CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

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

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

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

This is post 3 in the Adding a Personal Touch to Your Blog Series I can hardly believe that I’m encouraging bloggers to be more emotional in their blogging (blogging is a medium that is sometimes accused of being too emotionally based) but I think quite a few entrepreneurial blogs ...more

Last week’s post ‘7 reasons why personal blogs rock‘ got a great reaction from readers. One of the recurring pieces of feedback I had from other bloggers was that my style of blogging was quite ‘personal’ even on my ‘non personal’ blogs. One ProBlogger reader commented via email: ‘Sometimes I ...more