PB003: Promote Your Blog [Day 3 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog] - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

Find New Readers for Your Blog with Todays Blogging Challenge
Today is day 3 in our 31 Day Challenge and today your task is to promote your blog by sharing one of your previously published blog posts (perhaps even your list post from yesterday)!This is an activity that bloggers really need to be focusing regular attention on so I hope that some of the tips I share in todays episode will become a regular part of your daily blogging workflow.
In this EpisodeBuilding readership for your blog is a question I'm asked about every day and there's a lot to say about it so I start off talking in slightly more general terms but then give you some specific ways to promote your blog. Here's what I cover.

Why a'build it and they will come'mentality doesn't work
6 phases of growing readership for your blog11 ways to promote your blog post

Here's a graphic of the 6 phases from a talk I gave recently to help you visualise it.



But as I say - today is very much about phase 4 of the process.Your Challenge for Today
Choose one (or more) of the 11 ways mentioned in todays episode to promote your blog (or try another that wasn't mentioned) and get off your blog and put some of your recently written pieces of content out there.

Note: Please go a little beyond what you normally do. If you normally push your posts out onto social media - do something a little extra and see what happens.Tell Us What You Do! - Once you've promoted your post please let us know what you did in comments below these notes so we can learn from you. Also let us know what impact your actions have.
Other Links and Resources Mentioned In Todays EpisodeI mention a couple of resources in todays episode that would make great further reading (and listening) on this important topic.

Finding Readers WebinarBuilding a Reader Profile for Your Blog

I've also included a few other relevant articles to the topic for you to check out if you want to dig deeper.

5 Basics to Having Your Post go Viral (on creating shareable content)How to Promote Your Blog Without Letting The Rest of Your Blogging Slide
How to Socialize Your Posts for Maximum EffectHow to Build an Efficient Social Media Workflow to Increase your Traffic
11 Ways I Diversified Traffic Sources for My Blogs to Become Less Reliant Upon Google [With a Surprising Twist]How to Promote a Blog with Social Media
The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments on BlogsHow to Get Media Coverage for Your BlogFull TranscriptExpand to view full transcript
Compress to smaller transcript viewWelcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 3 and day 3 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, I’ll challenge you to promote your blog and give you some tips on how to get some traffic to your blog. First, a quick word from our sponsor, 99designs, the best place for new businesses to build their brand. 99designs makes it easy to get your project off the ground with quality, affordable design. To get your logo, business card, mobile app, blog template or more, visit 99designs.com/problogger and get a $99 upgrade for free.

Hi, this is Darren Rowse from ProBlogger. Welcome to day 3 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Each day of this series—for a whole month—I’ll be sharing with you some tips on an important aspect of growing your blog, and then challenge you to go away and do something based upon that teaching. Today, we’re going to talk about promoting your blog. Actually getting off your blog, not just focusing upon creating content, and the design, and all the things to think about when it comes to your blog, but to get off it, and go hunting for some readers. Go promote something on your blog to someone else. This is really important. I actually see a lot of bloggers who have this mentality that if they build a good-enough blog, readers will just magically show up to it. For 99.9% of us,

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