AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors: Getting More Traffic to Your Blog, Part Eleven: Start a Series

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Getting More Traffic to Your Blog, Part Eleven: Start a Series

One of the best ways to ensure that you get new and returning traffic to your blog is to start a series. Simple, huh? After all, chances are that you've come back to this blog to read this series yourself as it has progressed!

Here are some tips:

1. Come up with something interesting. If it interests you, it likely will interest others. Think about research topics or resources, interviews of other bloggers or researchers, or expand about a family line or brickwall ancestor you're researching.

2. Think how the topic could be extended over several blog posts. Start off small, maybe with three or four parts. As you get comfortable, you can write longer series.

3. Pre-write to keep the flow of your writing consistent with each part, and then schedule the posts to auto-publish ahead of time.

4. ~~Don't be like me~~ Be consistent with your posting! Post each part of the series on a regular basis, whether it is daily, weekly or monthly.

5. If you do stop mid-series for some reason, come back and finish.

Readers and other bloggers love series! We recognize the hard work and research a writer must go through to create one, and we always enjoy anticipating the next "episode."

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I hope you've enjoyed my latest Tuesday Tips series, "Getting More Traffic to Your Blog." As always, I appreciate your comments. Please let me know what you liked about (or wished I done with) this series. Next week, I will begin a new series, "Frugal Genealogy," based on my much-requested presentation for other genealogical societies.

Happy Blogging!