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How to Grow Your Blog to 100 Plus Followers, Win Friends and Influence People

Author: Jennifer Brown Banks
Published: January 17, 2011 at 8:23 am
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Other than our guts and our butts, most of us would agree that growth and expansion is a good thing. Right? Take our bank accounts, our knowledge base, our relationships, or career growth as further proof.

Blogging is no different. The same principle applies.

Because simply put, growth symbolizes life, prosperity, and vitality. It's a metric for success.


So wherever you are on the blogging spectrum, if growing bigger and better in 2011 is not one of your targeted goals, you may want to stop reading this post circa this point.

For the rest of you progressive folks, continue on to discover the secrets of the how and whys.

The Whys...

Even if you're not in the blogging game to make money, you want your efforts to yield maximum returns. Your blog should be the best that it can be. Think of it this way: your blog is like your home and you want to make a favorable impression upon those who visit. It speaks to who you are.

Additionally, success breeds success. The more attention you get, the easier it is to get attention. Here's a case in point. Have you ever noticed that it's easier to get a job, or a mate, or under someone's radar, when other folks are already, (by virtue of your status) wooing you? Am I right? Get a good job or a good partner and you have to practically beat folks off of you.

Maybe it's the group think theory, or the laws of attraction. I'm not certain.
But what I can assure you is that folks pay attention to whatever the latest buzz is, or what's “perceived” as popular, or blogs with high numbers of comments or followers.

With this in mind, here's how to be one of them.

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Article Author: Jennifer Brown Banks

Jennifer Brown Banks is a veteran freelance writer, pro blogger, editor and relationship columnist. With over 500 publishing credits online and in print publications, her work has appeared extensively on award-winning sites such as: Daily Blog Tips, …

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