How to promote my guest blog posts?

[LauraHT]

I have been using mybloguest.com and the articles were published by its blogs/websites.

So far the traffics/share/likes from those blog posts they published are very few/small.

I believe the blog post are very useful and unique. How can I promote them so that I get more social likes/share? Any idea?

Thanks

Stephen

[David_ODonnell]

You might look into getting your content published on a higher quality and higher trafficked site than most of those found on MBG. Find the authority blogs in the niche and try some manual outreach.

[AdamThompson]

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Be picky and find the higher quality blogs on MBG.

2. Get on Google and find the high quality blogs in your niche. Contact them and negotiate getting them to publish your guest posts.

3. Get in Google and do searches for things like "guest post [keyword]" to find good sites that accept guest blogs.

[Adam.Whittles]

The answers you've been given are completely right and offer the right advice for your future guest posting.

However, in terms of your current situation and the blog posts you have already acquired. There are a few things you can do to promote those in order to gain more shares/likes/+1s.

First, you should make use of the advertising options with both Twitter and Facebook. You will find that paying for a promoted post/tweet could gain more exposure and certainly more targeted exposure than just posting to your own followers.

Also, you will need to think about the time of day/week you are promoting the posts on social media. For example, on Twitter, your followers may well be more active on the weekend after dinner time. If you are promoting your posts on a Monday morning, it may be unlikely to reach a captive audience.

You could also use blog comments from related blog posts to direct readers to your article. Obviously I'm not talking about spamming blogs with links to the post, but more trying to encourage readers of more established blogs to perhaps check out your article that may be of interest.

Hope this helps,

Adam.

[LauraHT]

Thanks for your response and it's inspiring. Looks like it's not straight forward but I will try it

[LauraHT]

I will try the approaches you guys mentioned. But I've got another question as I want to measure how successful my effort:

when deciding the value of the links from the article Does google take into account how many times the article is read? Because some people do not bother taking further actions (like/share/clicks) even they like it.

I can't track this article views through analytics obviousely.

On the other hand let say the article create valuable info to the readers (many people read it) but no likes/shares/bookmarks  would this still become a successful article/link marketing?