Why can't I attract readers to my blog?
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I can’t get any readers to my blog and I don’t know why. It’s called GJ’s Closet and I’ve written tons of stuff and frankly it’s pretty good but hardly anyone responds and when they do like something they usually don’t offer comments. Why?
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It takes time and effort to build a collection of unique content, to promote it, and to attract followers. It takes weeks for search engines to index content in a new blog and/or to re-index content under a new URL.
It is commenting on other blogs with similar content that encourages traffic to flow to your own blog. If you are a WordPress.com blogger there are onsite tools you can use to find blogs by subject matter http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/
See these for Staff tips on increasing traffic:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/
See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content posts (not pages) ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
See How to Identify Your Blog’s Target Audience http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
Also, if you just want to connect with other bloggers, get inspired, build your brand, and get inside tips from the folks who bring you WordPress.com, take a look at our Blogging University here:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/ -
I spotted an issue you need to deal with. This is the block of categories and tags you assigned to your latest post at https://gjscloset.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/may-5-2015-poem-what-does-the-kind-soul-eat/
Posted in Agony, Comedy, Gluttony, Hunger, Poverty, Satire, Third World
Tagged Satire, Comedy, depression, Absurdism, child, Death, bigotry, Compassion, Childhood, Anguish, Black Humor, Hypocrisy, Poverty, Pity
All reasons for non-appearance of posts on Topics pages can be found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
As you have assigned a combined total that exceeds 15 Categories/Tags to your posts, you need to edit and delete. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/ After removal of the excess categories and/or tags note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there.
You are inadvertently spamdexing AKA tag spamming. And, you ought to be more concerned about your posts not appearing and being well ranked on Google and Bing SERPS (search results pages) than not appearing on the WordPress.com Topics pages because it’s search engines that send a significant flow of traffic to blogs and they can choose to bury your content where the sun don’t shine for that.
The rule of thumb is to assign to your posts the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the individual post content.
For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
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