How to share my blog material?

As the internet has evolved over the course of my life, it has become a much more interactive as social media has become a staple of every day life.  As the internet becomes more interactive, the possibility of others being able to increase the viewership or following of my blog comes into play.  Viewers of my bog are free to share material on my blog freely, however, I feel that the best way for them to share my material is through outlets that focus on communities.  This includes online forums and Facebook groups.  I feel those two outlets in particular will help my blog the most because the nature of those sites imply that everyone who visits those pages are all interested in the topic.  I also feel that it is something very feasible, especially with the content on my blog, being related to competitive gaming, which have very active communities on online forums and Facebook groups.

QR codes

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The QR code I decided to use for my blog is a link to the arcade stick controller that I use, the Hori Real Arcade Pro VX SA.  I decided to use this one because URL QR codes seem to be the most practical for my blog.  Through my blog, I want to share with people what I personally think is the best arcade style controller on the market and what I use and have traveled with to tournaments across the east coast for the past year and a half.  The URL is the Amazon address for the arcade stick.  I want to have my readers learn more about the controller I use and see if its one that they would be interested in using themselves.

Social Media Promotion

For my blog, social media promotion can help boost the viewership and following of my blog greatly.  I personally think the best social media tool to promote my blog would be Twitter.  Twitter has become one of the more active social media networks over the past couple of years and seems to be better for promoting than Facebook is.  Twitter allows people to search hashtags and do many other things to have a Twitter page’s name be exposed to their followers, such as retweeting and mentioning in a post.  Facebook on the other hand I feel is a very poor promotional tool.  I have used Facebook in the past to promote my old band in high school and our exposure was very minimal, regardless of having over 1,000 likes.  A very small percentage of our Facebook following had our posts show up in their news feed according to Facebook insight.  In order to have them appear more often on people’s news feeds, you have to pay a fee to promote posts.  Twitter also has paid promotion, however, tweets, trends and pages that are promoted through Twitters system target people who do not follow a certain page and could possibly be interested based on region, interest, age or gender.  I feel that Twitter is the number one best social network to be used as a promotional tool.