[New post] Promote Your Posts on WordPress.com

Mike Bal posted: " Bringing readers and customers to your website can be a chore, requiring multiple tools, professional design and marketing skills, or lots of money.  That's why we're excited to announce that starting today, anyone with a WordPress blog can" WordPress.com News Promote Your Posts on WordPress.com Mike Bal Oct 6 Bringing readers and customers to your website can be a chore, requiring multiple tools, professional design and marketing skills, or lots of money.  That's why we're excited to announce that starting today, anyone with a WordPress blog can advertise on WordPress.com and Tumblr in just a few clicks. How? By turning your site content into clean, compelling ads that run across our millions-strong network of blogs. How it works If your website is hosted on WordPress.com, then head to wordpress.com/advertising and select your website — you'll see a list of recent posts and pages you can promote. Alternatively, when viewing posts or pages in your WordPress.com dashboard, click the ellipses (three dots) on any of them to bring up its menu, then click "Promote Post" (or Page). Now you'll be in the Promoted Content Wizard. Step 1: Design your ad. The wizard automatically formats your content into a beautiful ad, but you can adjust the image and text however you like. Step 2: Select your audience. Want to target the whole world? Only people in certain areas? Folks who blog about a specific category, like movies or sports? As you adjust these settings, you'll see our estimate of how many people you'll reach. Step 3: Select your dates and set your budget. Run your ad for 6 months or for just a few days — it's up to you. Step 4: Finish and pay. We may offer the lowest ad prices in the industry, but we also protect your content with a system backed by Verity and Grapeshot. So rest easy knowing that your ads will only show up where they're supposed to — and nowhere you'd feel strange about. Once your ad is running, you can check how it's doing in the "campaigns" tab of the advertising page where you started your campaign. Our campaigns are billed weekly based on how many times your ad is shown, so you'll only ever pay for what you signed up for. As always, you can find even more details about this tool on our support page. Let us know what you think! We're excited to launch this powerful new feature, and we're eager to get feedback. If you have any questions about it, challenges while using it, or ideas to make it better, please share them with our team. We'll make sure a real person reads through all of the feedback, and we'll be working tirelessly to make sure that this tool is something valuable for you. Comment You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from WordPress.com News. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/?p=49357 Powered by WordPress.com