7 Quick tips to promote your blog - Steemit Edition

There are lots of requirements to have a successful blog. Your posts need to be well-written, helpful, and relevant And you need to be actively promoting it and putting your content in front of your audience.

Here are 7 tips to promote your blog

1/ Your blog has to rock.

It need's to be helpful, ask yourself the question, " is this blog helpful?" If it is not then keep working at it. Your content needs to be unique, help readers work out why they should pay attention to you.
Tell stories, success, failure, aha moments of realization, lessons learned. Tell stories that visitors can relate to.
Quote authority sources to qualify what you write. Be ready to respond to trends to stay in tune with what your audience likes.

2/ Google must like what you do

All of the above is a waste if you are never seen. You must be searchable in Google and Bing. Do your keyword research. What are prospective visitors searching for? Optimize for the relevant keywords that will help put you in front of your target audeince.

3/ Set up your page for on-page SEO

This may sound complicated but it is not. Just structure your posts like newspaper articles. Tell Google what your content is about by adding headlines, images and other SEO ranking factors - Check out this article for more details on optimizing your blog for SEO Work hard at both Tips 2 and 3 and your TrustRank with Google will start to grow and your visibility will improve fast.

4/ Add images

We are visual creatures and love images. Images are also rich content and Google loves them, they even have an image search section on Google search.

Pay attention to images sizes. What works best for your page? What works best for your social shares. A good strategy would be to add one image for each of the top 3 social sites for shares. For example. Add a header image that works well on Facebook. Add a body image that works well for Google Plus and definitely add a good portrait image for Pinterest. Make your content look good on your site and on other sites. Here is a great image cheat sheet article that will help.

Add Video. Video is another great form of rich content that Google loves, so where possible try to include video.

5/ Build relationships

Find related content that you can comment on. Related tweets you can retweet. Build relationships so other pay attention to you, be of value to them so that they pay you a visit and reciprocate engagement.

6/ Build your social channels

In the same way, you have to be consistent when creating content for your blog you must also be consistent creating content that promotes it. Social media is key for this. Build your brand throughout all your social channels

7/ Recognize the influencers

Whos doing what you do and getting the kind of results that you would also like to achieve? Revisit Tip 5 for what to do next.

Thats all for now.

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