Converting
casual visitors into dedicated email subscribers is a great way to
build up your readership and generate a community of content evangelists
who will go to bat for your content. Not only that, they'll likely
share your content with other people in their networks through email and
social media, exposing you and your blog to brand new audiences.
While
RSS subscribers tend to be a little bit more passive than email
subscribers, there are many people who prefer RSS subscription to email,
and they can be beneficial in the same ways as email subscribers. Make
sure the RSS feed for your blog is also easy to find for visitors who
are looking for it (a good place is right near the email subscribe
form); otherwise, they'll get fed up hunting around for it and bounce
from your site without subscribing at all.
Speaking
of contributors, let's say you have some pretty big names in your
industry who contribute to your blog. That might be something you want
to showcase to new readers in an effort to emphasize the credibility of
your writers. Or maybe you just want to let your readers sort through
your content by their favorite authors.
Make
it easy for visitors to find the content they're looking for by adding
search functionality to your blog. This makes for a much better user
experience and encourages your readers to stick around and check out
some of your other content. And if you can implement a search bar that
provides insight into what keywords visitors are searching for on your
blog (e.g. Google Site Search, which integrates with Google Analytics), a
bonus is that you can identify the types of content your readers are
actively searching for and use that to inform your content creation
strategy!
In
addition to a search feature, another good way to help your visitors
discover more of your content is by showcasing a list of your blog's
topics or tags. In addition to giving new visitors an idea of the types
of content you typically write about, a topics list allows readers to
further engage with your content by browsing only the topics that
interest them.
Another
great option for enhancing content discoverability on your blog is to
include recent or popular post widgets, which display a list of either
the latest or most popular posts available on your blog. This allows you
to feature your freshest or best-performing content, enticing visitors
to stick around for more.
If
you're managing a business blog, chances are you're not publishing
content just for the heck of it. You have other goals in mind. So,
leverage top, side, and/or in-post blog real estate to improve the lead
generation potential of your blog with calls-to-action (CTAs) for your
marketing offers.
Although
it's a more indirect way of subscribing to your content, following your
company in social media is a form of subscribing in and of itself,
since you're likely already using your social channels to promote your
blog content (right?). Give your visitors the option to follow/connect
with you in social media by displaying social media follow buttons on
your blog as well. This also gives you a way to connect with readers
through multiple channels.
In
addition to simple social follow buttons, most social networks offer a
variety of different embeddable plugins and widgets you can add to your
blog's sidebar -- or anywhere else on your site for that matter.
The paintings from Minecraft were first real paintings.
by hjtfir Aug 7 2015 Paintings in Minecraft. There are 26 paintings in the game. These are mostly based on paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, who also created the Minecraft versions. In this album, you will be shown the original paintings along with a description of the in-game version of the painting. Kong A paper-looking screenshot of the level 100 m. from the original “Donkey Kong" arcade game. In-game known as DonkeyKong. Mortal Coil A painting of the “Mean Midget" from the adventure game Grim Fandango. In-game known as Skeleton. de_aztec Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the video game Counter-Strike. In-game known as Aztec. Target successfully bombed Painting of the Counter-Strike map de_dust2, named “target successfully bombed" in reference to the game. In-game known as Bomb. de_aztec Free-look perspective of the map de_aztec from the vide...
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