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one or two regulars start hanging around you want to make it easy for your readership to keep growing and so make your post pinnable you do not need to be signed up to pinterest for pinterest to work for you other people pin save your post for future reference on their boards pinterest is the single biggest driver of traffic to my blog it is responsible for the traffic behind my single most viewed post of all time this step by step tutorial i posted in 2011 gets repinned on an almost daily basis on pinterest and has led to over 29 000 views of the original post for the record to anyone feeling dejected about how your posts don t get lots of comments this post with over 29 000 views has a grand total of 28 comments approx 0 1 of the people who ve seen it have left a comment blog traffic figures and blog comment numbers do not always match up the way you might expect occasionally almost 2 years later i still get emails and comments from people thanking me for the tutorial letting me know that they plan to stick around read other things and subscribe follow me and it s all down to pinterest oh and also me putting in the effort to make a nice tutorial i don t want to hand over my successes entirely to someone else people are more likely to pin your posts to pinterest if it features beautiful fun eye catching images and or an inspirational project a tutorial tips etc people can only pin images to pinterest so even if your written advice recipe etc is the best in the world make sure there s at least one image in there this needn t be a photo you can make a jpg image just from text eg a quote or a diagram so now that we re realising that visuals are pulling people in you might want to start to use good quality images brush up on your camera skills so you can take more attractive photos of your projects learn a few photo editing tricks this needn t be in photoshop i personally use microsoft office picture manager a free software on my laptop picasa and gimp both of which are free to download online if you use blogger you can also edit photos after you ve uploaded them to your picasa web album google click on your image select actions select edit in picasa or edit in creative kit ok so once you re happy with the content you re putting into your blog in general you re going to need to let others know about it how else are you going to build that community make your post searchable google able at this point in your blog s life it may well be the case that the only people reading your blog are those who already know you from somewhere friends family members from another website or forum however the more you blog the more content you put out there then the more visitors who you don t know from adam will start dropping in and many of them will find you via search engines like google if you want to know more about this you can find a world of information about seo search engine optimisation on the internet however in simple terms the words you use in your blog post title body of content in your labels tags and in the name you ve saved your images under all help tell search engines about what s in your post and so if you ve written a tutorial about art journal pages then those words need to be in those places somewhere then the next time someone looking for inspiration for a journal page goes to google and searches for those terms your post is more likely to appear in the search results and then you may well have just found your newest blog reader do you see how even though seo etc is dry technical and slightly like black magic it can still lead to positive human connections ok well hang on to that warm fuzzy feeling because we re dipping back into uncomfortable territory again now make your post visable i once read some business advice that said something along the lines of launching a new product without marketing it is like putting up advertising posters in a basement no one will know the thing exists and the same goes for your blog post i know you might be feeling a little unloved because your blog isn t getting the attention you d like but maybe just maybe it s not because you re hopeless at it it s because no one s knows about it or you how about revisiting chapter 8 the austin kleon approach where we looked at joining in with other people s link up features for some more ideas about branching out and making connections when you leave your link on these kinds of posts chances are the the host and some of the other participants will drop by maybe to leave a comment maybe just to look but the more you take part the more connections you ll make the more your face words style will become familiar or consider guest blogging for others or asking people to guest for you this could be by approaching a blog you like with an idea preferably blogs you know take on guest bloggers already or keeping your eyes peeled for requests and opportunities or by getting together with a few blogging friends and swapping blogs for a day or creating a blog hop there are lots of ways in which you can start to migrate outwards from your small corner of blogland just far enough to get your work face projects seen by a new set of eyes which may then become new readers and friends but you don t need to only rely on other people helping you become more visable you can take on the role of promoting and marketing yourself too when i asked on my facebook page for people to share how they build and promote their blog my long time blogging friend and ever supportive commenter carmen of whoopidoings replied my blog posts automatically get tweeted and posted on facebook and with my book reviews i also manually copy and paste those over to amazon goodreads and pinterest if i notice someone has pinned something i ve done i will thank them in their comment section of that pin and i m sorry to break it to you if that all sounds like a lot of work to attract people in but if you want to grow your blog it s pretty much par for the course my posts get automatically tweeted and facebooked i tweet links to my posts and fb them on top of the auto posts i pin my own posts on pinterest i occasionaly guest blog i leave links on the facebook pages of various companies when i ve used their products in a particular project i put my blog address on my shop packaging i sometimes add it into the bottom of my emails depending who i m writing to of course if all this sounds like a lot of work and not something you can face doing then there s a few ways to look at it pick one idea and give it a go for a month and if it doesn t work at least you ll know look for the things you will enjoy doing eg tweeting joining in with link ups and then concentrate on doing those consistently regularly and pretty darn well or maybe now you ve had a glimpse into what it can take to get yourself and your blog out there you can use the information to stop being so hard on yourself about why your blog isn t getting more views comments if you re content with keeping things small and simple then that s great there s no need to venture out into social media etc to promote it and at least you can understand why it s remaining small and it might be clearer to you that other people aren t inherently more popular than you they re just promoting themselves more often and finally the biggest piece of advice is less a blogging tip and more a commandment remember to do unto others you want more people to visit your blog then visit more blogs yourself ones you re genuinely interested in you want people to leave comments and feedback for you then leave comments for others you want more personal comments where you feel the commenter really read your post then engage with other bloggers let them know their post resonated etc with you edited to add i still appreciate the quick comments too it s good to know you re there in whatever form x the other blogger may well return the favour sometime while it s not something you can force if you re commenting and interacting from a genuine place ie not spamming someone else s comments with links to your own blog when not appropriate then it can only all help toward raising your profile and having someone drop by your blog to see who left such a nice comment rinda of gallo organico offered up a perfect example of this in a comment on a recent post in this series i scheduled almost a full week s worth of blog posts on monday when i had some free time that s given me more time this week to visit other people s blogs and be a good commenter community member which has in turn brought more people to my blog look i m as guilty as the next person when it comes to not always leaving comments especially when i m busy or tired and have only really sat down to read blogs as a means of zoning out and part of me takes comfort in my own fallability in this it shows me how if i can really enjoy a post but even then still not stop to comment it may mean that other people did the same thing on my post plus by recognising that i can t possibly be equally supportive to every blog in my blog reader i ve become more selective about where i focus my on line energies and i do try to more regularly leave comments for those people i ve connected with in more than one way eg people i know from my month in numbers tweeters friends i email etc etc i think that while we continue to build and grow a readership we really need to embrace and appreciate the audience we have right now the people no matter how few who keep showing up for us let me share something with you i may have plenty of blog subscribers a couple hundred facebook page likes and close to 1000 twitter followers and push up bra blogging may well have brought in a few thousand page views but do you know how many donations were made to save the children to help me reach my target 63 now i won t lie and say that figure hasn t caused me a certain amount of pause for thought let s call it over the last few weeks but while i was typing out the names of the people who made each of those 63 incredibly kind donations so i could thank them all at the top of this post do you know what i realised that i knew them that i knew you the vast majority of your names were already familiar to me you re a mix of regular blog commenters month in numbers bloggers regular facebook and twitter friends people i know in real life and family plus and few faces i ve seen here and there in blogland you re the people who ve regularly shown up for me here and the lump in my throat as i write this stands as evidence that those 63 real connections above all the other seemingly impressive statistics are the ones that really count so i guess my final word to you has to be you get out there and enjoy your blog my friends julie x my fundraising page once again posted by julie kirk at 17 38 28 comments labels blog series blogging the push up bra approach free e course tips bloggers how to blog content summary email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 25 april 2013 push up bra blogging 11 the dr who approach hi hi well this feels strange it s over a year since i had the initial idea and a few months in the planning drafting making the visuals promoting and fund raising and now today is the final approach to blogging i ll be offering up as part of my push up bra blogging series and unlike previous posts where i left the fund raising appeal until after the content today i m putting it front and centre last week purely by chance i saw an advertisement for a 6 week better blogging on line course with a fee just short of 100 push up bra blogging was a 6 week better blogging on line course i knew it already but this confirmed it to me that i may well have been stupid to offer up push up bra blogging for free but there it is i can t take it back now but i do ask that if you haven t already donated to save the children via my my just giving page you consider one more time whether your budget will allow to drop 1 to the pot all the proceeds go to the charity rather than think of it like giving away 1 if you ve been reading the posts and using them to help change the way you blog you can tell yourself you bagged a bargain in the uk you can donate 1 on my page or by texting pubb88 1 to 70070 generous international folk can just hop over to my page where you can donate any amount you choose please don t feel strange about adding just 1 to the pot 1 is plenty you re my hero for even thinking about it thank you x this the final chapter of new content is the second of our how approaches and it very much builds upon the first the freezer meals approach from last week if that approach had the desired effect you might now be thinking about how you can begin to streamline all the activities which go on behind the final blog post by creating new content and photographing and editing your images in bulk then once have all those images and ideas ready to go today s approach steps in and offers you some simple and practical ways to pull it all together into a workable regular blogging schedule so please welcome as i say once you begin to take on some of the ideas from the freezer meals approach you re gradually going to build up a nice well padded layer of fresh content all photographed edited and ready then at the drop of a hat it can step up to the blogging plate for you and your blog will be more regularly maintained while your readers will enjoy more frequent glimpses into your world but now you ve got it all how are you going to schedule it all in what order what goes first or maybe you re not at all interested in the freezer meals approach that s fine i m tougher than i look i ll get over it instead maybe the series has got you thinking about all those things that you ve made previously all that potential blog fodder you ve let slide by you in the past those things that you now see you could have blogged about but haven t whichever it is the best piece of advice i can give you is to ask yourself what would the doctor do and then follow his lead don t allow yourself to be bound by chronology your blog is your tardis go travelling around in time in it come closer i m going to let you in on a little secret while i generally introduce a craft project on my blog as today s project it doesn t mean i made it that day often it doesn t even mean i made it that month and i dare say that there are probably a few projects from last year waiting in the wings to make an appearance here and i m guessing that you don t care one jot why would you and why would your blog readers one of the simplest and pain free ways you can increase your blogging productivity is to stop thinking you have to blog things in the order they happened or the order you made them that you have to do something new for your next post if you haven t already blogged it if it s never seen the light of day if no one outside your house has seen it then it is new you may have made it 3 years ago and be sick 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