Writing a great blog post or article doesn't guarantee it will be picked up by your audience even if you're using #SEO best practices

This is where content promotion comes in

Here are ways to promote your blog content

A for #CodeNewbie and #100DaysOfCode

Plz RT

your social media followers

Share your content with your social media followers

Customize your post content and share multiple times.

Summarize and pitch the article, don't just paste the link expecting lots of engagement. Also, don't use a ton of hashtags, it looks spammy

use a content curator

Repurpose & post your articles on websites like dev .to, reddit, scoop .it, slideshare, flipboard, etc

This is a great way to get your content in front of a bigger audience, and potentially create backlinks back to your own website (great for #SEO)

email marketing

Email marketing is one of the most widely used techniques for promoting content

If you aren't building your newsletter audience on your website, start immediately

Some blogs generate over 65% of traffic through their newsletters

paid promotion (social media & google ads)

#SEO consists of both paid and organic marketing strategies

Paid promotion is one of the most effective because its guaranteed to generate traffic to your site

It's also one of the more expensive ways to generate traffic

good ol' #SEO

Write unique, relevant, and high quality content that fits within your niche

Make sure that its better and more relevant than competing articles

Gain links from other websites to your content (easier said than done but worth the effort)