The smart bloggers guide to promoting your posts in just 7 minutes by designer, writer and blogger Dex Diva aka Jo Gifford.

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2. Smart bloggers guide
As all bloggers know, pressing the publish button doesn’t guarantee traffic.
Getting your work out there and online is just the start of the promotion journey.
Here is my workflow for promoting your posts and sharing a new blog entry the smart, efficient,
sociable and creative way, and it takes just 7 minutes.
Really!
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3. 1. Use IFTT
Set up a set of recipes using IFTT.com so that as soon as your post is published it goes across
several networks.
If you missed by step by step post on that you will find it here.
(Time taken: 0 minutes once set up)
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4. 2. Stumbleupon
Next up, head on over to Stumble Upon and add your post as a new page.
While you are there, stumble a few new posts, and maybe share some
content of blogs you like too as extra karmic love.
(Time taken: 1 minute)
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5. 3. TLC tribe
Set up a TLC group with some fellow bloggers.
TLC stands for Tweet, Comment and Like, the key traffic drivers to get a post seen.
Commit to re-tweeting, commenting and “liking” each post a member of your group writes, and reap
the benefits yourself. Email the post to your TLC group and benefit from group affection and sharing.
(Time taken: 1 minute once group is set up)
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6. 4. Pinterest
Pin your post image to Pinterest.
Set up some board of your key themes or stories/categories, and add your new pin to a board.
While you are here, add some more pins from others to your boards, and tweet the pins for some
sociable action. (Cheeky tip: you can use the Stumble Upon URL in Pinterest if you disguise the su.pr
link in Buffer or Goole URL shortener for increased Pin/Stumble power).
(Time taken: 1 minute)
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7. 5. Schedule posts
Now, schedule some updates across your networks throughout the first day your post is live.
I send to my G+ page and personal profile, Twitter, my Facebook page, and Linked In.
I use Sendible and Buffer to schedule posts throughout the day all from the one dashboard, and add
settings for them to repeat over the next weeks.
(Time taken: 2 minutes).
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8. 6. Instagram
Next, I take my post into instagram, either by emailing myself the post image and sharing as an
instagram pic, or by taking a screenshot of the post from my mobile phone and sharing that way.
I also have an IFTTT recipe set up that everytime I share an instagram pic it tweets as a native Twitter
picture and also updates on my personal Facebook page and my Dex Diva Facebook page.
(Time taken: 2 minutes).
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9. 7 minutes later...
So, we are 7 minutes into promoting the post, and it has already gone to Linked In, G+, Instagram,
Facebook, Stumbleupon, Pinterest, been scheduled for today and next few weeks, and been
commented on by friends.
How’s that for smart?
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10. I use Comment Luv and a Google Plus comments plugin below my posts now to encourage
conversation in Google Plus and for commenters to share their own websites and Twitter usernames
for social impact.
Combine this with my smart social media scheduling tips for ninja-like social efforts, and you are
reaching far and wide with minimum effort for maximum results.
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Twitter: @dexdiva