5 Important Things You Can Do After You Publish A Blog

Did you know there are certain steps you should take AFTER you publish an article from your blog?

Yeah. Really!

And what you choose to do can help determine how far and wide your message is spread. After all, you are wanting to publish to a room full of people, right? Not just in the bathroom to yourself?

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We spend all this time writing the articles and then hope that somehow, somewhere, there are people out there just following our website waiting for new content to come out.

But that isn’t reasonable.

We want lots of people reading what we write. It shows google that you are an authority on the subject matter. It can drive a lot of people to your website. Like the day I got 1700 hits in one day! So while your competition that is out there sitting dead in the water with their static 5 page website that hardly gets much traffic… you are out there being the popular kid that everyone is attracted to!

Want to learn how to do this? Without spending a TON of time?

5 Things You Can Do The Next Time You Press Publish:

Here are actual things you can do to get traction on your blog articles. I think it is really important when you are trying to get it going and let people know that you are out there.

In addition to creating a killer title, and I don’t mean by keyword stuffing, you want to post in these places:

BOOST your post on Facebook

Spend $5 to boost your post and see what happens! It is superb results.

A boost is something that you pay for, after you post the blog to your facebook page. It will get in front of MORE than just what the Facebook algorithm normally would show and it is all to people who have already liked your page. Unlike advertising, it doesn’t show up as a “sponsored” post.

Facebook Business Page:

Again, teasing an article by asking a question around it is always a good thing. Think of a way you can create some foreplay to your article. Ask thought provoking questions like “Have you ever thought about…” or “What would you do if…” then link to your article.

If your article mentions any other business or area of your city, feel free to find their interest pages and post there as well. If you think it is a valuable teaching article, why not find a reporter or newscaster who often reports on subjects close to it and post it on their wall with your own “pitch” or even message them the article?

Remember, don’t spam them. You message should be inciting, relevant, and helpful. Otherwise you will turn them off. Who knows? Maybe they will either use your article in a story or look towards you as a resource on the topic?

Personal Facebook Page:

There is no harm in sharing your business postings on your personal page. Especially in the warm, cute, and fuzzy business of pet sitting! It helps keep you top of mind awareness in your own personal network. People that actually like and care about you!

Twitter

This is one of my favorite ones! A quick 140 character message with hastags for your city, topic, or your business always work well. Follow me @Bellas_Pets to see what I mean! Be relevant or interesting enough and others will retweet you!

Email:

How many of you have a email service where you can send mass emails out to your list? Even if you don’t, I am sure you have a client database either in excel or in your client management system, right? How about sending out a link to your article to them via email? Maybe every Friday?

The name of the game these days is 10 seconds or less! Let me get your message and SCAN (not read) though it while I am at a stop light. We are a stop light culture!

So if you send a quick email out every week or every two weeks, just basic text “Hey everyone! Wondering what to do this weekend? Here are 5 pet friendly dog patios in CITY, and they have super yummy food! Hope you are well! LINK”

See? Now your brand just smacked them in the face and you are now top of the mind awareness!

3 Bonuses For You!

It really isn’t that hard to promote your articles. You just have to take ten min and do it all! Here are two other quick tips you can do:
Tip #1: Your articles can be like weapons! You need to fire up your arsenal and prepare to strike and impress! Sometimes you might find yourself on your blog, reading articles, finding them for posting on FB or to an email you are sending a client. When you are ON YOUR OWN BLOG, press the social media share links while you are there. Share it to Twitter, G+, FB It can’t hurt you and you are already there!

Tip #2: Insert your blogs into your website under major categories. For example, if you are talking about puppy sitting or cat sitting, take some of your existing blogs and insert them into your services list. It gives your company more depth and allows your potential client to get a 360″ feel for the actual service other than you talking them to death and boring them! I mean come on, let’s STAND OUT from the rest! 🙂 Right?

List of services

Tip #3: When you are sending an email to a potential client about their new puppy, or cat that they don’t know if you “get it”, send them links to your blog via email that talk about what happens on a puppy sit, ideas for cheap puppy toys at home, or a commentary from one of your pet sitters about a cat sleeping on her head. Your articles can be like weapons! You need to fire up your arsenal and prepare to strike and impress!

“Your articles can be like weapons! You need to fire up your arsenal and prepare to strike and impress! “

Just because you have shared an article once on FB does mean that everyone who follows you has seen it. Use it over and over again. Let it GROW. Plant the seeds! Promote it! Each blog you write does you no good if you just publish it and then forget about it. They can have a HUGE impact on driving lots and lots of visitors to your website if you promote them correctly.

What do you currently do? How do you get your hard work out there to the world? Do you do any of the above? Does it help? Do you have any other ideas to share?