This is probably the single best piece of advice I can give you.
This is “literally” the recipe for “success” when it comes to blogging.
It’s more important than choosing a topic to blog about.
It’s even more important than figuring out how often you should publish your blog posts.
If you want to be a professional blogger, you’re going to need to get viral. And the best way to go viral?
Social Media Buttons!
Look, go to your blog right now. What do you see? A bunch of words, some pretty pictures. What’s missing?
Social Media Buttons!
Digg, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, Facebook… what do these things have in common?
Yeah, they’re made up words. But they can also make you rich as fuck.
Trillions of people a day use Facebook to share the best blogs on the internet. And yours can be one of them, but you need to make it easy for people to share your content. How?
Social Media Buttons!
This is the biggest thing I see missing from most blogs. Sure, maybe you’ve got a few social media buttons here and there, but if you really want people to share your content, you need to put your focus where it counts: on adding more social media buttons to your theme.
It’s the “solution” to “every” web design problem you can possibly encounter.
The bigger the better.
Here are the top 5 rules for leveraging social media with your blog:
- Add social media buttons to your sidebar
- Add social media buttons after your posts
- Add social media buttons to your footer
- Become a social media consultant
- Make your social media buttons as large as possible. They should literally dominate the screen for your visitors.
I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from one of the most popular bloggers in history.
“Most blogs could double their revenue if they just keep adding social media buttons.” – Mark Twain
Stay thirsty, my friends. Success is just around the corner.
Love the advice on this site!
The next step after getting all these social media buttons (!) is to go all in on in terms of posting on these platforms. It is totally okay if you have just one post, but if you want it to go viral you need to tweet about it at least 5 to 10 times a day (#bestadviceever #getrichnow). It is also great to include as many photos as possible, because you can then you can also pin these photos. Social media is so great!