How many times does someone visit the homepage of your blog and exit it?
100 or 1000? Why are you loosing them?
DO some corrections to your blog and then see them reading every damn post.
1. Good template – Afterall Presentation matters , so you need to get a good template. I advice you not to use advertisements at least for 2-3 months if you started you blog recently. It’s helps you to build search engine ranking and also to attract readers because if they see ads they will surely exit and also this takes away a lot of space. For WordPress users they have a wide variety of templates available all over the internet , some good wordpress websites are –
If you use blogger you can read my post on blogger templates which has a complete list of website’s providing blogger template.
2. Using Feedburner’s or feedblitz Email Subscribtion -Now it is your turn to choose which email subscription service you want. I would advice you to use Feedblitz as it offer’s much friendly user interface and also the email’s sent by feedblitz are quite arranged i.e the have recent posts link, then they have many other options in the email itself so try using that.
3. Using Facebook to catch hold of readers – Now after you have completed attacking your user’s Mail inbox not it’s time to go social. Try Making Groups and Pages about your blog on facebook and other social networking websites. This will help you to get in touch with readers much easily and also send them updates about your blog.
4. Make Toolbars for your website – Now the next thing to attack is the reader’s browser. Now create a toolbar for your website with search options which directly search your blog or even some updates so whenever they access the internet the first thing they see if your blog.
Conduit is a service which will allow you to create some cool free toolbars for you website.
5. Sms updates for your blogs – Now set’s go to the Other side and access the readers at any place in the world and the smartest way. Try using Google’s Sms Channels to allow users to subscribe to your blog and receive updates anywhere in the whole wide world.
6. Using twitter to get some good traffic – Now it’s time to get back to where we were. Use twitter to send updates to your readers via twitter as most people now only log on to twitter and that’s it.
8. Topic posting – Write Topics which may rise interest not ony in the mind of webmasters but also the common people i.e if you write a post on how to run a apache server on your computer and ……… , the reader’s will only consist of people who know what it is, but if you post a about a cellphone you will be able to gather much more traffic.
9. Few of the best but need a lot of effort ways to increase traffic – As soon as you post the content just digg, reddit , stuble upon it. Make this quite quick so that you can get more visitors because if you are a news reporter reporting about a story which happened 10 hours back while the other news reportes have already telecasted it who will give a damn for your post?
So use social networks to get traffic like anything.
10. Some Good widgets and cracks and hacks so that your blog looks quite a strong one. I have written a blog post about 25 great widgets and hacks and cracks for blogger. You can read the complete post here.
11. The recent posts widget, on in the sidebar so that users can read some of your recent posts and if they are interested they will click. You can install one widget on your blog by using feedburner’s Buzz boost. A complete instructional post has been given here.
