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7 Ways to Build a Community Around Your Blog
This post is based on episode 61 of the ProBlogger podcast. Last week I talked about building a community around your blog, and how it can benefit you as much as it can your readers. Well, this week I’m going to give you seven practical tips and strategies on how you can ...more
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9 Reasons Why You Should Build a Community Around Your Blog
This post is based on episode 60 of the ProBlogger podcast. One of the most common questions I hear from my readers is “How do I get my readers to interact with me?” Of course, there are plenty of answers I could give to that question. But for the next couple ...more
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How ‘Warming up Your Readers’ Helped One Blogger Earn More than $28,000
This post is based on episode 117 of the ProBlogger podcast. Over the past four weeks I’ve talked about the four stages of warming up your readers and turning them into raving fans: 1. Getting the word out about your blog 2. Getting first-time visitors interested in your blog 3. Getting more ...more
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How to Get People to Engage With You and Your Blog
This post is based on episode 116 of the ProBlogger podcast. Over the past few weeks I’ve talked about the first three stages of warming up your readers and turning them into raving fans: getting the word out about your blog getting first-time visitors interested in your blog getting more subscribers, followers ...more
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How to Get More Subscribers, Followers and Connections
Over the past few weeks I’ve been talking about warming up your readers and turning them into raving fans. So far I’ve talked about getting the word out about your new blog, and getting those first-time visitors interested in your blog and what you have to say. This week I ...more
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How to Get First-Time Visitors Interested in Your Blog
Last week we talked about to getting the word out about your blog so people will visit. This week I want to talk about the next stage of warming them up and turning them into raving fans: getting them interested when they do visit. You only to have to look ...more
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How to Get the Word out about Your New Blog
Last week I talked about the four stages of warming up your readers and turning them into raving fans. Well, today I’ll show you how to smash through that first stage: getting the word out about your blog. As a teenager, you may have once pined over a boy or girl ...more
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How to Warm Up Your Readers and Make Them Raving Fans
This post is based on episode 112 of the ProBlogger podcast. Today I’m kicking off a series of blog posts designed to help you move your readers from feeling cold towards you, your brand and your blog, to being fully engaged and becoming raving fans. I’m going to talk about the ...more
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Should You Disable Comments on Your Blog?
This is a post by ProBlogger expert Ali Luke When you started out blogging, you were probably thrilled when you got a comment. People were reading your posts, and cared enough to leave their own thoughts. As time went by, you probably found some of the comments very useful. Maybe ...more
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