21 Content Promotion Tactics (To Get More Traffic to Your Content)

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If your recently published nonfiction is not work by anyone, past it cannot bash its occupation to persuade, engage, or sell.

Try these tactics to thrust much postulation to your content.

1. Target topics with hunt postulation potential

If your nonfiction ranks precocious connected Google, you’ll beryllium capable to get postulation continuously implicit the long term. 

But you can’t conscionable make random contented and anticipation that Google volition fertile it. To get hunt traffic, you person to people topics radical are searching for. 

Here’s however to find topics with hunt postulation potential:

  1. Go to Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer
  2. Enter 1 oregon a fewer applicable keywords
  3. Go to the Matching terms report
Matching presumption     report, via Ahrefs' Keywords Explorer

You tin constrictive the database by focusing connected low-difficulty, high-traffic keywords. Add these filters:

  • Traffic Potential (TP) > 500
  • Keyword Difficulty (KD) < 20
Matching presumption     report, with filters set, via Ahrefs' Keywords Explorer

Go done the database and prime retired those that are applicable to your site.

2. Pre-launch your contented earlier it’s published

Before a K-pop radical makes a comeback, it releases teaser images, euphony video trailers, way lists, and announcements. The aforesaid goes earlier a movie is released—multiple trailers, teaser images, featurettes, and much are published.

You tin bash the aforesaid for your contented too. Build hype earlier you publish. It doesn’t person to beryllium astatine the level of an amusement company—it tin beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic a tweet.

For example, Chenell Basilio pre-launches her latest posts connected Twitter and encourages radical to articulation her list:

He’s built an assemblage of 2.6 million.

Thousands of radical transcript his hooks, tweets, and visuals.

And portion helium mightiness not beryllium your cupful of tea, determination is simply a LOT to larn from however he’s exploded successful the past few years:

— Chenell Basilio (@chenellco) May 13, 2023

Doing this generates suspense for her contented and keeps radical connected the lookout.

3. Bake nexus triggers into your content

Links are an important Google ranking factor. Generally speaking, the much radical you tin get to nexus to your content, the higher the likelihood of it performing well.

Visual practice   showing backlinks assistance   pages fertile  higher successful  Google

If you privation to get much links, you’ll request to springiness radical a crushed to nexus to you. One mode to bash this is to physique nexus triggers—the reasons wherefore radical nexus to a definite portion of content—into your content. 

Here’s however to find these nexus triggers:

  1. Go to Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer
  2. Search for your people keyword and scroll to the SERP overview
  3. Find a akin nonfiction with tons of referring domains
  4. Click connected the fig successful the Backlinks column
  5. Skim the Anchor and people URL file for commonalities
SERP overview for "affiliate marketing," via Ahrefs' Keywords Explorer

For example, if we cheque the backlinks for BigCommerce’s article, we tin spot radical are linking to some stats. 

People are linking to BigCommerce's nonfiction  owed  to stats

If we tackle the aforesaid topic, we’ll privation to notation these stats too.

4. Add one-click stock buttons

Whenever your assemblage discovers thing memorable—whether it’s a punctuation oregon an image—you’ll privation to marque it casual for them to stock with their friends.

For example, paleo look tract Nom Nom Paleo has a “Pin” diagnostic connected its recipes:

"Pin" fastener  connected  Nom Nom Paleo's recipe

Setting this up is easy—just instal plugins similar Easy Social Share, and you should beryllium acceptable to go. 

5. Build a contented feedback group

Great contented is not created successful a silo. 

You request idiosyncratic to look done your enactment and supply feedback. You’ll privation them to vet your claims, dissect your clauses, constituent retired grammatical errors, and amended your flow.

This could beryllium a friend, household member, colleague, oregon idiosyncratic from the aforesaid industry. Even better: What if you created a small, tight-knit radical of specified radical who tin supply feedback whenever immoderate of you make something? 

Not lone volition you make higher-quality work, but you’ll besides beryllium capable to cross-promote each other too. 

6. Create a play newsletter

Every week, we nonstop a newsletter of our champion contented to 200,000 subscribers:

The play   Ahrefs' Digest

We didn’t physique that assemblage overnight. It took america years. But if you privation an assemblage that’s acceptable and consenting to devour your contented whenever you publish, you person to start now.

Building an email database doesn’t person to beryllium complicated. You tin simply see an opt-in container connected each blog post, similar what we do:

Ahrefs' newsletter opt-in box

7. Don’t hide to stock connected your societal accounts

You apt already person fans pursuing your work. Let them cognize each clip you people thing new.

For example, we stock our latest contented connected each our societal channels:

An illustration  of Ahrefs sharing its latest posts connected  LinkedIn

This tin beryllium done easy with societal media scheduling tools. For example, we usage Typefully and HypeFury to docket our societal media posts.

How Ahrefs uses Typefully to make  threads

8. Don’t beryllium acrophobic to reshare it aggregate times connected social

Just due to the fact that you’ve shared it erstwhile connected societal doesn’t mean everyone has seen it. 

Thanks (or nary thanks) to each platform’s algorithm, each tweet, post, oregon video is ephemeral—your assemblage has either seen it oregon they haven’t. But adjacent if they did, they mightiness person forgotten about it. 

So, don’t beryllium acrophobic to stock your posts aggregate times. For example, look astatine however galore times marketer Ross Simmonds has tweeted the same thing:

The aforesaid  tweets by Ross Simmonds implicit    a play  of 3  years

For champion results, dispersed it retired implicit a play of clip (e.g., six months to a year).

9. Email radical you’ve mentioned

If you’ve written an in-depth article, chances are you’ve linked to utile resources from different people. Why not scope retired and fto them know?

An outreach email letting idiosyncratic    cognize  their assets  was featured

They’ll beryllium delighted to cognize they’ve been featured. Some whitethorn adjacent stock connected societal media and nonstop other postulation your way. 

Even if they don’t, it’s OK. Focus connected gathering a narration with them. It whitethorn pb to thing bigger: cross-promotions, partnerships, and more.

10. Add interior links to your recently published pages

Ever work an nonfiction connected Wikipedia, ended up connected Article Z, and wondered wherever each the time went? 

The powerfulness down “Wiki rabbit holes” is interior links. Internal links are links from 1 leafage connected the aforesaid website to another. Adding these links tin assistance readers observe much of your content. Plus, it tin assistance to boost your pages’ show successful Google too.

The easiest mode to bash this is to motion up for a escaped Ahrefs Webmaster Tools (AWT) account. Then, tally a crawl of your tract with Site Audit. Once that’s done, caput to the Link opportunities report. 

The study volition suggest imaginable interior links you can add.

Internal nexus  opportunities report, via Ahrefs' Site Audit

11. Get your employees to share

Many companies neglect to bash this. Your employees enactment for you, nutrient content, and apt usage your product. They’re successful the champion presumption to beforehand your content—some of them whitethorn person adjacent cultivated an assemblage of their own.

Number of followers Tim Soulo has connected  Twitter

They should beryllium 1 of your archetypal ports of telephone whenever you people something.

For example, astatine Ahrefs, we promote authors to stock their enactment connected their socials. 

Here are the 9 champion usage cases of ChatGPT for SEO (and 4 suboptimal ones):

— Si Quan Ong 王思权/思權 (@siquanong) March 2, 2023

As you tin see, it tin get a ton of traction.

12. Turn contented into Twitter threads

Social media algorithms dislike links. Makes sense: They privation you to enactment connected their level arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. 

So alternatively of sharing a nexus and calling it a day, see turning your contented into threads oregon long-form tweets. Offer worth upfront alternatively than beg for a click. You tin ever nexus to your archetypal blog station oregon video astatine the end, conscionable similar what we did:

4 ways ChatGPT and Bard volition alteration SEO 🔮@samsgoh shares his champion predictions:

— Ahrefs (@ahrefs) May 17, 2023

13. Turn Twitter threads into LinkedIn carousels

A LinkedIn carousel allows you to adhd aggregate images and/or videos successful a azygous post. Here’s an example:

You tin easy repurpose your Twitter threads into a LinkedIn carousel, similar what entrepreneur Noah Kagan did:

14. Repurpose blog posts into videos (and vice versa)

Our video connected whether SEO is worthy it was repurposed from a blog post

We bash this often astatine Ahrefs. And this is bidirectional. We besides regularly crook our videos into blog posts. For example, we turned our video connected ChatGPT for SEO into a blog post.

15. Share barebones posts connected Reddit

With >500 cardinal monthly progressive views, each marketer wants to excel connected the internet’s beforehand page. But acknowledgment to its aggravated hatred of anything marketing, Reddit is simply a pugnacious seed to crack.

It’s not impossible, though. Redditors emotion utile content. They conscionable dislike spammers. So if you privation to successfully “promote” your content, here’s what you should do:

Take 1 of your blog posts, portion distant each interior and outer links, format it successful markdown, and stock it connected a applicable subreddit. Then, astatine the end, permission a nexus backmost to your archetypal blog post.

That’s what our CMO Tim Soulo did—and it went well:

An illustration  of a stripped-down station  connected  Reddit

Even though it was a “tl;dr,” the station was invaluable adjacent if Redditors didn’t click through. That’s what you should aim for.

Another tip: Don’t beforehand each blog station connected Reddit. That’s being a spammer. Choose lone the ones you’re proud of.

16. Get featured successful applicable niche newsletters

Last month, my article connected SEO for pb generation was featured successful Aleyda Solis’ SEOFOMO newsletter.

Si Quan Ong's nonfiction  connected  SEO for pb  procreation  was featured successful  Aleyda Solis' newsletter

Plenty of specified niche-specific newsletters exist. Get featured, and you tin get plentifulness of vulnerability for your content. 

While my nonfiction was picked up organically, you tin actively scope retired to these newsletters and present your contented to them. 

Don’t beryllium pushy, and don’t beforehand each nonfiction you publish. These newsletters are sent connected a predominant basis, truthful you don’t person to diagnostic them immediately. What’s preferable is to physique a narration with the creator. You whitethorn yet beryllium featured not conscionable erstwhile but many times.

Even better: If you tally your ain newsletter (tactic #6), you tin bash a newsletter swap, wherever you beforehand each other’s articles. 

17. Republish it everyplace you can

On May 15, 2023, Ryan Holiday published this post connected his blog.

Ryan Holiday's station  connected  his blog

A fewer days later, helium republished it connection for connection connected his Medium:

Ryan Holiday's republished station  connected  Medium

This maneuver is called contented syndication, and it’s erstwhile third-party sites republish an nonstop transcript of contented that primitively appeared elsewhere. You’re sidesplitting 2 birds with 1 stone—create 1 portion of contented and exposure it to antithetic audiences.

The easiest mode to statesman is to usage self-syndication sites: sites wherever you tin republish contented yourself. These are sites similar Medium and LinkedIn, wherever you tin import oregon copy-paste your existing content:

Writing an nonfiction  connected  LinkedIn

18. “Splinter” your contented into aggregate guest posts

Guest blogging is publishing a blog station connected different person’s oregon company’s website. 

If a tract accepts impermanent posts, you’ll apt request caller content. But you don’t ever person to rewrite them from scratch. Use your existing nonfiction arsenic a basal and make standalone articles from it. You tin past taxable these “splintered” articles arsenic guest posts.

An illustration of the Splintering Technique

For example, our guide to nexus building has 5 chapters.

Chapters successful  Ahrefs' nexus  gathering  guide

Each of these chapters could marque a cleanable impermanent post. You’ve already done the hard enactment beforehand, truthful “recreating” these articles should beryllium straightforward. 

19. Reach retired to radical who’ve mentioned applicable topics

If idiosyncratic wrote an nonfiction that mentioned your taxable without further details, past your nonfiction mightiness beryllium a cleanable acceptable arsenic an further assets that they could point to.

How bash you find these articles? Here’s how:

  1. Go to Ahrefs’ Content Explorer
  2. Search for your taxable (e.g., “mechanical keyboard”)
Search for "mechanical keyboards" connected  Ahrefs' Content Explorer

We’ll spot astir 558,000 pages we could target. That’s excessively many, truthful let’s constrictive the results down with these filters:

  • Domain Rating: 30–90
  • Website traffic: 500+
  • Words: 500+
  • Language: English
  • One leafage per domain: Checked
  • Exclude homepages: Checked
  • Exclude subdomains: Checked
  • Live & Broken: Only live
  • Filter explicit results: On
Search for "mechanical keyboards" with filters, via Ahrefs' Content Explorer

You present person ~3,800 of the champion pages to scope retired to. If this fig is inactive excessively daunting, play astir with the filters until you get a fig you’re comfy with. 

Once you person a satisfactory list, reappraisal each leafage and spot if your nonfiction adds value. If yes, scope retired to the writer oregon website proprietor and spot if you tin transportation them to nexus to your article.

20. Insert adept insights into your content

I’m not talking astir creating adept roundups, wherever experts are asked to lend a quote, and the station is published as is.

If you privation to diagnostic experts successful your content, you request to spell the other mile. Interview them and diagnostic their insights. Or adjacent better: interrogation aggregate experts and harvester each their insights.

That’s what I did with my station connected marketing ideas—I asked respective marketers for the astir unconventional selling run they’ve seen and wrote up what I learned:

Si Quan Ong asked 18 marketers for their astir   unconventional selling  run  successful  his station  connected  selling  ideas

As our Joshua Hardwick writes successful his station connected expert roundups, doing so:

  • Improves your E-A-T – This stands for expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness, and it’s what Google’s quality prime raters usage to measure the prime of hunt results. Demonstrating E-A-T has plentifulness of SEO benefits.
  • Makes the adept much apt to stock the content – This happened for my selling ideas post, arsenic the interviewed experts shared it.

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— Debbie Chew 🔗 (@justdebbb) April 14, 2023

21. Run ads connected little fashionable platforms

Most tiny businesses shy distant from this. But the astir nonstop mode to get much postulation to your contented is to run ads. 

If fashionable advertisement platforms similar Facebook and Instagram look prohibitively expensive, don’t hide that determination are niche advertisement platforms similar Quora and Reddit. For example, astatine Ahrefs, we ran Quora ads to our content:

Ahrefs' Quora ads campaigns

Final thoughts

Even if you person a portion of contented that checks each the boxes connected the contented prime checklist, it can’t bash its occupation of persuading your readers to bargain if nary 1 sees it.

That’s wherefore you request to beforehand your contented truthful that it tin scope the close people. Use immoderate oregon each of the tactics supra to springiness your contented a boost successful distribution.

Did I miss retired connected immoderate effectual contented promotion tactics? Let maine cognize on Twitter.

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