Win Over Subscribers

When your blog is starting out, your sole goal should be to attract new subscribers. Translating these regular readers into dollars or into the other benefits you may be after is something that you can concern yourself with once your site is already established and has been running for a few months.

In the beginning, your goal is to increase your subscriber count. Sure, other metrics such as visitors, pageviews, time on the site, and bounce rate are all interesting and important in their own way, but nothing beats subscribers as an indicator of growth (and that you are doing this whole blogging thing right). If your subscriber count isn’t growing, your blog is not living up to its full potential.

By subscribers, I mean ...

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