So you think that your latest post on your blog rocks? (If you think that every post that you write, rocks, then you have a problem 
). Not every post that I write is lovable or interests everyone on the planet.
However, when you think that you have made a killer post, these are some good tips to spread the post around quickly and they cost you nothing. There is no point in writing a good post if no body knows about it!
How to promote your latest blog post for free
- Submit it to Blog posts’ directories.
There are so many of them out there now, where you can submit your blog posts for free; BlogEngage, Blogsvine, BloggingZoom, etc. Chance is that you should receive some visitors to the post, if the title is catchy enough. - Submit it to social bookmarking services.
You know the drill. Just be careful not to submit your own post on some social bookmarking services that don’t allow you to. StumbleUpon is an example. You don’t want to submit your own post to it (Well once a while perhaps, but not constantly, or your site may get banned). - Find those blogs with the “U comment I follow” tag and “spam” some comments.
Make a good comment on his/her latest post. When the owner sees your comment, he/she should drop by to your blog and comment on your latest post too (Well at least that’s the commitment of the “U Comment I Follow” movement). If the post is good enough, you might get a free pingback/trackback or a free stumble/digg/etc. - Similar to above, find blogs that have the CommentLuv plug-in on them (like my blog).
CommentLuv plug-in displays your latest blog post below your comment. So, write a good comment as much as possible on these blogs and attract their readers to your latest post! Again, your post’s title must be catchy. - Go to forums that display your latest feed and start replying threads.
DigitalPoint forum is one of them. Try to go to the right thread and start replying other people’s posts. For example, if you publish a post that gives a SEO tips, then reply threads that ask help for SEO tips. If your reply is good enough and they see your latest post’s titled “10 Best SEO Tips”, chance is that they will click on the link to read further!
- If you are active on Entrecard.com community, drop your card more that day to promote your latest post.
Most of the time, you should get a reciprocate drop. Even if there’s only 20% chance of those droppers reading your latest post, it is still worth the effort. You get credits and you can get a pitch on your latest post. - Stumble, Digg, etc a post on other blogs and inform the owners that you did so.
Be genuine and really do it when you like the post. When my readers come and said in the comment that they like the post and have stumbled it, sometimes I go back to their blogs, read some posts, and if I really like a post, I do the same in return.
Don’t get your hopes up, but it is worth a try. Try not to “force” an exchange but let them find the value of your post. Begging usually won’t get you anywhere, unless if you know the blogger. - Reply your readers’ comments more frequently on that latest post.
When people visit your blog and see that you have 20 comments on your latest post, it will generate curiosity. Curiosity is good. It attracts them to read your post to find out what the fuzz is all about.
Try not to do this on every single post that you make. Again, not every post that you do is a “killer post”! If you do this everyday, you might get tired and discouraged. I did these tips myself when I was promoting my post on Google Chrome some weeks ago. The result was good, but it was quite time consuming and tiring.
Remember.. marketing, marketing, marketing!
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Michael, I agree with you. Commenting and marketing is very time consuming and I get pretty tired doing it on a daily basis. I wish I was more into net marketing during the 90′s and early 2000, it was a lot easier back then (think – keyword stuffing
)
As you said – marketing, marketing, marketing!
hmmm… just realized that i only now understand what u comment, i follow is all about. i’d confused it with do follow.
Another tip, on Entrecard you can change your homepage to the URL of your latest ‘killer post’, so when people click your EC image, they will be taken straight to it and not to your homepage. They are more likely to read comments then too.
It doesn’t work for approved adverts though.
Kouji – The UComment IFollow badge IS for do follow blogs.
Great article, Mike. I have been doing all these but never putting any attention to doing it with my best post. It’s just a random kind of thing I do.
Yan
That was a really helpful post, it gave me some great ideas – thank you!
Mike great post!.
I will try to follow some of the tips. some of them i am already following them…
so do you submit all your posts to blogsvine and other blog directory mentioned in the beginning of the post?
Very informative and you can also tweet about it via “Twitter”, “Facebook”. Facebook also have an application called ‘BlogNetworks’ which is another blog community available for FB fans
yup i know marketing is tiring LOL. i used to do all that things but i just get tired since I’m a busy mom. I also dont have any decent post most of the time
Blog and Feed directories are both great ways to increase exposure of content.
i notice that you did not mention Technocrati. Any particular reason?
A good post. These are the techniques needed to effectively promote your posts in order to draw traffic. Stumbled!
@Gigi: I haven’t even blogged yet during those era, but I’m aware of keyword stuffing done by some webmasters/bloggers
@Kouji & Dennis: Yeah. It’s both do-follow links and also an “oath” to comment back on you
@Richard: I saw some Entrecard members do it that way. I honestly don’t really like it though, but I guess it’s different for each person.
@Nihar: I usually submit my post to blogsvine and blogengage, although I only get around 3-5 traffic a day from them
@Hicham: Most (maybe all) of my Facebook friends don’t really read blogs lol so that may not work too well for me
@Ann: Just because I don’t get any traffics from Technorati
I used to install the Technorati tag plug-in, but they only bring me around 10 visitors in a month O_o I guess I’m doing something wrong
Wenbin: Thanks for the stumble, buddy
Others: Thanks for comming over and commenting. Sorry can’t reply you all one by one lol
Thanks for the tips. I really need to incorporate some of those. The killer post idea is the one I struggle with most of all. I don’t have good promotion techniques, and the ones I use are equal among all my posts. Hopefully this will keep me from getting burned out.
Thanks Mike, great post.
Already incorporate most of theses tools – unwittingly – and have found the startup http://nudgeville.com and twitterfeed useful places to post a killer post. First read your article on Nudegville.
Keep up the great work.
Sandnsurf
Michael, these are great tips! Some I already know, like entrecard and the U DROP I FOLLOW stuff, but I didn’t even think about CommentLuv or some of the message boards or other tips you gave. I dugg you just because I’ve been wondering how some people are getting such insane traffic! Thanks for the informative post.
That’s a nice, quick round-up! I am hearing about DigitalPoint Forum a lot recently. Will have to check it out. Though I don’t think Music niche would have any place there…
he! it is nice great job and make more. I believe that I am good but not as good as you.
busby seo test
@Paul: If you don’t do it on every post, you should’t get tired easily
@sandsurf: Guess I have to be more active on nudgeville now
@The Raging Tech: Thanks for the Digg. Appreciate it
@Abhinav: DigitalPoint forum is a great place to hang out for webmaster/blogging related. It’s a big community there that can help you out with SEO tips, reviews, marketing strategy, etc
I do submit some of my posts to social bookmarking sites, but I don’t get any traffic from the members. maybe I should be more active.
Thanks for the tips, I needed them.
Great list, every point can gain a lot of traffic, thanks for sharing! Michael!
Dugg it, Stumbled it and so far you got 18 Engages at blog engage! nice article michael your content is always top quality!
This “living in fear” shit is getting old.
@Hye Munar: Honestly, I’m not active on there myself. Maybe I should be, especially on StumbleUpon, if it’s gonna make any difference…
@Garanew & bbrian017: Glad you guys like it!
That’s a great list. i picked up a couple of points myself. Plan to use them soon.
I use digitalpoint for promoting my posts and it seems to work very well, stumbleupon is another good traffic gainer.
On the flip side, entrecard did nothing for me.
Nice Tips By The Way
Thanx
You are correct is saying that stumbling your own post is not a good idea but there is nothing wrong with stumbling, digging or whatever, a post that has linked to one of yours
Also there are certain blogs, like mine that are part of the ‘You comment and I will follow and comment back on your blog’ movement. A mouthful, but a great way to get reciprocate comments.
“but there is nothing wrong with stumbling, digging or whatever, a post that has linked to one of yours”
True. I read that tip on a blog some time ago
Naturally, you want to make sure that it is a good post as it wouldn’t do your credibility any good if you stumbled a bad post.
True. Although if it’s a bad post, then people might click on the link to your own blog, hoping to get a better information.
But yeah, your credibility might suffer because you’re stumbling a bad post (and with your URL on it! It attracts curiosity and negativity)
I think that you are confused on what the “u comment I follow” movement is. When you comment on a “dofollow” blog the “nofollow” tag on the comment link attached to the name is removed, so that google can see the link, and will help in page rank. It has nothing to do with blog owners making a recipricol comment on the other’s blog.
The nofollow tag is automatically on every blog, and must be manually removed or with a widget.
I thought that I would help to clear that up!
Cheers!
Oh! Thanks for clearing that up, Andreas. I guess it still is helping to promote the post, although in a different way!
When I first saw the “u comment I follow” I like Michael also thought that it meant that the bloggers would reciprocate the comments. I couldn’t work out why no-one was doing the right thing. Then it dawned on me and I figured it was a great failing on their part, which is why I started the F Group a group that promises to be part of the dofollow gang but takes it one step further by reciprocating comments.
Hmm interesting. I’ve never heard or seen the F Group before on the blogosphere. Is it new?
Great post. And some really good ways to. What I am finding out with commenting is that I am also building good relationships.
Anyway, one thing to add to this is article marketing… I think though for bloggers article marketing can seem to difficult and time consuming because we already write so much. But either use the article you’ve written and submit every 3rd one, or just rewrite the post and then submit is.
Hm I was writing a few on ezinearticles last time. I found out that duplicate contents are hated by Google. I guess rewriting the post and the submitting it might work, but how far will you go on rewriting a post?
The F Group is totally new as it is something that I am trying to get started. There are only a few members so far but that will change once people see the potential for increasing the amounts of comments you can receive on your blog.
I guess I know where to look for if I want to get some comments on my latest post
I usually use feedcat, feednut and other feed agregator.
I tried Feedcat, but it didn’t give me a good number of subscribers…
When you start your blog it helps a lot if you can promote it for free. Promotion means getting readers to your blog, and since most of us start blogging just because it interests us, spending money to promote your blog is quite difficult. Fortunately, if blogging is free, or almost free, these 8 Ways to Promote Your Blog are Free too and these are really free blog promotion tools and tactics that you can implement from day one of your blog publishing. The list of free promotional tools have primarily been prepared from a web designer blogger’s perspective, most of the methods can be applied to all kinds of blogs.
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Even my blog has gone for a year now and I haven’t let go a single penny (except for $1 maybe?) to promote my blog
Some really nice information there, you talk about social bookmarking, if you have a website too, I’d recommend submitting every page of your website to the websites, not just your homepage!
Learned a bit from your article too, I want to try and promote my blog (when it’s up) for as free as I can
Thanks for the compliment. I try to submit a few of my posts but it can get tiring without the proper tools
Very good advice. I use most of these methods and they DO WORK. I just found Entrecard so I will have to check them out a little more in depth.
Oh, welcome to Entrecard! Hope my Entrecard guide can be useful to you too
It’s a good post to read with, it’s really worthwhile coming on your page keep it up.
Great list of tips, everything is worth read and can definitely gain a lot of traffic.. Recent blog on forums are really helpful to boost the number of visitors.. anyway, thanks for the share Michael
You’re welcome. I wish I have the motivation and time to post often to these forums
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nice tips Micheal, thanks for sharing this information cause i want to promote my blog but i don’t know what to do, but of course i know, now what to do it because of you Micheal….
No problem. Promoting our blog is actually pretty basic but we tend to ignore it. I myself am lazy to to promote my blog posts at times..it’s a tedious job
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Thanks
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