Do People Really Read my Content?
I’m a huge advocate of blogging. That is why I not only blog on this site, but I also have a blog on my Elite Travel page, my Elite Destination Weddings page, my Honeymoon Giveaway page and other pages I run. A blog is a great way to drive traffic to your website, prove you know your stuff and to teach potential clients a thing or two. If you’re not blogging you should be! But I digress…let’s discuss the real reason you’re here- Are people really reading your content? Here are some tips to get people to actually read what you post:
1. Post good content regularly – There’s no sense trying to drive traffic if there isn’t much on your site. You should be posting at the bare minimum once or twice a month.
2. Share your posts to let people know it’s out there –There are around 31 million blogs on the internet in the United States alone and this doesn’t even include the number of sites that post one blog article and never post again! It’s easy to get lost online if you don’t tell people you have written something. Share it in your networks, on your LinkedIn page, in your Facebook feed, heck- some people even share the link to their blog in every email they send out!
3. Have a spot for comments and ask people to leave one – Just letting your readers know that you care about their response to what you wrote helps encourage them to chime in and obviously if they are commenting, they are reading!
4. Use good keywords – Remember the post we wrote recently about maximizing keywords in a blog post? This helps your blog get noticed too. Oh, and what I did in this tip brings me to my final tip…
5. Backlink to previous posts you have written on your blog – Not only does this help your website show up more frequently in search engines, it also increases the likelihood a visitor to your site will stick around longer and possibly even share what you have written.
So, tell me- are you blogging in your business? If so, what are you doing to increase your traffic and readership? Let me know you read this post with a comment below!
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