8 Ways to Promote a Newly Published Blog Post

A good amount of traffic comes to a blog post within the first day, after it gets published. You can get lots of traffic to a blog post not withstanding when the post got published, but often, a good amount of traffic comes to a newly published post if you promote rightly... Thus, it's important to promote your blog posts and increase traffic their immediately after you publish. This is particularly important for posts whose relevance dwindles overtime but this
 practice should apply to all your blog posts.

Below are 15 ways you can promote your blog posts immediately after they get publishled so as to increase traffic to them quickly.

1. Share Your new posts to twitter
Twitter is a very popular social media platform, thus it is a perfect place to share a link to your blog posts as soon as they get published. There so are many tools that enable you to automatically publish a link to your latest blog post on your twitter account but you can also share them manually.

Also Read; How to Automate Blog post sharing with IFTTT

2. Share the Blog Post on Facebook

What's this list without facebook? Knowing fully well the amount of people that use the platform, it's important to note that people who want to read your blog posts are on Facebook too. So always share a link to your blog post on your Facebook Profile and Page (You should have a Facebook page for your blog).

3. Share the Post on Pinterest

Pinterest is a social bookmarking site. If you include images in your blog posts, then Pinterest will surely be a great place to promote them. You can do this automatically or manually...

4. Share the Post on Google

Google is an extremely cool platform to share your new blog posts to as it is a powerful tool for blog post promotion, and it

shouldn't be overlooked.

5. Share the Post to Your LinkedIn Followers

Do you write blog posts about businesses, careers, or professional topics, if yes, then LinkedIn is one of the most important places to promote your blog posts. 

6. Share Posts to Relevant Forums You are a member of

If you are a member of any online forums related to your blog's topic, you should not hesitate to share your posts them because forums are great places to promote your blog posts. Just be sure to offer some useful information and comments than self promotional links in your posts, else you appear to care more about self-promotion than the members' conversations.

7. Comment on Relevant Blogs and

Include the Link to Your  Post

When you comment on blogs that blog about similar topics as yours, its readers are likely to be part of your target audience. Commenting on such blogs is a great way to promote your blog posts. Search for high quality blogs, so your link building efforts don't hurt your blog's search rankings and search traffic.

8. Interlink your blog posts

Internal linking of your own blog posts is an important part of search engine optimization and keeping people on your blog for a longer period. Think about how your blog post fits into your internal linking strategy and take the step... 

Also read ; HOW TO INTERLINK BLOG POSTS TO ENGAGE READERS MORE

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65 Blog Directories To Submit Your Blog To

 

It's obvious that every webmaster wants to give more exposure to his blog, and there are various ways one can increase his/her blog exposure and also improve traffic. 

When you submit your blog to blog directories, Your blog will be exposed to lots of new audience.

Traffic from blog directories are highly targeted and you will be generating good number of backinks to your blog.

 Here is s list of verified blog directories where you can submit your blog. 

Before you begin submitting your blog, to make the take easier, note down the following aspect of your blog.

Name of the blog:

URL of the blog:

Feed URL of the blog

Description of the blog in 2-3 lines

This will make the submission task easier.

List of the websites 

http://www.anoj.org

http://www.bedwan.com

http://www.bestbusinesswebdirectory.com

http://www.bizzdirectory.com

http://www.blogarama.com

http://www.livepopular.com

http://www.marketingwebdirectory.com

http://www.nexusdirectory.com

http://www.onlinesociety.org

http://www.pegasusdirectory.com

http://picktu.com

http://www.plazoo.com

http://www.blogs-collection.com

http://www.blogdirectory.ws/

http://www.bloggernity.com/

http://www.bloghub.com

http://www.1abc.org

http://www.9sites.net

http://www.a1webdirectory.org

http://www.aaf14.org

http://blogville.us

http://blogrific.com

http://www.blogflux.com

http://www.blogdir.co.uk

http://blogsrater.com

http://www.bloglisting.net

http://www.bocaiw.net

http://www.cipinet.com

http://www.addbusiness.net

http://www.addfreewebdirectory.com

http://www.addurlguide.com

http://www.alistsites.com

http://www.ananar.com

http://www.bloggernow.com

http://www.blogrollcenter.com/

http://www.blogtopsites.com

http://www.blog-search.com

http://blogswirl.com

http://www.cluboo.com

http://www.directoryseo.biz

http://www.freedirectorysubmit.com

http://www.freetoprankdirectory.com

http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/

http://www.findsites.net

http://fuelmyblog.com

http://www.gainweb.org

http://www.h-log.com

http://www.happal.com

http://www.synergy-directory.com

http://www.the-free-directory.co.uk/

http://www.topsiteswebdirectory.cocom

http://www.urlshack.com

http://www.usgeo.org

http://www.w3catalog.com

http://www.wilsdomain.com

http://www.worldweb-directory.com

http://www.highrankdirectory.com

http://homepageseek.com/

http://www.hottestblogs.com

http://www.info-listings.com

http://www.informationcrawler.com

http://www.jewana.com

http://www.linkpedia.net

http://www.linkroo.com

http://linksmaximum.com

http://www.link-minded.com

http://www.prolinkdirectory.com

http://www.promotebusinessdirectory.com

http://www.ranaf.com

http://www.rocktheadored.com

http://www.sites-plus.com

http://www.sitepromotiondirectory.com

http://www.submissionwebdirectory.com

http://somuch.com

The Sites below require a link back via Reciprocal Link/badge

http://www.bloghints.com

http://www.ellysdirectory.com

http://www.freeaddurl.org

http://www.ontoplist.com

http://www.blogratedirectory.com

http://www.blogsthatfollow.com

http://www.blogtoplist.com

http://www.spillbean.com

http://www.thecgisite.com/

http://www.wordpressblogdirectory.com/

http://www.addyourblog.com

http://www.blogdirs.com/

http://www.blogsdb.com

http://carefullypicked.com

http://www.mvomrat.com

http://www.rapidenetwork.eu

So, these above are just a few of the many available blog directories that might be needed by you... 

Do drop any other that haven't been listed abocd...

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How To Start A Vlog

I  have written a brief overview of what you should know about vlogging and this post centers on the steps and guides to starting a vlog.

You can read my previous post which introduces you to Vlogging if you are just hearing this for the first time...

Setting up a vlog is a hundred times easier than setting up a blog, here you don't need to worry about getting a custom domain name or hosting your blog on a server (if you don't want a blog for your vlog)... The basic requirement to starting a vlog is a gmail acount... 

before we go over the steps in setting a Vlog, let's take a look at the necessities needed before creating your vlog.

1. A good camera

you definitely need to get a camera with great picture quality to shoot your videos and your smartphones and laptops can do just that in case you aren't ready for a new product... Just make sure your device's picture quality is high...

2. Good Audio Quality

Since you Will be doing a lot of taking depending on what you want to vlog about, you need to consider the audio quality of your device as well.

3. Boost your self confidence

This is something a whole lot of us struggle to win and to start a blog, you need to boost your self confidence and fight that shyness off. Want to start a vlog? then fight it!

So Now that you have gotten the above necessities, let's move over to creating our vlog and we will be using YouTube to host our vlog since it's the most used and recommended.

The very simple steps below;

√. first thing first, you need a YouTube account and to have one, you need to have a Google account, create one now if you don't have any. Your Google account is your gateway to YouTube and once you are logged in on Google, you can access YouTube... 

√. Once you've accessed YouTube, you can create your YouTube vlogging channel by visiting this link; https://www.youtube.com/create_channel

√. After creating the YouTube channel, you are ready to start making videos! Alright, so now you have a quality camera to record a vlog and your YouTube channel to upload your vlog.

It’s time to actually start vlogging. If you

don’t know what to vlog about, you can video what

you do everyday, ranging from your hobbies, things on your mind and so on... you can do some challenges or anything else.

Once you are satisfied with the video you have made, Upload them!

My next two vlogging posts will throw more light on how to make cool YouTube videos and How to do them with your android phones...

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Search Engine Optimization With Google Search Console

SEO, Search Engine Optimization is a very important aspect of aspiring great webmasters. There are some basic SEO terms we may need to know to understand the word fully.

Crawling and indexing are two important SEO terms. You probably have an idea of these terms if you have been in the web world for a while. The entire web depends on Google Crawling and Indexing.

A definition of this term with reference to Google

Crawling: crawling occurs when Google visits your website for the purpose tracking. This is done by Google’s Spider crawler. In the SEO world, crawling means moving around your website. Whenever bots come to your website

(any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website.

We create sitemaps to aid crawling as they contain all of the links in our blog and

Google’s bots can use them to look deeply into a website.

To stop crawling parts of our websites, we use Robots.txt file

Indexing: Indexing takes place after crawling has been done, the results gets placed in Google's search engine. It is the process of adding webpages into Google search. Depending on the meta tag used, (index tag means Google should crawl and index your pages, no-index tag means that

Google should not crawl and index your pages into the web search’s index).

Let only important parts of your blog or website get indexed if you want to rank higher in search engines. Indexing unnecessary archives like tags, categories, and all other less important pages will affect your blog ranking.

Factors Affect Crawling:

The amount of websites online are so much that not everyone is satisfied with the crawling and indexing rate because a whole lot of  persons are left out, constantly wondering why their articles aren’t getting indexed.

These are some major factors that play some important roles at the backend of

crawling and indexing.

Domain Name; Your domain name matters alot, know that now if you dont... Since the Google Panda update, domain name importance has risen significantly. Your Domains should include the main keyword of your niche since such domains are given importance recently.

It isn't new that the crawling rate is higher for domains that have a good Page Rank.

Also read; Guides to Finding The Best Domain Name For Your Website

Backlinks also aid indexation, The more backlinks you have , the more trustworthy and reputable you become in the eyes of search engines.

 You can have good rankings but if you aren’t getting any backlinks for your site, search engines may assume that you have low quality content.

Also Read:  65 Ways To Get Quality Backlinks To Your Blog 

Internal Linking is as important as backlinking, it is also known as deep linking. you should use the same anchor text within the same article as it helps in the deep crawling of a site. Internal linking is a good practice, not just for SEO, but also for maintaining active users on your website.

Also Read: How to interlink Your Old Posts To Engage Your Readers more

Once you setup a website you should always use an XML sitemap so that your sitemap can be auto-generated. This way, Google will be informed that your site has been updated and will want to crawl it.

Also Read: Understanding Google Search Console

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Try not to have any duplicate content on your site. Fix all of your 301 and 404 re-directs for even better crawling and SEO.

Create SEO friendly URLs for each page on your site, as it is important for proper SEO.

Have unique and non-competitive meta tags for your website. This will ensure that you have top ranking in search engines.

Add all the main ping sites to your site if you use WordPress. It has an auto-pinging feature which will inform search engines about your website’s updates.

Also Read: WordPress Ping list

Once you optimize your website following these factors, Google will surely crawl and index your page faster and more accurately.

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65 Ways To Get Quality Backlink To Your Blog

We definitely know the importance of search engine traffic and getting high quality backlinks to your blog is one of the best ways to skyrocket your blog's rankings and get better search engine traffic and results. When building  backlinks, you need to keep the quality of links and anchor text variation in your mind. Also, instead of creating mere backlinks to your homepage only, start building links to internal pages. 

In here, we will be listing some ways you can get quality backlinks to your blog.

Note; Google hates spam and it gets rid of sites using spammy or paid ways to build links.

60 Ways to Boost Blog Backlinks

1. Submit Guest Post to Other Blogs.

2. Post comments on dofollow blogs and make sure these blogs are relevant to your niche. 

3. Create Relevant Threads in Forums and Link to Your Blog Posts

4. Link to Your Blog in Your Forum Signatures 

5. Social bookmarking can also be considered as backlinks. You should link from the following Google plus, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.

6. Make Use of Discussion Boards by Linking to Your Blog in threads. Quora is one HQ discussion board.

7. Make Use of Blogging Communities. Submit Your Blog Posts to sites like Blog Engage, Inbound, etc

8. Ask Questions related to your blog in Sites like Yahoo Answers and Link to Your Blog.

9. Answer Questions in Yahoo Answers and link to your Blog as the Source.

10. Interlink to your blog posts on your blog when writing.

11. Exchange links with other bloggers in your niche. 

12. Submit Your Blog to Top Blogging directories.

13. Submit your blog to top niche directories.

14. Start your affiliate program .

15. Create a news section on your blog sites and update news in your niche.

16. Submit your blog posts to all social bookmarking sites you know

17. Submit your blog to your top social networking sites

18. Submit your articles to stumbleupon.

19. Submit your blog to digg, Google crawls most of its submissions.

20. Submit your rss feed to feeder sites.

21. Submit your rss feed to rss directories.

22. Most forums have a website review section, review your blog on this forums.

23. Be transparent on your blog.

24. Get listed in top paid Directories like the Yahoo Directory.

25. List your product on Ebay or Amazon and include a link back to your blog. 

26. Try to know which stories are trending at the moment and make sure you blog about them.(News and Entertainment bloggers)

27. Blog about very important events such as the independence day and the likes.

28. Change your blog posts to pdf and submit it to document sharing sites.

29. Review top companies and products and they might link back to you

30. Interview top bloggers and ask them to help you share it on their favorite social networks and their fans will link to your interview.

31. Write a list of the “top 10 myths” or “top 10 list” about something.

32. Position yourself as an authority in your niche and try to get attention from the media.

33. If you are bold enough, Offer to speak at events and seminars related to your niche, don’t forget to mention your blog while introducing yourself, this will most likely help you get some backlinks.

34. Have a unique writing style that attracts people.

35. Write high quality content and you will get good backlinks

36. Write Controversial posts (gossip bloggers)

37. Write news posts and try to be one of the first people to write it (News bloglog to backlitories.

39. Ask other bloggers to interview you.

40. Write linkbait posts.

41. Write top list posts because they can go viral easily.

42. Write a post comparing some top gurus in your niche.

43. Trade articles with other bloggers in your niche.

44. Submit your site to Dmoz , many other directories use this directory and that alone is enough quality backlinks for you.

45. Submit your blog to .edu and .gov forums and blogs, Google loved backlinks fom this sites and regards them as authority.

46. Make use of groups like Google Groups and Yahoo Groups

47. Create a Wikipedia Page For Yourself and include your link in the resource section.

48. Write posts that have relevance to users need

49. quality blogging contest and make linking to your blog one of the requirements.

50. Sponsor blogging contest and you will get a lot of backlinks from this.

51. Do a big product launch.

52. Make the news at any cost.

53. Blog about celebrities. (Entertainment bloggers)

54. Write posts that starts with numbers e.g. “7 ways to…”, these type of posts do tend to get backlinks.

55. Submit your images to image directories and include a link to your blog in its copyright notice and as a requirement to use it.

56. Join blogging contest and you will most probably get backlinks if you win.

57. Have a “link to us” or “spread the word” page on your blog while asking your readers to link to you – it is important to make it easy for them by putting your direct html code there using your desired anchor text.

58. Submit your website to local business directories, backlinks from these sites are regarded by Google as authority.

59. Write on about.com and link to your blog in it, this will likely be crawled and used by a lot of websites thereby increasing backlinks to your blog.

60. Make effective use of april fool.

61. Create niche specific tutorials, which are not only unique but help the community. Such tutorial articles get lots of backlinks.

62. Create viral youtube videos and include links to your blog in the video and its description.

63. Update your blog regularly because this will make more people trust your website and it will also make you rank for more keywords which means more traffic and eventually more backlinks.

64. Write a post comparing various companies and services and which is the best, the best company will most likely link to it.

65. Get a collection of high quality paid softwares and make them available for free (please be sure not to violate the copyright of the owner in any way!)

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Vlogging; What You Should Know

What is a Vlog?

A Vlog is a blog in which the postings are primarily in video form. Thus, a vlog is a video blog. One of the best places to start a vlog is "YouTube".

Blogging is more appreciated than Vlogging (That's why everyone wants to blog!) and most people want to become bloggers and not vloggers.

But we don't all have to ignore vlogging for blogging, besides you can run both...

About YouTube

You've probably heard a lot about YouTube and in one way or the other you have watched a video on YouTube...  In case you don't know, YouTube is a Large video sharing site, owned by google!

About Vlogging

The Good thing you probably didn't know about vlogging is that it isn't really saturated and vloggers are easily approved by the popular AdSense unlike bloggers! 

So, You want to start a vlog and make some cash?

well, vlogging on YouTube is the next big thing, that's if you play your dice well.

What Makes Vlogging Different

So over the years, I've watched videos on YouTube and discovered how great vlogging was. It has obviously become a popular method to share your ideas on a subject to your audience online. Unlike blogging, which is composed by words and images, vlogging transform your content into an audio-visual broadcast. Sometimes watching and listening does a whole lot of good than just reading...

Want To Start A Vlog?

Want some great tips on how to start a YouTube channel?

Then Read; How to Start A Vlog 

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How To Interlink Old Posts To Engage Users More

If you've noticed, I almost always post my contents with some interlinkings to my older blog posts. This is something I learnt while trying to figure out how to get to the top genuinely. and I honestly have noticed its importance and I want you to also have an insight of why this practice is important.

Don't just write a blog post and promote it on social media sites, forums, blog, and etc. you will definitely get visitors but it will be for that blog post alone. Your visitors may mange to take a look at 2-3 more posts then leave without looking back.

What is interlinking?

Interlinking is the of making links within a blog or a website. interlinking is an addition of links that connect two pages of a same website.  This link is a simple example of internal linking; as a part of SEO strategy. I just made a link to another page of this blog and that would navigate crawlers as well as users to that page.

How does Interlinking help in user experience and SEO?

1. Further Reading:

It should be your primary motive to publicize older posts of your blog by interlinking it to your new blog posts and also to provide user further reading

options and suggestions on where they can explore related topics in your blog.

The Related Posts section at the end of your blog posts will not have the same success rate that a link in the main article has.

2. Increased Visitor engagement and pageView:

interlinking helps in keeping visitors for a longer time, your pageviews will increase when you use this kind of strategy.

3. SEO:

Interlinking your old articles will help you in increasing page rank of your internal pages. It will also helps in building the relevancy of a page to a keyword phrase by which you are linking your article to. update some of your old articles too, because the visitor that go from you main article to your older linked article may leave your blog there but if you provide interlinking at your older pages too than again the chain continues.

Healthy Interlinking

1. While interlinking makes use of good relevant keywords to the article, you’re linking to.

2. Try to link only relevant posts and only if its necessary don’t overload your post.

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