I know a lot of people on WordPress blog more as a hobby (legit almost typed hob more as a bloggy) and may not be particularly interested in growing their followers. However, I also know that a number of bloggers are looking to grow their following. Whether it’s because you would like to earn an income from blogging or just want more eyes on your content or something entirely different. Here are three ways to instantly get more followers on WordPress most of which are not too difficult to integrate into your blogging routine.
Activity
One of the fastest ways to grow your blog (and I’m speaking from experience here) is to be more active on WordPress. Like all algorithms, the WP’s algorithm wants one thing- for existing users to be more active on the platform. And to be clear, by active I don’t mean spamming people with comments to follow your blog or like ten to twenty of their posts in a couple of minutes. I mean, genuinely engaging with other blogs on WordPress.
Go through new blogs that you don’t already follow and leave genuine comments on them. Or at least leave a like (but read the post don’t randomly “like” posts you don’t actually like!). And of course, if someone takes the time to like or comment on one of your posts make sure you respond to the comment and if possible take the time to leave a comment or like on their content too.
This will help get your blog out there, increase your views and hopefully get you more followers if done correctly. And if nothing else, you’ll make some more online friends!
High Quality Content
Generally, people are much likely to follow your blog if you share high quality content that they can enjoy and interact with. If your content is so full of typos, spelling errors, grammatical errors etc. they are much less likely to engage with your content let alone follow your blog for more. And of course, we’re not perfect so some typos and errors do happen. That’s okay. But just make sure they’re not excessive to the point that your content becomes unreadable.
Tags And Categories
Using the correct tags and categories is one of the simplest and fastest ways to instantly get more followers on WordPress. I’ve done more indepth posts about this which I will link here but the gist of it is that you want to use relevant tags (10 or so) and categories (1 or 2) so that your content gets to people that are actually going to be interested in it.
For example, if you share recipes on your blog you want to get to people who enjoy finding new recipes by using tags like “recipes” or “easy and delicious recipes.” What you don’t want to do is use random tags like “poetry” because despite being a more popular tag, it will not get you to an audience interested in your particular content. I know it sounds far fetched but people really do misuse tags to that extent.
And it’s the same for categories. You want to use only one or two very relevant categories per post. Using too many will confuse the algorithm and you’ll end up being marked as “spam” even though you aren’t. Once the post is marked as spam, the algorithm will completely stop pushing it organically and your views will decrease.
However, if you use tags and categories correctly, the algorithm will sort your post properly and push it to the right audience. This will increase your views and consequently followers.
Related Post: How To Use Tags Correctly
Conclusion
I hope these tips were helpful and you now know more ways to instantly get more followers on WordPress. If that’s something you’re looking to do of course. No pressure! And I hope you enjoyed this post. This is the first blogging advice post I’ve written in ages because this year has been so insane for me. But today just felt like the right time to share this one and I was motivated to do so. Everything’s finally coming up Milhouse lol!
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