Throughout this little mini-series on the Blog portion of my Realtor Web Marketing installments (can be found on my personal blog), you have learned not only how to set up your blog, but also the things you can (and should) do to help get your sites noticed by both the search engines as well as other bloggers.
The question is, how can we make this process easier on ourselves.
In other words. how can we lure other people in to not only view your blog, but to possibly promote it as well?
Here’s a hint: It’s a numbers game.
It has been proven time and time again that people are attracted to numbers. Numbers usually help explain things easier (unless your talking about Calculus…). So how can we use this to our advantage?
The answer: make your blog posts and titles number-friendly.
Here’s an example: Say I am writing a post about how to make a good looking website that would attract visitors. Instead of just writing about the different characteristics of a good site, I could make a Top 10 list.
So if my old title would have been: “How to make a great looking website for your visitors”, I could make it more attractive by saying “Top 10 things to make a great looking website for your visitors”.
That way, people know exactly what they are getting: 10 things to make a great website.
Just remember this: for the most part, people like to read lists versus paragraphs (yeah, I know I am a hypocrite seeing how my blog is formatted, but I’m not really aiming for much popularity here). After all, most people skim versus read.
So here are some ideas you could do to use numbers to your advantage:
- 10 Easy Steps to…
- Top 10 Myths of…
- A 101 List of…
- To 25 resources for…
- etc. etc.
Really, you can pretty much turn anything you write about into a number-friendly format. Again, people like easy reads, so if you provide that for them, they’ll visit (and possibly promote) your blog.
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