Yesterday I logged in to my FeedBurner account, and I found out that my FeedBurner count was doubled! I was shocked the first time I looked at the number. I said, “Wow, since when so many people subscribed to my blog’s feed?” Frankly, I’m so happy when I saw that number.

Here is the screen shot…

 

 

If you notice from the picture above, you will see that my FeedBurner count doubled in the Thursday. Why is that so? Actually, I’m not sure as well. But what I can say is this, it is maybe due to some factors. I’m not sure that they are the main factors, but they definitely has something to do with this increased. They are…

Quality Content

This is one of the reasons I guess. Maybe this is definitely the reason. Well, actually over the last few months, I’m just concentrating in building quality content for my blog. If you are looking for motivational tips, way to succeed, how to make money, then you have come to the right place.

I keep on focus my energy in building quality post. That is why if you are a subscribers of my blog, I believe that you will receive an email from this blog every single day. I tried to come up with a content post every day. I’m not going to monetize my blog or putting up ads for now. What I want to do now is to build my blog, not profits from my blog.

Just like what Yaro Starak has to say, he spent 6 months focus in writing quality content which people are looking for. After that 6 months of hard work, his effort pays off. He got all the readers he wanted, he has all the credibility, he builds a great blog filled with full of quality content. Now he is reaping money from his blog.

So the first thing to do with your blog is, building it, by providing something that your market is looking for. If you need more information on how to build a successful blog, be sure to read this post of mine, 5 Super Tips to Build a Successful Blog.

Market Your Blog

The other reason I can think of is this, market my blog. Well, over the last few weeks, I’m so lazy and I did not do any marketing for my blog, even for social networking sites, I did not do anything. After that, I decide to get back into marketing my blog, and the strategy that I used this via StumbleUpon.

If you need to know how you can drive massive amount of traffic using StumbleUpon, just read my post, How StumbleUpon Can Brings You Tons of Traffic. Yes, marketing your blog is what you need to do. You don’t want to waste your effort of building up great content, but you have nobody there to read it right?

If you want people to know about your blog, you will first need to tell them that you have a blog, am I right? I mean, this is a common sense. You have to somehow do all the marketing works when you just started out. After you have established a certain level of credibility, trust and readership, people will somehow do the marketing for you.

However, you and I both start from the ground. So you will have to do all these works from the very beginning. Therefore, start doing the marketing work for your blog. It is your blog, nobody will do this for you.

Don’t Show Your FeedBurner Count If It Is Less Than 100

This is what I have learned from JohnChow. He said that if your FeedBurner count is less than 100, then don’t show it. People somehow follow the majority. Meaning to say, when people see that you have a huge number of subscribers, they will think that your blog is a great blog, and that is why so many people are subscribing to your blog.

What they will do is, they will be the ’sheep’ and subscribe to your blog post. Now, can you imagine what is going to happen if your FeedBurner count is low? It makes people don’t want to subscribe. In the beginning, it may seem that everything is difficult, but once you have broke the first level, the path of advancing to the next level will be easier.

If you want to know more about how you can increase your readership, then read this post, 5 Sure Fire Ways to Build Your Blog’s Readership.

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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Shawn
Filed under: Blogging Tips

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