Once you’ve scheduled or published your blog post, your work isn’t quite done! Remember to finish with these steps to broadcast your words to as many readers as possible!
- Grab that post link and share it! Begin with your Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and/or Google+ audiences (or link several at once via an aggregate site such as our favorite, Hootsuite). Ask readers to share it with their fans and followers, too.
- Next, post the link at other social sites relevant to your readers, i.e. your post on golf tips might work well at any number of golf-centric social media sites. If you belong to groups on FB, Linked In or any other social site, and it’s appropriate to post your link there, do that, too! (And as an author you can imbed your blog at both Goodreads and your Amazon Author Central page.)
- Put your latest blog post link in your email signature.
- Share your post with other like-minded bloggers and ask them to link it (and be willing to do the same for them when they have content of interest to your readers). This lets both parties grow the conversation and expand your audiences.
- Bookmark your post on social bookmarking sites (Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious). This is an optional step; don’t spend much time on it if you know your potential readers aren’t into bookmarking.
Happily, once you perform these post-blog tasks a few times, you’ll discover it takes less time to do than it does to read this post. The key is to be diligent; a blog post unconnected is a blog post only half-baked!
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I can see a way to get stuff from my Goodreads page TO my blog, but not the other way around. Hints?
Yes! Visit your author dashboard at http://www.goodreads.com/author/dashboard to add your blog right there – and you can also post a link when you blog to your general update (on the right hand side of your GR home, Under the “Currently Reading” box, and under that it says “What Are You Reading?” and under THAT, in teeny-tiny letters it says Currently reading… and next to that, “Add a general update” — which when you click will give you a box much like your FB or LI box to put in a general update message… Write on!
Been there !!!
Done that !!!
In addition to having a website/blog at http://www.mypennameonly.com
I’m also on the following blog sites
http://www.mypennameonly.blogspot.com and
http://www.mypennameonly.wordpress.com and
http://www.mypennameonly.tumblr.com
If you’re curious as how do I write for four blogs? The answer is simple: Write Once !!! And Copy/Paste to the other three.
And I post messages relating information regarding new posts to twitter/facebook.
Why do I have so many blog sites? I’ve found people have preferences has to where they follow, I want to be where my potential followers will also be,
Interesting, but isn’t the goal to get folks to your page where you control the content and address? Typically when we see a .blogspot or .wordpress address, it just says that the author hasn’t invested $15 in themselves to buy their own domain name. (BTW – the address w/ your domain name is a broken link). There are preferences for social media, yes – but folks don’t really choose between bs and wp — it’s kinda’ just diluting your traffic potential…
I agree. URLs are really important. They need to be simple and memorable, because a lot of folks aren’t going to write them down or remember what to Google for.
Remember also that each website needs to have a purpose. Authors sometimes forget that. Do you want your website to introduce you to potential readers? Do you want it to sell books? Do you want to share knowledge? Each of these demands a different approach.
Doing makering is great. Doing smart marketing is better.