My blog post bombed!!
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I’m not sure if I’m posting this in the right section but I recently uploaded a blog post entitled The Essential Photoshop Guide for Single Women. I spent a loooooog time on this for both the design and written element and was actually quite excited about posting it.
And it absolutely bombed.
I’m STILL scratching my head! I thought this would have received a great reception, especially from female readers. It was fun and light-hearted and included images of Ryan Gosling for goodness sake!
All feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anitahttp://anitabrowndesignstudio.com/2013/11/20/the-essential-photoshop-guide-for-single-women/
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This question is not a technical issue with using the WordPress.com platform. These forums are dedicated to answering (mostly) technical questions, and your question is related to aesthetic or personal or cultural issues. Or it may be a simply time-related problem if you have many readers from the U.S.
According to your About page, you live in “Belfast, Northern Ireland.”
This is my personal opinion: You may not be aware that for U.S. readers these months of November and December are devoted to Thanksgiving and Christmas and sentimentality and shopping and family and that many here are not much interested in your topic at this time of year.
Your post looks fine to me, but as I said, these forums are here for technical questions. We volunteers cannot advise you about why your post did not attract as much attention as you had anticipated.
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This is exactly the kind of feedback that experts get paid a lot of money for. There are lots of tips in the forum on promoting posts if you want free advice; just do a search.
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And sometimes Posts just bomb – had that happen from time to time – and other times older posts turn out to be popular on search engines or a new Post will have just the right something and get passed on by readers
Please note – I am not much good at marketing – listen more to @Raincoaster above – she way better
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See these for Staff tips:
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/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 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/
Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are (1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and (2) being active on social networking sites.
On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/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/
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/
Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-traffic/ -
P.S. What Tess said above it a reflection of how low my blog traffic stats tend to be in November. NANOWRIMO National Novel Writing Month, American Thanksgiving and X-mas shopping happen during this month.
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