3 Ways to Expand Your Potential Reader Base
Finding the right niche is often about finding the right audience, the audience you can connect, inspire or just feed with news and information from that topic.
Regardless of how well you’re currently doing with your own audience, expanding your potential reader base can only benefit you, delivering whatever kind of value freely to as many people as you can is they key for success, especially with blogs.
Here are 3 tools you can use to expand your potential reader base:
Winksite: RSS Feed for Mobile Readers
Think about it - over two billion people have a cell phone as of today, and more and more of them are using it to surf the net. Now if you try to access any blog from a standard cellphone you’ll get an HTML version of it, and though it does cover all the blog pages, it looks pretty dull.
Winksite converts your RSS feed to a version that looks much more user-friendly and comprehensive when viewed by a cellphone. By installing Winksite your potential audience expands by millions, at least.
Angsuman’s Plugin: Your Blog in 13 Different Languages
Angsuman’s Translator Plugin costs $30 and is far from translating your articles perfectly. But assuming you’ll be literally blogging in 13 different languages at the same time, I think you can afford not being excellent in each one of them. Search-engine-wise, each one of your posts is actually crawled by 13 different language-specific engines, making it very possible to rank even higher for foreign keywords (less competition).
After purchasing this plugin, it’s author will assist with installing the plugin, customizing it for your blog, and offers free support for a duration of six months.
Feedburner Networks: Empower & Spread Your Feed
It was and it is still a surprise for me to see that not many bloggers use FeedBurner Networks to share, spread and monetize their feeds. A Feedburner Network is basically a group of feeds that share some kind of connection; bloggers from the same niche can merge their feeds into one and create their own feed URL. Feedburner offers a handful of tools to help promote the network such as sidebar widgets that will display the shared feed and more.
Besides getting your feed publicized on other blogs, we all know getting into Feedburner’s advertising network requires you to have at least few hundred subscribers, while this may be a hard thing to attain when working alone, I can definitely see a group of small dedicated blogs making it into the network together.
Any idea if there are any wordpress plugins to make a mobile page?
I just recently found out about the wp-pda for PDAs, and while the Winksite looks cool it’d be great to have people to directly to your site instead of your Winksite.