Need help with catagories and tags.How do you reach more readers?
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I’m very new to blogging (literally just started last night). I’m a writer hoping to showcase some of my work and drive readers to find my upcoming books on kindle. How do you reach more readers/subscribers for your blog? I’m looking to use the blog as a marketing tool and have read a bunch of tutorials and am more confused than ever.
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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/Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers. -
It’s Google that sends a signficant flow of traffic to blogs and search spiders are focused on the keywords in your content not your categories/tags. You will gain some insight when you read and watch these:
5 Google Webmasters Video Tutorials
Two SEO Videos for Bloggers
Revisiting Keywords and Tags -
These questions are in response to time thief however anyone with insight is welcomed to answer:
1.How specifically do you increase you SEO?
2. how do u structure a reader/search engine blog?
3. Anchor text? can you explain?
4. supporting other similar posts on you page won’t entourage readers to leave you blog for theirs esp if theres is more “advance?”
5. what do you consider to be authoritative posts.
6. I see a link on my page under Meta that says Entries RSS
Comments RSS. is this what your referring to?
7. when is it worth buying your own domain?
8. I tried verifying my blog via google however it said :Copy the meta tag below, and paste it into your site’s home page. It should go in the <head> section, before the first <body> section. However I don’t have anything like this on my blog…And suggestions?
9: what is a unique visitor? i know you didn’t mention this but I wanted to ask :)Thank you so very much!
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1 is a question that people pay thousands to learn. You can, instead, just do a search of the forums, where that question has been answered hundreds of times.
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lol thanks ps after much trial and error it tool me about 30 just not to finally figure out how to verify on google an bing but i got it! yay me! if anyone can answer any of the other questions that would be great.
also one more thing. I just started my blog 3 months ago. Last week I got 1000 hits in under 48 hrs. The button on my page labeled “Get ‘Blog Name’ Now” Says Click to follow Sash and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 2,293 other followers…Well i have a hard time believing I have that many subscribers. is that the actually number of people who have hit that link or what does that number represent?
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@echoestar
re: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-help-with-catagories-and-tagshow-do-you-reach-more-readers?replies=7#post-865327
All of the 25 points I posted are covered in posts in my blog and you can click my username to locate my blog.
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