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Killer content

Huffpost blog has 110 million estimated unique visitors. Wonder how they manage it? Because they not only write articles, they also are a news aggregator. That means that they collect all the mainstream articles and republish them on their domain. As the result, people found here the greatest and the most popular content of all sites.

You can also try to collaborate with well-known bloggers and asked them to write in your blog. That you’d be beneficial to both parts, as you get more traffic to your site and the other blogger wider audience and maybe new fans.

Enhance curiosity

The second blog – TMZ – has 30 million unique monthly visitors. Yes, it’s a gossip site, and that explains a lot. But you should also now how to use celebrities to enhance such a popularity. We are curious about how the elite live with fame and fortune – sometimes a life to which we aspire. But what TMZ do to make it even more affective, is creating intrigue headlines. They always left something unknown.

For instance, Mariah Carey in a SKIN-TIGHT wet Suit – Wait ‘Til You See These Curves – The teasing headline compels people to click and see those curves. So what basically you could do, is not just used some famous people, but also write powerful and intriguing headlines as well as offer some secrets, tips, tricks or inside information.

Be aware of your audience

The third one is Business Insider. With the number of readers they have, you would never thought that it’s a blog. But it is. And now they are bigger than its rival CNBC and Forbes. What is they secret? They know their audience perfectly, like the time that their audience could spend on reading their articles, what is the most interesting for them. As they did careful research about this, they started to use engaging headlines for those who love business news, are curious, but as well like celebrities, clothing tops and cool start-ups.

So what you should do first, is to carefully describe your targeted audience and think how you should improve your blog: should you write more frequently, longer post, put more images, do more social promotion, create better headlines. It is a critical thing to do to the success of any marketing effort, especially content marketing.

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So if you want to improve your blog, maybe it’s not the design that is wrong in it. Try to adjust these simple principles and probably soon you will see the amazing results.

See also: How to create a perfect blog post

Keyword integration

That you should remember – keyword research and integration can have a big impact on search engine ranking and traffic. So what you should do is to pick the main topics in your post, check the words and their combinations in Google Adwords’ free keywords suggestion tool and include the best ones in your post tittle, content, meta description and tags.

Status updates

Of course, you can just put the same message in all of your media with a same information and shortened link, but the things is that all the social sites are a bit different. Tailoring your status for each community could make a big difference. Also you should remember, that your friends won’t be online at the same time, so you can create more post about the same blog post. Just be short that they are different. For instance, if your article includes different topics, you can write a status each time about the different one.

Content teasers

Some of the social media let some advertising as long as it’s valuable and relevant to the community (linkedln group forums, facebook groups, niche industry forums). Here you can create a compelling headline or question as the title and then include some thoughtful commentary followed by your shortened URL. And lastly, don’t forget to ask feedback to continue the discussion.

Social bookmarking

They are not very powerful, but still can be a great source of traffic. So you can try to put your content in bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicous and so on.

Interact with other blogs

Try to provide a helpful, valuable comments on other blogs that write about the similar things. As long as the comment will be natural and helpful, it won’t be rude to put your site address at the end.

Use twitter

Thing about your blog post, what advices does it give? When you come up with the ideas, just write the most possible phrase for people who can search for that info. For instance, you are writing about blog promoting, find a people who asked a help for it and help them with some advice as well as with the link to your blog.

Share your post with target audience

You know the people or organization who is curious about the things you are writing about? Go ahead and write to them. You can write something like this: thought this could really help your business. We believe this step would be approved really well.

See also: Ultimate guide for starting a blog

So now that you have some guidelines what to do after writing your article, you can create your after-blog-post routine and easily gain popularity to your post as well as to your blog!