How to Extend Your Blog Reach Via Facebook and Twitter

Posted: April 23, 2013

[caption id="attachment_11296" align="alignright"]© marog-pixcells - Fotolia.com[/caption]If you have a blog, and you find yourself not getting as many hits as you'd like, maybe you aren't promoting it as well as you can be. Here are some tips to help you better promote your blog through social media.

Promoting your blog is the most important of the five Ps of blogging. Without getting the word out about your blog, your content will never maximize its reach. To this end, leverage Facebook and Twitter to support your promotional blog activities.

The logic behind Facebook and Twitter blog promotion is to take advantage of their broad, global reach.

Therefore understand Facebook and Twitter participant behavior. Specifically, a significant proportion of these users snack on social media content and engage via a smartphone or a tablet. (Here’s the data on Facebook and Mobile.) So your blog must present information appropriate for these behaviors. (Here’s how to optimize your blog for mobile via Ian Cleary.)

Here are twenty-five actionable tactics to help you use Facebook and Twitter to promote your blog.

Get your blog in order for Facebook and Twitter sharing

Before disseminating your blog content on Facebook and Twitter, ensure that your blog is positioned appropriately and craft each post considering your audience to facilitate sharing.

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