41) Don’t just add an RSS feed. Track it.
There are various plugins that help you with tracking how many RSS subscribers you have. That way you will know if people just miss the RSS link, or if the content on your blog isn’t good enough to track. You can encourage RSS tracking by simply placing a button on each of the posts.
42) Are you automatically uploading pictures?
If you upload a lot of pictures taken from your cellphone to your blog automatically, you need to spruce them up. You can download various plugins that make a picture look better without compromising much. You can also have plugins that resize or crop your photos automatically before posting them.
43) Use images to make your text attractive
This is 2018. You can nowadays add videos and pictures to your posts. As long as you avoid the “moving” pictures which are repetitive, you’ll be okay. Even if it’s a crude camera phone photo or a screenshot of something, it breaks up the text and makes it attractive at the same time.
44) Increase your exposure by using XML
XML is similar to RSS but it is aimed more at search engines. If search engines have a hard time finding certain posts and places on your website, they won’t show up on search engines, which essentially blocks a portion of potential readers. Install an XML site mapping plugin to avoid that.
45) Want to customize your blog? Write some code!
It’s a bit of a hassle, but if you are proficient enough in a certain web based/aimed programming language – such as PHP or ASP, you can write codes and execute them using a plugin, which will make your blog more unique. You can also get free codes – you just need to tweak them a bit.
46) Automate the embedding process
You can embed content from a lot of different websites in your blog and posts, but each website has a code of its own, which is sometimes hard to customize. You can download various plugins that will help you with automating the customization process of embedded material.
47) Add a built-in player
If you release audio clips or if you use software to make your posts accessible to the disabled, you can add a built-in media player to your blog. It doesn’t take a lot of space and it allows people to listen to your audio clips from almost any computer.
48) Allow users to respond to other users
There are various ways in which you can increase conversation andtake care of the mess that is uniform responses – responses that alllook the same. You can choose between various plugins which add
some way for you to know who is responding to whom – a la Twitter.
49) Allow users to register to get updates
Some users don’t understand RSS or don’t want to use it. They prefer to have alerts regarding updates sent to their e-mail address or to their cellphone number. You can add a plugin that automates the process. Also don’t forget to allow them to easily unsubscribe.
50) Encourage co-writers to write by giving them AdSense revenue
You can give them a portion of it or give them occasional bonuses that arrive from the AdSense revenue, or you can use a plugin that separates and keeps track of which writer did how much AdSense-wise. It is another way to test how good or bad your co-writers are.
51) Use a plugin that checks if your website was linked to onsocial media
You might not want to add the big bulk of buttons that encourage people to “digg” or recommend a website using social media websites. You can instead use a plugin that searches for existing recommendations and links to them, so that people will be encouraged to join the bandwagon.
52) Use Digg and other social websites as testimonials
Why should people read your blog? People want good to excellent content. Why should they spend their time on your blog? Well, you can show them why be adding a widget that showcases your most talked about/dug posts. They will serve as both a pointer to quality content, and as a testimonial for your entire blog.
53) Write in one, write in all
You can use various plugins that will synchronize or that will post something you wrote – either in your blog, in a website, in a social media website, etc, on your blog or on the social media website you’re on. This will allow for legitimate cross promotion and it will save you time.
54) Add your Twitter feed to your website
You aren’t always available on your blog – it takes too much time
administrating (deleting spam and harmful comments, writing and editing material, etc). One way for you to provide constant content on your blog is to showcase your Twitter feed – it will fill in the days without updates or new comments.
55) Use a plugin to post links to your latest posts on variouswebsites
You can use a plugin that will allow you to publish an enticing text with a link to the latest post you published, in various websites. There are dozens of websites, and it will allow you to reach almost every type of internet user. Why force people to track an RSS feed when they can track their favorite website?
56) Allow users to e-mail and download your article easily
Sometimes you need to let that traffic go. If people like something and they want to share it, you need to allow them to do so easily – otherwise they might give up. Allow users to print, e-mail and download your article (in various formats) easily. You’re investing in future traffic.
57) Do you use social websites? Allow your users to do the same
If you already have a plugin that allows users to submit your articles tovarious websites and social websites, and if you already have a pluginthrough which you can submit your articles yourself, you also need toallow users to vote on already submitted articles without leaving yourblog.
58) Track what people say about your blog
People rarely comment on the quality of your blog “to your face”. They usually post those reviews and comments on their own blogs and social media websites – they rarely venture outside of those comfort zones. Use a plugin to keep track of those posts and reviews – you will be able to perform a quasi-survey that way.
59) Interact with your readers on a more personal basis
In order to attract new readers and to sustain and enhance the connection with your current readers, you need to interact with them on a more 1 on 1 basis. You can use plugins which turn WordPress to a social media website – you’ll be able to send private messages and friend people.
60) Keep people on your website – supply what they need
You can and should use certain themes and plugins which basically supply all of your readers’ needs. You can be both MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and a website – all in one. And the best thing about it is that it will create a tight-knit community, and allow users to create content.
