Launching a new Blog is monumental, to a new or experienced blogger. Initially, you will be blogging to yourself. You may get a visit from a few friends, maybe a family member or two. One of the most popular Blogging platforms is WordPress Blog
For best results, go through this list from top to bottom. In time, you should attract enough readers that you no longer need to work on getting more, instead, your existing readers will spread the work.
Top 9 Tips to Attract readers
9.Prepare 5 “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. Developing some of these types of articles will help to increase long term appeal and overall perceived value.
8. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The best way to ensure your readers keep coming back is for them to see new content on a regular frequency, so they expect that if they check back in a day or two, there will be new information for them to read. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. It’s the initial first few months that are key, you want to produce plenty of content to optimize your results.
7. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word.
6. Get Involved in the Internet community and visit and contribute to related blogs and forums. Commenting on other blogs and forums is one of the best ways to attract readers. Of course for this to be successful, you need to focus on related blogs and forums.
5. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
4. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
3 Submit one of your pillar articles to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post that links to a list of related blogs, with the intention being to aggregate content for readers. Many bloggers link to carnival blogs, because it helps their ranking and generally results in an increase in readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com and other article directories. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have.
1. Continue to Produce more Articles Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong content in place.
There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.
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