Can viewers of my blog get noticed automatically when I post?
-
Is there a way viewers of my blog get noticed automatically when i post.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
Hi there! Viewers can sign up to follow your blog by clicking on the follow link at the top of your blog. They will be prompted to enter their email address if they don’t already have a WordPress account.
This support article should help, too:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/ -
What follows is a summary of what can be done to set up subscriptions on any WordPress.COM hosted blog.
You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:
These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.
See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/
We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.
Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/
You can add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
You can create a sign up page on MailChimp. If you want to use MailChimp with your WordPress.com site you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on MailChimp and providing it to your visitors. Here’s the info from MailChimp Support http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog
-
@myrahall
Below are some basic steps to take when setting up any blog.To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com hosted blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
It can take weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL. What attracts search engines is unique content in posts (not pages) that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet. Start now publishing original content posts frequently two or even three times weekly. For more information read > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/21/omg-i-cant-find-my-blog-on-google/
It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog and I believe this will help you Finding Blogs with Similar Content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/
See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
Successful blogs draw between 30 – 60 % of their incoming targeted readers from search engine referrals. That’s because targeted readers use search engines to do keyword searches to locate information of topical interest to them. Using categories and tags will attract targeted visitors to your site http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/Despite the ubiquitous statements to the opposite effect, autoposting, rather than manual posting unique snippets to different social networks results in fewer people reading your full posts on your site. See Social Networking Blunders > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/
Please also note the sticky post at the head of these forums titled Getting started in the forums: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-faq-getting-started-in-the-forums?replies=2#post-2170304
Are you looking for feedback on your blog? This could range from the design of the site to the actual content of a post. You can get feedback from our Community Pool:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/Also, if you just want to connect with other bloggers, get inspired, build your brand, and get inside tips from the folks who bring you WordPress.com, take a look at our Blogging University here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
- The topic ‘Can viewers of my blog get noticed automatically when I post?’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 