Social channels, tools sites for promoting a blog or article

[ThomasH]

Hello,

I would like to promote blogs, articles etc.

Can you give me some tips, advice on how to promote these?

I guess everyone starts with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

After that, Reddit, StumbleUpon.

Any other good ways (penguin proof) to promote a blog, article etc?

Any tools you use: SocialOomph or something similar?

Thanks!

[anthonydnelson]

Hi Thomas,

I think the key to promoting a blog online is to build some online relationships first. If you just set-up a twitter page and a facebook page, you will essentially be broadcasting to no one.

Create your accounts and interact with the people who you want to read your blog posts. Comment on their blog posts, help them find useful articles, thank-them for sharing something interesting. Get them to notice you and to become friends. In return, they will take a look at your content and share it if it is worth sharing.

I've had way more success interacting with people than just submitting a post to a site. If you are not a part of the 'community' on the platform you are sharing on, your post/tweet/submission will get very little attention.

[Bryant-Jaquez]

In addition to everything that Anthony said (AKA, build relationships) you can also promote the blog article through writing other guest blog articles. I know this is going to take a lot of work, but that's what inbound marketers are good at... Hustle.

Find someone who will let you write a guest post for their site, and then fiind a way to organiclly mention your blog article in the middle of your guest post. This will help your first blog article rank higher in SERPS, and it will send more refferal traffic to your blog.

Good luck.