Having published your first blog entry your thoughts are winging their way through the blogosphere, reaching millions of people who are hungry for your knowledge, wit and/or wisdom.
NOT SO.
Those millions are overfed with more than 217 million blogs vying for attention and swamped with a growing number of blogs posted everyday. See the Worldometer, in real time, as the daily world blog count rises – as posts are made. Hang onto your seat then go here to the Worldometer.
The trick is how to drive readers to your blog:
- Set up your blog on your author’s website. Then duplicate your blog on a separate blog, ie: blogger
- Link your blog to automatically post to your Facbook and Twitter pages
- Blog regularly – more than once a week
- Start registering your blog on blog directories.
- Write on guest blogs that get a million viewers a day
- Write for Blogcritics it is great exposure.
- Schmooze. Bloggers have conferences. Meet & join a conference. Blogging Conference List
- Never give up – keep on blogging
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