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A listener seeks more engagement for their blog and Instagram profile. What should they do?
Notes from Chris
Episode 1365
In the early days of blogs, companies and people who didn’t know any better would refer to “hits”—as in, how many hits does your website get? The metric is meaningless, so they started measuring page views and unique visitors, which is far more precise. Well, engagement is the hit—everyone wants people who will not only consume content but participate somehow. All of the algorithms reward posts that get more comments—which is why you now see all kinds of people trying to game the system (e.g. “Tag a friend” on Instagram). Today’s listener wants to get more comments … how can she do that, and—perhaps more importantly—is this the right objective?"Hey Chris, this is Ali from Kansas City and I’m a long-time listener, first-time question asker. Thanks to you and the team for all the helpful info. My side hustle is urban gardening, something a lot of people have been interested in over the past few months. Interestingly, traffic to my blog is much higher now than it was before the pandemic! But even though I’m getting a few thousand visitors a month, very few people engage with my content. I want them to leave comments, both on the blog and on my Instagram profile, and it seems that fewer than 2% ever do so. What am I doing wrong? Can’t wait to hear from you."Listen to today's episode to learn more...
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