How to Grow Your Blog Following
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Every blogger's dream is to have a huge following. A huge following means you can get your message out to more people and ultimately accomplish more profit from your efforts. But when it comes to growing your following, you need to know a few crucial things. First, it's not that difficult to grow your following. However, it's going to take time and effort, but if you're willing to put in the time and work, it will be well a worthwhile endeavor. A lot of bloggers are so concerned about the writing part of blogging; they overlook the work they need to grow their blog's following. While writing great content is an awesome way to attract traffic and grow your word-of-mouth, it's nearly enough. You need to make sure you allocate time, effort and even some cash to growing your following.
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Here are a few ways to get more readers for your on your blog:
- Make your RSS feed easily available and encourage visitors to sign up. Place the obligatory RSS button in your side bar and also encourage visitors to sign up in your posts and remind them precisely how to sign up.
- Build your mailing list. We'll be talking about list building next as it is very critical; probably even more vital than your RSS feed. Unless you serve a real techie audience, more of your readers will email than use RSS, so don't forget to consistently ask your visitors to sign up every chance you get.
- Make friends with others critical people in your niche. Many bloggers never seem to take the time to do very important task. Make meaningful friendship with other bloggers, product sellers and website owners in your niche. This does not mean liking someone's status on Facebook. It means talking directly with people and cultivating friendships. Why is it so important for you to make friends? Well, friends are more likely to share your blog URL, your content and your products. So make many friends and do the same for them.
- Use social media to supplement your following. On the Internet social media is frequently the focal point of many people's web experiences, especially the younger generation. They sign in to Facebook or Twitter and they read blog posts, find news and other information there.
You definitely want have a presence in social media. There are a couple of things you can do:
- Add sharing buttons on all your posts. This will make it easy for your readers to share your content with their social media connections.
- Get involved in a few strategic networks where you can reach a large part of your potential audience.
- Buy ads. Many times buying traffic is the fastest way to grow your following. You can buy ads in newsletters, on other websites, on Facebook and even through Google Adwords. Don't be afraid to invest a little money to make a lot more.
- Guest blogging and other content contributions. Use a guest blogging as a traffic boosting strategy. You can contribute content to other people's blogs, podcasts, reports and websites wherever you can. It's an simple, free and an exceptional way to reach new audiences and boost your credibility. Search for opportunities that will give you a lot of exposure, but don't walk away or overlook opportunities that allow you to reach small, but very targeted audiences.
Becoming a successful blogger isn't just about blogging. There are many elements involved in the process. It would be great to simply write great articles and then boom everything magically falls into place, but it's not going to happen like that. You need to devise a distinct and creative strategy every single work day to build your following.
Dania
-Here are a few ways to get more readers for your on your blog:
- Make your RSS feed easily available and encourage visitors to sign up. Place the obligatory RSS button in your side bar and also encourage visitors to sign up in your posts and remind them precisely how to sign up.
- Build your mailing list. We'll be talking about list building next as it is very critical; probably even more vital than your RSS feed. Unless you serve a real techie audience, more of your readers will email than use RSS, so don't forget to consistently ask your visitors to sign up every chance you get.
- Make friends with others critical people in your niche. Many bloggers never seem to take the time to do very important task. Make meaningful friendship with other bloggers, product sellers and website owners in your niche. This does not mean liking someone's status on Facebook. It means talking directly with people and cultivating friendships. Why is it so important for you to make friends? Well, friends are more likely to share your blog URL, your content and your products. So make many friends and do the same for them.
- Use social media to supplement your following. On the Internet social media is frequently the focal point of many people's web experiences, especially the younger generation. They sign in to Facebook or Twitter and they read blog posts, find news and other information there.
You definitely want have a presence in social media. There are a couple of things you can do:
- Add sharing buttons on all your posts. This will make it easy for your readers to share your content with their social media connections.
- Get involved in a few strategic networks where you can reach a large part of your potential audience.
- Buy ads. Many times buying traffic is the fastest way to grow your following. You can buy ads in newsletters, on other websites, on Facebook and even through Google Adwords. Don't be afraid to invest a little money to make a lot more.
- Guest blogging and other content contributions. Use a guest blogging as a traffic boosting strategy. You can contribute content to other people's blogs, podcasts, reports and websites wherever you can. It's an simple, free and an exceptional way to reach new audiences and boost your credibility. Search for opportunities that will give you a lot of exposure, but don't walk away or overlook opportunities that allow you to reach small, but very targeted audiences.
Becoming a successful blogger isn't just about blogging. There are many elements involved in the process. It would be great to simply write great articles and then boom everything magically falls into place, but it's not going to happen like that. You need to devise a distinct and creative strategy every single work day to build your following.
Dania