In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new Blog. Initially, you will be blogging to yourself. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog. One of the most popular Blogging platforms is Wordpress Blog
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called traction, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
9 Tricks to Get More Readers
9.Write at least five major “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. Post a new blog post daily. 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 important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This helps encourage them to subscribe, so they remember to come back.
Producing daily posts is particularly important when your blog is just starting. Once you have a decent reader base, you still must keep your content updating and fresh. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
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. Blogs are often personified, so your domain needs to be catchy and easy to remember.
6. Start commenting on other blogs. Commenting on other blogs and forums is one of the best ways to attract readers. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
5. Place links within your Posts, linking to other blogs. A trackback link is a way to tell the other blogger that you have linked to them. If they wish, they can then link back to you as well.
4. Encourage comments on your own blog. Comments on your blog posts tells new readers that previous readers enjoyed the read enough that they well compelled to say something. This helps to compel new readers to read your post right through. Closing your post with a question or request for reader input is a good way to get comments. Be sure to respond to comments as well.
3 Submit one of your pillar articles to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new 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 primarily powerful for increasing your incoming links and subsequent blog ranking, so you probably won’t notice results right away.
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 is much more to learn and many other things you can do. However, this article gives you a great base to start from.
This article was Submitted by JeromyS
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