70 + Places To Promote Your Content for Digital Marketing
Content is the king in modern times. It adds value to your business and enhances your online presence. Content plays a vital role in promotion of your business. However, your content must be authentic and go viral. If your content has spark it will go viral in no time. Once you have created valuable content, your next step would be to promote it on different platforms.
There are various ways to promote your content. Following points will give you complete details of the places where you can promote your content.
Submit your Content to the top search engines
Search engines are the most important places for submitting your content. You can generate a sitemap of your site and submit it to the search engine. Search engine crawler (Spider) crawls your site content and gives you effective traffic. You can submit your sitemap to the following top search engines.
1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Bing
4. Baidu
5. AOL
6. Ask
7. Excite
8. Duckduckgo
9. Yandex
10. Wolframalpha
Submit your blog to directories
There are hundreds of directories where you can submit your blog site, some are free and some are paid. Dmoz.org and some other directories are free but it’s hard to get a spot in those directories and you might also have to wait a lot to finally get your site in listing. In paid directories, you can get a place but with some expense but it is quick. Following is the list of directories.
11. Yelp
12. Jayde
13. Best of the Web Directory
14. D Moz
15. Business
16. Google Business
17. Yahoo! Business
18. Trip Advisor
19. Yellow Pages
20. Super Pages
21. Manta
22. Stumbleupon
23. DexKnows
24. BBB
25. Merchant Circle
26. Urban Spoon
27. Open Table Restaurant Management Software
28. Google +
29. Pinterest
30. Foursquare
31. Reddit
Social Bookmarking Sites
There are hundreds of bookmarking tools available in the market. These tools help you to organize your resources and to get visitors. Here is a list of some good bookmarking tools which help you to get better content achievements.
32. Dragdis
33. Diigo
34. Saved.io
35. Bundlr
36. Pocket
37. Bizsugar
Bookmarking Sites Submission
Bookmarking sites are similar to directories. These sites usually don’t get you visitors but sometimes they do. There are hundreds of bookmarking sites. These bookmarking and voting sites help you to engage your visitors. A short list of top bookmarking sites is listed here.
38. Google Bookmarks
39. Yahoo Bookmarks
40. Findfriends
41. Delicious
42. Get Stache
Strategically Comment on other blogs
Commenting on other blogs is also a powerful technique to get visitors. First you need to visit some relative and good ranking blogs. Pick some good techniques from there that you are not following, and comment on different topics with your site link of the related post. Following blogs can help you in engaging visitors.
43. Search Engine Land
44. Copy Blogger
45. Social Media Examiner
46. SEO Moz
47. Chris Brogan
48. Social Media Today
49. Hubspot
50. Shoe Money
51. Search Engine Journal
52. Google Blog
Effective Q/A Websites
Q/A (Question/Answer) website have effective visitors. Q/A websites are a good source to get visitors. If you have answers of visitors questions on your site then place your link in the answer. In this technique, you can get more visitors to your site. Here is a list of Q/A websites.
53. Quora
54. Answers Yahoo
55. Stack Over Flow
56. LinkedIn
57. Answers
Feedburner account
Feedburner account is a service from Google which allows you to track subscribers of your RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Here are the links.
58. Feedburner
59. Feedly
Establish Your Social Media Accounts
Social media sites play an important role in getting visitors for your site. Establish your company on social media sites. Build your community on social media sites with respect and standard. Each social media page work differently, the utilization is up to you. A list of top social media sites is listed below.
60. Facebook
61. Google Plus
62. Twitter
63. Hi5
64. LinkedIn
65. My Space
66. Flickr
67. Pinterest
68. Instagram
69. Picasa Google
70. Photo Bucket
Share your posts on sharing sites/blogs
There are hundreds of social media and other blog posting sites, which allow you to post your article on their site. You can get better traffic from these sites just by sharing your content on these sites. Many sites now give the feature to post automatically. Utilized these sharing sites and achieve better rankings in search engines list.
71. LinkedIn
72. Inbound
73. Archive
74. Growth Hackers
75. Buzz Blogger
76. Buzz sumo
77. Tumblr
78. Postach.io
79. Slide Share
Keep in Touch with Other Bloggers
Build your community on social media for better optimization of your content. Keep in touch with other bloggers of relevant field. Whenever you post any new blog do share it with them. You can build your community through social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or by using other blogging sites.
Keep in touch with those bloggers also who share related posts. With mutual sharing, you can get more visitors and build a better vast community.