5 Epic Places to Promote Your Blog for FREE and Get Insane Traffic

5 Epic Places to Promote Your Blog for FREE and Get Insane Traffic

 

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’

5 places to promote your blog for free

 

 

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

5 places to promote your blog for free

 

 

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.

 

 

Jayde

5 places to promote your blog for free

 

 

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

5 places to promote your blog for free

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

5 places to promote your blog for free

 

 

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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5 Fantastic FREE WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Blog

5 Fantastic FREE WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Blog

5 free plugins to promote your site

 

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.

 

Smush Image Compression and Optimization

 

 

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.

 

 

AddToAny Share Buttons

 

5 FREE WP Plugins to Promote Your Blog

 

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

 

 

The Sticky Menu (Or Anything) On Scroll

 

 

 

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

 

 

MailPoet Newsletters

 

5 FREE WP Plugins to Promote Your Blog

 

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

 

 

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP

 

5 FREE WP Plugins to Promote Your Blog

 

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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Top 10 Facebook Groups to Promote your Blog

Top 10 Facebook Groups to Promote your Blog

 10 Facebookgroups to promote your blog

 

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.

 Blog and Business BFF

Top 10 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.

 

 

Blogging Boost

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

 

Bloggers Supporting Bloggers

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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

Boost Your Blog

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.

 

Blogging Newbs

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

 

The Blogging Squad

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

 

Blogging 101

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

 

Grow Your Blog

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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

 

Blog Loft 

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

 

Blog Promo Community

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

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.

Top 10 Facebook groups to promote your blog

Connect with me on the social media and check out my Freebies!

 

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4 Superb Strategies to Boost Your Facebook Performance

4 Superb Strategies to Boost Your Facebook Performance

 

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

boost your Facebook performance

 

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.

How to boost your Facebook performance

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

How to boost Facebook performance

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.

 

These are simple steps to boost your Facebook strategy

 

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!

Boost your Facebook performance

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.

 boost your Facebook performance

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)

How to boost your Facebook perofrmance to promote your blog

*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

Yoru complete guide to boosting your Facebook performance

 

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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5 Secret Tips to Create a Viral Headline

5 Secret Tips to Create a Viral Headline

 viral headline

How to Create a VIRAL Headline

So, you just spent HOURS writing your awesome content before you finally published it. But do you know what the most important part of your post is? Your headline. Most readers will spend no more than 10 seconds scanning your page. You want to grab their attention right away by creating a viral headline and drag them into reading your great content.

 

Here are 5 tips how to create a viral headline

Tip 1. Use keywords

Your headline should contain the keywords you optimize your post for. If you don’t know where to find them read my post about A simple long tail keywords trick your blog will not survive without.

 

Tip 2. Keep it SHORT

Remember that Google will display only 65 characters in your headline. If you want your entire headline to be visible in search then keep it short.

 

 Tip 3. Use power words

Use one of these powerful and emotional adjectives: shocking, amazing, inspiring, mindblowing. They are often used in the superlative degree, like the best, the fastest, the most effective.

 

Tip 4. Use one of these categories to create your viral headline

 

Use “how to” headlines

How to write a million dollar mission statement.

How To Successfully Use Social Media At Every Stage Of Your Career.

How to Create Online Surveys People Will Actually Take.

 

Encourage readers curiosity with unexpected

What a near-death experience taught me about survival in business.

9 Unknown factors that can affect your SEO in a negative way.

7 Secret ways to engage your social media audience.

 

Use one of these words, which are most likely to get people attention

Use one of these emotional words: viral, epic, free, amazing, life-changing, unexpected, unbelievable, outstanding, shocking, super, unheard of.

 

How to create a viral headline for your content to go viral.Use love/hate [something]

Associating strong emotions with what you write usually works pretty well.

Lies social media experts like to tell.

7 FREE photo sites you will fall in love with.

11 things everyone hates about SEO.

 

Promise a # of resources and tricks that will instantly fix [something].

People often want an instant fix to their problem. Use it.

11 Powerful ways to create an instant connection with anyone.

13 Tricks that’ll instantly make you a better writer.

3 Things Introverts Can Do to Thrive at Work.

13 Cool Travel Products to Help You Pack in 30 Minutes (or Less).

Promise something new and unknown

Who does not like to try something new? Promising  (and delivering, of cause!) will do the trick.

5 SEO tricks you have never heard about.

This is the secret to making meetings way more productive.

How to build credibility for your startup that nobody’s heard of yet.

 

5 places to promote your blog for free

 

Use a celebrity name to achieve success

People have always been curious about lives of celebrities.  You can use it to your advantage to get their attention and read your content.

Bethenny Frankel on what you need to do before going on ‘Shark Tank’.

Martha Stewart unloads on Millennials: Here’s What She Said (and Why).

A lesson from Steve Jobs on commanding respect.

 

Your viral headline formula

Both Buzzsumo and Moz agree on one of many formulas that will work for creating a viral title.

how to create a viral headline formula.

 

 

The best 50 places to work in 2016.

5 Daily habits that will boost your social media following.

11 Tips for making your blog load faster.

 

 

Tip 5. Try these FREE title generator tools

Here are some of the FREE title generator tools I am using for inspiration. I use them to get an idea. Some of the headlines they generate are pretty hideous. But with some editing, you will get your viral headline.

Tweak Your Biz Title Generator

Free title generator

Hubspot blog topic generator

Link Bait Title Generator

 

I also recommend reading The Art of Social Media book by Guy Kawasaki. There is a pretty cool table of catchy headlines in this book. It is a great book.How to create a viral headline so that people would read your content.

Here are some of the headlines examples Guy recommends in the book:

Smart strategies to ____.

Essential things for___

Most effective tactics to____.

Epic Formula to____.

 

The bottom line: Make sure that your headline is short and has keywords. Stick to the most popular kinds of headlines to succeed. Good luck with promoting your blog!

Don’s forget to follow me on the social media and check out my freebies page.

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