How to Get Loyal Readers for Your Blog!

1.Submit your articles to EzineArticles
Submit your Tutorial articles to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish them on their website or in their newsletter while linking back to you. If your article is republished on a site with good traffic, you will get a lot of new readers at once. Many people underestimate the power of article submission but I tell you,it works.Aside EzineArticles.com,you can submit your articles to other sites such as goarticles.com,articlestree.com,articlescity.com,etc

2.Tag Technorati
Technorati is one of the best traffic providers for bloggers. People find your blogs easily when they search by technorati tags. Technorati will rank your blog based on the number of links from other websites.The higher your rank the easier your blog is to find when people search for things.

If you do not have a Technorati account, signup at http://technorati.com. After you have setup the main settings, such as your profile, you need to claim your blog.

3.Take part in Blog Networks
Submitting your blog to blog networks like topblogsites.net, blogtopsites.com and top100bloggers.com is another way to get more readers. These networks make your blog easier to find and search for as well. After you sign up for an account on their website, you just need to copy a bit of code and paste it somewhere on your blog

4.Hold a Blog Contest
There are an estimated 60 million bloggers around the world - and if you are one of them you will be fighting for attention like everyone else. So,holding a blog contest is a perfect way to drive traffic like crazy to your blog.And please don’t be scared of doing this because of the cash reward involved.You can give out non-cash prizes,such as links,branded T-shirts,mugs,etc

5.Another step in getting more readers is to find out about other blogs which might wish to carry material from your blog. To do that, you will need to search for blogs - perhaps at http://blogsearch.google.com

Once you have found some blogs of interest you can do a couple of things. Add a comment or two to postings within the blog, ensuring you include a link to your own blog. Also, contact the blogger and ask them to read your blog and perhaps include a mention of it in their own blog.

6.You can also use social networking sites to increase the likelihood of bloggers using your blog within their postings.

7.Another way of getting readers to find your blog is to issue a press release. Write a press release about something your blog has covered and submit it to all the relevant online press release directories. This may get coverage for your blog - but importantly some of the main press release directories are used by Google in its News search system.

8.Mention your blog at business networking meetings. If your blog has an easy to remember name, pass it on during conversation. Otherwise, get business cards printed with just the domain name of your blog, and some basic information about what it covers. Hand these around at meetings and other bloggers will be able to mention you in their blog, bringing you more readers.

9.Finally, give people a reason to mention your blog - use the power of “word of mouth”. That means your blog must be useful - provide practical help, rather than just opinion. Also, be “unusual” - don’t just do what everyone else is doing. If you do, you won’t get noticed.

Apply these tips and see your blog readership grow almost overnight!

Written by Iyabo Oyawale (2007),you can use the above article and all the others on my blog f-r-e-e- if you include the following:

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