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As a blogger, one of the hardest things has to be finding your audience and getting eyes on your material. Hopefully, by promoting your blog on Facebook in one or all of these suggested groups, you’ll be able to give your posts the extra boost they need!
But there are hundreds of groups out there! So where in the world do we begin? And which groups have moderators who will make sure that your hard work supporting other bloggers is reciprocated? Where should you spend your time and effort in promoting a blog post?
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Warning – Watch out for your Bounce Rate
I have experienced my fair share of groups that were a waste of time and caused my Bounce Rate to go as high as 80% (Yikes!) so I will happily steer you away from those and instead focus on 7 of my favorite groups that I daily engage with. And you know what?
Best Facebook Groups for Promoting a Blog
In today’s post, I am focusing specifically on groups that require reciprocation in their threads.
1. Bloggers Growing Together
Kelly Loftus of KA Inspired created this group to help with promoting a blog and gaining page views. The daily threads (limit to 20 bloggers) require each blogger to spend at least 3 minutes on the other blogs and to click through to 5 pages.
Kelly and her moderator, Margaret of Let’s Learn to Sew, do a thorough job of moderating and make sure that everyone participates or they get booted.
The result – This group is amazing for promoting a blog and for improving your Google Analytics and bounce rates. Win-Win!
2. Bloggers United
Laura of Loopy Lou Laura and Pooja of Colossal Umbrella do a good job of moderating Bloggers United with numerous daily threads that will help with promoting a blog. Threads range from Facebook likes to Blog Comments to Visits Via Social Media. I usually join the Social Media thread where you click through from a social media post (google search, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.) to someone’s blog and click through to another post too.
Recently Laura and Pooja have asked all members to share their screenshots of web history to prove they’ve completed the thread properly. It’s really helped to root out those who drop a link and run.
The Result – This group too is amazing for bounce rates and also helps with Google search clicks (if you choose). You will see that by promoting a blog with this group you will, in turn, see positive results on Google Analytics.
3. Pinning for a Profit
Again, a group by Kelly of KA Inspired, this group is specifically for Pinterest clicks. Unlike other groups where there is no accountability and terrible bounce rates, Kelly insists that everyone clicks through to a second page only after staying on the initial landing page for at least one minute.
Similar to her popular “Bloggers Growing Together” group, she is serious about moderating the group and makes sure that rules are followed.
The Result – Terrific for bounce rates and giving your Pinterest account an extra boost and in turn it helps with promoting a blog.
4. Facebook Fans
Do you have a Facebook page? Want to have eyes on your Facebook posts? This is a great group that is moderately moderated where you can join daily “like”, “reaction” or “comment” threads. I personally have received 20+ reactions and 70+ likes on some posts. Of course, when you receive all those reactions and likes, you also have to give those out too.
My favorite thread in the group is an Insta Like thread every morning at 8 a.m. PST where everyone posts their Facebook photos that need extra love and in the next 30 minutes everyone “likes” those posts. So within 30 minutes, I can have 15-20 likes on my Facebook photo. And if I see someone hasn’t liked said photo, I can comment and the moderator is good about following up to make sure everyone participates.
The Result – This is a great group for helping get eyes on my Facebook page since the algorithm changed and for promoting a blog on Facebook.
5. The Blogging Association
This community group, led by The Spicy Southern Cook, has two daily threads of 15 members. Each member can choose to receive either 5 page views or 3 page views PLUS one click through.
The Result – The moderators do a great job of making sure that everyone participates as required.
6. Blog Comments
Ben Butler, who runs a VA boutique called Bizzy Bim, runs Blog Comments with daily threads that require everyone to comment on each other’s posts.
This is a terrific group for gaining blog comments because sometimes it will be up to 30 participants meaning 29 fresh eyes on your blog as well as comments! And Ben does a good job to make sure that there aren’t controversial posts (no porn, religion, or politics) and that everyone participates positively.
The results – The blog comments help with promoting a blog, blog SEO, backlinks, and getting more blog views. And for the most part, the comments are meaningful and demonstrate that the blogger has actually read my post. There have been a few embarrassing times when folks seem to have skimmed the post and mix up names in sponsored posts but that is rare.
Hope you will join us!!
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So there you have it. 7 of my favorite Facebook groups for promoting a blog. Do you have a favorite group? Do share in the comments below! And maybe we’ll meet online thanks to one of these groups one day!
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This is a great list! Hadn’t heard of a few of them! Thanks so much for posting this 🙂
Thanks for sharing these! Wow! I am so glad you did. I am going to check them out! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing these resources. I will definitely join some of these groups. Great list.
Yyyaaaayyyyyy…you mentioned 2 of my favourite groups in your list….Blog Comments and Bloggers United. They are some of the best groups I have ever joined, on social media.
I really want to join Bloggers Growing Together. Maybe I’ll check it out later. Great list!
These all sound like such great groups to be a part of! While I’m a member of a couple of them, I’ll be joining in on a few more to start promoting both my personal blog and my clients’ blogs, too! Thank you for sharing this resource.
oh wow thats a really epic sellection ! i did not know there are many places one can promote a blog so thnaks so much for that
I am truly grateful for groups like these. They provide great ways to support each other. Thank you so much for the recommendations!!
These are great groups to help get your blog up and running! It’s a perfect starter list.
These are awesome! I had done a little research way back when, and that is how I came across Blog Comments. I haven’t heard of the others, will definitely check them out.
+1 to No.6. It’s not easy to run a blog and social media pages. Thanks for sharing these!
Facebook is a great place to connect and share your content, even though I only use it for business it is great to have this list at hand. Not a member of any of these groups, but I am definitely checking them out
Facebook groups are an excellent way to improve interactivity and visibility. I use a few of the ones on this list, and they’re excellent. I love your picks.
This post was super helpful! There are so many awesome groups that I didn’t know about! Thanks for sharing these with us!
Kileen
Thanks a lot for the shoutout! I try to make sure everything is fair and friendly in Blog Comments. We’re all hustling out there, so we all need to have each others’ backs. Great picks here, I’m a member of a lot of these groups, and they’re all excellent.
I’ve seen Ben around and he does such a great job with his work. I’d recommend him to anyone asking.
Thank you for sharing these useful groups. I definitely be making use of them!
Couldn’t agree more with your comments regarding Ben. Love that guy. He is the best. I am checking out a few of the other ones mentioned here so thanks! Great information and I hope to see you in a few of the groups mentioned.
I am only part of 3 groups, Bloggers United, Blog Comments, and FB fans and they are really good but there are some other groups too they are old and equally good with fewer bounce rates. I’ll check out these groups too that you had mentioned.
I am actually part of some of these groups! Great list! It’s very helpful for new bloggers!
fb groups are a wonderful way to get visitors for your blog.
such an amazing list.
I have benefited huge through fb groups.
I am fairly new to blogging and I know the value of being in the right fb groups.
will surely join a few from your list as well!
thanks for sharing!
Wow! I am a member of bloggers united and facebook fans. Thank you sharing this information. I will join all of this.
Thank you for sharing this list dear, as a new Blogger am always looking to join groups which actually help.
Yey! Thanks for the recommendations. I have joined the other groups as well Hope the admins approve my request to join lol! Thank you very much
Wow… Thanks for sharing. Nice information. Not easy with promoting your blog. Thanks for your information
These were super helpful! I’ll be joining some of them. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to look for with blogging groups, so I’m thankful for your post. And very cool you have your own group too!
I’m so honored to be mentioned not once, but twice in this post! Facebook Groups are such a great way to meet and connect with other bloggers. I’m so happy you are part of both of my groups
hey Kelly,
unfortunately, I couldn’t find your FB group’s link.
when I click the link and land on the page, It says this content is unavailable.
I hope you provide me the right link for your group.
the group I am talking about is bloggers growing together.