Thank you WordPress Discover for the shout-out!
Just several months into her blogging adventure on WordPress.com, Christine Ray of Brave and Reckless started to figure out what worked for her — and what didn’t — while navigating this online community. For a dose of Christine’s advice, here are five tips on building a successful site and growing a loyal audience.
1) Learn from peers or people you admire.
Read guides for new bloggers. WordPress offers some great guides but some of the most useful information is from other bloggers.
2) Consider how people read you.
Remember that many WordPress readers are following you on a SmartPhone or tablet and reading you at lunch. Shorter posts are more likely to get read. You can always divide a longer post into sections that you can publish separately if you have a lot to say.
3) Read as much as possible — and find your people.
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Really helpful! Thanks! Love the way you make it seem so simple. 😊
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well, it wasn’t at the time!
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Ya.. true..
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😉
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Great pointers! I made some notes 😀
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Loved the point about 15 engaged readers vs. 200 disengaged ones. It is hard to remember that when it seems social media etc, is conditioning us to want likes and followers. 🙂
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so important though– I love the interaction with the reader.
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Thank you. Very helpful. Especially info about tags and finding your audience. Those things elude me, but, I think I will be better at them now. Also, remembering HOW my story is read, on an iphone, helps too. Splitting into parts and posting separately.
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So glad to hear that it is useful
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As a new blogger starting 2 weeks ago, this post definitely provided some good tips. Thanks for the helpful notes.
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Best of luck.
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Thank you for the tips. As a new blogger this information from an established blogger is definitely helpful.
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My early mentors made a world of difference for me. Happy to pay it forward.
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This is very helpful specially as a new blogger for me, thanks.
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You are very welcome
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helpful! Thank you for this.
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You are very welcome
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Nice! Short, sweet and to the point. For some reason, this just motivated me even more than reading a longer post by another blogger. How does that work? lol, very well, very well I must say.
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Hmmm. . . hope that wasn’t my longer piece that the editors took these out of!
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This was a great read! Awesome information, thank you for sharing!
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My honor
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You deserve the shoutout and this is very useful amazing information
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Thank you so much!
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i’m a newbie here and this is very helpful! thank you!!!
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You’re welcome.
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