Actually, there’s probably a lot more than three reasons, but everyone has different ideas about what they want and need, and so the reasons that you have might be different from the reasons that someone else has.
The main point, though, is that there are three main reasons that are probably important to almost every blogger out there. Read the rest of this entry »
If you want a sticky blog, you have to post, and you have to do it frequently – at least once a week. If you don’t keep your content current, people aren’t going to want to come back.
An about page should also be connected to your blog so people can get to know the person behind the words. Some bloggers find that they have a real sense of connection with their readers by doing this.
If you have a lot of readers already you should showcase this. You can also offer prizes or incentives for people to subscribe, which can greatly help to bring in more readers – and these don’t have to be big prizes. Read the rest of this entry »
Subscriptions are huge on blogs today, and you want to make sure that not only can your readers subscribe to your blog – in many different ways – but that they can also subscribe to comments so they can see what others are saying. It helps to generate more comments that way because many of them will come back to comment on a comment…and make sure that you, as the blog owner, comment on comments, as well. It’s an important and vital way to interact with your readers. Read the rest of this entry »
A sticky sites means that a reader shows up for a first-time visit and has a hard time leaving to look at other sites or to do something else. You want your blog to be sticky, but it’s not always easy to get it that way. Fortunately, there are a lot of different things you can do to help.
One of the easiest things you can do is invite others to subscribe to your blog and be sure that the invite is prominent. It’ll make it a lot easier for people to sign up. If you’re inviting people to subscribe, you should also make sure that readers know how they can do that and what the different options mean for them. Educating your readers is important.
Another vital issue is to make sure that you have a good blog design. If your blog looks messy or if it’s cluttered or confusing – or if there’s too many ads! – a reader will usually not bother to stick around and try to figure it out. You want to make an easy-to-follow blog that builds you as a brand and makes people want to return, and make sure to let people comment and interact with you. People like to get to know other people and interacting with the blogger might become more important to them than your actual content.
The iPhone has become incredibly popular with a lot of people, and as a blogger there are some features that are going to work especially well for you…unfortunately, most of them are not yet developed.
WordPress for the iPhone is one of the most requested options and it is in development so it shouldn’t be too long before it’s out there for bloggers. In the meantime people can connect with Twitteriffic and a few other applications that are available.
Getting a message when something happens on the blog (i.e. new content or a new comment) is also something that bloggers would like to see on the iPhone, so there’s no doubt that applications of that nature are coming. Twinkle, much like Twitteriffic, is popular on the phone, and although it’s not exactly a blogging application is does help people to stay in touch and keep the conversation going, which is still important.
Another important tool that many bloggers find highly valuable is Evernote, as keeping writings organized is necessary for anyone who’s serious about blogging. Evernote, along with the RSS reader Byline are becoming indispensable for a lot of people in the blogging world, and the rest of them are waiting patiently to see what kinds of blogging applications will come out next, so their blogs can move forward and continue to pick up readers.
Your blog posts are an expression of you, and you might write them only to make yourself feel better. If you really write them for others, you’ll want to optimize them so that more people find them – and find them useful.
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So you want to get noticed as a blogger. There are a lot of ways that you can do that, and one of the most popular ones today is to get yourself noticed through StumbleUpon. Getting on that site, though, and getting popular on it, takes a little bit of work and a little bit of luck, but there are some basic tips that you can follow in order to give yourself a better chance. Read the rest of this entry »
To be successful, a blog has to provide good poignant information in a manner that is enjoyable to read. Furthermore this content must be updated daily, if not as frequently as possible.
Not everyone has a never ending source of ideas and creativity. Or do we? Read the rest of this entry »
There are plenty of ways to monetize your blog. Ad networks are easy to find and ready to pay you for clicks and impressions. The grandfather of them all is the Google Adsense network.
One of the easiest an most reliable methods of making money, Google adsense provides a simple code you can paste anywhere in your blog. The ads will reflect the blogs content. So for instance if your blog is a gardening information source, Adsense would show garden related advertising. Read the rest of this entry »
The essence of a successful Blogging site is the content. If you have content, people will flock to your sire, if you do not people will fly away from your site. There are thousands of Blogging sites with nothing but crap. There is endless monotonous harping and whining and no one wants to read that. Do you really want to sit down and read a page of junk?
