4 Blog Tools to Get Your Articles In Front of More Blog Readers. Do you want more blog readers? Are you looking for creative tools to increase your exposure? When people share your blog content with friends, they help build your readership. In this article you’ll discover four often-overlooked tools that encourage social sharing to draw more readers to your blog. #1: Reveal Content After Shares When a person clicks a social share icon on your blog, your post shows up in their news feed where their friends can see it. After all, those friends probably have similar interests. If you want more shares—to get that all-important social proof—you have to ask for them, right? Social Locker is a clever WordPress plugin that allows you to show part of a post, and then ask your readers for a social share in order to see the rest.
Social Locker lets you reveal content after a reader shares. Incentivizing social shares is a surefire tactic for rapidly growing your blog readership. I’ve tried this plugin myself and had success. This plugin isn’t just for new posts. Evergreen Post Tweeter. Double your Email Subscribers + Image Sharing + Quote Sharing by SumoMe. Most blogs are designed for hit-and-run readers. People find your blog, read your article, and leave.
Wouldn't it be nice if some of those people subscribe or share your amazing post? SumoMe provides free tools you need to grow your WordPress site. This plugin will make it easy for your readers to join your email list, share your articles and optimize with analytics. Now, people will find your blog, read your article, share your article on Twitter/Facebook/Pinterest, and subscribe via email to your email newsletter. Features Free and Easy integration with any WordPress themeSimple email integration with MailChimp, Aweber, Constant Contact, and Campaign Monitor100% mobile optimized. List Builder (email subscribe feature) The most important asset on your blog isn't your theme or even your content. A/B testing your email pop ups Now you can figure out which text, size, timing, colors and more will convert best on your site.
Advanced display rules Choose when to request subscribes Get more tweets. Trello. OnePress Social Locker. Social Locker is a set of social buttons and a locker in one bottle. It allows you to lock a part of content on a web page until a user clicks one of the social buttons (Facebook Like, Tweet Button, Google +1) and help you to get more likes/tweets/+1s, traffic and customers!
Do you still place social buttons on every page of your site? But users don’t click the ones as often as you would like? You should give people a reason why they need to click your social buttons. Even if people like your content, site or fanpage, they don’t click the buttons because they don’t worry about you, your benefits or your traffic. It’s not their problem. Key Features Any URL to like/tweet/+1. Click here to view the live demo! The plugin is a free edition of the premium social locker plugin. Resources. Three Approaches to Classroom Blogging. Last week I received a suggestion from someone who wanted me to offer a webinar about classroom blogging. That is one of the most common requests for workshops so it makes sense to offer that as a webinar in the future.
If I do decide to offer that workshop as a webinar I will make an announcement here. In the meantime, the basic outline of my approach to classroom blogs is this; distribution, discussion, and demonstration. Distributing: At its most basic blogging is done for the purpose of quickly and easily distributing information to others. Discussing: This is where blogging becomes more than just an exercise in disseminating information. The great thing about using blogs for classroom discussions is that it provides students with more time to reflect on what they're being asked before sharing their responses. Demonstrating: If you're wondering about the picture, it's of my newly adopted dog Max.
25 Blogging Tips for Fresh Bloggers. Everybody has a blog, but creating a blog is only the first step to truly reaching your audience. There are plenty of ways to increase your readership and maximize the effectiveness of your posts, so I’ve compiled a list of 25 blogging tips to get people started: 1. Never stop learning. Every word you write will teach you something new. 2. Let your voice permeate your posts. 3. Write, write, write. 4. Being unpredictable is the key to being interesting. 5. Even if your topic is not totally unique, present it differently. 6. If you are going to make an outrageous claim, at least have some facts to back it up. 7. Write about current events and how they relate to you and/or your readers. 8. You don’t need to write on a specific schedule, but you do want to post regularly so that you stay relevant in your readers’ minds. 9.
Try to discover a new blog every day. 10. You want people to read your blog, but you also want people to read your blog. 11. 12. Give credit where credit is due. 13. 14. Blogging Resources for Classroom Teachers. I’ve spent the better part of the past weekend working up a presentation on how to incorporate blogging into the classroom and thought y’all might find some of the resources that I plan to share helpful. Blogging Ideas and Examples to Explore Looking for examples of how blogging is being used by classroom teachers and/or suggestions about how to make classroom blogging doable? These resources will help. Annotated List of Classroom Blogs to Explore – For many teachers, imagining the role that blogging can play in their instruction is difficult simply because they haven’t seen enough samples of what classroom blogs look like in action.
Pernille Ripp’s Classroom Blogging Resources – One of the most articulate advocates for classroom blogging is Pernille Ripp — a fifth grade teacher in Madison, Wisconsin. If you’re new to classroom blogging projects, you might dig this bit sharing six tips or this bit sharing fourteen steps for structuring successful blogging projects. Related Radical Reads: BlogBooker - Blog Book. The 50 Best Blogs for Future Teachers. The Modern Definition Of College Readiness 3.54K Views 0 Likes The modern definition of learning, school, and college is an evolving mix of education and technology jargon.
So what does that mean for high school students wondering about their college readiness? Chart - A Comparison of Educational Blogging Platforms.