Author: Emil Giurca

No matter how good your blog posts are they are literally useless unless people read them. And in order for people to read them , they need to make it to your blog . I mean , really make it there . It’s a struggle for them to find good content . And it’s a struggle for you to deliver and get them face to face with your good content .

And … to be honest … this isn’t about showing that you have the best possible car for sale . I’ve already addressed the topic of cloud blogging here . And , whether we like to admit it or not , cloud blogging is a fact . Chances are your content is just a variation of someone else’s ideas . But that’s not a bad thing . Baby steps . Nothing more than baby steps . That’s what evolution is . You take an idea and add a little something . Then someone else takes that idea and ads a little something else to it . And so on and so forth .

Picture a huuuuge parking lot with cars for sale . Every car is a blog . And every salesman is a blogger . Cloud blogging tells us that every car is a slight variation of another car from that parking lot .

Photo By Jcoterhal

And this is where the major rule of attracting visitors comes into play : ‘Don’t promote your blog , promote yourself’ .

This is what it should all be about . There is a very small chance that you are truly adding something brand new to the scene . Even this very blog that you are reading is , most likely , just a copy of someone else’s ideas . I just rearranged them and maybe added something new . That’s it .

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel . You will end up with a basket of frustrations and nothing more . Just use it .

This is what you are selling : yourself . It’s about the salesman that gets attention , not about his car ( surely , his car must be at least the same as everyone else’s ). The point is to get yourself in people’s face. Not in an aggressive manner , obviously . Just let them know that you know something about something . Make sure that after they talk to you they think to themselves : “I like him . He knows stuff .”.

Everyone tells you : promote your blog . Well , to be honest … I think it’s best to just promote yourself . It’s a whole lot easier to get people interested in you than in your blog . It’s easier to speak wisely and be funny and charismatic than it is to write original post after original post ( in fact – the ladder is basically impossible ).

Ohh , and yeah … charisma is an integral part in your blogs success .

About the Author:

I have been blogging for almost 4 years now , although I’ve only recently entered the big market of international blogs with Life within a page , a blog about … blogging . Hope I have something to share and you will enjoy my articles . Visit him at Promote your blog…