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A question I receive time and time again is “Once you’ve published a blog post, how do you promote it?” and right now my response is simply “I share links to it on Facebook and Twitter.” That’s it. And I don’t even do this manually; the process is automated thanks to RSS feeds.
















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Of course, in the ultimate blogosphere irony, nobody will tweet or comment on this post.
Just trust that I do know what I’m talking about based on the success of other articles I’ve published
hahaha, the irony!! Last week was a slow week for everyone I think
Great tips – I can see how replying to the first comments can really help. I’ll have to start doing that now – I usually give it a few hours and answer in bulk, but it makes more sense that the first people there will think there is a proper discussion going on.
I actually really enjoy reading the comments on your blog – ALMOST as much as the posts themselves
Glen,
I always respond to all my comments and agree it is best to reply quickly.
However, unfortunately I’m testing out a new plugin at the mo and it has a bug. It doesn’t allow the commenter to ‘unsubscribe’ from the “follow-up comments” email. Bugger!
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
If it’s the same plugin I’m thinking of, it has actually had that issue for years. The one I’m using now seems to be working fine.
It’s a brand new premium plugin!
I’m waiting for support to resolve.
Andrew
You should turn off all comments Glen……:-)
I like them too much
Hey Glen,
Great post. But I just have to be honest with you, I miss your articles about affiliate marketing. I do not have a blog (anymore), so all your recent post are not really what I’m looking for.
Are you planning to continue to write only about blogging?
I have a ton of articles ready to go live, all on different subjects. What do you feel was missing from my other posts on the topic?
Hey Glen,
Another super awesome post man
!! I always try to respond to all my comments as quickly as possible.. !! Social bookmarking are really great way to get targeted traffic.!! Thanks for kick-ass long-depth article
!!!
Thanks for sharing this awesome post.
~Dev
Hey Devesh,
I always love your enthusiasm haha. Thanks for the comment
hehe !! .. this time you are replying fastest than ever
!! Thanks
Just practicing what I preach with the bonus tip
THat’s one heck of a blog post again, Glen. I nowadays even agree that the title is your most important weapon of influence. The right kind of controversy will always be there if you just speak your mind. Too many people cuddle with their words, afraid to hit some borders. The more personal style you bring into the action, the better the explosion.
I never thought about asking influencers to retweet my stuff, that’s awesome. I will leverage that with my masterpiece posts.
Kick-ass value, like always, keep rocking
Hey Mars,
You didn’t criticise me for once. Feeling okay?
Great point. Say what’s true for you and there’s a good chance it will go against the beliefs of other people as well.
Thanks buddy!
Glen:
Just wanted to let you know that I read every one of your posts even if I don’t comment on all of them.
I still learn something new in every post, which is humbling. Thank you.
Hey Mark,
That means a lot coming from you. Thanks!
“Of course, in the ultimate blogosphere irony, nobody will tweet or comment on this post.” Haha, that would be hilarious, Glen!
I ‘get’ everything you’re talking about here and as of recent, I’ve come to understand how important each part of this puzzle is. Thanks for the great content here!
For you maybe
Thanks Moon, you’re welcome!
It is interesting (telling?) that “Learn to Write Magnetic Content” is the last point on the whole post. Getting the right promotion/production ratio is difficult for new bloggers who always fear that they are not doing enough of one or the other.
So someone noticed my clever ploy?
Actually, if I’m honest, it’s just a coincidence that it was the last point
Thanks for stopping by, Tyler.
Hi Glen,
I am really impressed by your all the posts. They are so much indepth and helpful that I never miss even one of your posts. I have also read all the other older posts of yours and I’ve set Viperchill as my homepage too. I would really like to thak you a lot for such your your effort.
Yours faithfully
Paras
Your homepage? Wow, that is very flattering. Sorry that the same posts are there most days of the week
Thanks a lot for your comment, Paras. It is much appreciated.
Hey Glen,
I think commenting and tweeting go hand in hand much like a business. You know that feeling that you’re appreciated when you visit into a store, someone greets you, helps you find what you’re looking for then goes out of the way to send a personalized thank you – I think this shows a parallel in blogging.
I’ve noticed that replying to comments as soon as they appear really does help people continue to comment and jump into the discussion. I think there is a subliminal mindset that “oh, this post be going off! I need to get in this!” runs through a commenters head.
Likewise, Twitter has the same kind of effect when people with large followings tweet a post. Anyone following the person has the understanding and trust that this person is passing on very useful information and so it warrants a retweet.
It’s also worth pointing out that talking to these influencers is much easier than you think. You’re not going to get your head chewed off by an A-list blogger so you may as well ask. Think of it like dating, you never know how it will go before you make the move.
Hey Murlu,
I couldn’t agree with your points more. Thanks for the insightful comment!
Hi Glen,
These are great tips. I especially like that you point out how important reciprocity is – it’s a sign that you are genuinely helpful and not just out for your own retweets. I noticed the more I retweet the posts of others the more likely they are to retweet my posts when I least expect it.
Also, I like the fact that you are present on your blog to reply to comments and support the conversation. I reply to comments, but not in the first 30 minutes – I’ll definitely give it a try and see how it works. Thanks for tips.
Hi Keisha, Hi Glenn,
When re-tweeting… I try to add a new slant to the post, reword it slightly or ask a question. This small detail seems to work well.
Hi Ivan,
Yeah I do that a lot. For example on the last monthly report instead of just mentioning the stats I said “Can you guess how much traffic ranking for “viral marketing” gets you?” — I’m pretty sure that received a lot more clicks.
Hi Ivan,
That does work – I don’t do it for every retweet, but you’re right. Sometimes I even RT it to a few specific people.
Glen, great post as usual. Connecting with influences in your niche can be vitally important for growth. I can think of a number of examples of how this happened over the past year or so, and the growth actually went both ways.
Thanks PA,
Yep; that makes a lot of sense. Good to see you here.
Hey… I like that too 30 min after idea. The thing is i normally dont get that many comment but ill remember that.
I have to say the way you format your post seem to engage me and seduce me into reading the whole article. I will admit that i dont like reading long post but i know that when i read yours i wont be disastisfied
Thanks for taking the time again to write it
Don’t worry Wilson – your days is coming
Thanks so much Kiesha!!
Repetition is a key thing I think many people miss out on. It’s really a marketing lesson – for most, even the less popular, one tweet will not register to them. But when you do it twice, even, they feel a connection and appreciation for your effort. The bigger they are, the more this has to scale, but consistency is a must.
Share love, constantly, and you’ll be loved as well.
I agree, Ross. At first I was afraid that people would get tired of seeing my tweets – I change the wording up a bit, but ultimately it was the same link. Then I came to realize that different people are on at different times and so in their eyes, it’s not necessarily repetition anyway. I’ve gotten a lot more traffic that way.
Glen, good stuff here buddy. Your posts always have so much meat to them.
I also just bumped over and read your 6500 subscriber post…good stuff there too.
Keep up the good works.
Brandon
Thanks Brandon,
I’m glad you’re enjoying what you find here
Hey Glen,
Great Post. I had some trouble with the another retweet plugin last week so I installed the one you suggested– works great and I love that you can customize the colors!
I had a static page on the front page and it showed 29 tweets… I was super excited because I thought that one page had been tweeted 29 times… for my 3 fairly new blog, that would be incredible!
Alas, it was 29 posts — site wide! And 25 of them were me tweeting new blog posts! That’s why I removed the static page. It seems, no matter what page I put up as a static front page, it shows the tweets with my biggest fan — me!
I have a question — should I tweet my own blog posts? Should I be self-conscious (and remove the static page) since at this point, only a few other people are retweeting my blog?
Hi Heather,
I’m glad that you found the plugin to work. I’m not really sure what you mean by it showing site-wide tweets. It shouldn’t do that.
I tweet all of my own blog posts (automatically) and I definitely recommend it. Why wait on others to get the ball rolling?
I put the static page back up so you could see what I mean…
Funny thing was, when I made it not the static page anymore, it still said 29 tweets, but when I clicked on the “29″ it said it couldn’t find any results for that page…
If you want to give it a try, just go to Settings->Reading->Front page displays: Choose Static Page –>Now choose one of your pages as the Front page… When you go to your homepage, this should add up all the retweets on your entire blog…
(although I wish it wouldn’t!)
Hey Glen, I’ve learnt a lot from your blog. I like it a lot. I just started my first blog. I just wanted to point out a typo in the text under Write Magnetic Content.
“If not on a conscious then definitely on a subconscious level, people view their own tweets as a represntation <—- of themselves. They don’t just want to share anything. So, something that’s packed with value in terms of information, humour, entertainment or news is far more likely to get shared than something generic or overly-personal."
Are you going to a game now when the world cup starts?
Victor
Thanks for the heads up Victor. Bad form to Microsoft Word for missing that one
Yep; I have a ticket for the England game in two weeks.
Great post as usual Glen.
And you’re totally right about asking some of the movers on Twitter to do a RT for you on occasion. You might be pleasantly surprised!
Thanks Cori,
Good to have you here.
Reciprocity is a powerful tool, unfortunately I think it’s often abused.
Example: Some people do almost nothing but retweeting other people’s posts. The problem with this is that their tweets get almost no click-throughs. People simply don’t click on links when all the person does with their account is tweet them.
So, when someone tweets my post who does nothing but tweet posts, I get almost no click-throughs and don’t feel compelled to reciprocate because of the lack of value their tweet provides.
It’s the people who tweet a link occasionally that actually get people to click-through.
I agree on some level. Most of Brian Clark (@copyblogger)’s tweets are nothing but links. The difference is that his tweets are to really, really good content. Not just general or generic stuff. I do get what you’re saying though.
Thanks for the article. Like always your posts are super long and useful, I am going to try to ge tmy post retweeted by a few top people. Cool!
Good luck Edwin; let me know how it goes!
Hey Glen, thanks for this post! This is the second post I read today about tweeting, Twitter, social media, and the like. This was the first one today: http://mackcollier.com/how-twitter-increased-my-blogs-traffic-by-300-in-one-week/. Even though you have a huge blog already, that post might still be useful for you in case you want to write another blog post related to this subject.
I don’t know why, but I was just thinking about this stuff today and going through random blogs has brought these exact topics to me. Maybe it’s The Law of Attraction, I don’t know. Anyway, thanks again for this advice. I’m going to try my best to implement the strategies that you stated here. Finally, this line cracked me up, especially with the letter part: “If even a C- list celebrity releases a sex-tape, every large magazine and celebrity gossip blog is talking about them.”
By the way, I accidentally linked to my comment, so if you wish to read the article, you’ll have to scroll all the way up. Sorry about that!
Fixed it for you
Gday Glen, fantastic content, fantastic blog, fantastic ideas.
What else can I say, FANTASTIC.
Converted loyal reader.
P.S Throw in some more posts about travelling and the bloggers lifestyle. Really inspiring!
P.P.S Dude, tell me I’m not too late on the consulting thing you had running. Where is it?
Regards Thomas
Hey Thomas, I’m glad you like the blog!
I definitely have plans for those in the future!
Yes, I’m afraid the consulting is closed for now. It was a lot of fun while it lasted but it doesn’t really work with my current schedule.
Glen
I think if anyone doubted your strategies, the “proof is in the pudding” as they say – you’ve already got a good deal of comments on this very post (as if you doubted yourself)
Particularly agree that it’s good to be controversial in a non-offensive way. It’s good to take an alternative stand on a popular topic, but it still needs to be a fit for your audience and not too much of a deviation from what your regular readers are used to on your blog, otherwise I guess you could end up alienating your existing readership.
good stuff…keep it up
~James
I truly love reading your post. There different from most blogs I read due to the length of content one each post. I have not read the “The Most Important Blog Post You’ll Probably Never Read” yet, but after you summarized what the post is about I’m definitely going to be reading it. Reason, I was going to fall into a trap of trying to start a blog about making money online, but I glad I came to senses and realized that I couldn’t be successful writing about something I have no experience doing. I thought it would be a great blog because it’s a popular niche, which I realized can be brutal to a newcomer. After a while of struggling I just decided to start a blog about two things I’m passionate about computers and my university – in which I just launched both sites not too long. But, I bounced off subject… lol… but as I was saying you provided me with some great and beneficial content that I have been trying to implement. Thanks
I totally agree with being controversial in the right way.It is not always good to go with the flow. It will benefit you better to go against the flow if you know that you’ll be following what’s best when you go against the flow.
Really great post Glen!
I really liked your point about being controversial – it works.
Another thing i personally discover is that even if i write a great post with a bad title, it will be far more popular than a “usual” post with a great title – the quality of a post is evem more important.
Thanks a lot for the great post,
-Onibalusi
Hi Glen again,
I have two questions now. The picture in each of your post, how do you get it. (I call it doodle for now). Those doodles are really most attention drawers and they shortly convery the summary of post. The’re pretty cool. And next, how do I make it to appear my picture in my comments?
Paras
Hi Paras,
The images are from istockphoto.com and for an image in your comments you need to sign-up to Gravatar.com
I hope that helps.
Amazing post Glen. I always see your posts with at least more than 50 comments each. Truly amazing blogger. Keep up the good work!
Regards,
Gary
Thanks Glen, a quick scan of the title didn’t interest me but you did get into some real interesting meat in this post. Thanks! Particularly the point explaining how to be controversial legitimately.
Your blog is the only one I follow and actually look forward to reading. In my opinion, there isn’t any super life-altering content here, however your writing gives me hope for the future.
Hey Glen,
I want to suggest you to write a post on helping people establish new blog especially, by teaching people how to write a about page even they have no achievement in the niche as beginners and how to attract people to subscribe to the feed and retweet even though nobody has done it yet and also about having people write some comments on your posts with your experience. I know that it will certainly help people.
that’s a post worth commenting on:)))
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really like your transparency and how you display the tactics you use
keep it up
Here’s another comment.
Thanks for useful topic. great post with many thing I need for my campaign/ I’ll bookmarks your blog and back more Regularly.
My comments all appear to be from spam websites or lyrics websites that say something like “great post, I found this while searching for *Insert name of song and artist* lyrics.” It’s rather annoying! I do try and reply asap to other comments though. Having email notifications for this on the Blackberry probably helps… but I suppose that would be a nightmare for the amount of comments you recieve!
I am kinda new to Twitter, this article really opened my eyes, I need to make it easier for people to share my site, even though I have the ShareThis module, I think I need to make it more obvious and easier not only for Twitter but for Facebook too. Thanks so much Glen, great article, great tips.
Great points. I think out against the norm and a different perspective also makes a big difference. Great post by the way
Glen mate! That was such a wickedly refreshing post. But first let’s clear some business – You owe me a new mouseball. Mine broke scrolling down here to make a comment!
But seriously, I love that you have covered all the bases, but for me the poignant one was reciprocity. I am only new on the blogosphere (4months just) and at least 50% of my traffic comes as a result of commenting and tweeting on blogs. Not only this, as I am sure you dont need telling, the relationships and bonds formed during this time can only serve to help both parties in the long run.
I am glad you made special mention of Twitter. I recently posted about blog commenting and building relationships and as I mentioned then, if all the commenting we do is about sharing, why stop there. Tweet it, Digg it, just generally love it and YOU WILL get noticed.
Thanks Glen, long time lurker, first time commentator, it’s about time too!
Hi Glen, another great post. Sometimes I don’t pay enough attention to getting Re-Tweeted for all the content I am posting. My question: So for all my old posts which have no Tweets, is there any point in getting old content Re-Tweeted via a network.
Glen, I’m relatively new to your blog. Boy, I’m glad I found it, though. You’re a fantastic writer and have a lot of valuable information to share. I’m looking forward to going back through your old posts to see what I’ve missed.
Firstly thanks for the awesome content you are producing for the past few months.
Here I am dropping in my first comment on your blog.
I agree that when it comes to a retweet it is just the 140 charcter or less and not exceptional content.
But for that we need a good audience and not just a heap of un-targeted followers.
Will remember your bonus tip you have given at the end.
Thanks for always putting up helpful and relevant content. I’m new to blogging, in fact, am still in the process of putting up initial posts. I appreciate you sharing your experience and knowledge.
Great information Glen! I wonder how much possible response (comments/trackbacks) is lost having a No-Follow Blog, knowing many only post to these. Feeling somewhat guilty of hording all inbound links for my blog and self, but does have it’s seo benefits, as I’ve been told.
Hey Glen,
Your post made me want to Re-tweet. I like your blog, ironically I came across your link in a RT. Keep it up buddy.
Thanks,
Brian M. Connole
i-Blogger
Hi Glen! I’ve been reading your stuff literally all day long, threw the kids some peanut butter and bread for lunch and told ‘em to work it out. :>)
I’ve got a question for you: how would you suggest promoting a personal blog? I have a site that I’ve been working on since 2006 basically just for family and friends, but it’s starting to get some traction and is (at least in my opinion) pretty funny. Promoting seems so self-serving, since it is all about me me me (and my family), but I would welcome any advice you could give. Thanks!
Hello Glen, this post is really insightful and easy to implement on any blog. I think this tip will come in very handy for both the new and experienced bloggers.
Great post man!
This site helped me a lot in my academicwork. I am writing an essay on a similar topic. I was feeling kind oflost, but it looks like I gotwhat I was looking forand I’m on the right path now. thanks!
Really great stuff Oscar. Seems like you have infinite great stuff. I will utilize this, especially the asking people to retweet.
Hi Glen
I really enjoyed this article. I am just learning how to increase my business online through blog posts and other methods. There was a lot of useful information for me here. I will definitely be reading more of your posts. Thanks
Hi Glen, thanks for this article.
With social networking becoming more prominent in society, getting retweets and comments can only be a good thing when thinking about ‘spreading the word’.