42 Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts

This blog post is a quick collation of 42 different ways you can promote your blog posts, ranging from Social Media Platforms, to Article Platforms, Blogging Platforms and Bookmarking Platforms

*** Some of the links below are affiliate link some platforms offer payment or additional features for referrals.***

Social Media

• Facebook
  • Facebook Page
    • Don’t forget to make use of the Facebook Audience Optimisation when posting
  • Facebook Groups
  • Facebook Ads
• Twitter
• Google +
  • Google + Business Page
  • Google + Communities
  • Google + Hangouts (now through YouTube Live
• Pinterest
  • Create your own profile/boards
  • Join group boards
• Snapchat
• Tsu  Closed on the 14th of September, 2016
• Tumblr
• Linkedin
  • Share the link as a status update
  • Publish it as a post
  • Linkedin Groups
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Periscope
• Blab – Platform has Closed Down.

Blogging Platforms / Media

• Mogul
  • Mogul is an award winning platform that enables women worldwide to share ideas, solicit advice and access content based on their personal interest
  • You can post stories, share links, promote products, ask questions
• Bloglovin
• Huffington Post
  • You can apply to the individual country platforms through the website or a lot of bloggers have success emailing Arianna direct on [email protected] 26/9/2016 – they have now for a limited time open the platform for signup contributors – visit their HuffPost Contributor Platform
• Medium
• Triberr
• Viral Content Buzz
  • Have your content shared by other influencers.
• Mashable
• Lifehacker
• Quora
  • Question and Answer network.
• Slideshare
• AllTop

Bookmarking Sites (Manual)

• Delicious
• Digg
• Reddit
• Scoop.it
• StumbleUpon
• BizSugar

Bookmarking Sites (Automated)

• SocialADR
• Social Marker
• Onlywire
• Blog Engage

Other ways to promote blog posts

• Share with brands / industry associations
• Blog Directories
• Forums
• Share with influences and ask them to share with their followers
• Comment on other blog posts and if the question is asked and you have a blog post with the answer/solution share it with the blog owner.
• Participate in roundups
• Re-purposing blog post content
• Guest Posts
• Build your own email list
• RSS Feed

This is just a really short list – Would love to hear your favourites in the comments below