Getting your Blog Posts Noticed

Getting your Blog Posts Noticed

After you have composed and posted your blog entry, what next? Do you just leave and hope that people will browse to your website or do you promote your entry and let the greater community know, what has been written?

I use WordPress to manage my blog, a benefit of using WordPress is to be able to install plugins to automate required actions. Twitpost is a plugin that automatically updates my twitter account with the post’s link once it has been published. If you don’t have a WordPress site, you may need to make the twitter entry manually.

I also have a Digg account, where my I submit the details of every blog post, this only takes a couple of minutes as you place the url of your website and add details of the post and the category of the entry.

My favourite is to add my entry to Ezine Articles, the same information posted on their website will quite often rank higher and sooner on Google than your actual blog entry. The article at Ezine Articles will have a link back to your website, you will be able to track and measure your traffic flow from Ezine to your website. Another benefit of Ezine is that fellow bloggers and article writers can use your article as long as they acknowledge you as the author. You can see the visited links showing Ezine Articles above my actual blog post.

Facebook is a favourite for many, I use Facebook for my business, any posts that are relevant to my business are shared on Facebook.
Having RSS Feeds available on your website will allow previous visitors to recieve updates from your site. Your visitor will need to be signed to a feed service to receive the updates.

After every new post it will be automatically updated on Twitter. Posted by myself on Digg, Ezine Articles and if relevant added to Facebook. All subscribers to my RSS Feed will be notified with in 24 hours of the posting.