4 Simple Ways To Let Your Blog Run RIOT

Written by: Daniel Richard

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In a good way of course! Here’s how you can bring your blog from normal to awesome in just 4 simple approaches.

Definition of RIOT

What’s the first thing you’d think about upon hearing the word “riot”? More towards the rowdy, aggressive and anything else negative that you can think of that have been influenced from what we normally seen over the news right?

Here’s a couple of definitions of the word “riot” which I’ve found in an online dictionary – and it sure isn’t associated to anything bad at all:

1. a brilliant display
2. to grow luxuriantly or abundantly

Dictionary.com

Those two mentioned above helps complement this post nicely.

How great would it be to have your blog to have an influx of thousands of new visitors each day, growing in abundance of solid content and readers that adds value with their thoughts and ideas shared in the comments, especially after minutes of having your new article published up on the web?

If my blog can grow in just 5 days, so can yours too!

This brand new blog managed to grow from 10 in Day 1 to 100’s in Day 2, and then reached the sweet 1000’s consecutively on Day 3. 4, and 5 – with one tutorial post getting a pretty decent reach on Digg, while a few more receiving a good handful of comments that made this site livelier.

All I did was to apply these 4 easy and simple steps to getting this blog to run riot.

4 simple steps from the word “RIOT”

Let’s break the word “riot” up into the following 4 points.

• 1. Realize that readers are people too

  First we have to realize that readers are people too! We have emotions, needs, desires, wants, and that we too have problems and are looking over on the web for solutions that work!

  Be the solution that help readers solve or gain an increase of useful and practical knowledge, and allowing them to freely share your page with many other of the reader’s friends, colleagues, and etc.

  Get to add value to your readers. Give them a jolly good reason to subscribe or follow you.

• 2. Initiate topics and conversations

  If you are looking to gain some comments in your articles, craft your post in a way that it creates a conversation between not only the readers and you, but the conversation can too go 3-way by letting a reader comment on another reader’s response to the entry.

  Not all posts are close ended and filled with tremendous amount of information tools and resources. Write one that allows one another to add more value through their response.

  You too can initiate topics that can spread to other writers or readers and receive feedback from them, and then do a follow up post in regards to the initial topic.

• 3. Original content that are actually remarkable!

  Good quality posts gets talked about and passed around to friends and so on. More so if the articles a reader gets his / her eyes on is something remarkable! They are things that goes viral on their own. It could be anything from a short and simple quote, an interesting image, funny comic, or even a super long post that can be inspiring to another that may cause a large scale debate.

  Those things that worked really well are usually original content that are not seen anywhere else, except when they are being back linked on another site, with an additional short summary of the entry.

• 4. Talking to readers and bloggers

  We too got to take our time out to communicate with one another. This doesn’t mean a push for almost every single new post (unless it’s really the best one or something really remarkable) right after someone had given you access to his or her personal email for actual conversation.

  Get permission first if you really want to share something valuable to another reader or blogger.

  Of course, it will always be better to receive an email out of the blue that asks of how’s our week like and getting to know one another more. This way, you will get a good fame and reputation that you can live up to, and gain a whole lot of respect from many more along the way.

In short, we have to treat each one another exactly like how we would want ourselves to be treated as. This applies to the blogosphere too. Causing a “riot” is really a people thing as it touches more into the mind and heart of all of us, that leads each other to agree onto a similar thought and adopting ideas that we learn from each other.

I sure do love to have you share this post to your friends and hear all your views on how you too would go about in letting your blog run “riot”. Thanks for the read!

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