5 Ways To Bring The Social Media To Your Blog

Here is a question a lot of new bloggers struggle with: how do you drive traffic to a blog? New bloggers are often less patient than the more experienced ones, but the question is very valid. Without traffic, you are not going to get the exposure you deserve for your work, and you are not going to be able to properly monetize your blog. It’d be hard to stay motivated if you work hard on your content only to see others who have much lower quality content get all the exposure and traffic you are not getting. But traffic may be nearer than you think. The social media is a great place to start if you want to significantly improve the amount of eyeballs that visit your pages. Websites such as Digg, Twitter, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are all very effective traffic drivers in their own ways, so you do want to make sure your content is being shared on those networks.

You can always add your content to the top social networking sites by yourself. But a better way to approach this is by giving your audience the tools it needs to spread the word about your content. You’d be surprised how effective this tactic can be. With that in mind, here are 5 methods to bring the social media to your blog:

Digg Digg: one of the best social media plugins for Wordpress platform. It’s very flexible and designed to enable your readers to add your content to their favorite networks fast.

Boost Post: if you don’t want to mess with plugins on your blog, you can always use this service to install the appropriate code on your blog. Add the services you prefer and copy & paste the code. That’s all.

Tweetmeme: not only one of the best web services to find out about the hot content on Twitter, it comes with widgets and chicklets you can use on your blog to encourage your visitors to follow you on Twitter and retweet your posts.

Socializer: it’s a simple bookmarking service that gives your readers even more options when it comes to sharing your content on the web. Great for more niche blog and those who just want their content to be promoted everywhere.

MyBlogLog: a cool service by Yahoo! that lets you build a more solid community around your blog. You can also grab the widgets available through this service to promote your activities on social networking websites.

There you have it. 5 exciting services that let you empower your readers and encourage them to share your content online. Of course, your content needs to be of high quality if you want to succeed.

Your take: what services are you using on your blog to help others promote your posts?