Saturday, August 28, 2010

Make Money By Blogging

 what is the magical formula for building the subscriber relationship? 
Building subscribers is not a hard process when you get down to the basics. Your aim is to provide a quality product, and an incentive for readers to continue to get the information you’re giving them.

There are a couple of factors that readers make in their decision to subscribe to your blog:


Frequency of Updates: 
This preference varies from reader to reader, but an active blog is essential to building subscribers. Some subscribers won’t like blogs that update multiple times a day, while some will get irritated if you go one day without a new post.

Finding a rhythm will help you cater to your subscribers and help convince them to subscribe to your posts.

Length of Posts: 
Some people actually read what you’re writing, and online, length is a major issue. The tried and true length is anywhere from 300-500 words, with “pillar articles” every so often for more
information. Keeping with a consistent post length will build loyalty and encourage subscriptions.


Quality: 
This one is a given, but many new bloggers seem to forget that the quality of posts is a major factor in subscriptions. Even if you write at a fifth grade level, having a good voice and acceptable grammar is a standard that you should conform to if you want to get subscribers.

So what can you do to really encourage people to start following your blog?

There are a few essential tips that you can follow to increase your subscriber count and build readership over time.

Place your RSS button in a prominent area:
if people can’t see where to sign up, they won’t. Don’t make your readers search for a form to sign up to your feed. As well, don’t make subscribing complicated or
hard to understand.

Offer email subscription:
Even in this age of information, many people do not understand RSS and how it works, or simply don’t like the way that it works. Offering email subscriptions doubles the amount of
people you can cater to, and provides readers a choice in receiving your posts.

Setup a twitter feed: 
Along the same lines as setting up email subscriptions, many people into social media enjoy receiving updates via their twitter account. Auto-updating your twitter as your blog posts come and then putting links to subscribe to RSS will increase your readership and spread links to your blog across the internet.

Add a tagline to the end of posts:
Adding a simple reminder sentence at the end of every post will increase the chances of someone reading that post, enjoying it, and subscribing to get more of your information. Different readers enjoy your blog for different reasons, so having a prominent link on all of your content will help you to market to all of your readership.

These four simple tips will have you on your way to a subscriber count to be proud of. While quality content is a major part of growing subscribers, visibility and options are also integral parts of building a lasting readership.

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