Secrets to Successful Blogging part-2
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Keep the blog updated on a regular basis. Visitors will not return if you do not do so, and they will move on to another site that is updated more frequently. You should remember to keep your blog updated on a regular basis. Many beginners are afraid of not being able to keep up with their blogs on a regular basis. If your blog is interesting enough, allow your followers to keep it updated by posting their own personal thoughts and sharing stories, so you don't have to do it all yourself..f..
Pay attention to what your readers are doing. Always pay attention to what your followers have to say and try to figure out what they were looking for when they came across your blog. Concentrate on that theme, and consider expanding it by enabling visitors to discuss new facets of that theme.
Keep it short and sweet – You don't need material that takes hours to read; people prefer to skim a blog for fast tidbits of useful knowledge, and if you post materials that are complicated or take a long time to read, you'll definitely lose them.
To make the blog more visually pleasing, you can add some creative work or images. Picasa and other blog picture managers are freely accessible on the Internet to achieve this.
If your blog has interesting, original content, bloggers might decide to add links to it on their web sites and comment on your suggested topic. By gaining back-links to your blog from other web sites, your web site will place higher within search engine queries, thus boosting your link popularity.
Announce the launch of any new blog with press releases. Free publicity through press releases are powerful tools for increasing incoming traffic. Search engines love press releases and it gives them a good reason to spider and to index your site quickly.
Include free downloadable viral reports on your blog to turbo-charge visitor traffic and build a subscriber/viewer base quickly.
In order to simplify the creating and updating process of a blog, take advantage of the many blogging tools and software readily available, a number of them are free. Blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type helps you update a blog easily. There are even free blog generators such as Blogger which allow you to host your content on Googles servers without having to install any software or obtain a domain and host content.
Offer to inform readers of your blog with free email management services like Feedblitz (if you dont have an email list management solution) in addition to offering RSS feeds for subscription. Readers and visitors can be kept updated of any new information being added to your blog without having to check the site constantly.
To get your site indexed easily by the search engines, use blog and ping. You can draw search engine spiders to a blog by notifying common ping servers controlled by blog search services like Google Blog Search. A blog can be set up to automatically ping specific websites. Adding the Pingomatic service to the sites to ping in the blog app, which pings several common ping servers at once, is a simple way to do this.
Finally, to increase your web traffic and connection visibility, apply to common, high-quality blog directories like Feedster, Technorati, Blogstreet, and Best of the Web Blog Directory.
If you respect these rules you will most likely have a successful blog, and you will be rewarded in the process. Ask a SEO consultant for further information and assistance if you are stuck for ideas to promote your new blog.