BLOGGING
Why Your Blog’s Community Is So Important
And Why You Should Do Anything You Can To Please Your Readers
I have been blogging for around 10 years now, and the blog made me improve my skills. As I had written in the below article, I like to write things that change people. This is very important for me.
The feeling I have when I manage to influence people helps me improve different aspects of my life and keeps me motivated.
My blogging experience taught me that the community is crucial to every blogger. Your loyal readers are more important than the random people that click and read your articles for the subjects.
Blogging and Social Media
Blogging and Social Media are like boxed ice cream and a spoon. It’s easier to eat ice cream with a spoon, but you can eat without it.
Social Media is vital because it provides an easy method for people to interact with you and read your work. I had learned that Social Media is just a way of keeping your readers close, but the blog is the thing that facilitates everything. The blog is the thing that makes people want to follow and read your work.
I had learned all these things in a hard way by writing a lot of articles and neglecting the community.
Why It Is Important to Build a Community Around Your Blog
Without a community, it’s like writing for random people. To have results, a blog must know its public and write for it.
The community is essential for many reasons. A few of them:
- The community itself provides the blogger with a recognition of his excellent work. It’s incredible to see that others appreciate the things you do. This makes you want to improve your work continually.
- It’s more likely for a loyal reader to share your article on Social Media, recommend your blog to others or link your content on their blogs if they have any. This increases your blog’s authority and provides your blog a bigger awareness.
- Your fans will spend more time on your blog, and this will decrease your bounce rate. Fewer but loyal readers bring better results than a lot of random readers. True interactions are more important than views.
- You get the chance to interact with others and receive feedback. By interacting with others, you can exchange ideas and know the public better. This brings better results to your blog and will also help you evolve and become a better person.
Can I consider my girlfriend to be a member of the community? She sometimes kicks my ass when I write about us or our relationship.
How to Build and Grow Your Online Community
I had managed to build a fanbase for the blog in a natural way. I did not have this in my at first. The community around my blog has been created by the fine (or not so fine) work I had done in all these years.
I had read a little about communities and used a few tricks, but mostly, I focused on writing and honestly expressing what I felt. I let people discover how I am as a person and worked hard to become a better man.
What helped me build a healthy and robust community around my blog:
- I was honest, and I let people discover the way I am. I did not pretend to be something different. I did not sell an image of myself. Instead, I focused on growing as a better and nicer person.
- I have encouraged interactions and comments by ending articles with questions. I use a lot of personal addressing to make people feel the need to comment.
- I did not neglect Social Media. I interact with people on both my Facebook Page and a Facebook Group I had created.
- I involved the community in my work. I ask for the readers’ opinions, and I had created contests and events to bring people closer to the blog. I make it feel like we are writing the articles together, and I show others that I care about their opinions. The secret is that I genuinely care.
- I answer to all the comments I receive. Commenters are critical. If they spent time writing, I also need to spend time responding.
It’s not difficult, isn’t it?
A community is something you need to build brick by brick. Invest time and try to give more than you receive. This way, by doing things for others, others will feel the same and support you and your work.
You will build a natural way of doing community-driven things, and everything will become very easy.
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How important is the community for you? Do you feel the same way as I do? Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts.
