CategoryFinding readers

15 Ways to Keep Readers on Your Blog
This blog post is based on episode 35 of the ProBlogger podcast. With so many websites out there all competing for people’s attention, you need to try to grab people’s attention quickly and keep it for as long as possible. But how exactly do you do that? Well, here are 15 ...more
Finding readers

Are Blog Comments Still Worthwhile … Or Are They a Waste of Time?
A decade ago, new bloggers were often advised to leave comments on other blogs to start building traffic to their own blog. But is it still worth doing? For years, there’s been a lot of debate in the blogging world about comments. Plenty of big blogs have disabled (and sometimes ...more
Finding readers

How to Build Hundreds of Links to Your Blog in 5 Minutes a Day
This post is based on episode 159 of the ProBlogger podcast. Incoming links to your blog are vital. They not only drive traffic to your blog from other websites and blogs but also help you rank higher in search engines, which again leads to more traffic. The method I’m about to ...more
Finding readers

9 Ways Influencer Outreach Can Help You and Your Blog
Here on ProBlogger, we have a lot of tips on influencer outreach – how to reach out to influencers and pitch to them. Here are just a few of the resources we have available: How to Approach Influencers in Your Niche (podcast episode) How to Grow Your Blog by Interviewing Influencers ...more
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9 Tips for Recovering Your Google Rankings After a Site Hack
This is a post by ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart While WordPress is a relatively secure platform, it can still be hacked. In fact, out of the 11,000 hacked websites Securi analyzed in 2016, 75 percent of them were running WordPress. If your WordPress site has been hacked, fear not. ...more
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A Guest Post Follow Up Strategy for Maximum Success
Once you’ve understood why guest posting is important, got your pitch accepted, and written the post … you might think you’re done. A lot of the success of your guest post, though, comes from what you do after it’s published. There’s plenty you can do to get the most out of ...more
Blog Promotion

7 Powerful Non-SEO Reasons to Try Guest Posting
This is the first post in our series on Guest Posting, with a focus on benefits other than just SEO, for a more successful and fulfilling approach to finding readers for your blog. Guest posting is not all (or even mostly) about SEO. My first experience of ‘guest posts’ was ...more
Blog Promotion

183: 9 Types of Questions to Ask On Your FaceBook Page to Get More Comments
The 9 Questions You Can Ask to Increase FaceBook Engagement In today’s lesson, I want to give you some really practical things that you can do to increase engagement – particularly to get people to comment – on your Facebook page and if you have them – groups. Most bloggers ...more
Building Community

177: How to Build Traffic and Momentum on Your Blog After a Blogging Slump
Six Ways to Boost Traffic on Your Blog In today’s lesson, I want to talk about getting your traffic kick started in the new year. Many bloggers struggle with getting traffic momentum early in the year after the holiday period traffic slump that most of us go through because our ...more
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