Blogging without Borders – 20 Tips for gaining and keeping readers
The following article is a guest article from Jason Blanton from Success For Your Blog. Please go check out his great blog.
I wrote a little homework list of things that Bloggers should do in addition to all the other things they are doing in order to be more successful in their blogging. As a follow up I thought another 20 tips would be good to keep the blogging rolling.
1. Thank people that leave comments with an email. Also encourage them to subscribe to your blogs feed.
2. Use MyBlogLog and thank people for stopping by and encourage them to join your community.
3. End your posts with a question or phrase that will make readers want to leave a comment.
4. Guest Blog on another blog in your Niche.
5. Write link bait articles to get other bloggers to link to you.
6. Comment on other blogs in your niche.
7. Submit your articles to Social Bookmark sites.
8. Submit your articles to social news sites.
9. Stumble your posts or ask a friend to Stumble it for you.
10. Encourage readers to subscribe to your blog and give them a couple good reasons why they should.
11. Hold a contest and give something away.
12. Ask readers to save your site to their Technorati Favorites. Provide the link or a button.
13. Write reviews of other great blogs in your niche.
14. Ask your readers what they want you to write about. And then write about that.
15. Write viral posts that get dugg, Stumbled, Reddit and linked to from other blogs. Easier said than done sometimes.
16. Use a lot of white space and bold your key points.
17. Create Top 20 lists. Or top 10 top 8 or whatever you like.
18. Posts a few times per day, every day.
19. Think you articles through and proof read them.
20. Just be yourself. People are interested in character just as much as they are interested in your niche.
Lets see if we can come up with another 20 Tips. Leave a tip you use for gaining and keeping readers on your blog in the comments.
This post was written by Jason Blanton from Success For Your Blog.
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Slevi | October 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm #
Posting a few times per day I’d say totally depends on how long your average entry is, with the longer entries many probably won’t be able to read more than one a day since it does take up time.
What I like to do myself is comment back to my readers, on my own blog if it is something to which can be responded but also comment back to an entry on their own blog. It usually stimulates them to return for more reading or subscribing.
Jason | October 9th, 2007 at 9:43 pm #
Your right about the number of posts. Plus when your writing your best stuff it takes a lot of your time and you can only do so many of those without completely burning yourself out. I am working on a post now that will probably take me three days of working on it in between stuff so when I do get it finished it will be the only post for that day, maybe even 2 days
Fred | October 9th, 2007 at 10:53 pm #
I agree with you both. I think that you should post at least once a day, but any more than that depends on the length of your articles.
If you write a pillar article, I think that it detracts from it if you post another article that same day.
Fab | October 9th, 2007 at 11:08 pm #
Nice long list. First time on your blog Fred… Good job!
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I am a very new one on the blogosphere. I enjoy reading your content… count me in your RSS readers
Also, we have the same WP theme…
Fred | October 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm #
Fab,
Thank you so much for joining as a subscriber. I am glad that you liked the list. Please check out Jason’s blog too.
Julie Hood | October 11th, 2007 at 1:56 am #
Who doesn’t love a to do list you can work through and check off?
How about a couple more:
1. Participate in a blog carnival.
2. Do a little keyword research and title your posts with the best phrases.
3. Search Technorati for blogs in your topic area.
Jason | October 11th, 2007 at 3:14 pm #
Thanks Julie for those 3. I have participated in a few carnivals but I need to incorporate it into my “todo every week” list.
Michael | October 18th, 2007 at 11:01 pm #
Those are great tips. I’ll be sure to start using some of them.
Thanks.