How to Create an Expert Round-up Post in 3 Steps? Here is my 3-step process:

Step 1: Pick a Topic for Your Expert Roundup Post:

To hit the jackpot and get thousands of tweets and social media shares on your expert roundup blog post, you need to create something outstanding - something that will leave industry/niche influencers jaw-dropped.

My expert round up story?

About 5 years ago, I was at home during a summer break from Uni extremely frustrated because I didn't know what to blog about.

I went on Google searching for ways to find content ideas to blog about.

I stumbled on Sue Anne’s successfulblogging dot com and signed up for her “Your first $1,000 webinar”.

I showed up for the webinar but was attracted to JUST ONE (1) THING…

EXPERT ROUNDUPS!

It immediately lit a bulb in my head and I'm like “Ooh, I'll do this”.

I then immediately came up with my first headline (topic), X CEOs REVEAL THEIR NUMBER 1 TACTIC TO MANAGING THEIR TWITTER PROFILES WITHOUT WASTING MUCH TIME, within a few minutes.

First Draft Topic: 60 CEOS REVEAL THEIR NUMBER ONE TACTIC TO MANAGING THEIR TWITTER PROFILES WITHOUT WASTING MUCH TIME.

Here are things I considered when I came up with this title;

• I wanted to help people manage their Twitter profiles - what topic would tie to this? “Twitter management”, "Twitter automation", "and Twitter tools".

• I wasn't going to target everyone - I wanted to work with companies, businesses, and brands; targeting “CEOs”, "Managers", "Directors", etc, came up.

• I needed to solve a specific problem; “managing Twitter without spending much time” came up.

Get the idea now?

Think about the products or services you sell.

Brainstorm topic ideas directly related to it and are what your target audience will want to consume.

In my case, it was "CEOs" and "Managers".

Next, think of one unique problem that your product or service solves and pull out a topic around it.

Don't worry about your title being Google or SEO friendly, just put some ideas down.

With keyword research, I adjusted my title to;

TWITTER AUTOMATION: 62 EXPERTS REVEAL THEIR AUTOMATION SECRETS AND TOOLS.

The baseline?

In my case, I switched my headline from the first to the latter after I got participation from about 10 to 15 influencers.

Make use of Keyword tools like Google Keyword Planner to come up with ideas for an optimized title.

Expert roundup posts generally climb up quickly on search engines.

My first expert round-up ranked on page #2 on Google for the highly competitive keyword, "Twitter automation" within 3 weeks.

Why?

Influencers who participate are going to share your roundup post and 1000s are going to visit your website. Thus you need to be very careful and make sure you use this opportunity to get the targeted influencers!

After getting a few topic ideas for your expert roundup, you can begin finding social media influencers to reach out to for the roundup.

Step 2: How to Find the Right Influencers for Your Expert Roundup Post:

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