You’ve got blog readers but no comments on your posts. That’s a common problem faced by bloggers. But you know more engagement means higher Google ranking for you website. So… How can you get more comments on your blog posts? Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, describes two strategies […]
5 Ways to Increase Reader Engagement with Your Blog
It’s one thing to get readers to your site. It’s quite another to get them to engage with your content—to read it, share it, and comment on it. Today freelance writer Beth Bauer (@JourneyofBethB) provides several options for increasing reader engagement with your blog. Are you wondering how to increase reader engagement with your posts? […]
Cheeky, Weird Yet Effective Ideas to Stay Motivated and Develop Post Ideas
Blogging is a long-term endeavor. That means over time bloggers can fall prey to lack of motivation and may find themselves feeling like they’ve run out of post ideas. Today, freelance writer and ghostwriter Sanjay Bojan (@sanjaybojan) offers some fun and interesting ways to keep the creative juices flowing and renew your passion for your […]
Three Essential Elements for Building a Strong Blog Community
Did you ever wonder if anyone reads your posts? You see the visitor count, but no one comments on posts. In this post, freelance writer and ghostwriter Dan Kenitz (@buildwithwords) offers three simple but powerful elements you may have forgotten that build a strong—and engaged—blog community. Your research, write, edit, rinse, repeat. And you post, […]
Five Social Media Strategies to Make Your Book a Bestseller
If you want to create a bestseller, you have to do more than write a good book or a marketable book. You have to promote upon release—and before release. Of course, blogging a book helps promote while you write. But you must use strategies and tools that garner engagement and shares for your posts and […]
15 Expert Tips to Increase Reader Comments on Blog Posts
Have you ever wondered how some bloggers manage to inspire their readers to comment on posts? They have the engagement you seek, but how do they inspire it? I asked four successful bloggers to reveal the needle-moving strategies they use to encourage reader comments. Their answers provide a wealth of information you can put to […]
What’s the Optimal Length for a Blog Post?
Both newbie and seasoned bloggers often ask the same question: “What’s the optimal length of a blog post?” No definitive answer exists. In fact, the answer seems to change from year to year. Experts continue to pose new opinions and data to help you decide on the best post length for your blog. In the […]
Write and Publish Something Worth Sharing
If you are like most aspiring and published authors and bloggers, you constantly seek ways to get your work noticed. You write more, publish more, share more on social networks, and generally wrack your brain for ways to get noticed and heard in an every more crowded and noisy marketplace, by which I mean both […]
Replies to Comments Increase Engagement and Feedback on a Blogged Book
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 18 Engagement remains the watchword when it comes to building author platform on social media. That means it’s not just about how many unique visitors—readers—your blogged book attracts, or even about how many followers you have on Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus. It’s about how often they share, talk […]
Use Lists to Provide Engaging Posts That are Easy to Write and Read
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 6 List posts provide a staple for almost every blogger. In your efforts to produce core content, or even content on a regular basis, these posts are easy to write and to read, and they tend to get shared and commented on more often than some other types of […]