RSS FeedsHow to Make Your Blog Popular
Jan 31, 2008
The success of your blog mostly depends on the amount of traffic it gets. This is especially more important if you want your blog to generate some kind of revenue. Frank on Biziki touches upon the topic of how to make your blog popular and I would like to share my version of the topic over here.
In order to receive tons of traffic you need to make your blog popular. The first most step of course is having lots of great content. Your blog content is the backbone of your Blogging success. In fact, personally I feel that getting lots of traffic to your blog is not the big problem; the greater challenge is generating lots of relevant, useful content, because it is only the relevance of your content that brings your readers back to your blog again and again. Your content also decides how many RSS subscribers you have; the more RSS subscribers you can boast of the higher is the value of your content.
That said, in order to make your blog popular there are some other things that you must take care of. Some of them are:
The design and look of your blog
Your blog design doesn’t matter much if you have highly useful content; people will throng to your blog no matter how it looks. but it helps your blog gain some popularity if its design is striking. If nothing else, there are a great many blogs and websites that routinely publish a list of beautiful and striking layouts. Once your blog starts appearing on these lists your blog will quickly get popular. Along with the design you should also make sure that you blog is user-friendly and all the content is easily available to everybody. Your blog design should not be browser-dependent.
The SEO aspect of your blog
SEO (search engine optimization) of your blog matters a lot. Blog SEO does not mean manipulating the search engine results so that you can get lots of traffic from them; blog SEO means making your blog search-engine-crawler-friendly. The search engines want to index good content and if your blog contains good content then help the search engines index its posts without hiccups and obstructions. Formulate your blog posts in such a manner that the most important points are easily accessible to the search engine crawlers as early as possible, for the right keywords and this also means highlighting your keywords wherever necessary. organize the content of your blog posts using headings and subheadings, lists, and links, wherever needed. The more creatively you center your content around your main keywords and important expressions, the better ranking you achieve for individual blog posts.
Your interaction on other blogs and online forums
Interact on other blogs and online forums as much as possible because it not only gets you lots of incoming links it also helps you establish yourself as an authority in your blog subject. Take care that you don’t leave comments and messages just so that you get the chance to leave your links there; this needlessly annoys both the blog owners and their readers and there is nothing in your message that motivates them to visit your blog. Contribute to the ongoing discussion and if you feel that you have nothing constructive to say then keep mum.
Remember that lots of blog traffic is generated through networking with other bloggers. When you visit the blogs and leave useful comments the bloggers get interested in your opinion and visit your blog. If they think that your blog will add value to their blog they will add your link there. They may also refer to your particular blog posts and this is how you generate incoming links for your blog and your blog posts. Well-meaning incoming links not only send you direct traffic they also help you improve your search engine rankings. Additionally, even the readers of the blogs linking to you visit your blog and if they themselves are active bloggers there is a chance that they will link to your blog.
Guest blogging
Guest blogging is a great way of creating a presence for you all over the Internet. Actually this is not a new concept. Webmasters used to submit free articles to various websites looking for content. These free articles used to carry something called a “resource box” that used to contain information pertaining to the author along with the link to the author’s website. I have generated lots of traffic for my various websites using this tactic. I am gradually approaching other bloggers to write for their blogs but with the scene with my own blog looking so shady I doubt how regular I’m going to be on other blogs. Nonetheless this is one of the greatest ways of generating traffic for your blog and increasing its popularity.
A sense of regularity
A regular blog gradually becomes popular — of course the factor of relevant content being a constant — because the same people visit your blog again and again. When they visit your blog again and again they tend to remember it whenever they need to refer to something that exists on your blog. Regularity, for instance, one or two posts everyday, brings the search engine crawlers to your blog with greater frequency; besides, lots of blog posts, provided they are of good quality and relevant to the subject of your blog, will also increase the density of your keywords and key expressions, further fetching you higher search engine rankings.
Other reasons
You can organize contests and such events on your blog and this draws in lots of traffic, because many bloggers, if they find the events interesting, mention them on their blogs along with links to the concerned posts. Memes are an old method but it has been overused so much that many a time people want to avoid taking active part in them unless they are unavoidably interesting or relevant.
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Posted by Amrit | Tags: Search Engine Marketing, Blog Publishing, SEO, Content Writing, Blogging Tips
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February 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
Regularity and interaction are inline with my own way. Never tried guest blogging though.. interesting…
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 am
February 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
February 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
A great thing about the Internet is that it gives you a level playing field no matter how daunting your competition is. I think every writer, every blogger has his or her unique voice and that is what makes readers visit your blog with greater regularity. You shouldn’t bother much about your competition; just focus on creating lots of quality content and also devote some time to networking. I know I’m not the right person to say these things because I myself don’t follow this advice. But this is something that I often tell my clients. To be a successful blogger, irrespective of your competition (every successful person, whenever he or she starts has to face competition) you should focus on writing for your blog regularly and promoting your blog. The rest of the pieces fit on their own.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
And the constant post its an awesome technique! I’ve been using it and it has drive lot of traffic!
February 8th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
February 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am
February 19th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Thanks for the great advice. I am new to Blogging, so I appreciate the advice. I am also going to subscribe to your feed, and hopefully continue to benefit from your future postings.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am
April 10th, 2008 at 1:26 am
would you also term it as “guest blogging” if you are submitting articles to a 2nd or 3rd party - for pay or not?
thankz!
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Cheers.
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May 4th, 2008 at 3:08 am
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May 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
http://popularblogx.blogspot.com/
isn’t content the best way?
June 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am
http://andria-and-co.com
June 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
June 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
as to experiment with it, I don’t know whether it is up to the mark or has some flaws. As you are an experienced person and know much about blogging can you please suggest me how can i make my blog more helpful to other people.
thanking you..
June 30th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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July 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Sounds good to me
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