If your blog does not create a sense of trust in your readers, all your efforts will be in vain. Your blogging journey will
never succeed. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it is very easy to create and build trust in your blog readers. Below, I have listed all the techniques used by the hundreds of bloggers to build the trust . If you know additional techniques, please add them in the comment section.
1. Professional design of your blog is the first impression. Make sure it is professional and relevant to your niche. Don’t forget to put unique logo on the header of your blog.
2. Make your blog personal by giving it its own tone and voice. Develop your own voice of your niche.
3. Create the content in which you are more interested.Because you can write everything about your interested topic heartily.
4. Use language that is appropriate to the audience. It will build empathy.
5. Good grammar and spelling matter. Errors give the impression of carelessness.
6. Keep your blog alive by publishing posts informative and regularly. You can select scheduling for your post like, daily basis or weekly bases.
7. Allow people to comment on your blog. Interactivity and an exchange of views build community and a sense of involvement.
8. If people provide constructive criticism or comments about any topic of your blog, don’t delete them, but respond them with your point of view.
9. Moderate comments on your blog regularly and respond your readers and commentators with appropriately answers.
10. Never request your blog readers like “Read this blog and you’ll be a millionaire by the end of the week.” People are used to scams, get-rich-quick schemes and rip-offs.
11. Try to use your real names and link to your blog where possible.
12. Try to use your branded Gravatar while commenting on other blogs instead of your cartoonist images.
13. Focus on building your long-term reputation, not on making quick results.
14. Write your blog posts for human like me,but not for search engines.
15. Try to avoid too much advertisements on your blog.
16. “About Us” page plays an important part in making readers feel comfortable that real people are behind the blog.It can build more trust on you and in your blog.
17. Use social media like Twitter,Facebook,Youtube or any other for your social presence in the social sphere.
18. Publish your own photo or avatar on social media sites and share with friends and your blog readers.This reinforces the fact that you are the real person behind the blog.
19. Provide an email form,Your social network links like Twitter.com,Facebook.com etc so your blog readers can contact with you easily.
20. Be present on other blogs related your niche by commenting regularly.It shows that your are present as a active member in the meeting.
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Building trust means readers should feel good after going thru your pages, posts etc and he should not feel cheated at all. Well, trust building always take time and it is really important to be patient in that case.
It is a nice article for beginners in blogging, Good one Surender.
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Those are 20 useful tips Surender. I’m taking notes and I will surely try to follow them all.
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Nice one Surender, all the points given above is a basic point to be take care by every blogger, also your suggestion for writing post for human is very nice because some blogger take care of search engine for getting 60-80% of the traffic from search engine. They use keep keyword in mind while writing a post and they don’t mind making their article uninteresting. One need to write interactive article, in spite of writing robotic language.
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I need to be more active on social websites. I hope I qualify to my readers’ trust.
yes this is the most important thing….while writing the post, you should concentrate on your audience and not on the search engines…if your content is good, search engines will ultimately find you
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Be honest about the products you push, avoid pushing things that you haven’t personally tried.
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I believe you have covered most of the points very well. However, its interesting & significant according to me to have a right open – minded & helpful through interaction, plug -ins & helpful products instead of pushy ones.
i wonder what the design has to do with building trust
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Great list, this will really help me out for my own blog. Thanks!
Nice tips! Building a trust is building relationship with your readers. When you share valuable content to them, you are slowly building trust.
I’m glad that based on the feedbacks that I got, I have somehow achieved some level of trust among my visitors.
And the proof of that trust is that they keep on returning for more.
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Awesome list, Surender. Will definitely keep these in mind as to be a better and trustful blogger.
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excellent tips for freshers..
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