Who is Reading Your Blog Posts? How to Measure Blog Readership

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Do you sometimes feel like you are writing to a big

black dark hole…and you never really know if there is someone on the other side?

Read our tricks...

Writing blog posts can be hard work

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TRICK 1: Subscribers

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Allow easy ways for people to subscribe to your content.

We suggest Feedburner to manage your subscriptions

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This is the simplest way to see whether you are getting any visits to the blog post pages on

your website.

Google analytics will also tell you how long visitors are staying on your pages.

TRICK 2: Google Analytics

TRICK 3: Promote and Shout

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Have a campaign to support promoting the blog post.

1. Create tweets about the blog post and link to it

2. Share on Facebook3. Share on LinkedIn4. Pin to Pinterest5. Create a SlideShare presentation

TRICK 4: Human Beings

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Remember that “social media” means in practical terms: collaboration and sharing.

1. Share good content that is ‘shareable’2. Share others’ blog posts and they may

reciprocate

TRICK 5: Encourage Sharing

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This is a bit of tech to include in your blog structure.

1. Use ‘ShareThis’ (plug-in for WordPress)2. Include the Facebook ‘like’ and ‘share’

buttons3. Include Pinterest into your sharing options

Thanks for watching the quick share of this post...

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Meet the author:Shelley Rostlund

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