I need to create stronger connections with people in order to keep them engaged
How far have you gone in creating bonds with people? Do you understand that you need to engage those people for them to stay active on your site? Do you realize that people need to be convinced for them to take actions and the only way to achieve this is to keep them engaged?
Well, it's worth keeping at this blogging principle in order to start seeing results soonest in your business. Building your business on solid blogging fundamentals is the way forward to financial freedom and there's no alternative to this.
And when it comes to building connections with people, blog comments are a great way. In fact, this is the basic technique and the most working strategy. Other bloggers see you as a contributor by regularly leaving comments on their sites and they gradually notice you.
Your comment making contribution at other people's blogs will add value to their blogs and this will improve their rankings in search engines with time. Keep at it and the law of reciprocity will take effects.
As you do it consistently leaving genuine comments on niche-related blogs, you gain referral traffic in return and you build strong bonds with blogging buddies more and more. At a certain stage, you start getting mentions and this boosts your search engine traffic.
Aside from leaving comments on other people's blogs, you also create more connections through social media engagement. People will follow you once they realize that you can help them solve their problems.
By successfully building bonds with people, you will start getting invitations to submit and publish guest posts which will of course drive more traffic to your own site.
Good job, and thanks fo the post.
I sometimes need to be "centered" and filter out the importance in my life!
Being new to this I will take your opinion as solid advice...still in the learning stage, so I'll visit again as it all sinks in.
Thanks for your effort and time.
Respect, David