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27+1 Building And Maintaining a Blog Audience Tips
By admin | April 17, 2007
Good advise is never wasted on a keen mind, especially when it can and will improve their goals whatever they may be.
I have come across a great read I’d like to share about building and maintaining a Blog audience. Something I’m sure all you bloggers out there would like to have a look at.
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- You’ll need to pick a domain name that is searchable and adequately describes what you will be talking about. If you are not a well known personality, then it is probably not a good idea to use your own name as your blog’s url. For example, johndoe.com would not be as searchable as a name that incorporates what you’ll be discussing.
- Subscribe to several relevant RSS feeds and news notifications on your topic. When news happens, break it on your blog. This has the added advantage of making your blog more searchable and you’ll have a better chance of attracting an audience if you cover topics that are consistently on the cusp of what’s happening.
- Don’t make the mistake of viewing your audience as the great unwashed masses. Reach out to them and let them know that they do matter. This will build a level of trust and appreciation that will keep your word of mouth advertising and your repeat readers at an all time high.
As you can see they are simple but effective tips not only for a starting blogger but also for the more experienced one.
Some advise I might want to add from personal experience is Timing. If you have a great post of which you are quite certain a lot of people would be interested in reading and submitting to social bookmarking sites like digg or reddit, you need to make sure that when you publish it on your blog, your biggest reader group is awake. Check your statistics to see which country has the highest percentage in visitors for your site and then synchronize yourself with their time zone. Your statistics software will also show you what hour of the day your traffic peaks so be sure to post just before your peak time.
If you don’t do this, chances are people will not even know about your fantastic article because they were asleep and by the time they woke up, your post has long gone from the new submitted posts.
You can find more tips on my blog for a huge traffic boost.
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