5 Creative ways to get people to your blog
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1. Write about other people/start-ups/businesses
While back I wrote a post about Maynas Eric Chua called Maynas Eric Chua on Building Trust Mask of the Ninja dvd Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia video The Hustler download . About an appearance he made on Singapore News TV station. I knew Eric for a while on Twitter and he was quite an inspiration, as well as one of my first users on my startup, PutFeed.com. I thought, what a great way to add value to my blog as well as send some hits his way. Eric is in the top 3 Twitter users in Singapore and has over 30,000 followers. This guy deserves a post written about him:)
2. Guest Posts
You may not be the most popular person in the world. But you may know a few other bloggers who have connections. Ask them to write a quick guest post on your blog. Chances are they will send hits to the post they just wrote via Twitter or FaceBook, thus giving you more publicity and some credibility in the blogging community. You become open to your Guest’s network, and hey they might know tons of people. It just opens up more opportunity plus adds some fresh ideas to your blog.
3. Interviews
Interviewing is another great way to gain credibility and to give others some publicity. There’s a lot of entrepreneurs, lawyers, brokers, real estate and web design experts that would be glad to participate in an interview. This shows that you have some connections in the blogging community and once again, opens up your blog to the networks of other people.
There are a few ways to undertake an interview:
- Video(post them on YouTube and other video sharing sites)
- Plain old blog post
- Podcast
(You decide the rest, be creative)
4. Ping Other Blog Posts
This is a great way to get ideas for new blog posts and add value to other blogs at the same time. When you see a blog post you like and that you could add some thoughts to, write your own blog post and ping them back(using the ping url). They will love you for it whether you agree or disagree with their views. The fact that you took the time to respond to their post is a sign of appreciation.
5. Stay Connected
With all the great online and desktop tools we have the ability to stay connected with our community in half the time we used to. Stay connected with people in your niche by doing the following:
- Subscribing to their blogs
- Posting comments to their blog posts(people love it when you post sincere comments)
- Tweet their blog posts and let them know that you are by adding their @username in the tweet.
- Share their blog posts in your FaceBook statuses.
- Connect them with other people in your network.
- Share your own blog posts with them after you’ve added value to their blogs.
- Send a personal e-mail to new blog posters thanking them for their contribution. Give them the chance to reply.
If you stay connected with people they’ll return the favor and send some blog comments or recommendations your way. The rules are, ONE. be sincere, TWO. Add value before expecting others to add value to you.
