How to Get a Blog Audience
I've always equated getting consistent (operative word here) blog readers with picking up women in a bar - though I tend to equate a lot of things with picking up women in a bar.
You got your typical guys in the bar. There's the deperate virgin who's burning desire to get laid is all but offset by his burning fear of committing an embarassing faux pas. There's the semi-confident guy who strikes out 1 out of 5 times, but keeps coming back dreaming of that 20%. And then there's the laidback hound dog who doesn't know exactly why, doesn't know exactly how, but nonetheless gets all the honey his sweet tooth can handle.
Bloggers aren't too dissimilar. Everybody wants traffic, and nobody's 100% sure how to get it. Oh, I can give you tips on how to increase your traffic for a month or two, but to keep it consistent? Or better yet, to really grow it? That's a secret recipe known to so few my friend.
One thing I will recommend: blog readers, like women in a bar, are attracted to the ******* (can I say that here? Arsehole?). It's all about content, and in your content must be engaging. Be funny. Be authoratative. Be confident. Be an expert. And don't be afraid to make mistakes.
You need to post often, maybe twice daily. Get a decent blog roll up and make sure sites on your list don;t have a page rank under your own. Link exchanges.
Writing on a myriad of topics might make writing keyword-friendly content more or less easy, depending on one's point of view.
Here' s neat idea. How you thought of linking social networking sites to your blog? Facebook's got some great blogging tools, beleive it or not.
Join Feedburner. Not to optimize anything related to feed popularity but Blogger and Wordpress feeds can malfunction sometimes.
How about doing vidcasting? Maybe a 1-2 min video introduction before every post, briefly explaining it's topic and why we should bother reading it. Post it on youtube and link back to it on your blog. This is GUARANTEED to increase your findability, and might earn you a solid youtube audience that will trickle down to your blog. Note: this works better if you're a hot woman.
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