Launching a new Blog is monumental, to a new or experienced blogger. 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.
Top 9 Tips to Attract readers
9.Prepare 5 “pillar” articles. A pillar article is longer and more detailed than typical articles, it is more than 500 words and generally give valuable instruction style information. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
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 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. Of course for this to be successful, you need to focus on related blogs and forums.
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. 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. 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 your latest pillar article 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. 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. Write more pillar 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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