How To Increase Your WordPress Following By The End Of 2024
Can you believe 2024 is about to end? I can’t even believe 2023 is over. Well, time flies and that’s the way it is. But before 2024 ends, you may have some goals you would like to complete. I know that a number of bloggers would like to grow their following. Not everyone, I’m sure. A lot of people blog simply as a hobby. I get a lot of DM’s, emails etc asking me on advice about growing one’s blog. Since my older advice posts may be a little dated, I decided to write another post on how to increase your WordPress following. And this one will give you much more current advice.
Since this post focuses on how to increase your WordPress following, I will leave our advice like SEO as that’s not as much about your WP following as it is about email followers and Search Engines. This post will focus on WordPress alone. Mostly because I know SEO isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. And it can also be quite complicated for those that may not be as tech savvy. For now, I wanted to give more easier advice that could be followed by everyone. If you would like to read SEO related posts, you can find them here.
So, without any further ado, here is my advice on how to increase your WordPress following:
It’s A Two Way Street
One thing that I have noticed, and I’m sure many of you have noticed too, is that WordPress is often a two-way street. People are much more likely to follow, comment or like your post is you do the same. It just means that it’s a give and receive sort of relationship when it comes to blogging.
So, if you are hoping to get some new followers or even just grow your blog in general, try to visit new blogs and get to know new bloggers rather than just focusing on the ones you have now. This will bring new people to your blog and if they end up enjoying your content, they will follow you.
Now, I’m not saying spam people and like ten posts in ten seconds. Please don’t do that. Take the time to actually engage with their content before hitting that like button. And if possible, leave a meaningful comment about their blog post.
Related Post: 5 Ways To Get Loyal Followers
Tags And Categories
Tags and categories are so incredibly vital if you are looking to grow your blog. I genuinely cannot emphasise this point enough. If you don’t get anything else from this post, please keep this one thing in mind. You may be wondering why tags and categories are so important. Well, the reason is that you need tags and categories to categorise your posts correctly.
And why is that? Well, because when people search for content to do with that category on WP you want your posts to come up. Your target audience should be people that are interested in your niche or niches and this is the best way to get your content to them directly without even having to do much. If they find your blog and see that it provides content they are interested in, they are quite likely to follow you.
Related Post: How To Use Tags Correctly
Use The Force… I Mean Algorithm
Like most of these type of social platforms, the algorithm is key. It’s what brings people to your blog but can also take people away from your blog if not used correctly. That’s why you need to make sure you’re using features like tags properly and not spamming the algorithm by using too many tags and/or categories. And you want to make sure to make your posts easy to crawl so that the algorithm can identify the keyword or keywords and push your content to the appropriate audience.
Content
At the end of the day, nothing else will work if your content is not high quality content. If you’re blogging just for fun, as a hobby and don’t care about growth then feel free to post whatever you like. But if you are hoping to grow your following then the quality of your content is vital.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying every post has to be perfect. As humans, we make mistakes. We make grammatical errors, typos and even spelling mistakes now and then. But your post needs to be readable for the most part. Try to edit it and minimise mistakes as much as you can.
In general, people tend to follow blogs that have good content more often than blogs that are difficult for them to read due to having too many errors. So, even while implementing everything else, make sure to properly focus on your content and put out the best content you can.
And this goes without saying, but quality over quantity. Always.
Conclusion
I hope this post helped you better understand how to increase your WordPress followers. And one thing I’ll add is that it’s not always about followers. I know it feels good when someone follows you but it’s also about how active your blog is. If you get comments and people enjoy your content, that’s a really awesome thing too. Oh and there’s that WordPress glitch happening at the moment where it tells you that you have less followers than you actually have so yeah. You can read more about it here.
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