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Without readers the blog is just like as an old book of my grand-father which is lying in the dark room.
What is the future of news papers without readers? Think about it.
I want more readers for my blog but how can I find?
Here are the ways to find new blog readers:
- Commenting on related blogs: For me commenting on other blogs is the number one way to get more readers for my blog. When you comment on another blogs, you add your blog url in the comment form.This is the best and more effective method to get more readers. But make sure to comment on the blogs related to your blog niche.
- Online discussions: Join the discussion forums related your blog niche. Help to others on the discussion by solving their problems. Some discussion forums gives the opportunity to show your recent blog post title or signature links on your discussion pages.
- Social Networking: Social media is also the best tool to find new blog readers. Join some social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter or any other and be active there.You can publish your blog posts automatically on facebook or Tweet your blog posts on Twitter automatically from your blog.
- Blog Directory: Add the link with your blog description on some blog directories.
- Write Eye-Catching Post Titles: Posts headlines or titles can attract more readers for your blog. Write eye-catching posts titles like “Effective ways to find new blog readers for your blog” .
- Write Guest Posts: This is also effective way to get new blog readers for your blog. Write some effective blog posts and request the related bloggers of your niche to publish your posts on their blogs.If your blog posts publishes on some top blogs, you can get thousands of new blog readers for your blog.
- Join bloggers community: Join the community of bloggers like Mybloglog etc. and connect with other bloggers, make friend bloggers and share blog links, exchange comments, exchange re tweets with them.
- Run blog contests: Run blog contests for blog readers on your blog like “Participate in blog contest and win $30” and share with your friends and publish on your blog. This is also the effective way to find more blog readers.
- Search Engine Optimization: Search engines are the more effective method to get new blog readers. Optimize your blog for search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing etc using some tactics .
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I thinking commenting and SEO is the best way to generate readers.. My blog is only 2 months old now..but have started getting traffic of around 300/day. 75% is from search engines and about other 10% is through referrals from blogs where I comment..
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yes commenting on other niche blog is the best way to get more traffic and search engines also play very important roll in traffic
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Yes you are right.I am getting the traffic from comment links from other blogs.
Very useful article ! Commenting on dofollow blog having page nice page rank is very nice practice.
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Very useful article ! Commenting on dofollow blog having nice page rank is very good practice.
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Hi Himanshu,
Thanks for your feedback and for your reminder about Dofollow blog.
Great writeup. Finding new readers for the blog is always a challenging task. Although it can also be a lot of fun…
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Thanks Melvin.
Yes, finding new readers for blog is a challenging task but it can be more enjoyable if we apply innovative ways.
Posting good comments on Related Blogs surely gets you good traffic. Also, Writing catchy Article titles interests the audience and they may want to read more and more articles on your blog.
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Even catchy titles can drive more traffic from search engines.
Interesting post! If you wanted to just techniues, you have covered most of them quite well. But just like blog contest posts, there are few other options that attract readers. Advice, emergency, controversy can be good subjects for any blogs, which would help in creating reader base. What do you think?
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Writing Guest Posts is a good option. I got many good commentators from other blogs !
Nice article !
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Catchy headlines are truly important – sometimes I’ll also make certain to capitalize one word to grab the attention in a huge feedreader as well.
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So what would you say is the best if you had to pick one of them?
My August traffic was like this:
Direct traffic: 22%
Search engines: 43%
Referring sites: 34%
So in my case, I guess I receive more hits from search engines than referrering sites (usually comments, I’d guess).
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Commenting on other blogs and Search engine traffic is the main source for me.
Very helpful tips for growing your blog comments and grabbing new readers and making them stay.
i very dearly want to run a blog contest but i assume there would not be many participants until i offer a cash prize and at the moment, i could not offer cash prizes
I would like to suggest you that comment on other blogs regularly so you’ll be get handsome amount of readers on your blog,after that start contest on your blog.
Very useful. Will work on all your tip given. Might take a lot of time and effort but it is worth to try.. Thanks
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Intresting post! Commenting on high ranking blogs is one of the most effective way to generate a lot of readers.
Great advice here and thanks for commenting on my blog, I thought it only good manors to comment back
I do the majority of the things mentioned in your post, well I try to, I add blogs I find interesting to my RSS reader, so I can keep coming back, so I’ve added yours…
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Why commenting generate more traffic? Because, while commenting we interact with each other..people love connecting..like Nokia say “Connecting People”
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Awesome points Surender, You have covered lot many things over here. But bloggers should start with these in step by step process as it is really difficult to manage everything if you are running your own at your own only.
Start with 2 or 3 things out of listed ones and then see how it goes. Thanks Surender for the list.
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The tips are nice. Lately there are more and more bloggers organizing contest. Contests must be a good way to for getting traffic.
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Good Post.
Guest Posting is a very good way to promote a blog!
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Nice post, Twitter and Facebook have helped me most to get more readers
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