Know Your Target Market
We start blog for ourselves, we write article which we like but after some time we start writing for our readers and start thinking to provide as much as information we can provide to them. It is very important to know your target visitors to get good traffic and success of your blog. It doesn’t matter which niche blog you have, it applies for all kind of blogs.
Before targeting the readers you should keep in mind that you can’t make everyone happy. Everyone has different views about your blog or your articles thus try to post informative and unique post for your readers. There are some points to remember while you are analyzing your target visitors:
- Are they bloggers? Or just collecting information from your blog?
- They just come to read your article or contribute in your article like giving feedbacks, comments or adding some more information to your article?
- How many recurring visitors and how many coming for first time?
Here are four tips to which will help you to know about your visitors:
#1 Tell them About You
Before trying to know others you need to tell them about you. When reader visits your blog, he wants to know about the person behind the blog. Only your name is not enough, your visitor would be interesting in knowing more about your blog and you, this way only he can be familiar with you and your blog. So, always try to give proper information about you and your blog in “about page”, such as your education, city, hobbies etc.
#2 Ask Questions
It not only about writing for your visitors, your visitors would be happier if you make conversation with them. Ask them to share their views, give you feedback and you also reply to their comments. Conversation and interest will only increase if you and your visitors both participate in conversation.
#3 Know What is Going on in Market
Take part in online forums, read current news related to same niche which you are having. Try to read everything that affects your visitors, it can be online magazines, articles or research. It will help you to analyze what exactly your target market wants and you can serve them accordingly.
To know your target visitors, you need to think like them and be one of them. These tips will help you to know more about your target visitors and as a result you will get good traffic and huge success.
nice article Lax! this is where most bloggers falter!
I heard once that you should read are your articles as if you were a reader that just happened upon your blog. Then ask yourself is it good or bad.
Hm.. So I’ll try to put my self on someone’s shoes? I think that’s a good advice too but most people are different in many ways. So being bad or good is very subjective. Others might say it’s good and others would say it’s bad.
Good Post Now i think i need to update my about me page and take parts in the forum…
I like this post. You can start your blog by knowing which or what is your market and who will read your blog. Great tips for those just starting their blogs.
hey. That’s me! I only started my new blog last Nov 12. My problem now is, I’m still undecided what my niche will be. So most likely, I don’t know who my target market are.
My blog doesn’t have a target market too when I started it almost 3 months ago. But as times goes by I am more going to the tech, blog and SEO niche.
Then maybe a little of sports and entertainment here and there.
How if my blog is daily life story blog? My target market is…? I think it’s have no specific one.
every single point is true.. one of popular page that visited by my reader is about page.. but i just write a bit about myself.. i need to write more detail i guess..
the second point i always Do it, sometime when we read post, we want to Comment but we have no idea.. so with that in mind asking question can help them a lot..
Hi izzat. Do you think my about page at my blog is enough? If not, do you have a template that I can follow? Thanks.
Just put some interesting things about you and be yourself, don’t exaggerate and you’ll be fine.
Maybe by listing something like this is helping :
- 20 Facts About Me -
Not only on blogging, on modern market it’s a must to Do people behaviour and market research so we can defining so detail of our target market.
We can use the information of target market data to certain purpose.