Get a few simple things down, and your blog traffic will grow. It really isn’t rocket science..lol Just takes repeating the steps on a regular basis to see some great results.

No images is as bad as too many. It makes the text look bigger and less friendly. Most blogs don’t have a good font and format style for their text so it comes off very utilitarian and hard to read.

Insider vocab is something I strive myself to always define in a post, but could definitely be accused of forgetting to do, especially when talking about romance novels. How much is too much when it comes to jargon for you?

Thanks for replies! Both offer great suggestions and I really appreciate your feedback and links.

Too bad I don’t write romance…;)

Cheers

Curtis

Get yourself setup with a 2 or 3 line bio with a link back to your blog and you’ll start to see a lot more traffic.

For the guest blogs, you could come up with several blogs that are related to your book but are not excerpts before seeking space so if you’re accepted on a blog you can immediately hand them an article. If you get more blogs interested than anticipated ask some of the bloggers if they have any topic ideas for you.

Interesting post, but I do have a question/comment that I’m hoping you can expand upon…

My blog, Reading Between The Lines, The Hidden Power of Language was originally set-up as a promotional tool for the up-coming book of the same title.

The book covers a myriad of topics, all aligned with a non-fiction/self-help publication including quantum science, meditation, etc (this isn’t a plug for the book!).

In addition to that varying subject matter, I’ve found the whole blogging experience to be quite fascinating, so I’m also sharing posts about my newbie experiences while learning about blogging (as you are here).

There are two posts currently providing the most referral visitors at the moment; one from my primary subject mater and the second is about my blogging experience.

If I had followed your advice to ‘stay on topic’ I would only have half the visitors, however I’ve been asking myself the same question?

Am I deluding (and potentially putting off) self-help readers when they land on a post about blogging or vice versa?

My primary subject matter is by default a broad array of genre’s, so what’s the best way to keep focused on a single topic which includes so many supporting topics???

Write On!

blogs that use extremely dense “insider vocab” that a beginner won’t recognize.

blogs that confuse themselves with legitimate news – i.e. report on series topics but lack all forms of fact checking.

contrarian blogs. I.e. blogs that are not founded on informing about a topic but are rather anti (insert inane topic here) pieces. – 99% of the time, as soon as you get their title you know what they’ll say anyways – so why read them?