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Learn how to promote your blog and how to increase blog traffic fast by creating a blog marketing plan with these blog content promotion and blog promotion tips.<\/em><\/p>\n

Building your blog and creating content is just the first step to becoming a professional blogger. But as Derek Halpern of Social Triggers<\/a>\u00a0wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cCreate content 20% of the time. Spend the other 80% of the time promoting what you created.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you apply the 80-20 Rule to content marketing and spend 80% of your time distributing your content, your next question is probably, \u201cHow to promote my blog?\u201d or “How to promote content?<\/p>\n

There are a lot of blog marketing and blog promotion ideas<\/a>, but few of them offer a blog marketing strategy on how to promote your blog for free and how to increase blog traffic fast.<\/p>\n

In this post, I\u2019ll take you step-by-step through the process of learning how to increase organic search traffic<\/a> by optimizing your blog. I’ll also list over 45 blog promotion tips for blog content promotion and the best ways to promote your blog to boost blog traffic and shares.<\/p>\n

Preparing Your WordPress Blog For Traffic<\/h2>\n

Before you start learning how to promote WordPress blogs, you need to prepare your blog for visitors and content. The steps below will show you how to increase blog traffic on WordPress blogs by optimizing them for search engines.<\/p>\n

#1. Optimize Your Blog<\/h3>\n

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog<\/a> (which I highly recommend), you need to learn how to increase organic search traffic by optimizing your blog. Complete all the tasks below to learn how to promote blogs on Google and have a well-optimized blog ready to be spidered and found on search engines.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new to SEO, the SEO Checklist by SEO Buddy<\/a> is your roadmap to every important SEO action you need to take to optimize your website and learn how to boost traffic to your blog.<\/p>\n

Optimize your permalinks<\/h4>\n

Your permalinks are the URLs that are displayed in the browser when a visitor goes to your blog domain or post. In WordPress, you need to optimize your permalinks by going to Settings > Permalinks<\/strong> and choosing the Post Name<\/strong>\u00a0settings\u00a0as shown in the image below.<\/p>\n

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\nThis will ensure that WordPress includes the keywords from your headline in your blog permalink once it is published. This is important because keywords in the permalink are an important Google ranking factor.<\/p>\n

Install an SEO plugin<\/h4>\n

Rank Math<\/a> is the most comprehensive SEO plugin for a WordPress blog with everything you need to optimize your blog<\/p>\n

It will help you optimize your WordPress blog, write optimized SEO content, create a sitemap, implement social media metadata, and Rich Snippets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Once you have installed these plugins, you need to ensure that your Facebook Open Graph settings are switched on and the Twitter Card settings are set to show a \u2018summary with large image\u2019. Also, do this for Pinterest. This will ensure that your images are optimally displayed on all social media channels.<\/p>\n

Learn how to optimize your WordPress blog in this WordPress tutorial for beginners<\/a>. Get recommendations for the best WordPress SEO plugins, WordPress SEO checklist, and WordPress SEO tips for boosting site speed and improving site security.<\/p>\n

Internal Link Optimization<\/h4>\n

This tip is courtesy of David Trounce<\/a>. People often forget (or are not aware) that your internal links count as backlinks in Google’s search algorithm. What this means is that Google is reading your internal links, and noticing the content on your site that those links point to.<\/p>\n

Like all backlinks, it’s a popularity contest. The pages with a greater number of links pointing to them are going to get a better boost in Google’s search results.<\/p>\n

One of the ways to take advantage of this – and something over which you have full control – is to optimize your internal links to point to your most important pages. The best way to do this is by creating content hubs<\/a> around similar keywords or themes.<\/p>\n

#2. Conduct Keyword Research<\/h3>\n

Research long-tail keywords to base your blog\u2019s content around. Use Brian Dean\u2019s methods for finding unique keywords. Check out his Definitive Guide to Keyword Research<\/a> for some of the best methods to find keywords that you should target when creating content.<\/p>\n

Neil Patel outlines 3 steps to dominating Google\u2019s top 10 with long-tail keywords. Use the techniques taught by these two experts to identify the long-tail keywords that you are most likely to get ranked for and create content around them.<\/p>\n

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#3. Create a Blog Content Plan<\/h3>\n

Ever since Rand Fishkin of Moz coined the term \u201810X content<\/a>\u2019, the world of SEO has been buzzing with it. Today, it\u2019s not enough to create \u201cfluffy\u201d content of 500 to 700 words and expect to get ranked for them.<\/p>\n

These blog content creation tips<\/a> will help you create a blog content plan to ensure that your blog post is 10 times better than the best content in its category.<\/p>\n

Write long-form content<\/h4>\n

So, how long should your blog content be? Optimal blog content is now over 2000 to 3000 words long and studies have found<\/a> that 3,000 to 10,000-word content gets the most shares.<\/p>\n

The average web page that ranks on the first page of Google has over 2,000 words of content, according to Quicksprout,\u00a0so, you should be creating long-form content, meaning 2000+ words of high-quality blog posts.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Neil Patel’s content writing advice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Word count is only important when coupled with super high quality. You can produce a 10,000-word article, but if the content and quality suck, then the article doesn\u2019t deserve to get ranked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The graph above (courtesy of QuickSprout) shows that the average content length for the top ten listings in Google is over 2000 words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to create viral content, aim to publish posts that are longer than 1,500 words, says Brian Dean<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If a post is greater than 1,500 words, on average it receives 68.1% more tweets and 22.6% more Facebook likes than a post that is under 1,500 words. Read more about the kind of content you should be creating<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Write epic content<\/h4>\n

If you want to create content that attracts both links and shares, think like a journalist and create content that is well-researched and opinion-forming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Write more listicles<\/h4>\n

List posts or \u2018listicles\u2019 are a very popular content format. Brian Dean recommends creating expanded list posts (ELPs)<\/a> that are longer, more thorough and well-researched than the best posts in their category.<\/p>\n

The same study by BuzzSumo and Moz<\/a> also found that list posts and videos achieve much higher shares on average than other content formats.<\/p>\n

Write for specific, identifiable niches<\/h4>\n

This tip comes from David Leonhardt<\/a>. He recommends that when you write for specific, identifiable niches, you have an audience to promote it to. He also gives an example of what this would entail.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn example would be when I wrote for a mortgage broker client of mine, I wrote a post on how difficult it is for self employed people to get a mortgage, and some tips to overcome those difficulties. I had a very specific audience in mind – the blogging community. This is an identifiable group that is active on social media. They have nothing to do with mortgages, but this angle has everything to do with them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you don’t have the resources to write such content, you can always outsource your blog content creation services<\/a>. In this video, Neil Patel breaks down the seven simple steps for writing content that works well in the future Google.<\/p>\n