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Go out of your way to publicly (and privately) celebrate and acknowledge your readers and you’ll find the impact is twofold: The readers that you acknowledge will become more loyal to you. It’s pretty simple really – we like it when people value us. Other readers respond well to your ...more

Another way to make yourself more relatable to readers is to highlight your humanity by showing when you’re less than perfect. One of the problems of blogging is that it can create (intentionally or unintentionally) ‘spin’ around a person that gives readers the impression of ‘super hero’ status. Ask yourself ...more

Earlier today I wrote about how adding a Byline to a blog helped increase the personal interactions between blogger and reader. At around the same time we added a photo the blogger I was working with to the top of his sidebar and wrote a one sentence line introducing who ...more

Chris has finished his excellent series of video casts on 7 Essential WordPress Hacks at Tubetorial. Today’s your last chance to vote for ProBlogger in the Weblog Awards – we’re 150 votes behind the leader of the pack and battling for 2nd place so far. Pimp Your Work has a ...more

A few months ago I was consulting with a blogger who was getting a reasonable number of visitors to his blog each day but who was getting very low levels of commenting and reader interaction. Over time we made a number of changes to his blog with some success but ...more

Last week I surveyed readers on their AdSense earnings for the month of November. I was hoping to run the poll for a full week but due to some problems with the plugin I was using only got around two days of data (732 respondents). The results were quite similar ...more

Perhaps one of the simplest ways of adding a personal touch to your blog is to share a little more of yourself than just your knowledge on your topic. It is probably not appropriate to share every small detail of your offline life (boundaries are important) I find that readers ...more

I’ll admit right up front that I’m not the best at this – in fact on almost every occasion that I’ve attempted to inject humor into blog posts I’ve managed to offend, confuse or mislead one reader or another. Do as I say – not as I do and proceed ...more

I’ve recently been reading The Story Factor by Annette Simmons and am convinced that stories are one of the most powerful ways of engaging and impacting readers. I’ve written previously on using stories in blogging (and will probably again) but am a firm believer in using stories as they: engage ...more