How many blogging tips have you used that yielded results for you? How many additional readers has your blog gained in the last two months? These are the questions that we must be asking ourselves constantly, if we are to see improvements.
There is no doubt that many bloggers are new and therefore temporarily have little control over many things pertaining to the success of their blogs. In such a circumstance, we must focus on things that we can control and that will make a real difference in the long term with persistence and patience.
5 Ways to Establish a Powerful Connection with your Blog Readers
So now let us examine 5 powerful ways to connect with your blog readers, and to connect with them for the long term. There are writing methods and techniques that we can use which serve to leave a permanent impact on those who read our words.
1) Know your Audience as well as possible. When you first create your blog, you must install within it the means of analyzing its visitors. There is no reason not to do this because it can be done using tools that are completely free. If you have a WordPress blog, then you can install a free Google analytics plugin which will link to your free Google account where you can set up analytics.
This free setup will provide lots of data that you will later find valuable. This data will reveal to you who your readers are.
Let me ask you this, would you write your blog posts differently if the majority of your readers were women, aged 20-30? How about if they were middle aged men? What if most of your traffic came from Pinterest or Twitter? How would that affect your future actions? You never know who they are or where they come from until you look at the data. You might be very surprised.
When you get the full picture of who your readers really are, you are then able to build a view of empathy for them. And it is through empathy that you create rapport with them. And from a state of rapport you are able persuade and influence them as you see fit.
2) Feel the plight of your audience. This is where the true magic of your words lie. When you can understand your readers to the point of actually feeling what they feel, then you are fully prepared to tell them what they want to hear.
Prior to the creation of every blog post, you need to imagine how your readers feel about your chosen topic. View it as if you were the reader and feel the feelings that they feel about the topic. This is definitely an art and needs some practice to master, but those who have mastered this art have been amply rewarded for that. It is definitely worth spending your time in perfecting.
If you show them how to solve their biggest problem, then you have achieved many things at the same time. For starters, you demonstrate that you really do understand their plight.
Secondly, they will feel gratitude towards you for resolving a major problem in their life.
Thirdly, who do you think they will look towards for more tips and advice? This is why you must be willing to solve many problems for them – over and over again.
4) Be Consistent. When I say be consistent, I am referring to your blog posting. You should thrive to stay on some sort of schedule and routine with your blog posts.
I recently saw a statistic which stated that over 90% of all blogs that exist on the Internet have been abandoned by their owners. What they have learned is that blogging is not as easy as someone let them to believe.
They started their blogs, but did not experience success quick enough and were therefore abandoned. Imagine if you were a reader of one of these abandoned blogs and you got value from their words? You were left high and dry.
This is why you need to let your readers know that they can expect a new blog post every day, or three times every week, or whatever you decide. How often you post is not as important as sticking to your schedule. Let your readers know you won’t abandon them.
5) Write catchy headlines. Writing headlines is very important. Without a headline that attracts attention, your blog post will not be read by many people at all – regardless of how well it is written. An average blog with an awesome headline will be read many times over. This is simply the way it is.
There are many professional writers out there who will tell you to spend 50% of your time writing your article (or blog post), and then spend the other 50% of your time writing the headline or title.
Most writers will spend an hour or so writing a blog post, and then spend only a minute or two thinking of a headline for the blog post. This practice will not serve anyone very well.
While spending several hours writing a headline may be overkill, I think it is quite reasonable to devote 20 or 30 minutes on the headline. Another approach is to write something like 20 headlines and then pick the best one.
Seeking reasonable ways to improve your headlines is well worth the time.
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