How to Make Money With a Blog
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new Blog. 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. 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. 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 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.
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. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
7. Use a proper domain name. Developing a good “Brand” for your web blog is key to being remembered and easily shared with others. 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. 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 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 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 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.
This article was Submitted by JeromyS
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