How to reach beyond main social accounts

[gfiedel]

My blog is still very young - and I feel like a total newbie, but I'm working at it consistently. I've got  21 posts that I've put up since the beginning of January (except for 2 from October) and another in the pipeline and of course, plans to continue on this way.

I've been building up my confidence and feel like it's just about time to branch out farther than my Google+, FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts (which I've been doing regularly).

My hope is to gain more visitors by publicizing the posts in some other environments. I would so appreciate some suggestions on how I might do that.  And also, is it too soon? I don't want to jump the gun before there's an respectable/acceptable amount of content.

[NakulGoyal]

Gina

Create your identities on the social networks and share some of your content. Also put links to your social networks on your blog for your blog visitors to follow you on, look you up, contact you, connect with you etc. See how that works out. In my opinion, it depends and varies by niche to see where most of your audience is and how they like to interact with you. Over time, I would include more call to action sort of things like, towards the end of the article, Follow me on twitter to get notified when I post new articles. Or Like me on Facebook to get notified about my new article before anybody else etc.

It all depends what niche you are in, how big your audience is, where they are, demographics and how they interact with social media. Look at sites similar to yours and see what they do.

I hope this helps.

[johnmoon6]

Adding on what Nanking said of where your audience is. spy on your competitors and see where they are listing, where they get link backs, they they are are targeting.

research is key before anything else.

[gfiedel]

Thanks, Nakul,

As I mentioned, I have the social thing going and am doing all the things you suggest with the exception of the action text. I am looking for suggestions and ideas for other strategies in addition to my reach in social accounts.

[gfiedel]

Thanks, Sung Moon.

You're right. I need to check my competitors links. Many of them have a ton more links than I do and I know for a fact that at least one of them has been paying a service to get them links for years. I do not want to follow in those footsteps for all the obvious reasons.