How to Give Your Feed Legs to Attract Readers to Your Blog

To give your feed legs means to give your feed as much reach as pos­si­ble.

The thing about the inter­net and blog­ging is that your blog is sta­tion­ary. Meaning just like you your blog has an address. Unless you’re home­less. With inter­net access. That too is another post on another site.

Unlike your­self who can get up and go wher­ever you want your blog is in a fixed posi­tion. What isn’t in a fixed posi­tion is your feed. Your feed is a pass­port car­ry­ing trav­eler that your blog can live vic­ar­i­ously through.

So how do you do that? How do you give your feed atten­tion get­ting legs.

Here’s a of cou­ple ways:

1. If I say this a thou­sand times it’ll never be too many: Through social media

Here’s a direct appeal to you. Utilize sites like Twitter and Facebook to their fullest. Tweeting about how many times the lady at work walked past your desk and shrugged her shoul­ders at you has its place, but if you are a seri­ous blog­ger frankly tweet­ing about ordi­nary things and fail­ing to share your work is folly.

Don’t be scurred. Yep, I said scurred. Give your feed long legs with stilet­tos by tweet­ing and shar­ing your links. Even directly to your feed.

Example:

Did you miss any of my posts on kit­tens who like rain­bows this week? Subscribe to my feed www​.rain​bowlovinkit​ties​.com/​f​eed

You may expe­ri­ence amaz­ing results.

2. Aggregate your feed

I am a big ‘ol fan of Alltop. Not just because I’m listed on there either, but because it is a great way to not only share your feed, but view oth­ers as well.

Feed aggre­ga­tors list sev­eral web­sites gen­er­ally of the same topic in one spot. The ben­e­fit for you is that when some­one comes to one of these sites and lands on your niche your feed is right there along­side other rep­utable sites. That is going to not only give your feed legs, but cred­i­bil­ity.

Take a leap and sug­gest your site here: Alltop Submissions

Here’s a abbre­vi­ated look at how (if accepted) your blog will be listed:

I cre­ated this par­tic­u­lar list of blogs (about 50) I fre­quent and I even have my own link: www​.all​top​.com/​l​i​t​e​r​a​r​y​n​o​b​ody. Visit Alltop and you can cre­ate your own as well.

3. Facebook Pages

Alright mark the date. I am rec­om­mend­ing some­thing related to Facebook. If you have fol­lowed this blog at all you know I am NOT a fan of FB. Recently how­ever, my views have begun to shift when it comes to the ben­e­fit FB can have for blog­gers through its pages.

I am cur­rently cre­at­ing a page for this site and will be post­ing the results of how well a FB fan page does.

From expe­ri­ence I know that Facebook has prob­a­bly one of the most under­used ways to give your blog legs on the planet: Networked Blogs.

Well Toya, (you may ask) shouldn’t that pre­vent you from using it if other blog­gers aren’t seem­ing to be uti­liz­ing it? Oooh, great ques­tion! That’s pre­cisely why you should use it.

The one thing about Facebook is that while the same peo­ple who tweet also FB the per­son­al­ity of the sites are totally dif­fer­ent. When you share links on Twitter it is ben­e­fi­cial, but very fast mov­ing. Facebook is a lot more laid-​back and your shared blog posts tend to hang around a lit­tle longer via your FB friends’ walls.

Every per­son who comes to visit a FB pro­file that has shared one of your links has the abil­ity to come into con­tact with one of your links.

That’s a win win win when you’re try­ing to give your feed legs (the crossed kind relax­ing in a loveseat, but legs nonethe­less). Take advan­tage of this resource to reach more read­ers.

Your blog and your blog feed go hand and hand. They need each other. Your house­bound blog needs your feed to reach out to peo­ple who may not yet come to you. Try these steps and give your blog the atten­tion it deserves.

Thanks for read­ing,