7 Different Ways To Attract Readers
When you start a blog, attracting new readers is not a piece of cake. Many bloggers struggle in this phase and most of them quit blogging. They simply give up because they are oblivious to the fact anyone can entice readers. Isn’t it the case why you start blogging in the first place so that you want readers to read your contents? In this article, we come up with different ways to attract readers to your blog.
Seven Different Ways to Attract Readers
1. Quality Content
We’ve already discussed this in our previous article. That said, the quality of content matters most. You can write a long post as much as you want but if the same post doesn’t allure readers to read more, it is of no use. Know your niche and know your readers. When it comes to blogging, quality of post wins over quantity of post. It is always the same case. However, we are not discouraging you to not write long posts. Do it but with quality too. Write articles that make readers want to visit your blog from time to time. Doing so, you don’t have to worry about getting traffics. Do you?
2. Enticing Titles
You might have heard of Clickbaiting. If you are an avid youtube user, you know what we are talking about. People judge book by its covers. Well, at least some people. But with the blogging, people actually get attracted by the title. If you write a boring title, it is hard to attract readers. Bang with a headline. Give a killer headline to each post. Nevertheless, don’t forget to add focus keyword in your title. It helps in Search Engine Optimization.
3. Share on Social Media
It is another way to lure readers to your blog. Many professional bloggers do this. They want to attract as much as readers to read their contents. What we mean to say is that you can follow the same criteria after you are done with writing your blog posts. Share your contents on Social Meda sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Quora, Pinterest and such. It helps you in getting traffics as well as getting new readers daily.
4. Guest Blogging
If you have ever gone through another bloggers’ site, you must have realized that not only the owner of that website writes a post but other people do it too. It is called Guest Blogging. Most of them are paid to write on another bloggers’ site. We highly suggest you do the same. It is one of many ways to attract readers. If you post high-quality contents through Guest Blogging for another blogger, it is sure that readers want to visit your blog too as it link backs to your site. You can always invite others to guest blog for your blog too.
5. SEO
Ok, this one is quite imperative. First of all, you must get found in Search Engines in order to get new visitors to your site. You must learn to Optimize your sites through Search Engine Optimization. Before publishing a blog post, take into consideration the following things that help you in optimizing the post.
- Focus Keyword
- Write Meta-Description with focus keywords
- Link the various sites through internal linking and external linking
- Add images with keywords in Alt-txt
6. Newsletter Sign-Up
Have you ever realized when you browse most bloggers’ site, you get a notification in a desktop? The same notification is Newsletter. Many bloggers’ follow the same principle of Newsletter. We do too. The point is sending out Newsletter or getting to sign up the readers simply add a number of subscribers to your site. It also reminds your readers that you have posted quality contents whenever they check their email.
7. Keep up with your schedule
This article will be incomplete without this title. If you are actually a serious blogger or if you want to be one, then always remember that you should keep up with your schedule. What does it mean? It means that you should post contents on regular basis. Make your time to give quality contents to readers. Post frequently. Always keep in mind, most of your readers are those readers who keep coming to your site to read quality contents. Don’t let them down.
In this article, we went through seven different ways to attract readers. New readers mean more traffic. Furthermore, without readers, your blog is of no use. Therefore, we suggest you write quality contents keeping up with your schedule. Every novice bloggers’ struggle in attracting new readers to their blog. Now you know the different ways to attract readers, we really hope you don’t struggle that much.
Happy Blogging !!!