How I Promote My Blog Posts

So you’ve written your post and you can’t wait for the world to see it. What’s next? How can you make sure it’s seen? Today I’m sharing how I do it and some tutorials that you might find helpful.

Twitter – The day that I publish a new post, I tweet 5 times. I was 3 times a day, but then I had a consultation with Helene and she suggested 5 because of how short the life of a tweet is, and it made a big difference in my page views. On the days I don’t publish a new post, I promote an old one that seems relevant and I think my followers will like. In some of these tweets, I tag users who share other tweets, specifically @FemaleBloggerRT, @TheBlogGuideRT, and @RT_Bloggers.
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Facebook – I share my posts on my page twice a day. I schedule them so they’re in between my Twitter shares. I’m also a member of several Facebook groups where I share my posts: Her Campus Blogger Network, Northeast Bloggers, Boston Bloggers, and BlogHer Network. Some of these groups only admit members of their larger network, like the Her Campus Blogger Network.
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Instagram – Honestly, I don’t share my posts on Instagram very often. When I do, they’re important ones or giveaway. I do this because I try to only post on Instagram twice a day at the max and I don’t want my feed to be full of blog posts.
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Pinterest – However, I share them on Pinterest all the time. I try to do this during prime time (according to some, 1-4 PM and after 8 PM on weeknights is the best) and I share on multiple boards at different times to try and get the best exposure.
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Google+ – I always submit my posts here once. Every now and then, a few weeks or months later, I’ll submit it again to get more exposure.
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Tumblr – I don’t share every post on Tumblr, but I choose the ones that I think might be successful. The focus here is on the pictures, as Tumblr as a whole is more based on pictures than words, so I choose the best picture from a post and caption it with a sentence or more that will make people want to read it. I tag it with as many words or phrases that are relevant to increase the exposure, and I also add it to my queue so it will come up later. (I run my tumblr almost exclusively on a queue, posting 20 times a day over the course of 5 hours.)
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Stumbleupon – Stumbleupon is a great way to reach people beyond your personal networks. But like every other network, you do need to share more than just your own posts. Whenever I add one of my posts, I like to spend a few minutes on the site stumbling and also add some other posts or pages from the Internet.
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Kate Mitchell

Kate Mitchell is a blogger, chronic illness patient, and advocate who helps people understand chronic illness and helps chronic illness patients live their best lives.