How do you get readers?
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Quick & to the point I suppose: How do you actually get people to read your blog? Like, are there ways to advertise them, or I mean..? Yeah, I think I could possibly start writing interesting things, just don’t know how to get it out there to people. Thanks.
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Post in niche forums, but don’t shamelessly plug. Put it in your sig, and post around the place, and when talking about subjects you’ve covered in your blog link to it.
(Make sure when on forums you read the rules otherwise you may end up getting banned)
Also, network with higher profile bloggers, get noticed. Use facebook to tell people about your blog.
That’s some ideas, I just started out so I can’t tell you the reliability of the ideas, but try everything.
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Also I suggest a better theme, look through the themes in Appearance and choose one that suits your blog. Also post pictures next to your articles, it draws peoples attention. Nobody wants to sit there and read paragraphs and paragraphs, so you gotta lure them in with a picture.
Nice first article btw.
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“Nobody wants to sit there and read paragraphs and paragraphs, so you gotta lure them in with a picture.”
This is going to end up hurting me. I want to start posting some creative writing. How will I do this? I mean, ok, I don’t want MASSIVE amounts of traffic, it’s going to mostly be so I can see how my writing grows, but I suppose I could eventually find those who are willing to read personal ramblings?
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What I meant is when people see loads of paragraphs, their immediate reaction is “I’m not reading all of that” I wasn’t trying to say anything bad about your writing, it’s great!
Yer so my opinion is change the theme, or at least have a custom header, and accompany your writings with imagery.
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Try doing a search of the forum. There are over a thousand tips here already, and us old-timers are too lazy to keep repeating the same things.
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I didn’t mean on this forum, I meant on niche forums that reflect what your blog is about.
For instance if your blog is about gaming, find a gaming forum. I’d say 80% of internet forums allow for signatures.
I also discovered Digg and Reddit give loads of traffic, but don’t take my word for it, I just tried it just now.
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(1) Create an archive of high quality original content posts, and in your new posts link to related posts in authoritative blogs in your niche using appropriate anchor text.
(2) Recognize that the way your blog and blog posts are structured either helps or hinders potential readers using search engines to locate your blog, to understand what your site is about, and to locate specific content of interest to them.
- Don’t play hide and seek with search engines learn basic SEO and apply it to your posts and your blog. Basic SEO elements for blogers
- No potential reader likes feeling lost so be sure that your blog structure is simple and the navigation aids are intuitive. Clarity and simplicity go hand in hand so the KISS principle and the “less is more” motto are applicable.
(3) Invest time and energy into creating a brief and engaging Profile, and an accurate Blog Description, including your blogging goal(s) as well as, appropriate tags. These can be posted on your About page on your blog and also in Profile pages in all the social networks you choose to join.
- Create several versions of both your Profile and Blog Description in various lengths in accord with the numbers of characters that each social network allows;
- Join twitter and friendfeed and create an “elevator speech” length of your Blog Description (140 characters) that can be used on twitter, friendfeed, other microblogging sites and social networks.
(4) Recognize that blogging is built on relationships. The best way to get increase readers of and comments on your own blog is to leave meaningful comments on other blogs in your same niche, and building relationships. The more you comment on blogs in the same niche, and the more valuable your comments are, the more others reading your comments on those posts will become interested enough to click through to your blog, thereby increasing the possibility of securing more comments.
Encourage readers to comment on your posts by structuring your titles, sub-titles, introductory paragraph and/or concluding paragraph in a manner that invites feedback and discussion. The more comments your posts receive the more new readers they will attract.Encouraging blog readers to comment
(4) Employ all of the strategies outlined in the following post and I can assure you that you will increase unpaid organic traffic to your blog.
Twenty five steps to increase blog traffic -
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i recommend reading this article I wrote for some ideas on drawing in readers to your blog. http://teckline.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/organic-traffic/
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