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Now that we’ve figured out who we want to write a guest post for, the trick is to figure out how to get those readers to become your readers. By choosing an appropriate blog to write a guest post for, we know that their audience and your potential audience has a lot of overlap. But [...]

One of the key ways to grow a new blog is to get noticed by the right people. A simple way to get this recognition is to write guest posts for other blogs related to yours. There are only so many avenues for people to find your blog, and links to your blog on other [...]

Last week I talked about determining who makes up your target audience. Now that we’ve figured out who we’re talking to, we have to figure out how to reach them. Your blog can be full of great, interesting, relevant and appropriate content for your target readers, but if they can’t find you, then they can’t [...]

I’d love to say “Everyone should read my blog.” Well, maybe everyone should, but not everyone will. Every blog has a target audience, no matter if they realize it or not. Defining who *is* interested and reaching those people is a key concept to your blog’s growth and development. Why?

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I write a blog about personal finance - specifically about my family’s specific and personal approach to how we handle our finances. It isn’t meant to be a blog with the most up-to-date cutting edge personal finance ideas, although my hope is that every reader learns a little something along the way they can [...]