Promote Your Content Like a Pro: The Magic 6 Approach

Do you want massive traffic on your blog?
Of course! But I am sorry to say your dreams can not be a reality, As long as you just create only quality content. Don’t get me wrong. Indeed quality content is an essential power for a blog’s success but to get a quick victory you need to promote your content well. So that people know you and your work quickly.
Below is the Magic 6 strategy I use to promote my content, take a look.

6 Tools to Promote Content:

A properly promoted good content can quickly come to be great content. And these 6 tools know the fact the finest. These tools are incredible on its own and highly recommended to use, to promote your content.

1. Sumome: Sumome is a suite of small but sharp tools that can quickly power up your blog. The ‘share app’ add-on in this tool list integrate beautiful social sharing button on anyplace in your blog, serving your visitors to share your content quickly & promote it with a single click.

2. Buzzbundle: Buzzbundle is another extraordinary tool that you can us to vastly grow your content’s presence on the web. What it does is, it gathers all the discussions and threads from the major social medias, forums, blog posts, and other places on the web, around your given keywords. And place it in a single window. So you don’t need to trip through sites to find and join in discussions to promote your content. It’s a revolutionary tool that helps thousands of people to reach millions of readers.

3. Sniply: You post scores of links on social media and share with your fans, wouldn’t it be great if there is a touch of your site on every link you share so that readers can reach your website from that link, easily?  Sniply is the solution; it adds a call to action button on every link you share so that audience can discover your site/blog through that link. It’s a distinctive way to engage your followers with your content.

4. Buzzsumo: Buzzsumo helps you to identify the content that is trending on the web. It not only helps you to find the amount of share the content achieved but what is more, it also lets you identify those persons individually who shared the content so that you can connect with them and boost your list with active and niche based followers. Remember, only those people will share your content who shared this type of piece before. And this the best place to find them all.

5. Tweriod: If you spent hundreds of hours on Twitter to promote your content, but unfortunately, you only got two likes and one share, then that doesn’t mean your content is not shared worthy, rather the problem can be the timing. Your sharing time is not cooperating with your follower’s timing.

Tweriod helps you to identify the best time to post on Twitter while most of the audiences are online, and you will return with a great impact on your content.
For Goggle Plus – Timing+

6. Forums: Though it’s less of a tool and more a service, but the most underrated but useful one for promoting your content. Forums are always excited with active members who are conversing on your topic. Just find a discussion about your niche and post your content URL there. That it, a huge traffic overnight.

Vine it to win it (6 seconds key)

Vine is an application launched by Twitter in January 2014. It is, it’s simplicity and engagement-appeal which made Twitter a strong platform for networking. It exclusivity lets you create & upload 6 seconds looping video and share it with the whole world.

And when something tense to the whole world, we know it a great place to market our content. Vine lets you promote your blog articles by turning them into an exciting 6 seconds short video. Vine has over 40 million users registered, and more than 100 million users are watching Vine videos every month. Well, that’s a huge amount of audiences to showcase your post trailer.
But don’t worry you do not need to reach 40 million people to promote your article, that will be impossible, reach just 1%; that is more than enough to viral your content. Just create an interesting but short(6s) teaser of your blog post, explaining what’s the focus of your post and what great you can offer to encourage audience’s attention and just share that video. Then see the magic of Vine.
Tips: Throw a question at the end of the video, like: Want to know more? Alternatively, what to see what great things are waiting for you?  

The 60 seconds Youtube:

Everyone knows YouTube; everyone uses it for promotion, but the funniest thing is, you don’t need to create a 10 minutes’ post-study to promote your content. It’s annoying and also time-consuming for you and your readers as well. You’re just promoting it, make it short and attractive. A 60 seconds trailer is just perfect to display the people what you have and what additional will they get on your site.
Similar with vine YouTube also can bring you a huge amount of traffic to your blog from your videos. Don’t forget YouTube is a god of viral videos; it’s takes just seconds to YouTube for a video to go viral, jut Be active on the channel and discuss other videos, make people curious about your content and go viral.

The 6-page Pdf:

Another great method to promote your blog posts is to turn it into pdf files. Nowadays Sharing blog post pdfs, become a great trend to promote contents. Just turn your blog posts into pdf (Minimum 6 pages, rather it will not consider as worthy) and distribute it on pdf or document sharing sites like Docstoc, Scribd, DocDroid. But remember to Optimize the descriptions on these sites, so that you can get a link back to you.

Skillful Social Networking:

Last but not the least, is social networking sites, these social networking sites can help you a lot to promote your content and as well as grow your traffic rapidly.

1. Scoop.It: from scoop.it, you can create and publish curated content with original content and can quickly build your online presence. It’s a great place to do promotion and get some traffic, and moreover, you can get some backlinks from there. Great right?

2. Blog communities: communities like Blogengage, Bizsugar lets you publish your article in front of their reputed audience to see it. These communities can give you a significant amount of readers if you have an exceptional content to share with them.

3. Stumbleupon: Another, my favorite website for promoting my content is Stumbleupon. It’s a huge community of stumblers. The hidden secret to success in StumbleUpon is to have great content. This website can leave you a huge amount of organic audiences.

The best way to getting stumbled is to embed a StumbleUpon badge in your every post; that will let your readers stumble your page easily.

4. Medium: You can use Medium to repurpose your content. Use proper tag & don’t forget to use canonical tag for avoiding duplicate content penalty.

5. Inbound.org: Inbound.org is known as a QA site, but you can also submit your articles there to promote it. Process.st is a website, that doing this job quite well. Remember it’s an exchange rule site, you need to involve in other’s discussion to get involvement in yours. Be active it this site to extract a good amount of traffic for your content from it.

6. Reddit: Reddit names itself “The Front Page of the Internet,”. So you got an idea how powerful Reddit can be. A splendid place to share your content. It’s a community of millions, and appropriately use can quickly evaluate your content’s discoverability. However, you don’t just go there and post your article link and advertise it; it gets the mark as spam, and you may ban go from the site. You need to be consistently active there, commenting on others content, upvoting them, posting nonpromotional links, etc. I will say let Reddit know you for a month, then start to post your website link for promotion.

Bottom Line:

“Without promotion something terrible happens….Nothing!” – quoteaddicts.com

Creating good content will surely drive traffic to your blog, but if you want a rapid growth then only creating quality content is not enough. You need to promote your content properly to get discovered by the web. So, grab your patience and start to promote your content.

Happy Promoting!

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Write A High-Quality Blog Post With These 6 Tips

Here are the steps of writing a blog post:

1. You sit in front of your computer.
2. You grab a topic from your editorial calendar.
3. You start writing your blog post.

Is that all? NO!

• It’s not about how many words you put into your new piece of content.
• It’s not about how frequently you mentioned the focus keyword.

It’s the quality (and only the quality) of your blog post which matters.

You’re not writing articles to just fill up your blog with content. You’re not blogging for the sake of making money. You’re supposed to be writing for one reason:

• To help your readers.

You need also to create something new while writing up your blog post.

Something that will make it rock and stand out among those other resources that are available elsewhere online.

For example, when I decided to write about ‘how to make money blogging’, I made sure to include successful iconic examples of other bloggers like Joy Okoro and how they managed to get this blogging thing working for them.

Not just that, but I also added myself into the comparison. I mentioned how much money I was making from blogging and what I was intending to do to level it up.

Writing up a blog post requires some sort of personalization.

It should let the reader believe that they can do the same thing (or even better) while at the same time inspiring them with amazing thoughts and ideas coming from the author’s personal experiences.

In this article, I will walk you through on how to write a quality blog post. I will be mentioning a few simple, easy-to-apply steps which will enhance your post quality and will help you level up your blog content.

#1 Make An Agenda

We just can’t pick a topic and write hundreds of pages on it without any agenda. We need to recognize how the content will be driving readers. Keep in mind the end goals which will make your content worthy of a reader’s gratitude.

It’s really important to set up and maintain an editorial calendar.

After you pick a topic, put in a few sub-points that you’re going to discuss in the article.

This way you will maintain a well-created outline with a clear target goal to reach your readers.

#2 Create A Brilliant Title

You need to stand out from the crowd by inventing brilliant titles.

Boring titles that only say what your blog post is about is not going to give you many readers.

Creating a great title is another essential process you need to spend time on. You need to make sure that your blog post is weaponed with an amazing, brilliant, and click-worthy title.

Regardless of how excellent your blog post is, most individuals can’t focus for more than 20 minutes.

• Make sure your point is clear from the beginning.

The title here is the first connection between you and your reader. 

Make it as excellent as possible to draw your readers in like a magnet.

#3 Keep It Clean & Organized

In addition to a proper title, you also need well-formatted headings and an organized structure.

Unorganized information is completely fruitless.

While all of the information is important, writing it in an unorganized format will confuse your reader. A confused reader will leave your page immediately.

I usually prefer to write the first draft of my new blog post on Microsoft Word.

After completing it as a draft, I copy it over to the WordPress Editor. I actually love using Microsoft Word at the draft writing stage.

Regardless of whether or not I have internet access, I can turn my thoughts into a new blog post with Microsoft Word.

You – as a blogger – should have Microsoft Word, or any other offline writing software, installed and configured on your laptop if you’re really serious about your blogging career. This way you can guarantee that you can start blogging wherever you are.

After finishing your first draft, it’s time to start cleaning and organizing to ensure that your post is good enough to be published.

Make sure to put in:

• Headings
• Bullet lists
• Numbered lists
• Multilevel lists
• etc.

Remember, your #1 goal is to help your readers, so make sure you’re delivering your content in the best way possible.

#4 Write Down The Truth

It’s a necessity to write down the truth.

You need to deliver the true message of whatever you’re blogging about.

As a reader, I can easily find information about what you’ve been blogging about via various other online resources.

What makes me read your blog is that I want to hear from you.

Make sure to respect your readers by delivering trustworthy content.

For example, if I’m writing a review post, I make sure to always try it out before delivering a review to my readers.

Let’s say I’m writing a blog post about how great banana juice is. I first prepare some banana juice and taste it to ensure I can be truthful in my review before dumping it on my blog for my readers.

Guaranteeing the truth within your blog posts is what will build your credibility and authority in your niche. Otherwise, people won’t trust what you’re saying and they will leave your website.

#5 Personalize Your Content

Let me ask you a question:

• Why did you decide to start up a blog?

I’m sure there are many answers, but one of them is probably:

• “To build up a personal brand”.

You need to personalize your content in order to build up your own personal brand. It’s straightforward, isn’t it?

You’re having great ideas and turning them into amazing blog posts. That’s really fabulous. But are you simply mentioning great points to your readers?

Or are you spending the time and going the extra mile to show them your personal experience with each of these points?

I stumbled upon a blog post a few days ago where the writer was mentioning “84 proven methods on how to make money via your blog”. I liked the idea of the blog post and I was very keen on reading it.

But after opening the post, I was disappointed to see that the author only mentioned those 84 methods and didn’t write anything else about them. He didn’t walk the extra mile for his readers and talk about his experience with these “proven” methods.

This is what readers and blog followers are looking for; personalized thoughts and ideas which they can apply themselves.

• Make sure to personalize your blog posts.

Talk about yourself, your thoughts, and your personal experiences.

#6 On-Page SEO

In the above-mentioned points, I made it clear on how should you speak to your readers:

1. Prepare an agenda
2. Create great titles
3. Organize points
4. Write trustworthy content
5. Be personal

But how do you speak to search engines?

You still need to tell the web-index bots about your new blog post so it can be indexed and archived the right way. Search engines can be your first source of traffic if you maintain your posts well and keep them highly optimized.

On-page SEO includes various items:

• URL slugs
• Focus keywords
• Post titles
• Meta descriptions
• Image alt tags
• Headings
• Inbound and outbound links
• and more…

If you’re on a self-hosted WordPress blog, I highly recommend installing and configuring the Yoast SEO plug-in.

Yoast will tell you which things need to be corrected for better on-page SEO results.

Wrap Up:

There are different ways by which you can produce high-quality content on your blog.

The most important factor is to make sure you choose the right blogging niche.

• You also need to be persistent and consistent.

Follow these 6 tips and watch as your blog grows in traffic, revenue, and authority.

I would appreciate you sharing your personal experiences about writing high-quality content for your blog. I always make sure to reply to every single comment on my blog posts. So, let’s fire the discussion up!

See you in the comments section below..

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9 Guest Blogging Mistakes You Need To Stop Making

Guest blogging is growing in popularity.

In the post-penguin era, it has become one of the safest ways to build links. However, some SEOs and other internet marketers have jumped on the bandwagon a little too quickly.

Sometimes we get so excited to see those three precious words – write for us – that we fail to really think through our article pitch. 

We are so anxious to get a valuable link on a good site that we don’t give the guest blogging process enough thought.

Meanwhile, blog owners are feeling Google’s wrath too.

Webmasters have started paying more attention to what gets posted and linked to on their site. Plus, they are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of guest bloggers contacting them.

As more and more writers pick up their pen, blog owners get more and more requests to post.

Therefore, it isn’t surprising that guest bloggers and blog owners tend to butt heads:

• Guest bloggers constantly feel the sting of rejection.
• Blog owners are constantly annoyed by subpar work.

So how can we make the transaction go more smoothly?

As a guest blogger, there are certain mistakes to avoid.

Follow this guest blogging etiquette and you’ll have much more success.

9 Common Guest Blogging Mistakes

1. Not Being Personable

Pitches that start with “Dear Sir or Madam,” or “To Whom it May Concern” will usually get deleted.

Why?

Because blog owners expect guests to be familiar with their site and what they are about.

They like to think of the experience as a relationship – not a one night stand.

• Take time to read the About page.
• Find out who you are addressing the submission to.
• Write your pitch like an honest-to-goodness form of communication.

Don’t copy and paste the same message to a thousand different blogs.

• Comment on the things you like about their site.
• Or reference your favorite post.

Blog owners are far more likely to interact with individuals who take an interest in what they do.

2. Not Investigating

If you want to make a guest post contribution to a site and don’t instantly see posting guidelines, take a few minutes to poke around.

See if you can unearth that information.

• This will save you and the blog owner a lot of time.

You will instantly set the blog owner on edge if you email to inquire about information that is already shared publically on the site.

Don’t bother the blogger with something like, “Do you accept guest posts?” when the site already contains proof that they do.

3. Not Following Directions

Even if the blog owner hasn’t posted guidelines on the site, he or she no doubt has them.

When you have been given access to the guidelines, read them carefully before you even think about writing.

Some bloggers will ask for an article idea to be pitched first.

Sometimes, you will need to include certain words in the subject line.

Sometimes you need to supply examples of your writing style as part of the application process.

When you sit down to write:

• Be sure to do everything the blog owner has asked.

Some things to look out for:

• Formatting preferences
• Minimum and maximum word counts
• Submission document preferences (.doc, .pdf, etc.)
• Media size
• Submission policies
• Link placement

4. Submitting Irrelevant Content

Why would a blog about hair restoration want a post about car insurance?

Don’t waste your time and the blog owner’s time by submitting content that is irrelevant.

• Look at the blog categories.
• Check the archives.
• Find out who the target audience is.
• Write something relevant.

Fatal Guest Blogging Mistakes To Stop Doing Today!

5. Submitting Redundant Content

How many times does a blog audience need to read an article on the same, tired subject?

Do you really think that weight loss blog needs one more article about counting calories when the archives already have 20 articles on that subject?

Look at what has already been posted.

Do a site search for the topic you want to write about.

If the subject has already been written to death, pick a different one.

6. Submitting General Content

Not many blog readers get excited about general, not-that-useful content.

People do online searches for helpful information.

They subscribe to blogs to receive the most relevant information on a particular topic.

Take this into consideration when writing.

Don’t just touch the tip of the iceberg.

• Cover every aspect of the topic – leave no stone unturned.

7. Trying To Be A Show Off

You may be an expert on a particular topic.

But just because you have a wealth of knowledge, that doesn’t mean the audience will as well.

Don’t use technical words or assume people understand what you are referencing.

George Orwell, an English novelist and journalist, advised writers to do the following:

1. Never use metaphors, similes, or other figures of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active voice.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

Speak directly to the readers.

Write like you are having a conversation, not like you are writing a product instruction manual.

And while you don’t need to have the same voice as the blog owner, you do need to have a voice.

Boring, uninspiring content won’t appeal to anyone.

8. Resisting Edits

Don’t be surprised if a blog owner makes edits to your article.

Your name is on the guest post, so its quality will reflect (positively or negatively) on you.

However, your post is on their blog so its quality will reflect on them too.

It never hurts to have a second set of eyes hunting for grammar and punctuation errors.

Most blog owners will simply make minor changes here and there. If major edits need to be made, they will likely consult with you.

No matter how major or minor the changes are:

• Don’t fight the blog owner.

And don’t go into diva mode.

If it doesn’t make sense to the editor, it probably won’t make sense to the readers either.

Trust the editing process.

9. Going AWOL

Once you see your article go live, it is tempting to scram and move on to the next guest post that needs attention.

However, it is important to maintain a good relationship with the blog owner.

One of the fastest ways to peeve a blog owner is to go missing after you’ve reaped the rewards.

Hang around for a while.

What’s the best way to do that?

• Reply to comments.

And don’t forget to thank the blogger for helping you out.

Don’t Make These Guest Blogging Mistakes!

Writing is like every other skill set. It needs to be polished and refined.

Furthermore, learning how to be a professional writer comes with its own set of challenges.

Guest blogging is a great way to build up a name for yourself and get some high-quality backlinks to your blog.

But you can only get these opportunities if you stay professional.

Hopefully, by avoiding these 9 guest blogging mistakes, you’ll have a much better chance of getting your guest post published. 

Are you making any of these fatal guest blogging mistakes? What are some more things you avoid when guest blogging? Let me hear your thoughts in the comments!

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