Now that you’ve got your new blog up and properly prepped you’re ready to go. Surely you will want as many readers as possible and you will want to engage your readers. Now the sad truth of it is that the Google Sandbox will catch the best of us but there are a few ways to past this and spread the word about your blog despite Google’s setback. This week I’ll spend some time talking about how to spread the word and beef up your readership even if you aren’t getting any love from Google just yet.

ENCOURAGE COMMENTING - It’s just that simple. Engage your reader. You made the post now encourage the reader to turn it into a conversation. Surely you will want to know what your reader’s opinions are, and if you don’t you should! Now that Top Commentators plugin we used automatically gives the people who leave the most comments a free link back. Don’t just let the readers comment, be sure to respond to their comments. Engaging and responding to your readers is key to sustaining and growing your amount of readers.

Today for example I got a comment from a reader named Broc simply telling me to get it together and post more. No problem Broc, keep in mind that the site is only a little more than 2 weeks old and I’m on spring break. But honestly, I appreciate any comments I get (as long as they aren’t spam) because it’s good to have feedback, good or bad, from my readers. It encourages me to keep writing because I know someone is reading.