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Introducing Blaze: A New Option to Ignite Your Progress on WordPress.com

At WordPress.com we’re all the time in search of methods to make constructing and operating your website online easier and extra impactful (and extra enjoyable!).

One of many greatest challenges for any website proprietor is discovering your readers, followers, clients, or subscribers. Till now, selling your WordPress.com website online required a number of instruments, on-line accounts, skilled design and advertising expertise, and – sure – a number of cash.

That’s why we’re excited to announce Blaze, a brand new instrument permitting anybody with a WordPress weblog to promote on WordPress.com and Tumblr in only a few clicks. How? By turning your website content material into clear, compelling advertisements that run throughout our millions-strong community of blogs.

How Blaze works

In case your web site is hosted on WordPress.com, then head to wordpress.com/promoting and choose your web site — you’ll see a listing of current posts and pages you’ll be able to promote. In case your WordPress website isn’t hosted on WordPress.com, you’ll be able to benefit from Blaze by means of the Jetpack plugin.

Alternatively, when viewing the submit or web page record in your WordPress.com dashboard, click on the ellipses (three dots) subsequent to any particular person submit/web page to carry up a brand new menu, then click on “Promote with Blaze.”

Now you’ll be within the Blaze Marketing campaign Wizard.

Step 1: Design your advert. The wizard mechanically codecs your content material into a lovely advert, however you’ll be able to alter the picture and textual content nevertheless you want.

Step 2: Choose your viewers. Wish to goal the entire world? Solely folks in sure areas? Of us who’re studying content material a couple of particular class, like films or sports activities? As you alter these settings, you’ll see our estimate of how many individuals you’ll attain.

Step 3: Choose your dates and set your price range. Run your advert for six months or for only a few days — it’s as much as you.

Step 4: End and pay. We could supply the bottom advert costs within the trade, however we additionally shield your content material with a system backed by Verity and Grapeshot. So relaxation straightforward realizing that your advertisements will solely present up the place they’re purported to — and nowhere you’d really feel unusual about.

As soon as your advert is operating, you’ll be able to test the way it’s doing within the “Campaigns” tab of the promoting web page.

Our campaigns are billed weekly primarily based on what number of occasions your advert is proven, so that you’ll solely ever pay for what you signed up for. As all the time, you could find much more particulars about this instrument on our help web page.

This function is presently solely out there to customers with “English” set as their major language, however we’re working exhausting on bringing it to different languages as properly.

Tell us what you consider Blaze!

We’re excited to launch this highly effective new function, and we’re wanting to get suggestions. In case you have any questions on it, challenges whereas utilizing it, or concepts to make it higher, please share them with our group. We’ll ensure that an actual individual reads by means of the entire suggestions, and we’ll be working tirelessly to make it possible for this instrument is one thing worthwhile for you.