How To Promote Your Content

Table of Contents

• Awesome Tips Series about Blogger
• Content Optimization
• Post
• Promote Posts within the Blog
• Include the blog link in social media profiles
• Email
• Promote Posts to Other Sites
  • ifttt
  • Reddit
  • Buffer
  • StackOverflow(ish)
  • Quora
  • Others
• Cross Post
  • dev.to
  • medium.com
  • Tools
• Tips
  • Speed Test
  • Make Sure Your Post Indexed and Searchable
  • Related Posts

Awesome Tips Series about Blogger

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Content Optimization

• Custom the url at Links -> Permalink to make it more readable
• Show Post Title Before Blog Title
• Add search description

Post

• Enable Share Buttons in Blog post gadget

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Promote Posts within the Blog

• Add related posts, series, popular/trending posts that will be updated automatically.
• Create a sticky index page to promote new/update posts or specific labels
• Create a Custom “Page Not Found”
• Link to other related posts.

Include the blog link in social media profiles

• Github, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Stackoverflow, Quora etc.
• Edit Quora profile and add the blog link int the bio.

Email

• Create email signature at wisestamp and copy paste it to signature settings section for all gmail accounts.

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Promote Posts to Other Sites

ifttt

• If any new post in Blogger, post it to twitter, facebook page
• Share your new Blogger posts to Twitter
• Tell the Whole Reddit
• Blogger to Pinterest
• Share your blog posts to your Facebook page
• We can create multiple instances from the same Applet template
• Test it (Check now) then View activity log to make sure it works
• Change to not shorten url at Preferences > Settings

Reddit

• subreddit for programming:
  • programming/, coding, learnprogramming, AskProgramming, webdev
  • hacking, reverseengineering, ProgrammerHumor
• Later for reddit

Buffer

• Install the Buffer Chrome extension, then use Shortcut: Option+b to schedule a post.
• It supports: Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
• Change the Time Zone for each service at Settings -> Posting Schedule.
• Disable Link Shortening
  • Go to each profile, Settings -> Link Shortening, choose No Shortening

StackOverflow(ish)

• Favorite a question then access it at users/id/?tab=favorites
• Add a custom search engine for StackOverflow and give/change the keyword to a shorter name like: st
  • Create and change keyword of the custom search engine form superuser.com to su
• https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=interesting

Siblings

• All sites from stackexchange
• StackOverflow is meant for programming questions while AskDifferent for Apple hardware and software and SuperUser: for computer enthusiasts and power users cover general questions.

Quora

• Create and change keyword of the custom search engine form quora.com to qu
• edit Quora profile and add the blog link int the bio (can’t add website directly).
• we can ask/answer question or share link in Quora.
• check <quora.com/content> for questions we asked/answered/followed

Others

• Other Social websites: Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram
• hacker news
• Mix - previous StumbleUpon, also install its Chrome extension
• Digg
  • Submit a post

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Cross Post

• [Add rel=canonical] <link rel="canonical" href="https://lifelongprogrammer.blogspot.com/2018/06/awesome-tips-about-chrome.html" />
• Use full url in the post, so the link still works in other duplicate pages.

dev.to

• Add Canonical URL to refer to your original post.
• It uses Markdown to write posts.

medium.com

• How to change the username
• Schedule to publish the post in future

Tools

• Linked Helper
• Mass follow for Twitter

Facebook

• How can i find all pages created by me
  • https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/pages
• Create a page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/creation/
• Toolkit For FB

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Tips

Speed Test

• Page Speed
  • both mobile and desktop test results

Make Sure Your Post Indexed and Searchable

• Check Google search-console
• Go to Index -> Coverage, fix error like 404 by adding custom redirect ect.
• Check Coverage -> Excluded and request indexing posts for Discovered - currently not indexed and Crawled - currently not indexed
• Add your post to search-console by manually requesting indexing

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