Blogging has now essentially become hottest trade online. Each day hundreds of blogs pop up, but only a very few of them manage to stand out. What is it that they(unsuccessful bloggers ) lack on?
Often bloggers miss out on Social Media . They tend to forget that Social Media can Increase Traffic to their blog. For an experienced blogger Social Media Optimization is quite easy and a routine job, but for a newbie this might prove to be a tedious work.
So DailyTechPost has come up with “ 4 Best Tips To Use Social Media To Promote Blog “
Dedicated ID’s
First of all create dedicated ID’s for your blog on all Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg etc. This not only helps in branding your blog but also helps your blog to get noticed on these sites. Also when a user searches your blog name in any search engine like Google, the search results will show your blog listed in many social networking sites. Apart from your blogs link popularity,it also helps in getting good page ranking from Google.
Increase Network
Become an active member of Social Networking sites and try to increase followers in these sites. More the followers more are the chances of them becoming your regular reader. Even a new reader of your blog will find it easy to access you, such an interaction with your audience helps in developing a relationship with your readers and also increases your network on Social Media .
Increased Network on Social Media also helps in viral marketing, if your reader likes your article he may share it and this article can then be reshared and thus increase article’s popularity.
Social Widgets
Use proper sharing widgets to help your readers share articles. These widgets should be placed at prominent places on your blog such as in sidebar, just below the post, just below post title, in between your post etc.
Showing Fan’s Page
It’s a smart idea to show Fan’s page in your blog. This include Facebook fan’s page (just as we have on our home page ). You can also show number of followers on various Social Networking sites by some widgets/scripts. It also helps in branding your blog.