Online Writing by Fran Aslam

To be recognized as a super blog writer with innumerable comments from your regular readership that is accelerating with a sharper curve you need traffic and traffic to your blog.  This is the goal of every blogger.  Comments and readerships are the best ways to get the real feed back and know how are you doing as a blog writer to make your blog.

You can also call it a way to make your  blog most popular.  Or how to get more traffic to your blog.  It is one and the same effort with different point of views.  A lot of work goes into writing blog posts that people want to read and therefore, to expect some recognition for the effort is very real.

After much consideration and focus here are twenty effective ways to get the most readers and comments writers to your blogs.

1.  Laser Focus:

Reply to your readers comment and make this relationship more and more deeper so people who are writing comments may not divert their attention from your blog.  This way when more readers will come to read they will be added to your readership and comment writers. Pay attention to every action that can improve your blog.

2.  Make yourself known in the blogosphere:

Read as many blog post as possible and add comments wherever possible.  Blog hoping is the right way to be known in your community.  Make sure your comments are for the post you are commenting on and carries a great impression and a most positive effect in the mind of the blogger you are commenting for.  If you are writing on a guest post, address both the original owner and the post writer.

3.  Invite comments:

This is very important.  Use effective communication skills on the Internet that is only possible with words and therefore you have to remind your Internet community to leave a comment.  Remember when you are selling a product online you write your call to action, so the reader may decide to buy.  Inviting a reader for the comment is just the same and it is a necessity for a blogger who is looking to get readership or comments.

4.  Make them subscribe to it:

Offer an email alternative to RSS and ask for the subscription preferably at the bottom of each post.  Because when the reader finishes the post and grasping the impression from the post to decide to come to this blog for more, this is the best time to see the offer of RSS reader or email subscription.

5. Start a controversial issue:

This makes the visitors to connect to each other to build in a community on themselves.  Visitors will come to your blog more often to write comment as they are able to socialize too.

6.  Be human and natural:

Present yourself as you are, admit your shortcomings to those who are commenting on your blog.  Give them a reason to connect with you at your blog, by telling them about something that they need.  At the same time keep the super quality of the blog post.

7.  Attract more readers with your title:

Title is the creme of the blog post and attracts more and more readers who turn into comment writers once impressed by the post.  Title brings the post  come up in the web search results also and for those who visit your blog to read too.  You will get more and more readers depending on the title.  It has to be keywords enriched and uniquely written.

8. Multi media posts:

Blog posts with best titles, images and videos is the latest trend and people like to explore these posts right away.  Presentation of this nature will make them write a comment for sure.  But usually colorful blogs with video’s many time are not taken seriously to get focused information.  Do whatever is necessary and suits your blog to get the mos out of it.

9.  Write about what you know:

A topic that is familiar to you and presentation to make it as an outstanding post both work together to make your blog post exceptionally good and therefore, if it is a SEO post then most visitors will read your site, more visitors will write more comments to your site.

10.  Make your blog more readable:

Look at your blog and see if there are distractions to read.  Some ads, or the nature of some images whatever takes the attention of the reader away from your blog, get rid of those distractions as you are writing the blog post for readers to read mostly.  Do not distract the readers after doing so much work.

11.  Announce a contest:

For the readers and visitors create a contest with some prizes.  Keep this going for a longer period of time and get sign up for this contest.  Some of these new readers specially those who will keep reading your blog will write comments or request them to write comments.  You can also ask them to enter in the contest as many times as they will add real comment to the blog posts.  it is your contest and you make the rules.  But be careful do only what is legal.

12.  Offer some info products as gifts:

These are specially meant for those who subscribe to your blog posts via mail.  Free ebooks reports ecourse or audio series are great examples of these gifts.  This becomes much easier if you arrange this with autoresponders.

13.  Make the readers excited about the next post:

While writing a post, let readers know about the new post what will you be writing about in such a way that they are intrigued to wait and read the next post.

14.  Use Viral ebooks:

Ebooks written by you or someone else, ebooks that have rights to be used virally create a special PDF file format and on every page write your URL so the ebook or report promotes your blog URL.

15.  Write Posts as Guest Blogger on other bloggers blog:

Write a blog post on someone else’ s blog to contribute with a deal that you will have your own byline and URL at the end of the blog post.

16.  Post in forums:

A very well established technique  that is here for a long time is to post your blog info in forums where you are known.  People will get to know you and your offer will look into it an some may become permanent visitor to your blog to write comments too.

17.  Networking with other bloggers:

This is the original method for Internet marketing.  find a way to help your own visitors and eventually work into a relationship.  ring them to your blog to write comment.

18.  Promotional deals:

Make deals with other bloggers to promote each other.  In case one blogger has more subscriber than make a ratio deal to promote for each other.  You can promote each other in RSS feed reader using feed advertising.  This allows you to have up to six rotating links.

19.  Start a pod cast of your blog:

Those who are not very found of reading or do not have time to read, can use it while driving or getting ready in the bathroom and so many other occassions.  Mention your blog URL your name and benefits of subscribing to them in every blog post.  Give ti to iTunes and other pod cast directories.

20.  A subscription page:

Create a page that is dedicated to nothing than obtaining a subscription and drive traffic to it from your blog.  use articles or adwords to drive traffic to this page.  Add a free gift and get sign up to your blogs free information.  with the word Free it will work much faster.

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