have 5/over 400 posts in my profile
Facebook: blog updates in profile
Stumbleupon: rarely
Blog Comments: when I see twitter mentioned, I check in with an answer and a link to www.thetwitterguide.com
Groups: reply to a question or start a thread with a topic and link to post, sometimes with a follow up like this message I left today:
By the way, this post pops up on Google for the search term: writing
Amazon reviews. Yesterday it was number 2, today it’s number 4 out of
4,020,000 results. I posted the replay on my site to drive traffic
there as well.
Here’s the direct link:
http://corywestmedia.com/BarbaraRozgonyi-BradShorr-AmazonReviews.htm
and the blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/5l6l7g
How do you promote your blog posts?
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2 thoughts on “Blog PR: Promoting Posts – Where, When and How Much?”
Great tips for newbies.
I’m not working to much in promoting my blog to this sites, but I am now starting to use StumbleUpon.
I’ll also consider using the sites you’ve mention here.
I would never Digg an article of my own. I lost the Stumble bar and do not like having to do a review of a site and just found Mixx that seems to be really nice to use. I have been at BellaOnline for three years and since the site does not support comments and I am always posting them I started the blog, used that link for previous comment here. I am learning about technorati, use twitter to post some links, like friend feed . I am a member of amazon vine, post reviews on amazon when I find the time, do reviews on epinions, some marketing on cafemom. LinkedIn and facebook still tooling around with to learn how it can benefit me.
I have a google alert set for autism and my name and get emails with links and regularly look up my titles and name on google to make sure no one taking my content.
Good info you have shared here, congrats on the amazon data/search.