How to get more readers - top ten tips

Look at the best selling, most readers blogs and copy their content and webpage style.

Yes, I know, this involves having a sexy girl and an exotic location. Or a cute kitten. The top bloggers spend all day preening themselves and before covid-19 they travelled in packs to top spots such as waterfalls and posed separately and together. Now you can add music and backdrops and cartoons.

What if sex, stripping and selling are not your thing?

The selling techniques are well known.

1 Famous Names. & Famous Photos
Add famous names.




For example: "Fake News. Faudster tries to sell painting of pregnant Marilyn Monroe to Trump." (Attracts more readers than, 'I just drank coffee'.)

Add Alliteration.
Tourists flock to Trump Taj Mahal In Atlantic City
Look At  Tump's star in LA



Best French Food

Romantic Restaurants

Zebra Escapes Zoo

2 Series.
(First free lesson of 12 to teach you to speak Chinese fluently.)
I sometimes go back to a earlier post and put a link to a later post. Then in the later post I put a link to the earlier post.

PART 1

Now read

PART 2
If you liked this you will love part 1.

A post on learning Chinese might pick up a few readers in Singapore, China and Asia.
Keep looking at which posts attract readers, and add more on the same subject.




Small print. You must marry the teacher and live with her for ten years. Only available this week to the first two who apply. Only available in Beijing.)

3 Numbers
ADD numbers. Top ten tips for travelling free. If you are writing a series of suggestions, as I am in this article, you can add bullet points o numbers and change the title to include a number.

The more the merrier.
5 people wh recovered from Coronavirus tell (Business Insider)

2 SUSPECTS ARE SISTERS

3 WAYS TO EARN MONEY

4 CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPES

TOP 10 TOURIST DESTINATIONS

100 USES FOR LEMONS

1000 PEOPLE WILL LIVE IF ...

4 Pretty pictures
Not just one at the top of your blog posts. Have one at the start, another at the end, and one every other paragraph.

Amusing Author Angela

5 Look your best.
Best - or worst. Unbelievable but mermerizing.
Giant bust and lips.
Cute kitten with different colour eyes on top of zebra.
Python eating your cat and regurgitating it, in church, on your wedding day.
Quintuplet pregnant nuns in pineapple pattern dresses. Get tattoed with your country's flag and visit every country of the world.
Too difficult? You have not washed or cut your hair? Add a cowgirl hat.
Find a fetching outfit and write an article to match it.

6 Move
 Animation, videos, cartoons.
Couple in hammock swinging over the edge on the top of the world's tallest building.

7 Be topical.
Will Covid-19 end in time for your holiday flights?

8 Ask a question.
(Why did the world not end last Saturday?)

9 Humour.
(See number 8.)
BEWARE OF THE SPIDER FRIGHTENS MORE THAN BEWARE OF THE DOG

10 Drama.
Twins fight each other in coffin -why?

WIFM
Remember WIFM - what's in it for me.
How I made a million pounds is interesting. But how you can make a million pounds is more interesting.

Readers From Where?
Decide which kind of readers you and your advertisers want. I began my blog on travel. I wrote about England.




When I could not find another suitable picture, I used a flag.
I wrote about British English and American English.
I was surprised to see that I had many more readers in the USA than in the UK.

My husband, who is a statistician, pointed out that the USA has a larger population and many more English speaking readers will be on the internet in the USA.



I add contstant references to the USA to interest my American readers. When I wrote an article about the Amy Winehouse trail in London, I included a photo of Amy in the USA.

However, if I wanted to promote Italian restaurants, I would look for Italian subjects, such as Italian foods, wines and film stars.

To attract a worldwide audience, you would want to feature a place or person from each continent.

I then got some surprising results. Russians. Why? I looked back and found I had included a reference to learning Russian, or rather Cyrillic in Bulgaria. And I had included a mention of a Russian keyboard conversion.

This is changing it as you go. The more focused bloggers would plan out their year, their audience. My son who is in marketing websites, (SEO - search engine optimization), told me to focus on the title and audience, then plan my year's blog posts and see if I could link them.

Scheduling Blog Posts
What if you are away on holiday, or want a day of rest? You can schedule a blog post to appear on the day you are away. One popular blogger wrote all his seven posts on Sunday and scheduled them so each one appeared at 7 am local time (he was in London, England, UK) each day of the week.

Finally, how about adding a quiz.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website
https://www.wix.com/
https://wordpress.com/read
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recovered-spain-patients-advice-2020-5?IR=T

Author, Author! About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.)
Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.
See books and profiles on Lulu.com and Amazon, such as Wedding Speeches & Toasts. Also watch videos on YouTube.
See other posts on singers and statues and languages and destinations.

Online Toastmasters International Meetings
If you want to learn to speak the Queen's English, or Received Pronunciation. join me at my online toastmasters club,
Braddell Heights Advanced. Wednesdays, 7-9 Singapore time which is seven hours ahead of London, England.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=braddell%20heights%20advanced%20toastmasters
I am also a member of
Singapore Online.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, Toastmasters Club, London.
Tiarel.toastmasters club, Singapore.

Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=upSEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=quick+quotations
lulu.com/shop/angela-lansbury/who-said-what-when/paperback/product

How to learn languages visually - demo of greeting in Chinese

Problem
I just spent half an hour writing about the greeting in chinese, yet when I come to say it, I cannot remember the first word. I thought I was an aural learner and responded best to sounds and words, text. However, I have decided that pictures work best for me.Let me given you the example.

I want to remember the Chinese (Mandarin) greeting which translates as have you eaten already:
Ser pau la ma.

I shall now remember if visually with three pictures:

SIR! (The bowing man is saying, 'Sir!')

Remember any picture which reminds you of the word sir.

POW!

Remember any picture which reminds you of an explosion.

LA-MA

Choose a picture of a lama.

When you want to say the greeting, think of the first picture and the next ones should pop up.

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, after dinner speaker and teacher of  English and other languages to individuals and businesses.

How Could Ebay Improve Customer Satisfaction? Prices, Pictures and Prolady Cape Blazer

Problem
I love ebay. I'm an addict. I find bargains, wonderful items.

When things go wrong I am doubly outraged that my trusted and reliable service has fallen short.

What could be improved? Allow more space for realistic and detailed comments on products. In the early days, most items seemed to be one-off items sold second-hand by individual sellers, never to be repeated so there was no point rating the quality of products, only the service. However, increasingly,  I find I am buying regularly stocked items from shops which can sell an identical item to me and other customers.

Prices
Make prices match products. Websites show a 'cape blazer', but prices jump from £2-5 to £8-12 when you select size & colour; timewasting.

Pictures
Makes pictures match what is being sold. Some pictures are so out of focus, you cannot see whether the item is good or bad.

Capre Blazer
I bought a cape blazer from Prolady who shows a model in a curved jacket, but the one I received was angular. Angular designs are neither flattering to one's figure, nor soothing, unlike curves.

Stop clothes sellers showing a manufacturer's model wearing a brand new item, in a different colour, when the item being sold is thirty years old and frayed and faded and a totally different colour. (Sellers don't show another shoe or cup!)

They sent a cape, not a blazer, no underlayer bodice with armhole. Photos of parts of the real garment are now added, but the misleading model picture is still shown on Prolady and other sites.

The item I received was inexpensive and was probably worth the money. It creases badly but I can wear it around the house.

I tied the hanging front pieces to stop it slipping off. It's thin for casual summer wear summer daytime in a hot country. Don't expect it to look ultra-elegant or be warm at night in air conditionting or cold weather in winter.

It just isn't the glamorous outfit I hoped would transform my life. It won't make me look gorgeous like the girl in the picture. It won't turn me into a TV star, impress a millionaire and make him and the whole world fall in love with me and praise my extraordinarily elegant outfit.

Despite this I am still addicted to dBay and cape blazers. Like a gambler, always expecting the next purchase to be 'the one'.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. For articles on cape blazers in white and pink, see my later post. Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.

The Chopin Trail - museums and monuments in France and Poland

Problem
Where to go and what to see, connected with Chopin?

Answers:

1 POLAND
Grand monument to Chopin, in park, in Warsaw.

Map of Poland. Wikipedia.

Some city tours merely pass this - as happened to me on my first city tour.  Other tours, on request, will stop so you can run into the park and take a photo (which happened to me on a second city tour). Of course, everybody thinks you can just run in and take a photo of the sculpture in two minutes. But no. It's further than you think. Other people taking selfies get in your way. When You get close, you are too near to take in the whole sculpture without a wide angle lens. So you run this way and that, forward and back. Others from your coach are doing the same.

2 POLAND
Zelazowa Wola park, home of Chopin, museum (Dom Chopina).
Lovely park with ponds, trees, flowers, birdsong, tumbling water, half obliterated by the noise of groups or tourists and tour guides.
Inside the house you can see a piano, family portraits.

3 FRANCE
Grave of Chopin, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
Lots of other famous musicians and singers here, too.
More in other cemeteries around Paris. Singers such as Edith Piaf. Rock and pop stars. Famous lovers such as Heloise and Abelard.

Grave of Chopin in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France. Notice the statue of the muse above, the portrait below, the protective railing around the monument. 

4 POLAND
His heart was carried back to Poland by his sister, who was with him in Paris when he died. He was his parents' only son, but he had three sisters, one older, two younger, one of whom had died much earlier.

What else can you see connected with Chopin? He had a ten-year relationship with writer George Sand, which ended badly and sadly, when he fell ill some time before he died at an early age, of 39.

TB and complications.

You can get a pretty good idea of everything from:
Wikipedia - good history and photos.
You tube video of the house and gardens of his home in Poland.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.