How to leverage blog articles?
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"Hello Moz Fans!"
I've been writing blogs for our new site (bizinka.com an e-commerce,website design company) and posting links on our social media pages, however as we're in our infancy and so there's limited traffic that comes from social media so I want to know what the best practices and avenues to take in leveraging these blogs?
I've heard a lot about article sites such as Ezine holding little weight and there's a lot of forums out there that don't seem to offer much at all in terms of traffic and credibility.
Could anyone suggest some sites please?
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You're not looking for sites -- you're looking for people. Develop relationships with influencers in your industry, get your awesome content in front of them, and they may share/retweet/link/discuss it.
You can also try Reddit and StumbleUpon, but those are more of a crapshoot.
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