Blogging to Make Money
Launching a new Blog is monumental, to a new or experienced blogger. 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. 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.
9 Tricks to Get More Readers
9.Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is 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. 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. Create a memorable domain name. Developing a good “Brand” for your web blog is key to being remembered and easily shared with others. Blogs are often personified, so your domain needs to be catchy and easy to remember.
6. Start commenting on other blogs. Commenting on other blogs and forums is one of the best ways to attract readers. Of course for this to be successful, you need to focus on related blogs and forums.
5. Place links within your Posts, linking to other blogs. 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.
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 one of your pillar articles 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 You can do everything I have mentioned in this post. However, if you don’t produce valuable content the process won’t work.
There is much more to learn and many other things you can do. However, this article gives you a great base to start from.
This article was Submitted by JeromyS
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