subject: Promoting Your Blog Via Social Media [print this page] Just a decade ago, if you would ask someone to go read a blog, the person would look confused as to what is a blog and how do you read one. Today, if you search online, you will come across millions of blogs on almost every subject and issue possible for you to think about.
Blogs have become immensely popular. They started off as a web journal to record and express personal thoughts and opinions and to share with others. Very soon they caught the limelight as visitors were reading people who had a talent for writing and their opinion mattered. This attracted Internet marketers and blogs made their way forward. Today you find more commercial blogs than personal.
Your blog is as successful as the traffic you receive on your blog. If you do not receive traffic, no matter how good you are at writing, your blog is a failure. You need to make sure that you properly advertise your blog to get traffic if you want it to be successful.
Getting a blog is very easy these days and in fact getting a free blog is easier. You can use numerous blogging platforms available across the Internet to get yourself a free blog. However, promoting your blog is a different story. Once you get a blog you have to work hard in order to get traffic to your blog.
Social media can be a very good platform to promote your blog and the best thing about social media is that it is free as you do not need to pay anything in order to advertise your blog on social media and the results you get are great.
You can easily make a page on Face book or an account on Twitter and LinkedIn. You can than interact with users, join groups and start posting your blog updates on all these accounts. This will make sure that your blog will receive a lot of traffic and the chances of it going viral always remain if you are producing good content.
Around 80% of the people using the Internet use social media websites and you surely would not want to ignore such a heavy chunk of users.
