Blogging Elements

4 Totally unique Ways To Make Your Blog A Super-Sticky

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Ashwin in Blog promotion

It is now more than necessary to stand out in the ever-crowding blogosphere. There has to  be something about your blog that should make your readers crave for more, come tearing bandwidths onto your blog and visit you often. You need satisfied customers and let’s see how exactly we will be able to do it with your blog and a little bit of creativity:

1. Give Something away with each post: Now, you have heard of giving away free reports and free e-courses depending on your niche but you do that using a simple opt-in form, don’t you? I would say that you must give something away with each post — be it a link to some other website that has some goodies for you, a free giveaway public-domain book, a rare report, a popular classic, a bit of information that is not even known. You get the drift, don’t you? While you are at it, ask them to subscribe to your blog to make the process complete and allow them to download anything you are giving away. This way you will build a mailing list.

2. Use Your Auto-responder follow-up messages: After you take your readers’ email addresses, you would send them whatever you had promised them. After that, you will have to send out follow-up messages. You should be sending them informative emails that has even more juice about the niche your website operates in for the reader to learn and enjoy. While you are sending out emails, ensure that you have some links back to your blog so that they need to come back to your blog to read even more information about the topic the follow-up message was on.

3. Have an affiliate program for your Blog: Have  you thought about it? Ever? We have merchants  running affiliate programs and we have people selling e-books and informational products or even membership sites who pay their affiliates handsomely for any referrels. Why not do that with blogs? You don’t have to do it the “click-bank” way, but just put up a page on your blog that talks about the affiliate program and let the readers do all the work of promoting your blog for you.

4. Train and Lead: One of my favorites has always been the Integration of Online businesses with either an offline business or some other off line activity. If you can be enterprising enough, you could do carpet bombing locally, gather people around, announce that you would teach them how to start blogging and make some money or make money online using one of the many ways. After that, you may ask them to visit yourblog.com and sign-up so that you could keep in touch with them.

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