7 Helpful Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Readership
Attracting traffic to your blog or a web site can be very challenging. From the very start, when you see visitors coming to read your blog, you need to be sure that they feel comfortable and want to stick around. There are a number of ways that you can do just that.
Here are seven important ingredients for building a successful blog with a loyal following.
1. Publish to your blog regularly
As readers become more familiar with the regularity of your blog posts it will affect their behavior for visiting your blog. If visitors know that you post fresh content every day, they will probably visit every day to read new posts. If they know you post 3 times a week on certain days they will start visiting on those days.
2.Use meaningful Post Titles
This announces clearly what a post is about. It will also help people navigate your blog.It will also influence your search engine rankings.
3. Don’t wonder-stay on topic
Stick to a niche. If your blog doesn’t have a particular niche,give it one. Readers like a blog that is focused on one theme. If you don’t have a theme and post about just anything your readers are less likely to become passionate about your blog and will probably move on to a more focused blog that fits there needs.
4.Highlight your best posts
You do not want your best posts to lost in the archives. It would be a good idea to link tothe best posta from a ‘best posts’ category listed on your main page.
5. Have good reader inter-action
Try to think of your blog like a conversation. When you post your readers commentBe active and be positive as you interact and converse with with your readers.
6. Provide good navigation to popular pages
When you help people find the key pages of your blog it makes their visit more enjoyable.
7. Avoid not posting for long periods of time
When someone visits your blog and discovers your last post was 3 weeks ago they are going tobe disappointed. If you don’t post on a regular day people might give you the benefit of the doubt and come back later to see if you have posted, but they will lose interest if thishappens often and you fall away from your regular schedule of posting.
Use these seven suggestions and it will make a huge difference in your blog’s readership.The main thing is just use common sense when interacting with your readers.
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Lyle,
Thanks for the timely reminders for our own blogs. We have to keep things fresh, relevant and focused and as much as possible, interactive. Sometimes, it’s hard to fight off the feeling of “feeling lazy to post” during some time periods. But I guess it really takes resolve and discipline to do what need to be done. I will take your suggestions to account.