Written on January 28th, 2007 at 10:01 am by Darren Rowse
How do you find Readers for Your Blog? - Open Mike
I’m heading away for one night as part of our long weekend here in Australia for Australia Day and so thought it might be time for a reader discussion on the topic that everyone seems to be asking me about these days - ‘how do I find readers for my blog?’
Share you own experiences and tips on how you’ve drawn readers to your blog.
What’s worked for you?
What hasn’t worked for you?
What would you recommend for someone just starting out in blogging who has no readers?
Looking forward to reading your responses when I get home tomorrow.
Have a good weekend!
88 Responses to “How do you find Readers for Your Blog? - Open Mike”
raising4boys.com
January 28th, 2007 10:57 am
Commenting on related blogs is probably the most effective strategy early on in the process. And responding to comments when people leave them on your blog (this encourages them to keep coming back).
Fitness Guy
January 28th, 2007 11:07 am
Easy to read posts with really funky titles - that seems to work pretty well. But, I make sure my posts are detailed, original and full of entertaining humor.
brem
January 28th, 2007 11:13 am
Read other’s blogs. Comment on other’s blogs. Be a hit whore hehe.
elprezidente
January 28th, 2007 11:38 am
I’ve found that one very quick way to infuse readers to a new blog is to be active in discussion forums related to your blog topic. Locate posts that ask for help with something you are familiar with and share your experience.
ShoeMoney
January 28th, 2007 11:48 am
I heard if you post yourself with a big check people will repost it all over the internet. Also I heard you want to make sure you watermark the image really well incase people dont link to you. Thats from a friend of course
Brody
January 28th, 2007 11:50 am
I agree with brem. I visit other blogs in my niche, add them to my feed and participate in the discussion on their blogs via the comments. Writing interesting comments often gets people to click through to see your site. Also, adding other blogs in your niche to your blogroll will get the attention of the owners of the sites you’re linking to and often get a link back to your site.
MySpace has been a huge part of my blog as well. It allows me to find artists to write about, highlight, recommend, and interview for my blog. The artists usually post a link on their site, or MySpace page, that has sent quite a bit of traffic to my blog.
Aziz
January 28th, 2007 11:53 am
As said above… Simple and to the point… The title should create an instant urge to read the entire post… But of course it should be related to the topic of your blog
Become a Consultant Blog >> Andrea the Consultant
January 28th, 2007 11:56 am
I’ve found that my decision to blog naked (http://www.consultantjournal.com/blog/ill-blog-naked-throughout-2007-become-a-consultant) really helped. :)
Ollie
January 28th, 2007 12:17 pm
I commented on other related sites/forums, sent the occasional email and have tried to build relationships with people. I’ll trackback another site in one of my posts if it is relevant, and slowly but surely people came to me. Writing good original content is a must, also.
Being honest and transparent also helps people to come back once they’ve found you.
Now that I have a few loyal readers, I have recently tried doing stuff that I never thought I would do. One example being to interview fellow bloggers who are in the same niche as me. This has gone down well, and has been great for both myself and the interviewee as traffic flows between us. And I tend to post the interviews on slow-news days, so it also helps me to keep the posting schedule nice and regular, and the routine element is great for those who come just for the interviews - they know when a new one will be up.
Enjoy your weekend as well, Darren.
Tillerman
January 28th, 2007 12:44 pm
I have found the most readers for my blog by writing content that has been picked up by other websites (not blogs) and email newsletters in my niche (sailing).
Dan Norman
January 28th, 2007 12:55 pm
Persistence is key. After starting up a new blog last month and letting go of another this month, I notice that traffic (quality traffic) doesn’t happen over night. On my last site, I think it took 6 months before ASK.com found me.
Another thing that was really cool. I got my blog listed on washingtonpost.com. If you blog about one of their articles, they will list some of the blogs that have commented on the article.
Rodney Olsen
January 28th, 2007 12:57 pm
As others have said, I read blogs that interest me and leave comments. Then I make sure that I write interesting material on my blog so that when I get a return visit people will want to keep coming back.
My blog isn’t about a particular subject and doesn’t fit into any niche so it’s never going to be the world’s most read blog, but I manage to gain a few readers here and there.
I’m also a part of a number of online forums so I make sure that my signature in those forums links back to my blog.
kris
January 28th, 2007 1:16 pm
I use a combination of what I have learned here at problogger:
-comment on other peoples blogs
-take part in forum discussions on your topic(s)
-tag your posts for technorati
-get on digg and stumbleupon
Rob O.
January 28th, 2007 1:38 pm
I dunno if it’s so much of a traffic builder, but I always try to include lots of links to support a key point I’m making in my blog posts. Often, these are links to other blogs or personal websites.
The other thing I’ve been doing just recently is connecting up with other bloggers in my city and the neighboring towns. We’ve got something of a link exchange going and a nice side-effect to this is that I/we have discovered that there are quite a few more bloggers and/or website authors in the area than ever expected.
Oddly enough, I pimp my site to the folks at work fairly often - but I’m careful not to do so in an overt or obnoxious manner - yet some of my closest friends and co-workers are some of the least frequent visitors to my site. In the month that’s passed since I did a major site overhaul, nary a single co-worker has mentioned anything of the site redesign…
Peterandrej
January 28th, 2007 2:08 pm
I’ve had some success with giving away free stuff, like free templates for WordPress. It doesn’t give me lot of new readers, because my blog is written in Norwegian, but the templates give lots and lots of new links to the blog, giving it a much better pagerank in Google, which in turn should mean more readers from search-engines.
I’m sure that if you guys with english blogs started to give away free stuff, you should see a increase in readership. Maybe just more links to the blog at first, but you’ll never know. Suddenly you have lots of new readers.
This may be a more successful approach for blogs focusing on things like blogdesign and blog development, but I think it may work for all blogs.
Just a tip.
Crazykinux
January 28th, 2007 2:13 pm
As with Brem and Kris, I find that using a combination of reading/commenting others blogs, technorati tagging, and submitting some of your posts on digg, reddit, etc is what works best for me.
That and writing interesting and engaging articles - once you’ve got them reading your blog, you’ve got to make sure they come back.
Nathan
January 28th, 2007 2:23 pm
I do the basic stuff, comment on blogs, forums, etc. Also, I’ve tried to develop relationships with other bloggers.
Recently, I’ve been running a contest to give away a $25 gift certificate to one of my feed readers, and another $25 gift certificate to the person who referred them. That way, it rewards both the people who subscribe to the feed and those people who tell their friends or blog about my site.
details at:
http://www.nathanrice.org/2007/01/26/announcing-a-contest/
So far, it’s worked pretty well. We’ll see how it goes next week :-)
Nathan
http://www.nathanrice.org/
Ron
January 28th, 2007 2:33 pm
Hi, I am new to blogging (started last week). So far I have commented on other blogs in my niche and even made the newsletter from isixsigma.com which was cool! I have had around 400 unique visitors from all over the world which has been really awesome and inspiring.
One question since I am a newbie. How does one “tag their posts for Technorati?”
Thanks all!
Trent
January 28th, 2007 3:05 pm
Here’s what I’ve found, in order of importance:
1. Write compelling content that others actually want to read, above all else.
2. Comment on other blogs that cover similar topics to your own.
3. Participate in forums that are close to your topic.
4. Be opinionated, but encourage opposing viewpoints in the comments. Opinionated makes you interesting - encouraging other perspectives makes you essential.
5. Participate in social bookmarking sites (I think many people overrate their importance - for me, success here has been an outgrowth of the other parts of this list).
6. Ask questions of other moderately successful bloggers and try to network. If you shoot too high, you’ll often get blown off because these people have so much stuff to read and deal with.
Maki
January 28th, 2007 3:05 pm
Two main methods work for me …
1) Making educated and insightful comments on high profile blogs, like Problogger. ( Flock to me, loyal Problogger readers!)
2) Sending highly creative and penetrating trackbacks about a blogger’s original post.
Everything else is passive for me. I don’t really bother going out of my way to create linkbait.
Mike Panic
January 28th, 2007 3:09 pm
As mentioned above, I create clever titles for blog posts, use digg, write quality content that usually takes no more then 60 seconds to read.
Use MySpace to post bulletins about recently published articles.
Use clever sigs on forums that I am active on.
Buy advertising space on related websites.
Comment on blogs.
Use sigs in all my emails for the sites I run.
With the most recent blog I launched I created a page in WordPress called Feeds which not only has the RSS icon on it but a description of what a “feed” is and what are some of the most common ways to subscribe and use feeds, mostly pulled from a CC article.
Placed RSS feed icons in places on the site where readers will most likely look.
Talk to friends, family and coworkers about them… you’d be surprised how much the traditional way of “networking” really does work.
Business cards, depending which blog I’ll post on a community board at a grocery store.
Ian Robertson
January 28th, 2007 3:09 pm
here’s what I’ve done..
Comment on other blogs, that sometimes will bring in a small stream of traffic.
Guest post on blogs.
Offer prizes, currently I’m offering a draw for a book for readers who comment on my on my articles until Feb 22.
Michelle
January 28th, 2007 3:14 pm
Properly optimizing my blog has been a big boost to my readership. Once I figured out how to play around with SEO I started getting a regular 25-35% of my hits from Google. I posted on this a couple weeks ago I swear by it.
http://scribbit.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogging-101-ten-seo-tips.html
I picked up nearly all of it at Problogger.
Benjamin Solah
January 28th, 2007 3:44 pm
I think the best way is to comment on similar blogs and reciprocate when bloggers comment on your site.
engtech
January 28th, 2007 4:49 pm
Posting naked pictures of myself *really* didn’t work.
Rory
January 28th, 2007 5:46 pm
It really is a gradual thing.
1. Involving myself in the community has been the main way. Commenting on other people’s sites. But, commenting meaningfully. Being heartfelt, perhaps a little bit witty (cautiously, because it can be misinterpreted as “cheek”), but always honest.
2. Make sure that my own articles are as well written as they can be, so that if anyone looks in out of curiosity, they might stay longer than they intended.
3. I have tended to try for the cool “meercats” and not the “elephants”. Tom Vander Well’s Thoughts For Bloglings was a little bit inspirational, over at QAQNA.
4. I’m trying out MyBlogLog. Let’s see how that turns out.
Jay Wilson
January 28th, 2007 6:29 pm
I’ve seen a recent surge of hits after discovering two separate blogs that I now currently frequent, and commenting on the topics there. I was surprised at just how much traffic they brought, simply by including a link in a response.
In addition, I’ve created a Myspace page.
Jeff
January 28th, 2007 6:59 pm
Hi guys…some concerns about tagging…can any wordpress users tell me how blog owners tag their post with those beautiful icons like the one shown in http://mymoneychat.com/blog/ ? The site owner has all the beautiful tags on them and i wondering what plugins he used. Seeing that everyone seems to be tagging their post, i tink i should start now too! Hope some1 helps!
Allen.H
January 28th, 2007 7:13 pm
Here are some tips and other things a new blog owner should know:
1. Never leave a comment that doesn’t add any value or insight to a post, I’ve seen people getting hundreds of unqiue visitors just by commenting on high trafficked blogs, and although it brings them traffic - It crashes their authority. Always leave a comment with some value.
2. Of course everyone are aware that commenting on high profile blogs will get you traffic, but traffic you get from newly started blogs (just like yours!) have a better chance to convert into loyal readership.
3. Understand that your blog won’t climb up so fast no matter how good your content currently is, you’ve got to do some more marketing and prove yourself in the long run before saying that writing 10 excellent posts wasn’t enough.
Regards and good luck!,
Allen.H of AlleNation
Brandon J
January 28th, 2007 8:05 pm
I used all the tips above. I also used Myspace Groups. I found groups that were related to my topic and started posting on the forums and promoting my site.
ilker
January 28th, 2007 9:04 pm
These seem to be work for me:
1) Posting only quality content.. obviously! Better posts are discussed more, increasing both the number of comments and references in other blogs.
2) No personal posts. For example, I hardly ever read all the credits at the end of a movie (except for director and the leads). Why should I care as long as I am entertained?
3) No spam comments. Unless absolutely necessary to prove a point, don’t put links other’s blogs and don’t let it happen to your blog. Wasting time in unrelated sites can be really annoying.
4) Actively networking on MyBlogLog. It provides you with regular readers minus the unnecessary traffic. Results in higher returning visitors than new visitors.
Mario
January 28th, 2007 10:18 pm
At the begining I started by making comments on about every blog with a subject I liked, right now I just write and people will get to me by other blogs or by searching for content.
But I believe the best way to find readers is by visiting and comenting their blogs.
Brendan
January 28th, 2007 10:58 pm
Sites like this are so valuable. Thanks to all of you who give freely of your knowledge.
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Nicholas
January 28th, 2007 11:54 pm
@Fitness Guy, Great titles are indeed eye catching. I think your answer is more appropriate for how to keep your readers.
@Brem, Hit Whore? Good idea, but I think you should call it something else.. maybe Hit Enthusiast.
@Ollie, interviews are certainly a good way to attract readers. as long as you market upcoming interviews ahead of time.
@crazykinux, i think your response is a pretty good wrap up of what everyone should be doing.
All in all, I think marketing yourself and your blog through commenting, social bookmarking sites, social networking sites, and networking with other bloggers are just the things you should be doing.
Thank you for your great suggestions guys and gals!
shawn
January 29th, 2007 12:32 am
All the ideas suggested so far are awesome but I just developed a curiosity about what non-traditional methods can be used to get readers. What about the offline impact of blogging? Is blogging supposed to be 100% online? Wouldn’t it be good if you were scoping out the best bushel of broccoli when you overhear someone mentioning your latest post on how to find readers for your blog? Engaging people with meaningful conversation in person could lead to an increase in your online audience. Listeners = readers.
Frenchmat
January 29th, 2007 12:50 am
@Nicholas : Commenting the other’s comments is indeed an effective way to attract hits.
Especially if it’s done on such a high profile blog.
And especially again, if it’s done in a insightful and concise way (this is your case here). ;-)
Slade
January 29th, 2007 12:59 am
without repeating all the great suggestions above
- submitting posts to Blog Carnivals
- creating an email Signature File that features a blurb and a link to your blog
- I’ve personally seen the greatest return by running Subscriber Drive Contests - offering a free product or service to the existing subscriber who refers the most new subscribers.
Leanne
January 29th, 2007 1:02 am
I’ve picked up a handful of wonderful friends and readers through initiating the “Thursday Thirteen”. Yeah, a meme. Bloggers want to know about bloggers, not just the business aspect of it but the *person* writing the blog. Reading a quick list of “getting to know me” type tidbits gives me instant inside information on whether or not I will become a regular visitor. Some participants have used it solely to gain business, but frankly I think that turns people away. People are interested in people first, and what they do second. It works.
Rich Owings
January 29th, 2007 1:12 am
Posting in forums helped me a lot, but I have to agree with Michelle since on page SEO has done more for me than anything else. 90% of my traffic comes from search engines. And I learned a great deal of that by looking at Darren’s sites. I also read a lot online about SEO and picked up a couple of SEO books. My traffic converts well, but I am very much at the mercy of the search engines.
One other thing — early on, especially, I think it is important to network, comment, post to message forums, etc. Getting some incoming link credibility will help you parlay your SEO work into good SERP rankings.
Sreejith
January 29th, 2007 2:23 am
Well, I think :-
1) Getting more RSS subscribers can help you get a circle of loyal readers for your blog.
2) Social Media Optimization is vital.
3) Help others and gain good karma which will help you through out your blogging journey.
Ultimately, I think BLOGGING IS KARMA. You may want to read this post “Blogging is karma” at http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/01/14/blogging-is-karma/ .
Dave C.
January 29th, 2007 3:13 am
Commenting on other blogs has been king for me. I’m just very careful that I have something to lend to the conversation. I don’t blindly comment with useless things like “hey, great post” and leave it at that.
I’ve also gained a few readers by posting bulletins on Myspace with an active link.
Finally, MyBlogLog has brought me attention. Visiting other sites within that group puts your pic upon their MBL Widget. I think I’ve gotten a few readers that way as well.
baggage
January 29th, 2007 3:14 am
What everyone else says…but I also try to post frequently. I find that the more I post, the more readers I have. The less comments, but the more readers.
Mark McManus
January 29th, 2007 3:41 am
I’m presently on the wrong end of this conversation i.e. I’m here to get advice and not give it. I’m working very hard but my visits and subscribers are still quite low. Thanks for the tips everyone!
Random Good Stuff
January 29th, 2007 4:44 am
I invite other bloggers to guest blog and allow always one link back to their site. I have 3 active guest authors … and in return they link to my site from time to time. Feel like guest blogging? Drop me an email.
Tyler
January 29th, 2007 5:06 am
I’m very new and have tried many of the things posted above without too much success.
Maybe my content just isn’t up to par, but I think I provide good value.
Any suggestions for finance related sites would be greatly appreciated.
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Kris Karkoski
January 29th, 2007 7:59 am
I feel that commenting and linking to others only goes so far. This has gotten me some traffic but by far the best resources have been emailing other either for a link exchange or about content they may be interested in. This gets you long lasting links that continually drive readers. Commenting and posting in forums can be extremely helpful as well.
Jamdo
January 29th, 2007 10:16 am
There are so many facets to getting a readership, but a big point about it that isn’t often mentioned is RETAINING readers.
How many people who view your blog for the first time will actualy bother returning? That is where compelling content comes into play. You need to give them a reason to come back.
Assuming you have decent content, getting people there in the first place is the easy part.
Getting mentioned on other sites and blogs in the same niche, I think, has been the best way to get a readership who keeps returning to a blog. Make contact with other bloggers in yoru niche via comments, email, AIM, skype, homing pigeons - whatever.
After that, people who find Jamdo and my other blogs via the search engines have probably been the second best in terms of coming to the site more than once. That means you need to do a bit of SEO work like writing good titles, optimising your blog, submitting to directories, getting lots of incoming links with good anchor text.
Probably equal with search engines in terms of quality of traffic has been forum signatures. It’s pretty easy to find good forums in your niche at big-boards.com
The strength of blogs is that they make it easy to join or form a community. If you become part of that community, the readership will come naturally.
Tim Peter
January 29th, 2007 12:22 pm
No question about it for me. Attracting readers relies on:
Creating regular, engaging content
Tracking back (or is that backing track?)
Commenting regularly on related blogs
Everything else is great if you can get it, but these are the basics. Most visitors to my site these days come from search engines (see the first item) or links from other sites (numbers 2 and 3 - not mentioning direct links within others’ posts). Hope it works out for you, too.
Adrian
January 29th, 2007 2:04 pm
Content! Content! Content!
My website is filled with resources I have made for teaching reading, maths, thinking skills and software you can use with children. I use the blog to inform people of when new resources are posted.
The Zookoda newsletter provides nice spikes and people tend to forward the newsletter to their friends.
NB I have many more newsletter subscribers than RSS.
Adrian Bruce
http://teacher-toolbox.blogspot.com
Anne
January 29th, 2007 3:15 pm
1. For quick traffic - go digg, but if your blog doesn’t have enough for visitor to come back, don’t bother.
2. Wanna meet some blog owner and establish decent relationship? go Bloglog, I found it is extremely easy to swap links there. (much easier than email request)
3. Quality post on forum that has decent traffic, I mean decent decent traffic is going to bring you some target traffic.
4. SEO of course. Those are the traffic that make you money… :P
1-4 is the easiest way to gain traffic and the least amount of money. IMO.
Anne
Bradford Knowlton Jr
January 29th, 2007 3:24 pm
I have been trying out a few methods to draw quality traffic. I have found, after comparing logs, that educated technology reader in my niche tend to use a combination of ad blocking software. I haven’t done the exact math, but after a few weeks I will chart it out. The counters I have with analytics, apache logs, mybloglog, and adsense vary greatly.
With the niche I’m working on I have been lucky enough to get some small traffic bursts over the past month. After reviewing the traffic from digg burst, major blog bursts, smaller blog bursts, and cross promotions with my other blogs, I learned 1 thing. Quality.
Good original titles. Put something out there, slightly unexpected, and watch it take off. I read on a SEO site, try to offend as many people as possible, it really gets attention. Here is a title I used recently on a post: “Massive Security Glitch with Virtual Server 2k5″ really, there isn’t a massive security glitch, it is just something strange I noticed that I wanted to draw attention to in virtual server. And I got some pretty good link love with it.
So 2 suggestions, original content, and good titles.
Write it and the traffic will come.
Ilya Lichtenstein
January 29th, 2007 3:34 pm
Social networks social networks social networks.
Submit your story to Digg and reddit and, regardless of whether it makes the front page or not, you get 50-100 free hits. The easiest way to generate quick exposure. Failing that, comment frequently on blogs that you like. With any luck, the blog author will want to find out more about you, follow the link to your blog, and perhaps write a post referencing one of your posts.
HART (1-800-HART)
January 29th, 2007 9:08 pm
I’m not really putting much effort in finding readers for my blogs - if they come .. great .. if they even like some of my stuff .. bonus!
But .. I have been consciously trying to promote myself and my name.. HART (1-800-HART) ,, on my commenting, participations in forums, MyBlogLog and now MySpace .. and even more so with my caricature.
You might say that I’m trying to find readers for HART (1-800-HART) - not for my blogs. So, when you see my name in print .. on in a byline on any of the blogs I have .. or in the comments of a blog out there on the internet .. you don’t wonder which “HART” that was .. everybody knows .. it’s me. Call it an ego thing. Sometimes you read comments and posts and scan over them, other times you really read them and pay attention because you know, from who is talking, that there must be some point being made.
And when all else fails .. I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, I Hope People Like Me!:
Richie
January 29th, 2007 11:47 pm
How do I attract readers? Well, I give away 100 dollars to every reader who visits my page!
…unfortunately, I also charge 100 dollars for the privilege of reading my content. ;)
Roberto
January 30th, 2007 1:07 am
Post regularly, interesting stories, some picture and yeah social networking!! Digg it is your friend, remember to make it Google friendly (nice URLs, tags, keywords, titles for your pictures…). Try all the things that people is commenting in here and little by little you’ll get more and more readers.
A button of “tell a friend of this post” can be useful too (uhmm… I need that for my blog!!)
Erik Zempel
January 30th, 2007 4:00 am
I think it’s less an issue finding readers for my blog, and more of an issue of making it easy for readers to find me. How many “blogs about the act of blogging” are there? Standing out helps.
The Jay
January 30th, 2007 5:28 am
What has worked for me is susbmitting my link to broad scope entertainment sites like CollegeHumor.com, GorillaMask.net, Ebaumsworld.com, and so on. Everytime I get linked by one of those sites I invariably get 8-9000 unique visitors over the course of the next few days (and in some cases weeks).
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Marty Weil
January 30th, 2007 8:59 am
Think Like A Media Relations Professional…
I’m blog in a very small niche, but I’ve had good luck in attracting decent traffic. I view other bloggers as a PR pros view journalists working in traditional media. I reach out to bloggers using tactics successfully employed in the world of professional media relations. For instance, I “pitch” specific posts that they might find adds value to topics they are writing about. I also send email introducing them to my blog, but only if there’s a good fit between my blog and theirs. The key is to be very selective in approaching the “media gatekeeper”–just as successful and smart media relations people do.
I find that 99% of the bloggers I reach out to in this manner respond positively, becuase I’ve done my homework on what they’re covering. They’ve linked to my posts consistently, which has driven a lot of quality as well as quantity of readership to my blog.
I’m seeking to build an audience, and thinking like a media relations expert has been very benefitial. Good luck with your efforts.
Gilchrist Electric
January 31st, 2007 12:55 am
Hey Darren,
Great blog! I’ve been a loyal reader for somtime now. All of your free information has really helped by blog tremendously.
A couple of things that I do to drive traffic is:
1.) Answer questions @ Yahoo answers. I always include a signature with a link to my blog.
2.) Participate in forums related to my niche.
3.) Post on related topic blogs
4.) Link building strategies
5.) SEO optimization - I’m a beginner here
6.) Link in email signature
I am also going to try a press release. I was told these work well.
MrBrownThumb
January 31st, 2007 3:50 am
I’m really not doing much but I’ve noticed that people would comment more on my pictures so I started giving away free wallpapers on my blog from the photos I took and it has been bring people to my blog from searches. Unfortunately my blog is on blogger so I can’t offer various sizes I just offered one.
Since my blog is about gardening I participate on gardening forums and will link my blog when appropriate and make sure it’s not see as spam. On these forums I have added the headline animator from feedburner on my profile so if someone is interested in my profile they see my feed healines.
I’m also starting to make specific blog entries from what I notices brings people to my blog from searches if I don’t already have that information.
Michael
January 31st, 2007 6:38 am
Be one of the first ten commenters on a post on a high-traffic site, leaving good commentary with a relevant link (the effect lasts for days if you do it right).
Premiership fan
January 31st, 2007 6:54 am
I just opened my blog 1 week ago, i have around 100 unique visits per day witch is low but im trying hard, i have published my blog to top link web sites,i participa in forums.I dont add comments in other blog because i dont have time, maybe thats reason?! :(
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[…] O Edney publicou uma livre tradução de uma entrada do Darren Rose com 23 dicas para encontrar novos leitores para o seu blogue! […]
Purple Woman
February 1st, 2007 2:16 am
I eagerly read every comment here and took notes, hoping that I was doing it right!
I’ve only been blogging a year and 7 months (just a babe!) and it has been a huge learning curve.
I may not try blogging naked, but I do need to learn the difference between comments and forums, how digg and reddit work, and the difference between social networking and bookmarking.
Short, catchy titles I’ve got down…I am definitely a Blog Ho, or Miss Bloggy pants as my husband calls me!
I will say that participating in the BlogHer community has helped me find new readers and some very interesting bloggers. but I have never figured out how to use MySpace to my purposes or my Yahoo360. Most of my readers have come from MyBlogLog lately, because that’s where I am spending my time. It’s a lot of fun for me, and blogging should be fun, either completely engaging and entertaining or very valuable information.
Ramen Junkie
February 1st, 2007 4:32 am
I get much of my traffic via Newsgroup posting. I get a huge spike in readers anytime I post a review to the newsgroup related to my topic and often the regular days increase a bit as well with each one.
terra
February 1st, 2007 5:00 am
If your blog is related to your profession or career, include the blog web address on your business cards - or in the footer of all of the emails you send out. This has helped increase word-of-mouth about my blog in particular.
It’s also helpful to write articles and submit them on various article submission sites, as well as forums, and newsletters.
-terra
http://www.betterforbusiness.com
NewsToob » Blog Archive » Ideas to Get New Readers to Your Blog
February 1st, 2007 8:09 am
[…] ProBlogger.Net: Over the weekend I ran an ‘open mike’ discussion which asked the question of How do you find Readers for Your Blog? There were quite a few responses to the question - some of which went a little unnoticed as they were moderated until I got home. So I thought I’d summarize some of the main themes that arose in the discussion with a few quotes from those who left comments. For the full series of comments see the post - but here are the main themes listed in no particular order except that they are vaguely the order that people submitted them in. Check out this highly useful information. […]
WebmasterFeed.org » 2007 » January » 30
February 1st, 2007 8:35 am
[…] How do you find Readers for Your Blog? - Open Mike Darren Rowse asked readers to share tips on how they’ve drawn readers to their blogs (Tags: blog promotion, blogging) […]
loop44 » 5 ways to increase traffic on your new blog
February 1st, 2007 10:06 am
[…] This is what we all really want, traffic. Darren Rowse had, over at ProBlogger.net, an open mike session where readers were encouraged to post the methods they use to get traffic. The post is called How do you find Readers for Your Blog? - Open Mike and had pretty good feedback. […]
Comment trouver plus de lecteurs pour votre blog at Fran6art, le blog
February 1st, 2007 10:05 pm
[…] Cet article de Problogger est en fait le résultat d’une enquête lancé le week-end dernier sur son blog qui posait la question suivante: “Comment trouver-vous des lecteurs pour votre blog?” et même si je n’ai pas été très surpris par le résultat, c’est toujours intéressant d’avoir ce genre d’article dans un coin pour y revenir quand on a besoin de se recadrer. Maintenant, ces “idées” sont surtout intéressantes pour les blogs qui n’ont pas encore beaucoup de lecteurs ou qui cherchent à en avoir plus. Vous le verrez dans certaines des idées évoquées mais je ne vois pas forcément beaucoup de propriétaires de grands blogs aller commenter sur d’autres blogs ou encore “taper la discute” sur des forums. Donc, disons que ce genre d’enquête permet surtout de bien débuter, de progresser et de fidéliser ses lecteurs (peut-on dire sa clientèle ?…vaste sujet !!) […]
Doug
February 4th, 2007 2:12 am
RSS baby!
I do a lot of reading on my blog topic (cigars) and when I discovered the wonderful world of RSS it became an obsession.
There’s always something to talk about. :)
I personally like google reader.
It’s feature set isn’t that great actually - but it’s handy and web based so I can access my daily dose of inspiration from any Internet capable computer.
Making Money » How do you Find Stories for Your blog? - Open Mike
February 5th, 2007 7:42 am
[…] On the weekend I asked readers to submit their tips on how they find readers for their blog in an ‘open mike’ discussion - the results were pretty good (it’s done pretty well on Digg today - I hope some of those featured got some good flow on traffic). […]
Smart Wealthy Rich » Writing Articles
February 7th, 2007 6:04 pm
[…] I stumbled across one or two blog posts today mentioning the importance of submitting articles to articles directories to get links back and increase your link popularity. Getting links back to your website will most definitely get you more visitors and at the same time help your improve your sales results. Good! how do we do this? (comments welcome, share your opinions) […]
Googlr
February 7th, 2007 11:00 pm
The way I attract reader is a bit weird. I try to misspel my title to attract visitor as all the famous blog have taken up the spot in search engines. For example ‘googlr’ which is slightly misspelled with ‘R’ instead to ‘E’. Well ‘E’ is next to ‘R’ in keyboard so that helps. I hold top position for all these misspelled keywords as following:
> googlr
> googlr mail
> googlr readers
> googlr videos
> googlr tv
> googlr mobile
> googlr games
> googlr live
> and many more.
The list is long but these are main one which attracts lots of traffic for me.
Business Building Tools | Make Money Online » 23 Ways to drive traffic to your blog http://www.problogger.net/archives/category/blog-promotion/
February 9th, 2007 1:40 am
[…] Over the weekend I ran an ‘open mike’ discussion which asked the question of How do you find Readers for Your Blog? […]
Marty
February 10th, 2007 9:14 am
I’m very interested in why people blog. See my post “Creative Studies.” I’d love to have your comments.
Christi
February 23rd, 2007 11:01 am
I’m an avid reader of your blog…love it and regularly check in. Your style is great, and your site is informative.
As far as what’s worked and not worked for me, I have a relatively new blog. I started getting about 20-50 readers per day after “blogtimizing” (optimizing my blog). This seemed to be very promising to me, and I thought there would be hope for the near future. Then I gave in to the advice I had been hearing that a blogger should have their own domain as opposed to having a free blog host, so I did. I switched from http://blogginghood.blogspot.com to http://www.bloggingmthood.com and my readership dropped from 20-50 a day, to just about 5 a day if I’m lucky. I’m not sure what happened, or how to fix it, but I’m back to square one now I guess. I just thought others could read about this, and maybe come up with a pre-plan to avoid the problem if they switch to a purchased domain.
Hope this helps!
Greg O'Byrne
February 24th, 2007 5:47 am
allright allright allright, I’ll comment on some blogs. Sheesh does that mean I have to be nice to other people?
Ganhar Dinheiro com a Internet :: 23 idéias para encontrar novos leitores para o seu blog :: June :: 2007
June 9th, 2007 10:53 am
[…] Rose pediu para seus leitores compartilharem suas experiências na busca de novos leitores para seus blogs, hoje ele fez um resumo das principais idéias […]
Let Your Readers Fill the Content of Your Blog Post | Blog RSS
June 9th, 2007 11:58 pm
[…] It’s all about asking tips from your readers. Yes, Darren asked tips from his readers like how they find readers for their blog and where do you find stories for your […]
William
July 28th, 2007 12:13 am
Hi,
I wrote an article about my new website and got it on the first page of netscape.com
- William :)
skykid
December 14th, 2007 3:55 am
I am having an average of 400 hits for day - but have in mind that my blog is almost 2 years old now and this has something to do with its standing in the search engines.Also I tend to focus on particular topics - such as movie or music reviews . I guess the one universal tip in here will be to write about controversial things- the post I have most traffic for is titled ” Hack a web site ” - even through I would prefer to have some other posts at its place - getting that amount of attention that is.
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