What To Do After You Published Your Blog Post? Tap On These 22 FREE Traffic Sources

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by mingjong, Apr 24, 2012.

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    Do you blog from time to time? If so, what are the things you do after your post is published?

    My view is that if you take time and effort for your blog post, you should take at least twice the effort to market your post. Here's what I do after my post is published to get extra traffic to the post!

    Social media sharing for quick index and direct traffic.

    1. Twitter.
    Tweet your post.

    2. Facebook
    Share the blog post link on your FB personal account, fan page and all the relevant groups you join. There are a lot of Facebook groups you can join to share your blog post (i.e. free like to your post)

    3. Linkedin
    Share the blog post link on Linkedin. One of the trick to speed up the process is to join as many relevant groups as possible in Linkedin and share it via the Digg Digg plugin.

    At this stage, I will wait until my post is indexed by Google then I will submit to the following tutorial sites. Please note your blog post topic should be tutorial / how to base rather than a straight promotion article, in order to get accepted and published.

    Good Tutorials
    tutorialized.com
    pixel2life.com
    instructables.com

    Apart from the tutorial sites, there are a ton of blogging community that allow you to share your post with other bloggers for free and I have hand picked the active and high traffic sites.

    Blokube.com
    BizSugar.com
    BlogInteract.com
    zabox.net
    thewebblend.com

    These sites contain tons of bloggers that eager to read, vote and comment great posts. If your post become popular and get lots of votes, you can expect significant amount of traffic to your site.

    Here comes one of the most overlooked source --> Design News Aggregators. These are news sites that aggregate design news, inspiring posts, etc... And you can tap on this advantage to submit to these sites with high traffic.

    design-newz.com
    webdesign-ne.ws
    Speckyboy.com
    wparena.com
    webanddesigners.com
    visual-blast.com
    FuelYourCreativity.com
    instantshift.com
    imnewswatch.com
    TopDesignMag.com
    Designsmag.com
    FamousBlogger.net

    Design-newz.com is my favorite since I get at least 100 visits from this site for each submission.

    The alexa of all the above mentioned sites are generally below 50,000.

    If you have some other sites that you are using, kindly list down here and I will update this thread from time to time.
     
    mingjong, Apr 24, 2012 IP