How to Promote Your Blog Without Paid Ads - 5 Sneaky Ways to Explode Your

paid ads suck yes they provide an ROI
and if you're getting amazing ROI from
them you should be doing them and you
know what even though I'm saying they
suck
I still use paid ads and I use them each
and every single day but that doesn't
mean that's the only way to grow your
business hey everyone I'm Neil Patel and
today I'm gonna share with you five
sneaky ways you can grow your blog
without paid ads step number one go on
social web so whether it's Facebook or
Twitter and go see what people are
saying about your competitors everyone's
talking about your competitors I hate to
say you're not the only popular one out
there that's just the reality and you
know what your competitors may be more
popular than you but when you see more
people talking negatively about your
competition or you see them talking
positively about your competition you
want to engage in their conversation and
if they're like oh my god you're you
know X Y & Z company has this amazing
post
I'll go respond to that person be like
oh did you know we also have a similar
post but ours covers a B and C that
there's as in cover it's like take that
and you know what by doing that one
little simple thing you'll start getting
more traffic more people familiar with
your blog and it really does work how do
I know this my competitor Mixpanel used
to do this with my company KISSmetrics
back in the day I was like crap why
don't I think of this but now I know
about it and I'm sharing that with you
the second strategy you wanted to is go
comment on your competitors blog your
competitors have blog posts who says you
can't comment on them if you comment you
engage and don't be negative don't be
like oh we're better than you or we have
better content you can just be like nice
post I love how you covered X Y & Z you
can give some tips and then you can even
say oh we also covered this set and the
other that you know on your blog post
and if you're interested you can check
it out here and link back to your site
it's amazing way to get traffic from
your competitors the third strategy I
have for you is go to eight reps com put
in your competitor blog URL and go see
who's linking to them head up each and
every single one of those people and
a simple email hey John I noticed you're
linking to XY & z comm and you linked
out to this specific article related to
online marketing we actually have a
similar post well ours covers twenty
more advanced ways you can double your
traffic Cheers
Neil Patel by doing that and shooting
out emails to other people are linking
to your competitors and it's just a
casual email you notice in that email I
didn't say hey you should link out to me
you should promote me no I'm not being
that direct I'm just starting a
conversation making it super casual and
by doing that more people are likely to
start including my blog posts on their
website and link to me and I'm getting
all that data from a trust calm because
it shows me every single site that's
linking to my competitor so buzzsumo
shows you the most popular articles or
the least popular articles that your
competitors have you put in their blog
URL and it'll show you all of the most
popular posts sorted by social shares
once you have that when you want to do
with buzzsumo let's take the most
popular posts and go write better
versions of them so use Bryan Dean
skyscraper technique so if they wrote a
post on 20 amazing ways to do yoga poses
I would write an article on a hundred
and one advanced ways to do yoga poses
right as a beginner or something like
that as you can tell based on the title
I don't really know much about yoga but
you get the point
I'm just one upping up and doing
something that's way more detailed and
then in buzzsumo it shows you who shared
your competitor's content when you click
on the view shares the link then I would
head up each and every single one of
those people and then ask them to share
my content as well and last but not
least no one's perfect everyone has a
complaint if you say you don't have any
complaints I call I complain
about stuff all the time and I bet you
people are complaining about your
competitors each and every single day so
go on the social web find out who's
complaining help them out and tell them
about your blog and everything you have
and all the solutions you have to help
them
and by building that bond in helping
them you're gonna turn their haters into
your evangelists that's amazing because
you're just fueling the fire making more
people passion about your company your
blog you're building this community
you're creating more evangelists and
everyone's good like yeah let's share
your content and let's do really well
and do those five sneaky things and you
will get more traffic to your blog
without spending any money on paid ads