When I first heard about bloging my first thought that it was
somewhere your motor vehicle got stuck,now as with any thing new you
need to learn the techniques or have a guide to show you the way.
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch
a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog
chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you.
Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your
sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but
that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.
These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have
next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
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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 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is
usually 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. This article you are currently reading
could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a
good "how-to" lesson. 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.
9. 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
causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
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.
8. 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 an easily rememberable domain
name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to
friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that
place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word
and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small
easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct
keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember
then you've done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles
and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed
to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for
your blog is to comment on other people's blogs. 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.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked
to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your
blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something
valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your
work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is
sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your
blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a
trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary
of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog
telling someone else's blog that you wrote an article mentioning them.
Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback
leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow,
but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of
another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager
to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader
of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down
the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new
readers.
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5. 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. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in
a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can
keep the conversation going.
4. 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. Often many other
blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have
articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not
going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and
only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites,
find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to
copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can
rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably
only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over
time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. 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 - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take
one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your
article then becomes available to other people who can republish your
article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You
create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you
include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in
this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your
resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large
newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at
once.
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 pillars in place. Without them if you do
everything above you may bring in readers but they won't stay or bother
to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end
of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature
articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog
mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program
designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part
time.
Click here to join the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program
About the Author
My name is James Marshall and I have become addicted to blogging.
With a lot of hard work one day hope to become a professional blogger.
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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business , matrix, internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer
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