5 ways to find more readers for your blog

Finding the right kind of readerbase is really hard for bloggers i have a few techniques that worked really well for me, and here they are.

Find the right social networks

Finding the right social network that best suits your blog is crucial if you want to be big on social media marketing, for example:

• Search Engine/Blogging related articles do great at Sphinn
• ‘Best of’ and extra ordinary/breaking news kind of posts do great at digg

Just like that you need to find the right social bookmarking site for your blog and go all out on it!

Participate on other blogs

aIts important for you to go out of your blog once in a while and go around to other people’s blog and let them know what you think about the topic at hand, don’t act better then them, you are just like any other blogger, you have an opinion and a blog

Participating on blogs gets you a link and some traffic sometimes, but most of all what you are looking for is “come-back” traffic or what you would want to call ‘readers’ so be polite and courteous and as professional as possible.

Remember, a little courtesy goes a long way!

Using forums and communities

If you go to forums that are of the same niche as your blog then you should volunteer to either explain a term or a trick or write a tutorial or a how-to on a topic that people seem to talk about alot and/or want to read!

This is the highest form of user interactivity a blog can have, this way you are not just guessing what users might want but you know what they want and you have informed them that there will be a certain article on a certain topic at a particular date which will not only get you a reader but maybe a contributor/commenter as well!

Trackbacking the top dog

Every niche has that one blog that you look up to alot, although its a good choice to comment on it but why not send a trackback and blog on the same topic but with your point of view on it?

Every trackback leaves a comment on the trackbacked blog with a linkback to your post, that sends you some really targeted traffic, now the oinly thing left to do is for you to write a great post on your point of view, something that will keep every single reader from the target blog!

Converting traffic to rss readers

If you have lets say “1000 visitors per day” but you only have “50 readers” then that means you are losing on all that potential reader traffic, the best way to convert that traffic to readers is to either:

• Do-Follow your comments
  90% of the readers online are webmasters, webmasters that want links!
  If you announce that you are going to do-follow all your comment links then that will convert at least 60% of the traffic coming your way to commentors and they will subscribe to your feed so that they could get the first comment on future posts!
• Holding a competition
  If you value your blog’s strength you won’t pull a “do-follow” instead hold a competition something like:
  “The person with the most comments this week gets a free copy of my e-book”
  “The highest commentor this week will get a free sponsored review on my blog!”
  “The highest commentor this month will get a 3 month sitewide blogroll link!”But theres a drawback, as soon as the competition is over the readers will want to go away and in alot of ways the traffic and boom might die out so have something really good planned like money making guides or something that people really want to read/learn!

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