Tuesday, February 21, 2012

All Blogs Need New Readers All the Time

By Jerremy Brown


In this article I'm going to reveal some amazing tips about blogging. Check it out more at renegade millionaire and Sonic List Builder.

It doesn't really matter what kind of blog you run or plan to launch, if you don't have the right amount of readers flowing in who are actually interested in your content, you won't find success. A quick glance around the blogosphere should reveal that almost all of the popular blogs out there have something very important in common: an incredibly loyal fan base made up of readers who regularly update themselves, interact with each other and actually play their parts well. To make sure your blogging efforts are successful, you will need to put in some honest effort to make sure you get as many readers as you can. This article will teach you a few of the simple and easy to apply ideas that will help you grow the readership of your blog.

A really good way to get the highest quality traffic flowing in to your blog and to make sure that it is made up of people who are genuinely interested in what you have decided to offer, is to interview other bloggers in your niche. That's right; this could prove to be a win-win situation, mainly because the bloggers that you interview will most definitely feature your blog post on their own blog, linking to the interview that you took and put up. This can help you exchange traffic with the other blog while offering good value to your readers at zero cost.

There are hundreds of ways to get someone to visit your blog at least once but that isn't enough; you need them to visit again and again--to become loyal readers. One way to do this is to get more RSS subscribers and to do that you need to help your readers understand what the benefits of subscribing to your blog really are and to give them a working idea of how it operates. As someone who blogs, you'll need to explore multiple options for increasing your readership and reducing the things that might be limiting you. This is precisely why you need to think about doing some offline promotion for your blog as well. Start by talking to your friends, putting your blog address on letterheads, business cards, etc. Get out there and do some networking with good people and ask all of them to pay a visit to your blog. If you run an offline business you can usually get your customers to become blog readers and even if you don't, you can still approach offline businesses that operate within your same niche and ask them to do a little bit of promotion for you.

Not all bloggers see their blogs as potential businesses or sources of income and that's why you'll see that they have a much more lenient approach to things. When you are a cut above the others you should take an extra step and actively advertise your blog on other blogs that relate to yours as well as on other niche-centric websites. This will give you the needed leverage and the exposure that you're looking for to get more readers to your blog. However, make sure that you target only the best sites for your ads, they should relate to yours and have good traffic.

Networking is an essential element of successful blogging, and if you look around you'll find that by talking about other big bloggers within your niche or by asking questions of them. Try to find moderate bloggers--not super successful ones--because your goals here are to properly leverage the network that has already been built by these bloggers to help you get more readers for your own blog. Don't be aggressive when you try this approach; subtle is better. Taking your blog up a few levels and getting your visitors to become loyal readers isn't as hard as it probably sounds. It's important to focus on the things that are important and that will help you increase your readership as well as to come up with goals that aren't just achievable but actually worth pursuing. So if you still need to get to work on finding more readers for your blog, stop procrastinating and get to work and don't be afraid to go the extra mile to make things happen for yourself.




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