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5 Ways to Attract Readers to Your Blog
25 Comments | Posted by Kelvin Servigon in Blogging Resources
5 Ways to Attract Readers to Your Blog
Your blogging enthusiasm will always be from your avid readers. Readers of your blog is very important because they boost your spirit in blogging. They are also they key to make money online. A reader of your blog is one of the most important things you need to think of when you’re starting up a blog.
So, how to get some readers? Well, based on my own experience in blogging within one and a half year, I have formulated five ways to attract readers to your blog
1. No good content, no readers. Of course, no one will read or even just visit your blog if you just right nothing but a piece of crap. Create more competitive blog posts. Write a blog post that will help others (like some guides, tutorials or a blog post something like this post you are reading). You must consider developing your writing skills because it is your power to enrich your blog’s content.
2. Be the Social Media King. Almost everybody who uses the web may also uses social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And that means, you can grab those people in social networking sites to be your readers. How? Just be active in social networking sites. Be friendly. Build your online identity and eventually, a very nice reputation. By these, whenever you post an update on your status saying that you got a new
blog post, then your followers will definitely try to read or visit your blog.
3. Expand your online activity. Don’t stick in to one social networking sites. Create more. Don’t stick to one blog. Build another one. Just like what I did. Tumblr is a great blogging platform with a very friendly user interface. In Tumblr, it’s like blogging with social networking. And by that, you just don’t blog but you also socialize virtually with other people. And that’s what you call expanding your online activity.
The North Face 100
Summer season is coming here in the Philippines. And most Filipinos enjoy the heat of summer season by having a beach party or a simple pool-side gathering. But one of the best things that we can do this summer season is to join an action-packed trail running marathon! Philippines is a great spot for great marathon events. And this month of April, The North Face 100 organized another huge trail running marathon series in the country’s coolest place – Baguio City.
The North Face 100 has been organizing events like this here in the Philippines in the past three years (like the unforgettable tnf 100) . And this time, The North Face brings the marathon lovers to Baguio City. We all know that Baguio is a place with a very rough terrain. So the marathon that will take place here will definitely define your personal limits. From rocky roads to gnarly paths of the city, expect to have an active and thrilling marathon.
Having a beach party with your family is just so great. I can still remember that when we went to a beach with the whole family, we got a lot of great memories there. We shared lots of laughters and joy there. Me and my cousins have been even closer since that beach party. Having some sweet occasions with your family like that is indeed a great way to share love and happiness. And of course, it can’t be perfect without a perfect place to stay. I searched the web for some great beach resorts and I found that Myrtle Beach is one of the top destinations for beach parties.
Myrtle Beach is one of the United States’ fastest growing metropolitan areas. Myrtle Beach is a coastal resort city and home of different luxurious and awesome beach resorts. And one of the finest Myrtle Beach Resorts there is the Prince Resort.
Prince Resort | Source: Prince Resort on Flickr
Holy week – the last week of the lent and the time where Catholics commemorate the last few days of Jesus Christ’s early life. It is also a long vacation because at this week, different businesses close to join the faithful commemoration of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice for us. There are different traditions that we live on as Filipinos during this Holy week. The Palm Sunday where we bring “palaspas” or pal leaves to churches, the “sinakulo” or a play depicting the sufferings of Jesus Christ and of course, the Visita Iglesia.
Visita Iglesia is an old tradition that originally came from Rome, where people would visit the seven great basilicas in Rome. And here in the Philippines, people visit seven churches here in the Philippines and faithfully praying the Stations of the Cross. Visita Iglesia is also a great way to discover the Philippines’ greatest churches that age over hundreds and hundreds of years.
It is indeed a spiritually-refreshing activity during the Holy Week or Semana Santa with your family. The Griffin Sierra Travel Inc. – a major travel company – offers a good way to visit the Philippines baroque churches this Visita Iglesia. GSTI is a travel company where you can look for very nice packages for travel. They’re the one who will organize your bus trips to different churches and other things that related to traveling. It is ineed a great feeling where the only thing that you need to do is to relax, and focus to the Holy Week’s activities.
Almost every blogger dreams to have something bought from his blog’s earnings, and I’m one of them. Everytime I got some funds in my AdSense and Paypal accounts, I always add them and see if I am reaching my goal – to earn up to $400.
I’ve been blogging since 2008 and it was June 2009 when I only started earning some money. Yeah, it took me that long (almost six months) before I earn a single dollar from blogging. And now, after 10 months of earning very little amount everyday, after writing over 15 blog reviews and after those nights of reading “make money online” blogs, I finally reached the goal of my blogging dreams.
The first thing that I bought was my own webhosting account plus domain. I built another blog, Blastingmind.com. After that, the next thing that came to my mind was to buy a new HP notebook. But my earnings was not enough to buy that stuff. So, what I did was, I just kept my funds in my online accounts and wait until it reached the price of HP Mini. It was a right decision, right?
Then, I just continued blogging and harvesting some cents from my visitors. It was my “blogging routine” that time. But not anymore when a huge surprise came out.
I bought a 32GB iPod Touch, a Bose iPod speakers and a Nokia E65 phone, all in one package! I bought it from my PayPal funds. The day that I bought those gadgets was one of my happiest days of my life. Hard work resulted in to cool dream gadgets. And, I am very proud to say that, I can make money online now without any hesitations. He-he-he.
Here are some photos of my new toys:
That's me in my iPod! | © Kelvin Servigon Photography
