You’ve decided to become a blogger, I mean you have a lot to say and you have always been able to talk a lot to your friends. That means you should be able to write a blog and connect your social media networks and it will be easy for you to just jump right in there. Although you might have a voice, with great advice or good stories to tell, sometimes it’s not as easy as you might think to get a loyal following and connect into the social media world. I recently read an article that listed 10 Social Media Tips for bloggers, let’s take a look at them.
You’ve started your new blog, made a couple of posts and made it look all flashy and stuff. Now what? How do you get people to interact with you on social media? The first tip seems rather obvious, but might be overlooked if you’re new to blogging. Display your social media icons prominently near the top of your blog. This will make it easy for your readers to connect with you on your social networks. I say this is a great idea. Next you will want to create a Facebook page for your blog specifically, this isn’t the first thing I would do, but it makes sense, it might drive your blog readers to be your fan on Facebook, which ultimately creates more interaction.
Some of the other tips included generating traffic with StumbleUpon, which is a recommendation engine; again this should be good for your blog as long as you tag things appropriately for random people to find your niche. Using the same concept there are a few tips about using things you might already be using to promote yourself, such as sending your RSS feed to your LinkedIn account and using Pinterest. You can even add a pin it button to your blog, to make it easy for your users to share your content. If you can get people you already engage with to interact with your new blog, then others might join in.
Other tips were to use link shorteners, even when you don’t need to; this is so you can gain access to metrics. Metrics are always good; this way you know who is clicking and when they are doing it. Other things you can do is to use your blog name as your username, this will promote your personal brand. On top of that you should join many blogger groups on Facebook, this will hopefully lead other bloggers to link to you, if you have good content, which ultimately builds social awareness of your blog.
On that same note, you should show some love to other bloggers as well, retweet them, share their content on Facebook, or repin their stuff, and hopefully they will return the favor. The last thing you should remember is to stay on Social Media, continue to post and read everything you can. This will help you make and maintain relationships and get new ideas for your upcoming blog posts.
