Not just 1,000; perhaps 5,000 or more – if you perfect the rules.

Writing a blog is NOT the challenge for most bloggers; it’s getting noticed that often defines the dividing line between the successful blogger and his amateur counterpart. Precisely, the game is played best by those who have observed and followed simple “laws” on effective blogging, borne out of the misfortunes of those who spent considerable amount of time to write blogs, but failed; the approaches that have been tried and tested by those who found them to work, and current trends that promise more effective results.

How would you get your blog to be read by at least 1,000 people? Submitting it to blog directories is an effective strategy that has a more permanent result, once it gets published. However, imagine the influx of articles getting published on blog directories everyday. How you write your blog that it catches attention is the focus here. Here are five (5) practical ways:

• Create “thunder” in your titles. Titles that whip up a little controversy always catch attention. Exercise your creativity in coming up with titles that sow a bit of intrigue, or raise a question in the reader’s mind that would entice him to read your blog in order to find the answer.
• “Less is More”. This catchy phrase applies to your blog itself. Keep it brief, simple and hit home its point within its first two paragraphs. Readers of your blog do not really read, but just glide from one paragraph to another. Imagine an inverted pyramid; the topmost part gets the “meat” of your content. Solutions you try to present in your blog should be found by your reader on the upper portion of your blog, rather than the bottom.
• Create affinity with your audience. When you create a degree of affinity among your readers by the tone of your blog, and the words you chose to deliver your content, you will have a throng of followers in just a nick of time. Avoid the use of terminologies that only you understand.
• Be creative. Think “out of the ordinary”. How can you spice up your blog that will catch readily your reader’s attention? Perhaps, you can embed video feeds or pod casts. Be a trendsetter; exercise your imagination. Sure, there are ways waiting to be discovered.

Lastly, advertise. How would 1,000 people find you when they do not know you exist?

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