
How to Promote Your Content Online in 2025
In order to win in online marketing, your content marketing strategy should include at least (perhaps more) two easy steps: Create great onsite content with content marketing (which we have discussed at length before) Promote that onsite content. This ultimate guide to promoting your published content is all about the other side of the equation—the side that gets neglected by most content marketers. Everyone knows the importance of content promotion (otherwise, you’d have no “content”), but for many marketers, that’s the end of the line. Once a piece is created, your job is pretty much done, right? Wrong. In fact, the tactics you use to promote and nurture your published content have just as big of an impact on your overall results as the quality of your content in the first place. Without a proper follow-up strategy, even your best content strategy might fail to live up to its true potential. In this guide, I’ll explain the concept of promotion and nurturing, why it’s important for any digital marketing strategy, and of course, the specific tactics you’ll need to leverage in order to maximize your content’s visibility. As usual, this guide (like our other definitive guides) is broken up into clear sections, so feel free to jump around to the sections that matter most to you and your brand. Lead Nurturing is the goal of quality content promotion Getting your content seen by more people is a big part of your promotion and nurturing strategy, but that isn’t the only goal. There are many benefits to promoting and nurturing your material, which manifest differently depending on what you’re promoting and how you’re promoting it: Increased visibility Rejuvenated interest Maximizing efficiency Lead generation Sales Types of content promotion Throughout this ultimate guide to promoting your published content, I’m going to be walking you through the many types of content promotion that you can engage in. These vary from free to expensive, from easy to hard, from temporary to long-term, and offer many different advantages and disadvantages between them. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with each approach, and decide on an individual basis whether or not each one is right for your brand. Some brands may wish to use all these content promotion strategies in conjunction with each other, complementing all their strengths and weaknesses at once, while others may wish to focus on the one or two most likely to bring them rankings in search engine results pages (SERPs). In any case, here’s a briefer on where this guide is going from here: Social media. (Image Source: Twitter) Email marketing. Influencer marketing. Links. Social bookmarks. Paid advertising. Transformations. Social Media Syndication and Engagement First up, we have the strategy that almost everyone thinks of first when it comes to content promotion: social media syndication. Why is social media syndication so popular? Because it’s free, relatively easy to use, and it offers the potential of exponential growth. Ideal for both one-time and long-term content runs, I highly encourage social media distribution at a bare minimum for every brand. Let’s explore the reasons why, and how to use social media advertising effectively. Choosing the right content promotion platforms One thing, understand that social media marketing isn’t a magical gateway to more visibility and a bigger target audience. Some platforms are going to matter to your brand far more than others, and it’s up to you to decide which ones those are. It’s not an easy decision, nor is it necessarily straightforward, but narrowing your scope of content syndication to only the platforms that are most effective initiatives for your brand can help you maximize your return while cutting back on wasted time. Demographic considerations. Your first job is to take a look at the demographic makeup of each platform, and weed out any platforms that aren’t a good fit for your brand. There’s basic information, such as age groups of users (Snapchat, for example, tends to skew toward teenagers and young adults), but also more behavioral and qualitative information to consider (LinkedIn, for example, is mostly used by working professionals). Other platforms, like Facebook, have a broad appeal and are worth pursuing for almost any business strategy. If you’re looking for a good all-in-one source for social media demographic information, Pew Research has a fantastic breakdown. (Image Source: Pew) What are your main goals? What does your target audience want? What are your competitors doing? What would complement this platform type? Initial content promotion Once you’ve got a loose strategy set in place, and a good understanding of what types of content promotion you’ll be pursuing, you can begin. Ultimately, there are two ways to promote your content in the social sphere, and the first is with initial content promotion. Facebook allows you to boost your posts (for a price) so they reach more of your target audience, and this can be a great way to get an initial boost of syndication with your audience. LinkedIn groups offer another great channel for getting initial visibility. Start by joining as many LinkedIn groups as you can that are relevant to your industry or business (as of time of writing, the limit is 50 groups per account). Once you’re accepted into the groups, participate in them and add your content to them as discussions. Ongoing content syndication The other route for social media distribution is ongoing syndication. Here, you’ll be reposting your older pieces of content on a recurring basis. Obviously, newer content is better, but syndicating your old material will help it be seen by people who missed it the first time around and may re-spark interest in your older concepts. Plus, you need to be posting almost constantly if you want to stay relevant in social media—and your archive of content can help you do it. Timing considerations. There are a couple types of timing considerations you’ll need to bear in mind here. First, it’s not a good idea to repost your latest material the day after you initially promoted it.