I was on DP and I seen a thread. The person asked what to do after you published a blog post. This was pretty set in my head already what I do. So of course I had to say what I do but I feel I have more to say (Which is a great way to come up with post ideas) and I think some of you may have something to add to this.
We all have different ways to do promotion for our blog posts. Some people specialize in getting traffic from digg while others specialize in getting traffic from twitter. It all really depends on the person. For me I specialize in getting traffic from stumbleupon, twittley/twitter, and leveraging other blogs to get traffic via blog commenting. We will get to that later.
After publishing your post, you should read it and ask yourself where would it best fit to get maximum traffic from that social media site? If it’s news it will best fit in digg or reddit. If its about a star it will mostly likely do well in twitter. If its a pictures, your best bet is stumbleupon. Always find the best 3 places it will fit and do some promotion for it like submit it to the top 3 social media sites that relate to your post. After you submit your blog post send it to your friends on those social media sites.
Lets take a look at how I got things set up. Every time I publish a post. Its sent out to facebook and friendfeed. I do all my real promotion for the “Flashback Monday” series so lets use that for an example. After the post is published and the normal thing happens the post is sent out to my rss feed, facebook, and friendfeed. It is also sent out to my mailing list at 1:30am. Now for my social media marketing. I submit the post to twittley which sends a tweet to my twitter account. I then submit my post to stumbleupon and send it out to all my stumbleupon friends.
Lets recap all the social media sites
facebook
friendfeed
twittley
twitter
stumbleupon
other promotional tools
My mailing list (I use aweber)
Now after all that is done. I start my normal blog commenting but I comment on all the blogs with commentluv first! Yes, this is my secret weapon to getting the word out. Yeah, the social media sites are nice they bring in the bulk of the traffic. (For now) But I like to bring in extra traffic with blog commenting on blogs with the commentluv plugin. Most bloggers only visit the Flashback Monday post when they see the title because they hope one of their post links is in it. Since they are here, they will comment. Even if their link is in the post or not. Why? Because they never know when their post will be in it.
Well that is what I do after I have published a Flashback Monday post. I will try some other things as well with the next one though. We all see how things go.
What do you do after you publish a blog post?
as well.
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As a newbie hare i found your site very informative and Your post have different thought from others. Which weapon are you using for getting the traffic is very effective. I agree with your strategy.
Nice Strategy you got there, commenting on blogs with CommentLuv first.
Nice details there Deneil. I also leave comments on other sites with CommentLuv plugin installed. This brings in many more visitors and I hope to capitalize on that.
I will try of your strategies mentioned above and see what happens.
I think the key thing here is to have a plan – which you clearly do! I tend to be a bit all over the place with different marketing approaches which I fear is very inefficient. Having a nice set of steps you go through after each post sounds like a much better way to go about it. Good tip on CommentLuv sites by the way.
Once I also did with one of the pages from my website everything you have done, submitted to all big social bookmarking websites, twitter, posted in facebook and in myspace, and did get like 10 hits for that. How many visitors do you get after you do all the things you described in this post?
How many visitors do you get from Digg, if and when your posts end up on Digg? Have you ever hit the front page on Digg?
Interesting subject and I’m sure we would all benefit from having a plan on how to spread our word. Personally I’m not using any of the big social media sites but maybe it’s time..
I’ve not actually strongly promote my article after publishing it, I just submitted the latest post in Digg, that’s all. But I do have left comment on blogs, as we know, most of the blogs out there install the link love plugin, so my post URL will be displayed on the comment, I may get some traffic by doing this way too.
Anyway, I just too lazy to promote my post. lol!
Regards,
Lee
Great post! Definitely something we need to start implementing in our marketing strategy. We have not done anything with any of the Social Media outlets except to add a Twittley button. It is on my to-do list for next week
Welcome to my blog Mike, I am glad you like the article. I wouldn’t call it a strategy. I just found what works and keep at it.
Don’t only focus on commentluv plugin users. It’s a very small part of promotion.
Remember, what works for me, may not work for you. Find what works and improve on it.
submitted to all social sites and only got 10 visits? wow, I can’t picture that happening with me. I recommend networking with others. Get friends on each social site. Help others and they will help you.
I do not focus on digg. My posts are rarely ever on digg. There is not one post on my blog that digg users would like. Well maybe one but I need to be popular for people to care enough to digg it. lol
I never been on the homepage of digg. I seen on a webmaster forum a few days ago. Somebody hit the front page and only got 7k visits. Digg has fallen from its days of crashing blogs from tons of traffic.
Very informative post! Too bad you didn’t give such detailed information in your Ebook. I hope that for the next realise of your Ebook, you’ll update some data, and write more in detail about how to promote your site throught social media such as digg, stumbleupon, delicious and so on. I mean, I really liked the way you use the social media depending on the cathegory of your articles! I was wondering one thing, can you publish one same articles on several social media? I mean, I thought your articles must be unique to post on Digg, so if you post it on other social media, it won’t be unique anymore.
BTW, will you publish a Feedburner icon to let us know how many people have subscribed to your newsletter?
Just submitting to digg will not gain you traffic. Blog commenting is a real good start. Being lazy is not funny in business. You will not be successful if you are lazy.
Thank you. Social media marketing will bring in most of the traffic besides search engine traffic.
Remember I said I rush the ebook to be done. The update will go into detail and in some cases just link to the post to completely explain things.
As for the social media sites yes you can submit your post to every one of them. It’s not the same as article marketing.
Maybe when the blog turns 6 months old.
I wouldn’t call it a strategy its just what I do. Got to get the post and name out there some how. You know?
It would all depend on the article and what is discussed. Some stories that end up on the front page of Digg still get quite a few diggs. I think youd get more than 7,000 visits…I could be wrong though.
If you are submitting to digg you need to make sure you digg other peoples submissions to even end up on Upcoming page…Getting one or two visits just by submitting is not worth it.
Here is the link to the post. Front page of digg only gets you 7k visits: Click Here
I would like to hit the front page though, just to get people to sign up to my mailing list.
Yeah, you always have to have a plan. No plan, no success. Find what marketing is working for you and improve on it. I am sure you will see higher traffic levels Martin.
I didnt say I didnt beleive you, and thanks for the source.
What I meant to say is that even though some stories end up on Digg they wont get a lot of visitors. Personally I am on Digg every day, I spend more time on Digg than any other website, yet I only visit about three, maybe four sites that end up on the front page of Digg. I only click on the ones that interest me, so a story would have to get a lot of readers’ attention to get 40,000 visits. His story was about website tutorials, not a news or an opinion article, meaning there are not as many people interested in website tutorials as there are those interested in latest news on Obama, Iran, iPhone, Healthcare, Ron Paul, etc. which means his story is not likely to get as many visits as another story that is more popular in Digg community.
I guess that’s why I rarely use digg. My blog don’t cater to any of those topics.
How do you find blogs that uses the CommentLuv plugin? Are you going to publish a list some day?
I do all the same things except I do not have a mailing list yet. That is the next step for me as my blog evolves. I have stpped submitting to Digg as it has never worked for me for traffic. I usually submit to Mixx and Propeller. I also use Twittley and I also get a lot of free tweets by using the Retweet.it and Tweet.us services.
In fact, I’m not a big fan of social media sites but I just want to get a backlink from the sites to help my post to be indexed by Google faster. But since Deneil said we could get more traffic from these social sites, I’m going to learn from here.
Regards,
Lee
This is a great post! BTW.. just installed commentluv on my blog!
Yeah, social media marketing will bring up your traffic. Just remember with social media marketing, the main key is being social and making friends.
Thank you. That’s good, I am sure it will bring you more comments. Knowing my readers you will get comments from them.
This will def be a nice little jump starter for those new bloggers out there, gives them a few good hints about the things they might want to consider doing.
Indeed my friend. I didn’t know people was not using all these free resources.
Deneil, thanks for the list of social media sites. I also have seen quite a few posts over at DP — people asking the same thing. Currently, I only Stumble and Tweet after making a post, but I’ll definitely start using the ones you’ve mentioned.
You welcome, don’t limit yourself to that recap list. It’s just the ones that I use mostly. As you can see the bar above I have many social media accounts.
This is exactly what I do as well. Good info D.
What combo of social media sites do you use?
I do a lot of what you do. Every post automatically goes to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Technorati. I add most of my posts to Delicious, and some of them to BlogEngage. Every once in awhile I’ll pull up one of the pinging services and pop it to those places I don’t already submit to. Then I also do a round of commenting, but I don’t just concentrate on Commentluv folks.
Hey Deneil,
Now I see why you stop by my site from time to time
Commentluv is definitely a great way to get deep links back to your site.
hehehe, take care man
CommentLuv is “do follow” on my blog, I see. I don’t know why, but I don’t mind – for now. I may have set up my comments to be “do follow”, maybe that’s why CommentLuv is “do follow” too?
I have a RSS feed full of blogs and a folder in my RSS feed reader just for blogs that use the commentluv plugin. No, I will not post a list.
I admit that lazy is really a bad attitude if we’re serious in business. In fact, I’m not lazy in doing blog commenting because there is tons of blog that I found quite interesting and I love to leave comment on. Nevertheless, when it comes to social networking, I’ve no idea how to make it better, such as how to make it to the Top post?
Regards,
Lee
Be really social and make a lot of friends. That is the best advise I can give you on social media marketing.
Yes Deneil, now I got your point. I do actually roughly get the point on how to make lots of friends by using blog commenting. Using real name instead of keyword, this shows the appreciation to the owner’s post and also the blog owner. Agree?
Regards,
Lee
Is that meaning that if I would like to get my post submitted to social network (let’s say Digg) and I want to make it to the Top page, I need to be social and making more friends, and hope they will help to Digg my article?
Seems that I’m poor in social media marketing. Still more to learn.
Regards,
Lee
Yes, you must be social and make friends. Help others and they will help you. Hint the word “Social”
Your marketing is pretty good. I don’t use mixx and propeller. Hows the traffic from them? I often click the twittley button on most of your articles and submit them to stumbleupon. You have some really good articles.
Yea, friends are people who help us and make us success no matter in real life or online business. I’m on the way following the rules.
Regards,
Lee
That is a really nice set up, I forgot to set my blog to send a tweet to twitter. I recently set up my blog to linkedin. I am going to add my blog to technorati. Should have done it at the beginning when I first set up my blog. Nice promoting, I need to start submitting my blog posts to blogengage. Don’t want to miss out on any traffic. I tried to tell all my readers not to just focus on commentluv blogs. They will be all the traffic from other blogs and social media sites.
That’s not the reason, well part of the reason.
CommentLuv is not a good way to get deep links. They are all nofollow. (even on dofollow blogs)
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