Once a blog finds its core audience it must carefully reach beyond that audience without losing it. This is where online marketing comes into play.
Hello, my brother and sister bloggers and writers. It’s the Old Soldier here with another report from the front lines of blogging. My blog is still feeling the good vibrations of a recent article that I did on Kim Kardashian and nude celebrities. The article did so well that I did another article on her, and I was able to find a photo of her nude to go along with the article.
Image via Wikipedia
No, my blog has not turned into a blog about celebrities. The blog is still about writing, but since it also covers and features the writing of erotica, the text about Kim Kardashian and the photo are a nice way to lead my readers to the erotica on the blog and the links to the erotica of my Triond content. It all fits together nicely.
This brings me to the point of this article on blogging.
As far as I can tell, many bloggers start out blogging about something they like. They may even start out blogging about themselves; but usually, if a blogger wants as large a reading audience as possible that blogger has to fill his or her online publication with either information that will be useful to a targeted audience or entertainment that the targeted audience will enjoy. I now have both.
I started out convinced that I could build a large readership with articles about writing and literary content. I struggled to get 100 readers a day.
Now that I’m featuring erotica and celebrities I easily get over 100 readers every day. Last month was the first time that over 3,000 visitors came to my blog. I will easily beat that number of visitors for October.
A blog must first survive, then it must grow.
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Good for you.
October 19th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
very nice!
October 19th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
well written my friend keep it up!
October 19th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
That is so great that you are gaining more visitors to your blog. Keep up the good work.
October 19th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Adding articles about celebrities will help bring in visitors but I have to find other topics, too. I must never forget that the blog is about writing and flash fiction.
October 19th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Nice!
October 19th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Congratulations. Thanks for the advice.
October 19th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
These reality shows are the pits, yuuuk. I agree that you must write what the public will read. Good advice.
October 19th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Nice Share.
October 19th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I’m glad the nitwit was good for something. Good advice though.
October 19th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Yep, putting up naked pictures is sure to attract visitors. Its good that youve found your niche. I personally don’t like Kardashian. I don’t like it when people commodify their bodies. But I do like your style on here. So keep going. I won’t be cruising the naked pics, (well maybe I will but I just won’t admit it .) But I will support my fellow bloggers who are smart enough to get a good following on here. Go forth and blog
October 20th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Your advice is true. Give what the readers want.
October 20th, 2010 at 2:40 am
You have collected a large army,it requires great skill and resource to first give them what they want. Then you may laugh in privacy.
October 20th, 2010 at 4:51 am
Hi you old soldier, I totally agree with you I love to write short erotic stories or articles on historic aircraft and all things military. However every 3 or 4 articles I try to do a news article or an article on something current and up to date. Just writing about subjects we like will not swell readers or the bank account. Good point as always. LB
October 20th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Keep up the good work Guy. You keep finding ways to make the blog attractive to all your readers.
October 20th, 2010 at 9:35 am
well written
October 20th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Great!!!!!!!!
October 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am
A wonderful story
October 21st, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Kim is famous all over the world and it should bring you moe traffic. Congrts!
October 21st, 2010 at 12:25 pm
should be “more traffic” and “congrats” – sorry for the tping error.
October 22nd, 2010 at 1:31 pm
nice…
October 22nd, 2010 at 2:02 pm
I posted the article about Kardashian a few days ago and it is still getting far more hits than any of the other articles.
October 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 pm
good idea celebrities rock
November 13th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I love you post