How do you promote your best posts?

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Permalink Reply by Cailin Yates on July 24, 2008 at 2:35pm

hmmm - EXCELLENT QUESTION and I'm interested to hear the answers! I've been trying digg but I don't think it gets me very far - or maybe I need to do it differently?

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Permalink Reply by Alyssa Francis on July 24, 2008 at 3:11pm

I twitter my best posts!

http://twitter.com/kingdomfirstmom

It makes a big difference when you ask for feedback on Twitter.

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Permalink Reply by Jennae @ Green Your Decor on July 24, 2008 at 3:18pm

I guess I should answer my own question. I have tried Digg, Kirtsy.com, Twitter and forums with limited success. I've had a couple of days with 1000+ hits thanks to StumbleUpon, but the bounce rate is high for the traffic from SU. Stumblers will typically stay on the site for a few seconds to see what its about, then move on. It's not really steady traffic. My search engine traffic has been better since I switched to the Thesis theme for WordPress. I guess all of this is to say I've gotten a small amount of hits from lost of places, but no "breakthrough" yet.

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Permalink Reply by Alyssa on July 24, 2008 at 3:51pm

Twitter mainly, and tell others

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Permalink Reply by Brittany on July 24, 2008 at 4:22pm

Well, not exactly along the lines of external promotion, but I have a list of favorites I keep in a list on my right column, and based on my statcounter, new visitors to my blog check out those older posts DAILY, and I am still getting comments on them, months later. It's a great way to show first time visitors my past work, and it gives them a good idea of my writing style.

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Permalink Reply by MicheleD on July 24, 2008 at 5:13pm

If you have article-length posts then you might try article feeds like DivineCaroline.com (happens to be one of my favorites b/c it's women-focused).

Or, perhaps you can take a more direct approach and reach out to specific blogs that have a readership you want to touch - ask the blog owner to post an excerpt of your post with a link to your blog with the full article.

I'm also in the process of learning more about SMRs (Social Media Release) and it might work for you if you think your series is newsworthy and you have some PR contacts to distribute to.

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Permalink Reply by Jen on July 26, 2008 at 12:02am

McMommy (of the McMommy Chronicles) does this fabulous POW (post of the week) every Friday and she highlights everyone's best post for them using Mr. Linky. Check her out. McMommy

I've seen others have links of their own 'best' stuff in their sidebar.

I haven't thought of doing that ...yet.

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Permalink Reply by Jen on July 26, 2008 at 12:03am

Oh and Adoptic.com is another cool place to check out!

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Permalink Reply by Jenni on July 26, 2008 at 10:17am

This is a great idea!!!!

Brittany said:

Well, not exactly along the lines of external promotion, but I have a list of favorites I keep in a list on my right column, and based on my statcounter, new visitors to my blog check out those older posts DAILY, and I am still getting comments on them, months later. It's a great way to show first time visitors my past work, and it gives them a good idea of my writing style.

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