Promote Your Articles on Social Networks

In this section (and the next), we’ll talk about promoting your articles on a variety of social media sites.

The same principles can be applied to new social networks that will pop up in the future, as well as to specialized social media sites for your particular sector that aren’t named here.

General Social Networks for Promoting Your Blog

You should use the following general social media sites:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Consider Instagram and Pinterest as optional, but they can be effective marketing channels. In 2018, Google announced that Google+ would be discontinued for consumers, so you can safely ignore that social network.

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