Build a successful blog & stay on top – tactics to increase blog traffic!

October 25 2012

People create blogs to share their thoughts with the world or the similar communities that they belong to or are interested in. A person writing a blog is called a “blogger”. A blogger writes about various themes and topics: from the typical day-to-day situations, fashion, news or about the growth of the technical and scientific updates. The visitors of the blog usually after reading the content leave their comments and thus make the blog more interesting and valuable. In the beginning they did not have a defined name, but their purpose was more or less the same as that of contemporary blogs. For these reasons the most effective way to share your ideas and to advertise your web page is to create your own weblog or just blog.

How to start your own blog?

Luckily, starting a blog is an easy task hence you do not need to know anything about web development or similar to start blogging. It is easy as pie – create and manage your blog using some of the free blog site tools that are available nowadays. Where to search for?
Well of course Google.com is the right place for the best and fast search queries, and by that I mean that you can always use a ready-made blog tool such as Google’s free blog community – Blogger.com

How to set up a blog using Blogger.com?
Google owns blogger so if you have a gmail account you can use that account as login information and sign into blogger instantly. If you don’t have a gmail account then click on the “create a blog” button and google account will be created for you. You can use the email address you have as long as it already exists and fill in the form that will open. Enter a password and remember it so it is unique and a strong one, then your display name is going to be the name that will show up at the end of every post that you will post in your blog, fill in the captions, accept the terms of service and click on the continue button.
This way a google account will be created and you’ll be able to log into blogger.
Once you login you can begin immediately creating your blog. The first thing you need to do is title it and the best for your title is to use the primary keyword as your blog title , because Blogger is Google’s possession and it gets crawled by search engines more frequently.
Therefore you want to use your keywords, after the blog address click on the check availability to check if this one is going to be available or not. The next step is to choose a template, from the new Design Templates known as Dynamic views, and you can see how the template looks before you can decide on one.

Your blog has being created – You can simply begin typing!

Create unique content blogs and offer to the readers quality blogs that they will appreciate. You will benefit from it be sure!
Be very creative and write blogs that will bring traffic to your site and help the readers stay on the page longer, by this you can increase traffic and get recognized as a good blogger and grow your PR.
The Blogger.com has many built-in functionalities such as: it allows you to publish & edit 100 blogs per account in HTML editor, an archive of the blog posts, add video to your post, upload an image next to your post, it provides bloggers free hosting, you can create links within your content, hyperlink to other websites, include primary & secondary keywords, read comments from visitors, share the blog post to social media, offer entertainment for the visitors such as subscription forms or adding various gadgets and games on the blog sidebar, it can offer a customization of your theme by changing the colours of the template, monetize the blog or put AdSense displays next to the blog on the sidebar and many more.
Best, by my opinion is the Google share button, where you can share your blog posts with one click, continue sharing by helping your readers easily re-share your content, make your posts more discoverable with hashtags and mentions, discuss over the blog posts with your readers in a Hangout, See who +1’d your post or watch how your posts get shared with Google+ Ripples.

Another commercial platform with even better features than Blogger, is the WordPress.org, the largest self-hosted blogging tool, and an open-source project used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
The platform you should NOT avoid if you need a professional blog or if you like being special in everything you do and write!

Hence if you have a webhost and a little time you can download the WordPress script, you can customize it and start using it not only as a blogging system but as a full Content Management System – CMS involving all of the plugins, unlimited themes and widgets.
It will sound like a promotion piece but WordPress is limited only by your imagination and it’s FREE!
Many are the features offered by this open source platform but one of the must make attention is that – You are free to do whatever you like with the WordPress code, modify it in any way or use it for commercial projects without any licensing fees, extend it or make any changes that you need . That is the beauty of the free WordPress software, not only by price but also free by having complete control over it. Next in the big line are: the full standard compliance, the whole WordPress code is compliant with the standards of W3C, the links that allow you to create, maintain and update any number of blogrolls, it comes with a full theme system with just a single click and offers the possibility to have multiple themes with totally different looks or the opportunity to have e different design every day, the Trackback and the Pingback cross-blog tools, it gives an opportunity to visitors to comment on the blog posts, full user registration, spam protection, password protected posts or the possibility to have private posts which are viewable only by their authors, easy installation, navigation and upgrades , easy importing, intelligent text formatting, bookmarklets, blog by email, excerpts, multiple categories to articles, multiple authors privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users. There you have the choice to choose between WordPress.org blogs and their service wordpress.com another one offered by the same team of experts, but more simple and with less features. If you want to keep it simple and only for a circle of certain audit and you are a begginer this service will do for you!
Read more about this on my new blog post “Continue with blogging and sharing great content for your auditorium!”
To carry on with the basics of the best way to become a blogger except the basics like: creating a valuable content for your blog, making the content on the blog SEO friendly, letting the audience to see the real of you, treat your visitors like human – write for the human and not for search engines, you need to pay attention to some other details that will much help you and your recognition by the audience in the future.

Social media principles for saying out loud you have blog post to share!

Bringing traffic and making the readers stay on -page is an art that combines more progressive practices. As you refine these techniques you will slowly grow your blog and down the long run dominate in your subject.

Participate in the communities where your audience gathers! – It is very easy to figure out where your audience can be found on the web. In fact, you probably already know some blogs, forums, websites and other communities where discussions and content are being posted. You can always do some easy expansion using a web-based tool like the Ad Planner.

Advertise yourself – I believe in outpost in Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ that are serving as a first point of contact for spreading the information. The primary goal is to get folks to come to your blog or your main website and never forget Make-It-Fun! Entertain engage and lastly sell! Some other niche communities can do the same thing: StumbleUpon, deviantART, Pinterest, Tumblr, delicious, HR.com.
While we are on this subject on advertising your content a new future developed by Google is the authorship markup and web search – a way to connect authors with their content on the web, read about this more on the official Google Search blog.

Add Graphics, Images, Photos and Artworks – If you have the designer in yourself, who can make graphics, take photos, illustrate or just create funny sketches in MS Paint, you should leverage that talent on your blog. By uploading and hosting images (or using the service of Flickr to embed your images with licensing requirements), in this way you will create another traffic source for your blog via Image Search. This will help and improve the user’s engagement and enjoyment experience on you blog and can help the growth of new readers in the future.

Join Question-and-Answer Sites – People usually come to the web searching for something or for some answers. That is a reason more why sites that future Q & A has become very popular. Sites like Answers.com or Quora. com offer big opportunity to join discussions that are important and don’t have many answers or the opposite are on their home page, are of big importance, attract many visitors and by that offering your answer that will provide a significant solution to the problem, providing relevant links and information, you will get the attention of few which are in this discussion. Or you can always go after questions that belong to your industry and become the best person that will provide the answers in order to grow your publicity.

Frequently Reference Your Posts and Those of Others – Reference the content of others. Guest blogging is a great way to spread your brand to people, who have never seen your work before, and it can be useful in earning links and references back to your site, which can attract traffic. Regularly seek out and invite other people to come write posts on your blog, it is an easy way for you to get audience when you create value for the readers by finding new content and perspectives. You will also be getting new readers because the guest blogger will probably tell his audience to come and read their work on you blog.

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