This guest post is by Goddess Leonie of GoddessGuidebook.com.
In blogging years, I’m approaching my mid-life. Instead of having a crisis though, there’s life (and new tricks) in this ole goddess dog yet! In the last three months I’ve increased my subscribers by a whopping 50%. All with three simple changes. Because simple is fun and good, and really, it’s the best way to do things.
Are you ready to hear them? Hurrah!
1. Getting people in
I’ve SEO’ed the heck out of my website. I’ve commented like a fiend on all my favorite blogs. I’m aTwittering and FriendFace-ing with the best of them (a li’l “IT Crowd” joke in there for those playing at home). Want to know the thing that’s lovingly ushered people through the doors into my blog?
Guest blogging.
I had it on my to-do list for a bazillion years. “Yus yus yus, sooo important. OMG must be all ova dat! But mmm, can’t be bovered.” Every week, I put it off. Until I kicked my own butt (somewhat lovingly) into guest blog town.
- I asked all my affiliates if I could guest blog for them.
- I popped an “Interview me!” button on my blog.
- I contacted all the places I knew that accepted guest blog submissions.
- And I asked all my favorite blog peoples if I could write for them.
Whenever I wrote the guest blogs, I made sure I infused as much of my trademark ridunkulous silly and soppy language in them. Just to shoot up a little beacon of a freak flag so my right people knew I was a ginormous raving hippy, and that I was one of their kind.
And people spilled through the doors, and it was grand.
Mission Getting People In a success! Hurrah!
2. Making them welcome
But the next mission is just as important, and it’s one that we totally ignore.
We all know that the bounce rate on...
