If you want to build a better blog you will need a thriving audience based around your blogging community. You can only build audience around your blogs when you have an active readership. Good audience or traffic is one that converts better in every sense: as a subscriber, as a product buyer, and as engaged audience.
For you to build an active audience for your blog, you need to be consistent and patient. It takes time to build a loyal audience. Here we will look at what you can do to build an audience base that are loyal to your blog.
Use social media sites to grow subscribers
Sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ can provide a good platform on which you can build your online reputation. If you want to build loyal audience for your blog, you need to be active on social media. Take sometime to engage other bloggers or influencers in your niche. Don’t just focus on likes and shares but try to engage your readers. Focus on building a community around your blog and the shares and likes will come easy. Try promoting your best content and comment on them regularly to build a healthy relationship with your audience.
Use guest blogging as a tool
I believe guest blogging is one of the best way to quickly build a brand around your blog. Guest blogging brings quality back links, besides it gives your blog a more online presence and readership. Note that when you are guest blogging, post a high quality posts, this will make people follow back to your blog when your posts are amazing, good and unique. Guest post on blogs that are popular and bigger than yours to increase your loyal readers, get more subscribers etc.
Connect with other bloggers
Blogging is an online business. It needs good contacts, relationship and healthy network with other bloggers and influencers in the same niche to succeed. The more relationship you have to build around your blog, the better the quality of loyal audience. With a base of loyal audience other things comes easy like sales, online visibility and traffic. Use other people’s blogs to connect with them. Try blog commenting, guest posting, and sending them emails about their posts and work around building these relationships. Introduce their blogs or posts to your readers on your blogs. Doing this will go along helping you build an online presence, reputation and a strong network of fellow bloggers.
keep Writing quality content
If you don’t have great blog posts on your site, no one will be interested in reading your blog. Try to identify what problems your audience have, this will help you write much better blog posts. Know what they want and build a network around them and what they need. Research well and connect with other influencers in your niche to know what they are writing about. Observe how they are connecting to people on their blogs to improve their readership.
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Respond to everyone
Engage and respond to your readers. Try to engage them with them through your blog comments, social media sites like Twitter, and Facebook, LinkedIn and emails. When you respond to your readers in a timely manner, they will become your fans to your site.
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Lastly, Invest money on Blog Design
If you want to quickly grab the attention of readers or other bloggers, make your blog design look professional. Have your blog serves up a mobile-friendly theme, since mobile users are rapidly increasing day by day.
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Comments
47 responses to “How to Build a Good Audience Base for your Blog”
These are very helpful tips. It can be overwhelming to know what to do in the beginning. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Angelia, am grateful for taking time to read and comment.
Great information. I got some ideas to work with for my blog.
Hi Sharon, am glad you found this article helpful.
Fantastic insight. Thank you!
Welcome!
These tips are invaluable for any blogger looking to expand their reach. Looking forward to implementing them!
Hi, thanks very much for your feedback.
Thank you for sharing these helpful tips and empowering bloggers to grow their audience. Keep up the great work!
Hi Tan, am glad you found these tips helpful!
Building an audience is the most important thing! Great tips for gaining an audience. I look forward to reading more articles!
Hi Julie, thanks for dropping by and taking time to comment!
Guest blogging is definitely a great way to build an audience base. You can also build this offline too: networking events, and conferences.
As for social media, get involved with groups related to your niche and answer questions. People will get curious about you when your spot on answers help them.
Hi Nile, I totally concur with your additional tips, people tend to focus more on online activities to build an audience while forgetting that they can actually network offline too.
I actually started accepting guest writers to my website so I can focus more on my podcast. I am still going to write here and there for my website but it’s kind of nice to not have to do it all if you know what I mean?
Hi Jimmy, accepting guest posts can be another way of creating content without having to put in a lot of work of creating frequent content to keep your audience engaged on your site, and that is what I do once in a while too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Great post! Thanks for sharing!
You have some wonderful tips for growing your audience in this post. It takes time and a lot of hard work!
This is great! I think responding to comments is super important. Builds those relationships
True. Thanks Elizabeth for visiting.
These are all really great tips, thanks! I especially agree that you need to build a network with other bloggers and influencers to really grow!
xoxo
Annie
Hi Annie, networking is the key to succeeding online. Thanks.
Looks like I’m on the right track. Consistent engagement and patience seems to be the key.
Yes, thanks for commenting.
Great tips, all are very valuable!
Thanks for the feedback.
You have some wonderful tips for growing your audience in this post. It takes time and a lot of hard work!
True, thanks for dropping by. Welcome.
Thanks so much for the information. Great Ideas!
Welcome!
Great post as always. I still haven’t tried the guest blog thing, I keep reading how effective it is. I need to put it on my “to do” list.Thanks for all the info.
Welcome Madi!
Wonderful information! Thank you so very much! I love the idea of guest posting, this seems like a wonderful way to share information while reaching a new audience.
Hi Robin, appreciated.
Very interesting information. As a new blogger, I’m looking for all the info that I can get. Thank you!
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Some great tips here, It is brilliant for those that blog know what to do and how to grow. Thanks for this.
Thanks for the comment. Am glad to share these tips to fellow bloggers.
Thanks Ella for the comments
Good advice! Definitely have patience! 🙂
Useful read. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the comment.
Another post I bookmarked for handy reference. Thank you!
Always grateful for your comments Davide. As a blogger it is important you have a good readership of your blog to succeed online.
Implement this, and you will see your traffic go up.