How To Get Readers For A Blog?

Blogging is becoming very famous nowadays. Everybody wants to blog and share their feelings. But what makes a blog famous? What do readers like in a blog? How to succeed in blogging??

I started blogging four months ago with a sub-domain and recently switched over to this domain. I have learnt  lot of things in these days.

A blog’s success depend on it’s subscribers and readers. (Everybody knows this… right)  I don’t like to tell more things about these as you may have already read in many other blogs. The question discussed here is:

“How to Get Readers For a Blog??”

Before answering this question, one has to look at what readers want in a blog. According to my observations, readers love posts of analysis of a subject rather than news posts or findings or reviews. (Well, here I am talking about mostly tech blogs). People want to follow the blogs that explain the concepts in a very simple and common layman’s language. The most famous Wikipedia is not so capable of explaining the concepts in a simple manner. This is the entry of blogs for readers.

To explain you more, first visit famous sites such as copyblogger or problogger and browse through their posts. You can see that they write more “What…?” or “How….? “ posts. They analyze the things and write about their analysis of a particular subject. This is what gains a readership for a blog.

But, of course a blog has to contain all types of posts, be it news or findings. It has to be well balanced. But all these “news or findings” posts gives only temporary traffic. But for permanent traffic you need to gain readers. This is how you can make a blog successful. So, according to me readers are permanent traffic and it is very essential to gain them.

So, in order to gain readers,

• A blogger must understand the topics he wants to post and explain it in his own simple words.
• He has to be very good in narration, so that people don’t get bored reading it.
• If you are really interested in posting news, then you have to analyze the latest trend and then write an analysis of it. Not just a review. For example, if you want to write the news about launch of Bing by Microsoft, then analyze what people like about it and what not. What is the impact of it on Google. Don’t just simply write posts like “Microsoft launches Bing” etc.  (You can get an idea about this Tech Crunch.)

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