: Re: How can I encourage conversation on my blog posts? I have written for years on my site about cycle touring, adventure, and gear reviews, but I'm aware that I may have put off my audience by

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What you're hinting at is cringe ...Marketing...

And marketing is something that writers are traditionally crappy at - thus the need for agents and publishers.

You might try reading up on self publishing because a lot of the ideas that self publishers use will translate pretty directly into readers on your blog. One great self publishing podcast that talks a lot about this side of the business is The Rocking Self Publishing Podcast.

Ideas that can help include contests, giveaways, guest blogging, and doing other slightly more devious things like massaging Google's search responses to raise your blog higher up on the list of hits.

A lot of the problem is that there's a world of bloggers out there and there's no good way for people to find you unless you're putting yourself in their face somehow... and that takes marketing.

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