HOW TO GET BLOGGERS TO FOLLOW MY BLOG
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Hello!
I’ve just started blogging and have just realized how many blogs are out there. If you give me the link to your blog then I’ll check it out and follow you. I also need to know how i can get other bloggers to follow me. http://www.superinspiredmoments.com
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
Perhaps the most important thing to do is to continue to produce quality material on the site, as you’ve been doing. Visiting other sites and commenting on them, and following other sites, often lead to reciprocal actions. To specifically encourage visitors to follow your site you may also add a Follow Blog widget, and a Follow Button widget. However, also be aware that, as the Follow Blog Widget support page notes:
Readers who are logged in to WordPress.com can also follow your blog using the follow button in the top toolbar. Readers not logged in to WordPress.com will see a follow button on the bottom right corner of your site if you have the follow blog button activated at Settings -> Reading.
You may also invite selected users to follow your site as described in the “Invite People to Follow Your Blog” section of the Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers support page.
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See also the External Follow Button support page if you are considering adding a follow button directing to your WordPress.com site on other sites.
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Here are some tips.
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 and secure a traffic flow from the SERPs (search engine page 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/
It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog. If you are a WordPress.com blogger there are onsite tools you can use to find blogs by subject matter that are hosted on this multiuser blogging platform http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/ However, do NOT stop there because the classic error new bloggers tend to make here is focusing only on gaining traffic from this site alone.
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.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/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/
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/
12 Tips for Improving Search Queries Ranking Position. If you want people to find your site through the use of keywords, then from the readers perspective, keep it natural and use key words or keyword phrases only if they are a natural “fit”.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/01/25/12-tips-for-improving-search-queries-ranking-position/7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/Social Networking Blunders. Despite the ubiquitous statements to the opposite effect, autoposting to socila networks, rather than manual posting results in fewer people reading your full posts on your site.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/10/social-networking-blunders/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/Don’t overlook Staff advice:
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/ -
Keep in mind that you don’t really care if the person following you has their own blog or not – you want people that are interested in reading your site – I subscribe to many sites – I think only one of them subscribes to mine – most of the blogs I read are not related to what I write on my site and one site is ran by a 75 year old or so grandmother and is about pinching pennies and making the food bank food go farther – I doubt she has ever been on a boat or lives close to water – so I would not expect her to be interested in what I write
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wow. thank you guys for such help. i appreciate all of you who have taken your time to assist me. i think am good to go. thanks guys and God bless you all. cheers.
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You be welcome –
Remember getting and keeping visitors is hard & a long term thing – even the “instant traffic” folks that use social media and who’s actions border on spam at times are working hard at getting traffic
Write good original material is the secret to keeping visitors coming back
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@ superinspired,
You’re welcome. You’ll do fine. We’re here to help if we can.
Regards,
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@musicdoc1 thanks a million. God bless you all. am happy to be connected to this great family. i will make it.
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