Promote your content in online communities

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Relevant online communities are places where your target audience hangs out. They can be Facebook groups, Slack, Reddit, forums, etc.

This is my main marketing strategy for generating traffic to my hip-hop blog:

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Judging by the comments, this post was very popular.

Sounds easy, right?

Don't jump to conclusions, because from the screenshot it's missing the effort I put into submitting a post or article. In order to submit a post like this, I had to become an active forum member, participate in discussions, and offer help.

Only then will our content be accepted and encouraged.

If you just want to join a group, send the link, and then leave, it's no surprise that you get banned.

But if you want to do it the right way, my friend Nathan Collier, who runs the Content Marketing Alliance Facebook group , has a comment that will guide you.
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14. Write a guest post for other blogs
Ramit Sethi credits his guest post on Tim Ferriss’ blog as the one that helped make his book a bestseller .

If you want to gain traction, don’t just write for your own blog. Leverage the authority and following of other sites or blogs to attract traffic, links, and build your brand.

But you may be wondering: Why would they let you do this?

Simple. Most popular blogs are built on great content. But creating great content consistently is hard. So if you
write a great article for them for free, why would they say no?

Today, most people search for guest blogging opportunities greece telegram data the same way. They use advanced search operators like these in Google :

[your topic] "Write for us"
[your topic] “Guest Blogger”
[your topic] "Guest Post"
[your topic] "Become an author"
[Your topic] inurl:Submit
The blogs or websites that come up in your search are actively looking for contributors.
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But you shouldn’t just pick sites by their “write for us” pages.

If a blogger has written about related topics before, they may be open to guest blogging on similar topics, even if they don’t have a “Write for Us” page.

To find these sites, we need to enter relevant words or phrases into Ahrefs’ Content Explorer , and then enable the “One domain, one article” switch to avoid repeatedly contacting the same site.