2 Million Dollar Bills

Since I have become a blogger I realise how much time and effort you have to put into attracting people to visit your site, and then getting them to come back again on a regular basis. It sure isn’t easy for a beginner. I have read about the power of Digg and how if you can hit the front page you will receive huge amounts of unique visitors to your site, and a certain amount of them will turn into long-term readers and subscribers.

But for many it is virtually impossible to get an article anywhere near the front page on Digg, no matter how well written and interesting the article is. You just have to read some of the front page articles to realise that most of them are submitted from sources that already have huge levels of regular readers.

Other social sites such as Stumble upon can seemingly have a similar effect on your blogs readership levels. But for me I have personally never really liked Stumble Upon, so I don’t really bother with it.

I have faithfully submitted each article I write to Reddit and as a result I have a had a limited amount of success, but nothing to get too excited about. Things have been ticking along slowly but surely.

Last week I got my first taste of writing a reasonably successful article, which was called, My Life is a Mess, I Have Lost My Job, the Wife Has Left Me, I Have No Future, Bullshit!  It was my most successful article so far, it had a wee bit of success, it directed over 2000 unique readers to my site on one day, which is phenomenal for my blog. I received just less than 1500 unique readers for the whole of May.

I must admit it was a buzz to have an article gain a little bit of recognition, I think it also proves that Reddit is a force to be reckoned with, I feel that Reddit offers all bloggers the chance to gain new and regular readers for their blogs. I’m constantly hearing about the power of Digg, Stumble Upon, Twitter and many others, which you must get involved with if you want to increase your blogs readers.

For me Reddit has proved that it is still possible to gain some success on their site, no matter how small you are, you don’t have to have 10’s of thousands of readers to have a hit on your hands!

My blogs slow but steady progress is analysed in the following articles, My First Month As A Future Blogging Icon, 2 Million Dollar Bills and My Second Month as a Future Blogging Icon, 2 Million Dollar Bills

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