March 14, 2012
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Blogging Concepts and Developing Traffic to Your Site.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of: Sometimes it feels like your mom is the only one reading your blog because, well, she is the only one reading your blog. If you want to grow your audience into a meaningful community that goes beyond relatives, best friends, and folks you pay on the street, ProBlogger outlines some common reasons bloggers see low traffic. Here are just two:
Your blog doesn’t have enough tension
Writing and creativity coach Cynthia Morris says blogs can really fall flat if they don’t have enough tension. Tension indicates there’s some central problem you’re trying to solve, some shared issue you want to work on together. Tension helps readers know they’re not in it alone—that they’re part of a team of superheroes working together to fight bad guys.
You’re not engaging your readers
Your readers need to feel like you truly understand them and get their problems. If you’re writing about the care and feeding of guinea pigs, then make sure you know everything there is to know about guinea pig owners and their needs.
Stop talking about you. Start talking about them.
Full story at ProBlogger.
A gold mine of blogging tips.
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