by Yulia Dianova
5 Awesome Places to Promote Your Blog for FREE
Have you heard of the 80/20 marketing rule? What it means is that you spend 20% time writing your content and 80% of time promoting. Luckily, there are SO MANY WAYS to promote your content. Sometimes it is overwhelming. I find it what works the best is when you focus on a specific promotional task. Here is what you can do now. If you’d like to extend your blog’s business reach, get more customers and drive more traffic to your site, you can submit your content to these 5 highly effective platforms right now to get more traffic to your site. (much more traffic!)
Here we go! 5 Places to promote your blog for FREE and get tons of traffic
Bloglovin’ is all your favorite blogs in one place. How cool is that? Bloglovin’ has over 25,000,000 visitors per month! Don’s miss your opportunity to put your blog in front of such massive audience!
Encourage your readers to follow your blog on Bloglovin. Get your Bloglovin’ widget here.
Here is more information how you can benefit from using Bloglovin’
Inbound.org is one of my favorite places to promote your blog for free. It is such an awesome community of marketers, who share and discuss information about online and inbound marketing. Feel free to join. You will find tons of useful information posted daily. You can be a part of this awesome gig too.
Before you post, check guidelines to avoid surprises and frustration.
If you have a marketing blog you can submit it to the list of the Top 50 Marketing Blogs on the Web. Amazing blogs and tons of useful information. See for yourself.
Are you interested in more places to promote your blog for free? Go to Jayde! It is a B2B search engine. Jayde has over 2 million unique business websites in its index. It has a great system to categorize and index submitted sites. It has a very clean and easy to navigate design. Submit your site and get more visitors. Why not?
Promote your blog by submitting it to the Jayde directory.
Related Post: 6 Effective Unknown Blog Promotion Tools.
Growth Hackers is one of the well known among marketers places to promote your blog. This is a great place for you to publish your content and get more following. You can start with going to their Community page and submitting your content. You can submit your post here.
On Top List is a popular blog directory. You can submit your site. It is free but you have to but their badge on your site. Here is how they describe on their site your benefits from joining:
- be found by customers and readers
- promote and drive traffic to your site
- get analytical insights to keep a close eye on your site’s performance.
This is their FAQ page if you want more information. This is where you submit your site.
If you are interested in exploring some paid options for promoting your content, here is a couple of my favorite ones Outbrain and Taboola. The reason I like them is you can control your budget. There is no minimum or required amount for you to spend to be able to use these services. They are both very effective.
Good luck with promoting your blog and let me know how it goes:)
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by Yulia Dianova
5 Incredible FREE tools to get to know your site visitors better to increase conversion
So, you are killing it with your high-quality content, robust social media strategy, and awesome Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy. Great! Are you getting pretty decent traffic but not enough customers? Then it is time to look at your site visitors behavior to understand what they want.
When you see how they behave on your site, what they click on the most, when they lose their interest and abandon your site (silly them!), how far down they scroll etc. you will be able to make changes to your site and blog to satisfy your visitors needs and convert more of them into clients and customers.
Here are 5 FREE tools you can use to spy on your site visitors. They are very easy to use and pretty cool.
SessionCam is one of the oldest tools on the market to track site visitors behavior. It is the easiest way to increase your website conversion by analyzing how your visitors interact with your site. Some of the features of this tool are watch recordings of every customer behavior on your site, visualize how they behave on every page and identify struggles they have on your site.
Cost: FREE-$50/mo and up.
Here is a mighty awesome tool to spy on your site visitors! With Crazzyegg you can see what visitors click on your site. Here is what you can do with Crazzyegg.
- Create a heatmap (see where people click on your site)
- Confetti (see all clicks on your site segmented)
- Scroll map (see how far down they scroll and when they abandon your site)
- Overlay (number of clicks on each element of your page).
What functionality are you interested in? I would go ahead with all 4 of them:)
Cost: Free trial, $9/mo after
This tool has been around for a while. Hotjar will visualize the behavior of your visitors by representing their clicks, taps, and scrolling on your site. You can get started here. Also, there is an option for you to create feedback polls and surveys to understand what your web and mobile visitors want and what’s preventing them from achieving it by targeting time or event-based questions [source Hotjar site].
Cost: Free or $29/mo
Mixpanel is one of the super powerful tools to spy on your site visitors. What can you ‘spy’ on? The answer is pretty much everything, including actions people take on your site, where and why you are losing customers, why your users are. Unbelievably awesome!
Cost: Free plan, or $99/m0
This one is my favorite. Luckyorange is a bit different from the ones I ‘ve written above in how it presents its data. You will see a new dashboard like that.
You will see a real-time count of all the people, top sources that brought people to your site, see changes in your traffic over time. You will even be able to monitor your tweets. Wow!
Cost: Free or $10/mo
Regardless of what tool you choose, you will be able to understand your visitors better and improve your blog or site. Maybe you will need some adjustments to your content or maybe you need to time your popup windows differently not to lose your customers. You will see and decide and improve your conversion. Please, let me know if you have any questions or need help.
You can check out my FREEBIES here.
Follow me on the social media to get more practical information how to promote your blog.
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by Yulia Dianova
5 Unbelievable Plugins to Promote Your Blog. Yes, Please!
The awesomeness of the WordPress content management platform is that you can constantly improve and update your site. For example, you can use a plugin to add a beautiful gallery of images, or add a call for action to your site, or add your Instagram stream to your Homepage. Just about any idea you can come up with there is a WordPress plugin for it:)
How about plugins to promote your blog? Here are 5 FREE proven to work plugins to promote your blog by attracting customers, making them come back, converting them into customers by building your e-list, and improving your site performance?
If you don’t have these plugins you can download them by clicking on the name of the plugin.
I am a big fan of using images on my site to attract new visitors. A picture is worth … you know. I use such free resources as Pixels and Unsplash to find high-resolution free to use images. High-resolution p sure look good but they are big and can slow down your site and hurt your SEO. One of the easiest ways to solve this issue is to install a plugin called WP Smush. It will help you to resize, optimize and compress all of your images. Here is what the plugin developers say,
“In addition to smushing your media uploads, you may want to compress the images stored in other folders. Smush now lets you compress any image in any directory so that you can optimize all the images on your site – including NextGEN images, images stored on Amazon S3 using WP Offload S3 and images in EVERY WordPress plugin and theme package.”
After your image has been optimized you will see this on your dashboard sidebar.
Do you know what the best part is? The quality of your images will not be compromised! Same beautiful photos and a faster loading post or page. Wow.
Share your awesome content to get more traffic! Make it super-duper easy for your visitors to share your content by installing social media buttons. Out of dozens of social media sharing buttons plugins, AddToAny Share Buttons works truly the best. This social media sharing plugin helps people share your content to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, and over 100 more (!) social media sites & apps. Literally, think of a social media platform you want to connect to. And here we go… You got it!
When you install share & follow buttons you will get share counts floating share, custom placement of your buttons (before content, after content, or before & after content) and many other customizable features to share your content.
Active Installs 400,000
Rating 5 stars
Related: 6 Effective Unknown Blog Promotion Tools
As you probably know, your visitors will give no more than 7 seconds of their time before they move on. You need to use those precious seconds wisely to draw their attention to what is the most important to you, like a call to action, for example. The Sticky Menu (Or Anything) On Scroll plugin will allow you to stick the most important element on this page/post to the top to get your readers attention.
This plugin allows you to make ANY element sticky (such as a Call To Action box, a logo, etc.) when it hits the top of the page when you scroll down. Although this is commonly used to keep menus at the top of your page.
Active installs 30,000
Rating 5 stars
We all know that traffic is not all created equal. What you probably want is visitors interested in buying your product and services. You need to grow your list of subscribers. MailPoet Newsletters is the best FREE alternative to other plugins you have to pay for. You can use this plugin for creating newsletters, automated emails, post notifications, and autoresponders. You can capture subscribers with this signup widget too! It is super easy to use. You can drop your posts, images, social icons, change your fonts and… Voila! You have your newsletter ready to grow your email list!
Active Installs 400,000
Rating 5 stars
This plugin is pure awesomeness. Monitoring your blog’s content performance is something you want to do all the time. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP brings your Google Analytics right to your dashboard. Yes, you can check your website’s traffic right from your WordPress dashboard. It enables you to track your site using the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows you to view key Google Analytics stats. You will be able to see
- Sessions, organic searches, page views, bounce rate analytics stats
- Locations, pages, referrers, keywords, 404 errors analytics stats
- Traffic channels, social networks, traffic mediums, search engines analytics stats
- Device categories, browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions, mobile brands analytics stats.
On your Dashboard look for something like this after you install this plugin. And the drop-down menu will allow you to see different parameters.
This plugin will give you a rather comprehensive picture of your traffic but you still have to check your Google Analytics for your deeper traffic flow analysis.
Active Installs 1+ million
Rating 4,5 stars
Here is what you can do next
You can check out my Freebies page for more FREE tools to promote your blog or site. Follow me on Facebook for tons of useful information to promote your blog. See those social media buttons to the right? 😉 Thank you!:)
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by Yulia Dianova
Are you thinking about gaining some blog visibility? 10 amazing Facebook groups to promote your blog and collaborate!
Joining Facebook groups is awesome in so many ways. You get to know [virtually, of cause] other professionals in your niche, you learn something new, network, and gain visibility for your business. You can also use Facebook groups to promote your blog by sharing your blog and social media posts. A few things to keep in mind when you want to join a Facebook group:
- always comply with the rules and policies of the group
- don’t over promote your stuff
- be polite, genuine and honest
- listen and be helpful.
There are so many Facebook groups you can join! I’ve carefully selected top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog. These are the largest, most active, and interesting I’ ve come across. I was not focusing on a particular niche (I will do it my later post. Stay tuned). These groups are communities of bloggers from various industries, working together to help each other and learn something new. Do you know another amazing Facebook group? I am sure there are more! I would like to hear from you. Please, share.
So, here are my carefully selected 10 most amazing Facebook groups to promote your blog.
Members: 62K*+
Description: A place for online entrepreneurs to lend support, give feedback, and share advice. This is truly one of the most encouraging and strategic communities on the internet! Rules of this group are here.
Promotion opportunities: Collaboration Tuesday.
Members: 23K+
Description: Blogging boost is one of the greatest Facebook groups to promote your blog, connect with other bloggers, share your posts, and learn the ins and outs of working online! The group is open to anyone. Sign up for the group newsletter here.
Promotion opportunities: Every Monday you can promote your blog post in this group.
Members: 19K+
Description: This group is a place to ask questions, share knowledge, make connections, and pass along opportunities that may not be the right fit for you. You can become to be a blogger of the week. Apply here
Promotion opportunities:
- MONDAY – Recent post thread
- TUES – Facebook
- WED – Different thread every week
- THURS -Twitter
- FRI – Instagram
- SAT – Different thread every week
- SUN – Blogger of the Week
Members: 13K
Description: Boost Your Blog is a private community designed to help bloggers engage and promote one another’s work through shared interest and opportunity! It is a place to ask questions, connect with others, and grow your blog.
Promotion opportunities: Watch for weekly threads to promote.
Members: 15K+
Description: This space is for bloggers who want to share, learn and grow.
Promotion opportunities: Your blog can be featured on Fridays after you fill in this form.
Members: 14K
Description: The Blogging Squad is an online community for bloggers. On this Facebook group, Blogger & Influencer support group.
Promotion opportunities: You can share your latest blog&social media posts in our daily threads. You can also post threads if you need any help and/or look for collabs.
Members: 12K+
Description: Blogging 101 is a place for bloggers to hang out, to share traffic building methods, income streams, blogging resources, ask questions and to have fun!
Promotion opportunities: This group daily themes. Pick yours!
- Monday Goals (set your goals & intentions for the week)
- Tuesday Promo (share your latest & greatest
- Wednesday Social Media Shares (share your social media handles
- Wednesday Collaborate, find others to help or work with you on a project
- Thursday Feedback (ask for feedback on your blog, social media channels, logo, etc.)
- Friday Let’s Have A Party! Share your social media link. Different social media platform every week
- Saturday Share + Care. Answer the question in the weekly thread.
Members: About 9K
Description: To share your passion for blogging.
Promotion opportunities:
- Daily comment threads
- Daily threads for social media shares (FB, Twitter, Pinterest, G+)
- Monthly & Quarterly Follow for Follow Threads
- An open forum for blog discussions
Members: 9K
Description: The place where bloggers meet, collaborate and grow their businesses and blogs for free.
Promotion opportunities: You may post links to your blog posts every day-in the Daily Blog Post thread. You may also collaborate with other bloggers after sending a collaboration request.
Members: Almost 5K
Description: Blog Promo Community is a space for bloggers to share and gain exposure for their blogs. This is also a community for people to meet blogger friends, and ask questions about blogging. Fill in this questionnaire to join the group.
Promotion opportunities:
The promotional calendar for this group looks like this:
- Promo Monday – Today is the day you get to sell us on how great you are! Tell us about that new freebie you have or a new course you’re promoting!
- Social Tuesday – Share your twitter account, Pinterest, FB page or group.
- Winsday Wednesday – Share a major win you’ve had this week.
- Traffic Thursday – Promo time! Promote your blogs and latest posts.
- Follow-Up Friday – Did you accomplish your goals for the week?
- Shoutout Saturday – Promo time! Share any promotions, free gifts, blogs, or your biz!
*Members of all at the time of writing this post
Related: 4 Superb Strategies to Boost Your Facebook Performance.
Connect with me on the social media and check out my Freebies!
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by Yulia Dianova
How to boost your Facebook performance in 4 easy steps [your complete step-by-step guide]
Do you want to boost your Facebook performance to send more traffic to your site or blog? There are 4 very easy effective ways to do it: optimize your posts and use very cool free tools I want to tell you about.
Here is what you can do to boost your Facebook performance.
Post the right kind of post
The very first thing you do to boost your Facebook performance is to optimize your posts. Some things work better with Facebook algorithms and generally create more engagement than other things. Here are a few key things to remember if you want to engage more with your followers and boost your Facebook performance.
Use hashtags
Hashtag your Facebook posts! It will make it easier for people to find your posts when they search for a related topic. You can create hashtags and find the most popular ones here.
Include links to your posts
Text +photo posts are good. But what works even better is posts with links (because of the complicated meta-algorithm). Remember to keep your link title under 100 characters. Here is an example of Inc. Facebook post with a link. Inc posts always get tons of clicks and shares.
Post a question
Do you want to engage with your fans to boost your Facebook performance? Ask a question to start a conversation. People who follow most likely will want to share their opinion.
Tag related pages
Tagging related people and pages is a great way to let others know what you are talking about. Tagging is super easy. Here is how you can tag: You go to your post and click on the little icon with a ‘person+’ at the very bottom of your post.
Always use photos or videos
According to Buzzsumo, Facebook posts with images gain 2,3X more engagement than just plain text posts. Choose related, high-quality visuals for your posts to get your readers attention!
Publish at the best time
Schedule your posts at the best time. What is the best time anyway?
According to the Hubspot most recent 2017 statistics, the best times to post on Facebook are
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday
3:00p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Wednesday
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Thursday & Friday
3 key tools and tips to boost your Facebook engagement
Likealyzer
I am absolutely in love with this free online tool called Likealyzer. It is very visual, intuitive, and effective.
What is this tool for? With Likealyzer you will get a comprehensive analysis of your Facebook page. It will give you tips how to improve your engagement with your current fans and even how to attract potential customers. You can even compare your efforts with the ones of your competitors.
Embed your FB posts in your blog posts
Here is how you do it:
- Go to one of your posts (the one you want to embed and click on the drop-down in the corner, just like for editing)
*Facebook post credit: Closeted Creatives
- There will be a code (looks long and complicated). Copy it.
- Paste it to where you want it in your blog post and should look like a Facebook post, not like a code anymore, when posted.
Run a Facebook contest
You can use Agorapulse to run your timeline contest. Agorapulse is not a free service. But it has the number of really useful free tools. Launching your timeline contest tool is one of them. You can launch your Facebook contest right now at this link. You can pick one of three contest types, filter comments, and name your winner:)
Facebook groups to promote your blog
Join, contribute, and follow these top Facebook groups to promote your blog. It is a fun and effective way to network and to promote your business.
Blog and Business BFF (28K members)
Blogging Boost (18K). Every Monday you can promote your blog there.
Bloggers Supporting Bloggers (17K). It has a weekly agenda for promotions. You can even become to be a blogger of the week.
Boost Your Blog (13K)
Blogging Newbs Join for support. Your blog can be featured on Fridays after you fill in this form.
Blogging 101 (8,5K)
Grow Your Blog (8K)
Blog Loft (6K). Promotion is allowed in a thread.
The Blogging Squad (4,6K)
Blog Promo Community (4K). You will be asked to fill in a questionnaire before joining the group. When excepted you will be able to promote your blog posts on Thursdays. There is a pretty cool weekly agenda to promote your social posts too.
Here is what you can do next: Check out my Resources page and follow me on the social media for a ton of useful tips to promote your blog. I wish you good luck with your Facebook strategy. Please, let me know how it goes:)))
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by Yulia Dianova
8 Awesome Email Finding Tools to Find Business Prospects
If you want your business or blog to grow you need to find more business opportunities. You need to connect with people that matter to your business, like media representatives, potential clients, supporters and followers. You can reach out to them via social media or send them a personal email. If you already have their contact information – great. But if not, you need their email addresses. What would be the best way to find them? Googling and social media would be your first guess. It is a good start. However, there are some handy email finding tools that can help you find email address of virtually anyone you want.
I treat every single email I have as my prized possession. I never share contact information of other people with a third party, never spam, and respect other people’s privacy. I am sure the same with you.
My most favorite email finding tools are:
It is a big time saver when it comes down to finding email addresses. What it does is it navigates the web searching for email addresses and automatically extracts them. You don’t have to do it manually. It is the fastest email address finder ever because it scans multiple URLs at the same time. Their trial is free. You can upgrade to the Pro version with one time fee of $16.95.
Email Hunter is of the affordable email finding tools. It offers multiple plans. 150 email addresses a month come with your free plan. The best part you can stay on this plan as long as you want, it is not a trial. Here is what you can do with Email Hunter:
- Find the email address of anyone from the first name, last name and company website. If you don’t have a domain name you can use company names to search. Very cool.
- Get the validity and deliverability of any email addresses. The most complete Email verifier available. More than 95% email addresses verified are deliverable.
The awesomeness of this tool is that it shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. By everything I mean their social contacts, emails and such. Rapportive is easily installed in 2 easy steps. Then head over to your gmail account and look for contacts.
This site will help you to find anyone’s corporate email address. It has 4 plans, starting with $0.10 per an email. You can search for 50 contacts for free. It also allows you to search in a bulk by uploading a .cvs file. It is simple and efficient.
Find Any Email will find and verify any email address for you. Just type in the first and last name, and the company domain. It has the following functionalities (information from their website).
- Verify Bulk Email Lists
- API Access Available
- Social Profile Enrichment
- Advanced Catch-all Handling
Here is another budget friendly tool for you. I like it how they position themselves on their website:
Spend more time meeting with prospects and less time trying to find them. SellHack is the only tool you need to take control of your pipeline.
With their basic plan for $19/month you will be able to find 50 emails a day. Not bad for a step-by –step building your customer database process.
This is one of the email finding tools I use a lot. It allows you to see who opened your email (you will need to know if it is time to follow up or wait, right?). At the time of this post this mighty tool has been installed 500,000 times. It has been rated 4,5 start (out of 5) by its users.
Mailtrack has 2 plans: basic (free) and Pro $4/month (sounds like a deal, right?)
With your basic free plan you will get:
- Double-check in your Gmail
- Unlimited tracking
- Limited Mailtrack features
- Max 5 addresses per company.
Find That is a great service to find emails. They brand themselves as a Yellow pages of email. You can find emails of decision makers in millions of companies worldwide. They are a bit less generous about the number of free emails (they are also called email credits) than other services. With their basic plan you only have 15 email credits per a month. Here is how their pricing go.
After you find email addresses, you will be reaching out. You will need to come up an attention grabbing subject line. In my post 5 Secret Tips to Create a Viral Headline I share some useful tips that may help:) Good luck!
Remember to follow me in the social media for your daily awesome tips to promote your blog. Take some freebies to to promote your blog. Share your success with me:)
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