There are many articles on About.com Blogging that offer tips and suggestions to help you get more blog readers, and now you can access them all in one place in this Ultimate Guide to Get More Blog Readers. Follow the links below, which are broken into specific activity categories, and watch your blog traffic and audience grow!
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Great Content
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The first step to getting more people to read your blog is to write great content. To do that, you need to learn how to blog. The following articles teach you what you need to know to write great blog content that people want to read:
How to Write a Blog People Want to Read
How to Write a Blog in 5 Easy Steps
5 Tips to Write Great Blog Posts
3 Steps to Write Great Blog Post Titles
7 Tips to Writing a Blog Post That's Scannable
The Secrets of Blog Post Length
Blog Posting Frequency Overview
Add Related Posts to Your Blog Entries
5 Tricks to Make Your Blog Posts Look Better Than Everyone Else's
Top 5 Sites to Find Free Photos to Use on Your Blog
20 Ideas for Writing a Blog Post
5 Blog Post Idea Generators
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Search Engine Optimization
Take some time to learn at least some basic search engine optimization (SEO) tricks and best practices. The following articles teach you the SEO do's and don'ts that can help you attract more traffic to your blog via search engines:
Top 10 SEO Tips
How Many Links Are Too Many Links for SEO?
Top 4 Keyword Research Tools
5 Tricks to Use Keywords in Your Blog Posts
5 Tricks to Increase Google Page Rank for Your Blog
5 Tips to Increase Incoming Links to Your Blog
Boost Blog Traffic with Long Tail SEO
Beginner Blog SEO Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
Intermediate SEO Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
Advanced SEO Tips from SEO Expert Gab Goldenberg
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Link Building and More
The more incoming links to your blog, the more potential traffic your blog will get. Read the following articles to learn how and why you should start working to increase the number of links to your blog as well as some other ways to boost blog traffic:
Link Building vs. Linkbaiting
11 Free Link Building Tips
Where to Find Linkbait Blog Post Ideas
15 Tips to Increase Your Blog's Traffic
10 Free Blog Promotion Tips
Free and Affordable Email Marketing Tools for Bloggers
Get Blog Traffic Tips from Other Bloggers and Add Your Own Tips
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Twitter
Twitter is an excellent tool to share links to your blog content and spread that content to wider audiences. Learn how to do it in these articles:
Twitter Basics
10 Ways Bloggers Can Use Twitter
10 Types of Twitter Posts
5 Tips to Get More Twitter Retweets
Top 10 Twitter Etiquette Tips
Twitter Limits Defined
Sites to Find Free Twitter Badges
Find Free and Custom Twitter Backgrounds
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Social Networking
Are you using Facebook and LinkedIn? They're great tools for getting traffic to your blog. The following articles give you all the details you need to get started:
Social Networking Basics
Top 10 Social Networking Sites to Promote Your Blog
Facebook Overview
How to Add Your Blog to Your Facebook Profile
10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with Facebook
How to Start a Facebook Group to Promote Your Blog
How Can I Get a Unique URL and Username for My Facebook Page?
Handy WordPress Plugins for Facebook Integration
LinkedIn Overview
10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with LinkedIn
MySpace Overview
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Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking isn't as popular as it once was, but it's still a quick and easy way to give your blog content more exposure which could lead to traffic. Learn how it works in these articles:
Social Bookmarking Basics
Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites
StumbleUpon Overview
5 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic with StumbleUpon
Overview of Digg
5 Tips to Use Digg to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Overview of Del.icio.us
5 Tips to Use Del.icio.us to Drive Blog Traffic
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Blog Contests
Everyone loves contests. Read the articles listed below to learn how you can use giveaways to increase blog traffic:
Blog Contest Basics
Top 10 Tips for Successful Blog Contests
3 Free Sites to Promote Blog Contests
10 Blog Contest Giveaway Ideas
How to Write Blog Contest Rules
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Guest Blogging
Writing for other blogs and inviting bloggers to write posts on your blog is a great way to increase your exposure, incoming links to your blog, build relationships, and get more readers for your blog. Learn how in these articles:
Introduction to Guest Blogging
Top 10 Tips for Guest Bloggers
How to Be a Guest Blogger or Find Guest Bloggers
Interview with Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest.com
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Social Media Marketing and Blogging Help
There is more to social media marketing than Twitter and social networking. Learn about many of the other ways you can promote your blog and get more readers via social media through the resources suggested in the following articles:
10 Best Social Media Books for Bloggers
Top 10 Blogging Books
Review of Blogging All-in-One for Dummies
Review of Google Blogger for Dummies
TypePad for Dummies Review
10 Websites and Books to Learn HTML
10 Websites and Books to Learn CSS
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Subscriptions, Syndication and Analytics
Most bloggers don't know all the ways that subscriptions and syndication can drive traffic and readers to your blog. Learn more about syndication and learn how to track your blog's performance so you know what is and isn't working in these articles:
RSS Overview
Using Blog Syndication to Grow Your Blog
5 Tips to Increase Your Blog's Subscribers
Top 5 Blog Statistic Trackers
Making Sense of Blog Traffic Statisitcs
