Having a good relationship with your readers is very important for reader loyalty, linking, social bookmarking, and just overall blog success. Building a good relationship with your readers goes hand in hand with building traffic and reader loyalty. If readers feel a connection with your blog and other readers of your blog they are more likely to return and to also help you in your social bookmarking efforts. Here are a few tips on building a good relationship with your readers.
1. Content is still King
Let me qualify the above statement and help you avoid a pitfall that I still and many new bloggers fall into. Quality of content not quantity of content. The latter will follow as your work on the former. I know that the “rule” around the blogosphere is “post every day!” This pressure to post every day drives poor quality content and will in turn eventually impact your relationship with your readers. Read a great article that goes into more detail on this over at the MyDailyFix blog on this topic.
2. Respond to Comments
Responding to comments lets your readers know that you are involved and reading what they are saying. It also encourages return visits and creates more of a community of bloggers/commentators than simply readers. Actively involved readers become loyal readers.
3. Link to the blogs of your regular readers/commentators blogs
If you have a reader that consistently posts quality comments and has a blog, link to their blog in a post or via a top commentators list.
4. Visit and comment on the blogs of your readers
This encourages reciprocation and will build loyalty and who knows you may even learn something.
5. Subscribe to the feeds of your readers.
This goes hand-in-hand with #’s 3 & 4. By actively engaging your readers through links, comments on, and subscriptions to their blog increases the likelihood of gaining a loyal reader and one who will spread the word about your blog.Place value on your readers and their comments and they will place value in what you have to say as well. Integrate these tips into your blogging and you will be rewarded with a more loyal and engaged readership.
later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day
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1. Content is still King
Let me qualify the above statement and help you avoid a pitfall that I still and many new bloggers fall into. Quality of content not quantity of content. The latter will follow as your work on the former. I know that the “rule” around the blogosphere is “post every day!” This pressure to post every day drives poor quality content and will in turn eventually impact your relationship with your readers. Read a great article that goes into more detail on this over at the MyDailyFix blog on this topic.
2. Respond to Comments
Responding to comments lets your readers know that you are involved and reading what they are saying. It also encourages return visits and creates more of a community of bloggers/commentators than simply readers. Actively involved readers become loyal readers.
3. Link to the blogs of your regular readers/commentators blogs
If you have a reader that consistently posts quality comments and has a blog, link to their blog in a post or via a top commentators list.
4. Visit and comment on the blogs of your readers
This encourages reciprocation and will build loyalty and who knows you may even learn something.
5. Subscribe to the feeds of your readers.
This goes hand-in-hand with #’s 3 & 4. By actively engaging your readers through links, comments on, and subscriptions to their blog increases the likelihood of gaining a loyal reader and one who will spread the word about your blog.Place value on your readers and their comments and they will place value in what you have to say as well. Integrate these tips into your blogging and you will be rewarded with a more loyal and engaged readership.
later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day
Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my newsletter! or clicking the links below to subscribe to my feed, bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.
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A Cowboy's Wife
Thanks for the compliment. I am already working on the next edition trying to boost the quality and quantity of content.
As far as time goes about blogging. Hopefully in a few months I will have more time on my hands to do this. Well looking foward to your upcoming editions.
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