How to Properly Promote Your Blog [INFOGRAPHIC]

What steps are necessary to properly promote your blog and increase your exposure?

Blogs are a great way to drive traffic, build your credibility and generate leads. The problem, however, is that you are competing with billions of other pages for the attention of a niche market. That said, a HubSpot study found that companies that blog generate 55% more trafic and 70% more leads than companies that do not.

So, how do you properly promote your blog to reap some of these benefits? There are a few steps that are crucial to increasing the success of your blog and the business you generate from it. The infographic below provides an excellent checklist that you should run through every time you put together a new post until it becomes second nature.

Go through the checklist and tell us which of the steps described you think is the most important to help promote your blog. Tell us in the comments below or on Twitter!