Many internet publishers, merely put their written content out there, then they get visitors from the search engines like google as well as from other sources. People arrive at their website, look at written content and then depart the website. Either by clicking on an advertisement or merely by leaving. The author makes a little cash from the ad clicks. It is a very lazy and not a really worthwhile method.
If you, however gain the visitor as a follower, you may contact them all anytime you build a new article. If you keep writing great content you can collect a couple of thousand followers, after a while. Which means anytime you publish an article it can get read thousands of times, immediately. Additionally your followers will probably have more trust in you than they have in other web sites. That makes it easier to review products and make affiliate sales to your followers. Affiliate marketers refer to this as "the money is in the list".
So that you can understand how this is successfully done I'd really like you to take a look at Hubpages. This is a legit revenue sharing site, with 1000s of authors and millions of posts.
The Three best techniques to get followers is by using Twitter, Facebook and direct email. It's optimal to get a follower on all three. Doing this if they quit making use of one, you could nevertheless contact them with the other 2. Therefore if somebody follows you on one, encourage them to follow you on all 3. Hubpages makes use of all 3 options. If you browse around, including the author's profile page, you'll see how they make use of it.
Twitter and Facebook is free to utilize, e-mails can cost you, it depends on just how you do it. On a website such as Hubpages they automatically send e-mails to all your followers, when you publish a Hub.
What I do would be to write something like: "I really hope you found this information helpful. If you'd like to check out work in the future, you should friend me on Facebook". I achieve the best results by inserting the url straight into the text block. Also, I encourage visitors to follow me in the written text part of my profile page on revenue sharing internet websites such as Hubpages.
All three methods can also be used to virally promote your written content. You may get your followers to share your post with their Facebook friends, Twitter followers or email. Those who are given the suggestion may then give it to their acquaintances and so on.
I target my articles on 3 significant niche categories. It does not help to attempt to get followers from one niche to read written content from an alternative niche market. They just will not click through or worse may well stop being your follower.
In short, the key to web publishing prosperity is to make the most of every bit of website traffic you can get.