How to make readers come to your blog
On my previous post, I gave simple tips and few samples on how to blog properly. Now, let us delve into how to make readers come back to your blog.
1. Have a general theme and make this obvious in a particular portion of your blog. If your theme isn’t in your title or obvious in your design, you could make a readable tagline of what your blog is all about. Make it interesting as much as possible so your readers will be intrigued to explore especially if it is their first time on your site.
2. Keep your post current. Do not blog about a past event. Often, your readers will already know of the event and wouldn’t bother to read further.
3. Keep a schedule and stick to it. Especially with subscribers, they are expecting something from you. Keeping them informed on a regular basis will make them come back to your site. Plus, updating your blog regularly will eventually make your site content-rich and garner a higher Page rank and more traffic.
4. Blog readers are known to scan through posts especially if they are long. So make your posts short and sweet but still contains all information needed.
5. Your keyword should be found in your title. Search engines will find this and aid in getting your post higher rankings.
6. Make your content identifiable to you. Set your own tone and mood. Put some humor if you can. Make your updates sound as if you are making a conversation. Readers adore that.
7. Proper grammar is essential. Avoid typographical errors. True, we make mistakes here and there but we must at least make an effort to practice and be aware of them to make necessary edits in the future.
8. Don’t forget RSS feeds. Your blog should have this to increase readership and distribution of your posts.
9. Make use of the current social networking tools (e.g. Twitter, Plurk, Facebook etc.) Social communities add up to attaining friends to visit your blog instead of communicating with them on a business direct approach. People can be turned off by that online.
