It is no secret, you don’t need to dig through all the blogs out there to know, writing consistent content is what brings readers to your blog.
Blogs are taking the Internet by storm because their setup provides for fresh new content. There are currently millions upon millions of blogs out there about thousands and maybe even millions of topics. What’s the key to getting your blog noticed?
Writing new content. Your content doesn’t have to be show stopping, call CNN type content, but it does have to be consistent and it does have to provide your readers with something useful.
Within the blog network that this blog is part of the writers, particularly me, notice one thing that attracts readers above all else to it’s blogs. Content. If even a day is taken off traffic drops. When all 10 blogs that are part of the network have new content readership is it’s highest. If you take two of those blogs and skip a day posting, traffic drops by 30%. If you skip posting on 4 of those blogs traffic drops by more than 50%. Yes 50% by skipping posting on less than half of the blogs.
When there is new content, maybe directing our readers to quality content provided by other users, like was done in a previous post about AdSense for beginners, traffic arrives.
To give you an example think of your blog like the gap (or abercrombie, prada, armani, guess, whatever). If those stores don’t have a new clothing line coming out people won’t go back. The clothing line is their content. The way they get people to come in the middle of the season is to offer sales. Sign-up for their mailing list (newsletter or RSS feed) and they’ll conveniently email you when skies are occurring. They try and keep their content fresh by offering it at a lower price.
You have to do the same but you have the ability to put out a new shirt every single day! People will always won’t to swing by to get the latest shirt from your store (or the latest scoop).
Just keep the content coming and your readers will follow the words.
