Get More Exposure for your Blogs through Social Media

Creating a blog is easy. But the hardest part of it is building a large audience that will visit your posts. Well it is quite true that the biggest problem which most bloggers are facing these days is on how to get people notice their posts. Even though you have written the best and creative blogs, that will be nothing if no one has likely to read them. So how can you get your blog noticed?


Announcing your blogs through social media sites is indeed a good start to make your blog promotions effective. Since social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter carries millions of users from different parts of the world, it is undeniable that these sites are great for getting thousands of visitors to your blog in an instance. Every bloggers should realize the importance of networking with other bloggers. Remember that bloggers are human. They help people that they like, and they like people that help them.


Social media has its own audience with unique preferences. Some of these audiences has the ability to link to you, vote for you, re-publish your posts to other networking sites, and promotes the things that you're currently promoting. Ergo, you should never under-estimate the power of social networking when it comes to promoting your blogs. In fact, all successful bloggers have built a strong network along the way.


One can use Twitter and Facebook in many different ways that will benefit their blog promotion. Having accounts and posts on both networking sites might help you in the best way possible. When you post on Twitter, it can automatically re-post to your personal Facebook news feed. While if you post something on your FB's fan page, it will also post to Twitter - as well as to your personal Facebook news feed.


And the best thing that social media do is that they allow you to link your blog posts to their sites. For Facebook, navigate to the “NetworkedBlogs” application, click it, and add your blog information as requested. There’s a verification process that Facebook will walk you through to make sure you’re the author of the blog.


For Twitter, go to “Twitterfeed”, a useful and free website application that feeds your blog to Twitter. Register for an account, verify your personal details and then log in. Once done, click the “Create New Feed button” to add your blog. It might take a couple hours to start working. LinkedIn is another social networking website that allows you to link your posts. If you have a WordPress blog, simply go to “Applications” and click “WordPress.” If you have a TypePad blog, go to “Applications” then “Blog Link”. LinkedIn will walk you through the process step-by-step.


Generating a large audience for your blog posts is never an easy task. And perhaps social media is only one of those effective ways that could give a more successful results to your blog promotion.