Summary:

Aside from being a fun hobby, what is the point of having a blog?

The answer is to draw readers. Whether you are performing services, selling advertising, a product, or just your own set of ideas, you want
as large a readership as possible with most blogs.

So if that is the case, it is important to know how to draw readers to your blog. There are
a number of ways to increase the readership of your blog. Here are four tips that will help you to increase your blog readership that are easy to do and will definitely pay off for you.

First of all, to increase readership you would want to increase the number of pages each reader is seeing. You don’t want to be judged only on your last post, but rather on the whole of your work. To that end, try highlighting related posts within your blog. At the end of an article, highlight posts that may be of interest to those who like the current post.

Most blog platforms are fitted with plug-ins that will help you with this, but if they are not, then go ahead and at least list the links to other pages manually.

Another similar idea is to highlight the related posts within the content of your post.
If you are talking about a subject you have discussed before, link off of one of the
keywords into the past post that is related. This will also help a past post to maintain
its freshness.

A second tip for increasing your blog readership is to think about doing a series.
A series is a great way to keep a reader coming back again and again.

In addition, if you are linking back, you can get readers looking at multiple posts
even after you are done with the series. Be careful when doing a series,
because you do not want to frustrate readers.

However, if you have a topic you genuinely think you should handle over a period of time, a series can really help your overall readership.

If you are curious as to whether or not a series is working for your blog, then check posts. See if readers are posting through the series to see if they are following you. If they are, then your series is a success and you are only helping your blog readership.

Another way to increase readership is considered a little more “controversial”.
You can try putting excerpts on the front page of your blog from certain posts.

Many people claim it is just a way to get more hits on your site. The truth is that extra hits are a little side benefit of it, but the real value is that it can make your site more engaging.

By adding excerpts to the front page you can manage the front and keep it fresh while also teasing those who get that far into reading more than just your most recent blog post.

This will encourage prospective readers to explore your blog site a little more than they may have normally. Again, you want to be judged by the whole of your work, or at least by a larger piece of your work than just one post and this will do that. If your writing is up to par, you will see a rise in your readership.

Finally, if you really want to build and increase readership, you have to have good quality content.

It should be useful, original, and interesting to your target audience as well as keeping them wanting more of the same. The more you raise the quality of your blog’s content, the more you will see your membership, readership, and page hits go up without even having to use any other “tricks.”

People know what they like and they like quality for the most part. Giving the readers what they are after is probably the best way possible to increase your blog readership.

Having a blog can not only be fun, but if you are doing it right it can also be profitable.

Either way, though, you want to maintain and increase a following, or readership.

There are as many tips out there to increase blog readership as there are blogs, but to really get things going, consider using these four tips. Follow them and you will see your readership grow.

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I did not want to use this blog for anything BUT news and ideas and content ABOUT Virtual Assistance or being a Virtual Assistant, but today, marking my 50th incidence of SPAM as a comment to my blog posts, I decided to make this one post that is not related to Virtual Assistants and the duties we perform.

Obviously, if the spammers are using software that randomly spams blogs, they will not see this message, so this is for those who manually send me stupid, silly or totally spam filled messages in the hopes to get links back to their web sites.

If you want to keep wasting your time spamming this blog, I will continue to waste mine reporting your post as spam and deleting it. This does not help any of us so I am at a loss to understand your point.

I have taken it one step further and when I see one of MY spammer’s names or urls on others’ blogs, I now write to the webmaster or webmistress and let them know, in case they do NOT filter and approve the posts, that you are a spammer and that we have YOU in common.

For almost ten years I have been the editor of Rim Digest ezine and have had to jump through hoops to get the newsletter, that has DOUBLE opt-in subscribers, through the spam filters that ISP’s and email providers foist on their customers whether they want them or not and I seriously resent having the NEED to filter and approve the comments left on my blog.

But, if need be, I will continue to do so. You are not going to expand your spamming networks on my dime so you might as well do it elsewhere. The smartest ( I guess you could say ) of you do not even have contact info on the web sites you leave the url to and your email addresses are as bogus as your marketing methods. This, no doubt, keeps you safe from return spam or being turned into your ISP’s or mail providers BUT, as of today, I am going to start forwarding the spam posts I get to my blog to the customer service department of the “whosis” info that shows up in the email I get for each post needing to be approved.

Jan Tallent
Spam, scam and trash marketing hater