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December 22, 2020 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

How to Encourage More Comments on Your Blog Posts

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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 […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog, Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blog a book, blog comments, Blog hop, blog post comments, blogging, blogging a book, comments, engagement

July 23, 2019 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

5 Ways to Increase Reader Engagement with Your Blog

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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? […]

Filed Under: Success Strategies Tagged With: blog, blogger, blogging, engagement, Promotion, reader engagement, tips for bloggers

November 14, 2017 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, What Subjects to Blog About Tagged With: blog post ideas, blogger, blogging, engagement, forums, motivation

November 7, 2017 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Three Essential Elements for Building a Strong Blog Community

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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, […]

Filed Under: Building Community, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog comments, blogging, community, engagement, get personal, giving, particpation

October 25, 2016 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Five Social Media Strategies to Make Your Book a Bestseller

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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 […]

Filed Under: Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: blog-to-book, book promotion, engagement, images, live streaming, photos, sharing, social sharing, writers

July 12, 2016 by Nina Amir 8 Comments

15 Expert Tips to Increase Reader Comments on Blog Posts

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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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: blog comments, blog post comments, comments, Darren Rowse, engagement, Joel Friedlander, Mary Jaksch, Peg Fitzpatrick, Yaro Starak

December 15, 2015 by Nina Amir 5 Comments

What’s the Optimal Length for a Blog Post?

Should you write long or short blog psots

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 […]

Filed Under: Writing for the Internet, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog post length, blog posts, discoverabilitly, engagement, post length, SEO, SERPs, writing posts

March 4, 2014 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Write and Publish Something Worth Sharing

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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 […]

Filed Under: Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: authenticity, blog marketing, blog promotion, engagement, great content, shared content, viral content

March 5, 2013 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Replies to Comments Increase Engagement and Feedback on a Blogged Book

Reply to the comments on your 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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog Tagged With: blogged book, comments, engagement, feedback, replies

January 22, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Use Lists to Provide Engaging Posts That are Easy to Write and Read

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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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Writing for the Internet, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog posts, engagement, list post, writing posts

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