Tag: finding readers

When I set TwiTip up look after itself over the weekend (I set up a few posts to go live at specific times) I wasn’t expecting it to be a huge weekend of traffic. The posts were good – but there were less than during the week and past history ...more

A year or two back ‘blog carnivals’ were all the rage as a way to put yourself out there and promote your blog. I know that they still exist and many bloggers still get into them – but I’m wondering how many bloggers use them these days? For those not ...more

One of the simplest ways to grow your blog’s readership is to leverage other places that you have an online presence. Leveraging places that you have presence online could include: 1. Twitter Background Image: I’ve been using a background image on Twitter that has URLs of other places that I’m ...more

Update – 48 hours has expired and I’ve now closed this experiment. OK – here’s a little experiment for us to participate in this weekend. Below I’d like you to ‘pitch’ us on why we should read your blog. Read on to find out how. I get asked these two ...more

Two weeks ago I was seeing 40 new email subscribers per day to my photography blog email newsletter. This week I’ve been averaging over 350 new subscribers a day. In this post I’ll share the story of how I did it. In this months ProBlogger Newsletter I gave subscribers some ...more

Getting other blogs to link to your blog posts is not easy to do – particularly when you are starting out. Taking a ‘write quality content and they will link up’ approach can work once you have a readership (although even then it’s not that easy) but what if your ...more

This short post on using forums to drive traffic to blogs was submitted by an anonymous ProBlogger reader. My blog is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and other peoples forums are the number 1 source of this traffic. Darren has asked me if I’d share how ...more

Last week I decided to find some quality Australian blogs to subscribe to. I used a newly compiled list of Australian Marketing Blogs that Julian Cole put together as the basis for my search. I was excited by the quality of some of the blogs on that list – but ...more

Skellie wrote this post. For more, you can follow her on Twitter. Did you know that some blogs receive over one million visitors each month? Have you ever wondered how they do it? This kind of traffic isn’t easy to attain, but the pay-off for a high traffic blog with ...more