Get Followers by Following

Grow your follower fan base by following other blogs. Find blogs that have similar interests and content and comment. The people who follow those blogs can become your follower too. Make sure you have a "Follow Me" button on your site to make it easy for everyone.

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Optimize Your Blog with Keywords

You don't just have to wait for people to find your blog for your fan base to grow. You can optimize your blog wich will help your blog appear in search engine results. Make sure you include useful keywords in your blog.

A keyword is word or phrase that people would insert in a search engine to look for information. The search engine spiders use those words to comb sites to find your results.

If your keywords are not tightly targeted to your audience, you will not be highly ranked in the search engine results.

There are some free tools to help you create keywords. Try Wordtracker or the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool.

Ad and Banner Blindness

What is ad or banner blindneess? It's when a person sees ads or banners so much on the internet they learn to visually ignore them. Ads don't work like they used to on the web. People know what they want to see and ignore everything else.

Don't depend on ads alone to help you make affiliate money. You need to be mentioning your affiliate in your posts and creating a reason for your followers to want to go spend money (which helps you earn money).

If you are using ads, make sure you change them out often. If you have created your own ads using screen captures, try changing those up too. Ad borders, change headlines, run different variation and switch out images. Help your followers see your message.

Giving Your Followers Solutions

Your followers love seeing cute product but they are far more apt to buy cute product when they know what they can do with it.

Show the product in projects you make and give plenty of suggestions of what to do with it. Be creative. Obviously, this not only helps your followers buy but keeps them coming back to you and inviting their friends to follow your blog as well.

For example Lettering Delights sells Spectacular Specs. The most obvious use is to cut them out and where on your face for a fun photo shoot.

But when you have another idea or use, let your followers know. Give them solutions and they will love you for it.