7 things to do after writing a blog post

Imagine, you have just written a killer blog post. You are so excited about this and you are about to share these amazing ideas and expertise with the world. You do that, and nothing – nothing happens. That would be sort of a disappointment, wouldn’t it? So Oficina da Marca blog prepared you some guidelines what to do just after you published your spectacular article! You’ll be amazed how much difference these steps could make to your post popularity.

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.

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!

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