By Thomas Sinfield
Starting a blog from scratch is hard, you not only have to worry about what you will write, but you also have to worry about where you will get your readers from!
Here are a few things I have learn’t in the start up of my new blog on entrepreneurship.
1. Write Posts That People Will Want to Read
If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly. This isn’t just about the subject matter either, a blog is an online journal and should be written in a conversational way - and only one topic per post.
2. Ping Your Blog
By automatically pinging your blog, you are making sure that each new post is being made available to broadest range of readers. There are a heap of pinging services out there such as:
3. Commenting Other Blogs
Who is your target readers? Blog readers in your topic, right? Then the best place to find them is on other blogs websites. By providing quality comments (not SPAM) on similar blogs to yours you are giving their viewers an opportunity to find out about your website, and you might even build some connections with the blog owner.
* Becoming one of the top commentors of influencial blogs is a great way to build traffic, especially when they display a list of their top commentors (it on’t hurt your page rank either!).
4. Invite Guest Bloggers
A great way to add value to your blog is to find a popular blogger in your niche and invite them to do a small post on your website. This will flatter the guest blogger, and you are almost guaranteed a link back from their blog - helping promote your website.
5. Add Multimedia to Your Blog
Nothing is more boring that reading article after article of plain text. Spice up your blog with pictures, charts, podcasts, and videos. A lot of people are ‘visual people’ and need to see things to understand them, so pictures are very important. And with the growth in popularity of podcasts, why not see if you can implement one into your blog!
6. Build Your Blog Into a Brand
People associate themselves with brands!
When you are building your brand think about your readers and what they are looking for.
Don’t chop and change, if your blog is changing topic and direction every month you are going to lose readers quicker than you can post!
And Be yourself, you will most likely be your brand - you can only pretend for so long, and if you get caught pretending the good luck!
Thomas Sinfield is a young entrepreneur that is blogging about his journey through entrepreneurship at his blog http://www.thomassinfield.com
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