Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
Every week I publish several blog posts. Some on here and some on other blogs, I have many.
Even though I follow the same set of rules for every post I publish, they all get different results. Some are more popular than others; it’s just the way it goes.
However, for the last couple of months I’ve had some VERY popular blog posts.
All because I’ve been following these 5 steps immediately after I hit the publish button.
1. Share On Facebook And Twitter
To get the word out about your new blog post, use social media! Start by sharing your post on Twitter (now x.com). Very straightforward process, login to your blog’s Twitter account and share the post. Next head over to Facebook and share the post on your wall.
I’ve found sharing posts on my wall to be a slight waste of time. As the majority of my friends and family don’t give a crap about Internet/Network Marketing related stuff. So on top of your wall; share your new post on your Facebook page.
If you don’t already have a dedicated fan page for your blog; just get one. Besides your wall and fan page, you can share your post on a couple of other groups/pages related to your niche. The more pages, groups and profiles you share your post on; the more Facebook likes it’s going to get and the more popular it will become (generally speaking).
2. Re-read Post
Why didn’t I put this one first? Well… because you need a few minutes to clear your mind. What I’ve found is that whenever I immediately re-read one of my blog posts I hardly spot anything wrong with it… But when I come back to it 10 or 15 minutes later, I end up correcting 5 or 10 errors. Maybe I structured a sentence badly; maybe I made a spelling or grammar mistake.
After training my mind to just write without looking back at what I’ve just written; it’s hard to immediately activate my “editing mind”. So take a few minutes for other tasks and then proofread your blog post for any mistakes.
3. Email List
This is always the second or third thing I do whenever I publish a blog post; email my list of subscribers. My subscribers are generally the people who like reading my stuff and hearing what I have to say. They’re my readers who happily comment, Facebook, Google Plus and Tweet my post. So obviously; to get the comments flowing and traffic pouring in, I email them.
Of course, you need to be building a list of subscribers to do this. If you aren’t already then I recommend using Aweber (checked as of July, 2024) since it’s the industry standard. Just write a short email telling your subscribers to check out your new blog post. Most of them will read it, some will share it with their Facebook & Google plus friends, some will Tweet it. No matter what; traffic will dramatically increase and new visitors will appear.
4. Submit Via TribePro
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Reading this changes nothing. Doing it with people who show up changes everything. That is the whole difference between the people who transform and the people who keep starting over.
Start free →If you don’t know, TribePro (checked as of July, 2024) is this genius content syndication platform that allows you to get your content shared on hundreds of accounts at all of the top social networks and bookmarking sites. Its super effective for getting instant traffic, backlinks and search engine rankings for your new blog posts.
5. Share Via Ping.fm
Ping.fm (no longer available, alternative: dlvr.it) is another cool little service that allows you to manage all of your social profiles from 1 dashboard. In simple terms; it allows you to submit any message/link to over 30 social networks/bookmarking sites/web2.0 sites. Really easy to do: just signup, login and connect all your social profiles (I recommend joining all of the sites listed and connecting them).
Once done you just need to login to the dashboard, input a line of text like your blog post title followed by the URL and hit submit. Ping.fm will then submit the message along with the link to all of the accounts (hopefully 30+) you have connected.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
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Comments (carried over from the previous site)
Patricia Strano, January 31, 2012, 15:20
The ONLY BEST WAY for YOUR SUCCESS – thank you Dave’s – been with/around u guys since 10/31/11 and will never leave. My company name is Feels Right Marketing. So very appropriate – as Empower Network – FEELS RIGHT! Feeling Right is – to me – going with basic, trustable instinct. We are all born with this ability – but it is life that has often caused many to not TRUST this basic instinct – it is a proven, reliable instinct – Empower Network FEELS RIGHT – my WHY I have and will always be with Empower. Great site by the way – glad I found this!
Mustapha Barki, January 31, 2012, 16:05
hi david I want to work.
Emily Johnson, February 1, 2012, 09:15
I appreciate the emphasis on starting with something you’re passionate about. Makes a big difference.
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What strikes me, reading this at sixty-one, is how much of the list depends on infrastructure you must already have built — a fan page with an audience, a list of subscribers who open your mail, accounts on syndication services connected and maintained. The advice for the moment after publishing is sound enough, but it presupposes the harder work of the months before publishing was already done properly.
Tried all five of these after a post last spring, timestamped it because I wanted to know what actually worked. Facebook and the fan page share took about ten minutes combined and brought in maybe a dozen clicks over the whole week. The email to my list did the real work, same as Arthur’s pointing at — but I’d already spent over a year building that list before this post’s five steps meant anything at all. TribePro and Ping.fm together added more notifications to check than visitors to the site, and by the second week I’d quietly stopped using both and just kept doing the two that worked.
Arthur raises the real issue. Most people reading a ‘what to do right after you publish’ post don’t have the list or the fan page yet, and the median outcome for someone following only this checklist is a few minutes of activity that reaches almost nobody, because the audience the checklist assumes simply isn’t there yet. Rare that it’s impossible, common that it’s premature.
Look, five ‘steps to take immediately’ that include signing up for two separate third-party services isn’t immediate, it’s a checklist with dependencies buried in step 4 and 5. Sharing on your own accounts is immediate. Everything after that requires infrastructure you set up beforehand or don’t have. Fine as a list of tools. Not fine as a five-minute routine, which is how it’s framed.
Marla’s dependencies point is the one worth sitting with. Sharp catch — most ‘immediate’ lists quietly assume weeks of setup nobody mentions.
Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else, but Marla’s point about dependencies made me realize I’ve been trying to do all five in order like a recipe, and getting stuck at TribePro because I don’t have an account set up yet. Is it meant to be sequential, or can you just skip the ones you haven’t built infrastructure for and still get most of the benefit?
Bonnie, skip what you don’t have built yet, no question. We used to tell new reps the same thing about a stack of prospecting scripts — do the two you can actually execute this week, not all seven you read about. The list grows once the foundation’s there, not before.
Re-reading a post ten minutes after finishing it assumes you have ten minutes after finishing it. I publish and move straight to the next fire, typos and all.