100 Tips How To Make Your Blog Popular
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Here are 100 tips how to make your blog popular:
Blog Planning:
1. Check if your future blog niche will be profitable
2. When you choose blog niche follow your passion
3. Start blogging if you can do it seven days a week and on vacations
4. Select good domain name
5. Give your blog an appropriate title
6. Install WordPress for your blogging platform, it’s the best
7. Choose a clear theme that allows visitors to be able easy to read your articles
8. Test your blog under most popular browsers
9. Get a short and easy to remember name for yourself
10. Make a list of the best 10 blogs in your niche and try being like them and even better
Blog Posts Tips:
11. Post quality content
12. Post about something interesting to you
13. Write positive articles
14. Write something funny
15. Use short and easy to remember post titles
16. Write useful posts
17. share secrets with your reader
18. Include your personal opinion in your posts
19. Interview other bloggers and post the interview
20. Review other websites and blogs
21. Become an expert in your niche
22. Post videos that will help your readers learn something new
23. Share your hopes about your blog with your visitor
24. Get inspired by other bloggers
25. Ask questions and incite discussions
26. Do not write too long posts
27. Do not write too short posts
28. Use photos in your posts
29. Use striking images in your posts
30. Do not steal images
31. Use screenshots or parts of them as images for your blog posts
32. Do not use huge images, not everybody has a fast connection
33. Use thumbnails for bigger images
34. Do not automate your blogging efforts
Blog Comments Tips:
35. Encourage your visitors to share their opinions in comments
36. Reply to all your comments
37. critic comments are your friends, too. They show you what annoys your readers
38. Always be kind, it makes you a professional blogger
39. Allow trackbacks and dofollow links in comments
40. Congratulate your blog’s top commentators occasionally
41. Know your audience and offer it what it wants
Other Blogging Tips:
42. Put a nice RSS subscribe feed button to your blog
43. Offer a full feed
44. Add a blogroll of blogs that are similar to yours
45. Ask questions to your readers
46. Create polls
47. Do not add too much adds in your blog
48. Add a newsletter.
49. Explain what RSS is for people new to the concept
50. Always try to make your blog (design, widgets, etc.) better
51. Use a striking avatar
Branding your Blog:
52. Add an unforgettable logo in your header
53. Distribute T-shirts or other merchandise with your blog name on it
54. Buy a paid review from any famous blog
55. Get featured in a print magazine
56. Promote your posts, not your website
57. Use Feedburner
58. Celebrate your and your blog birthday with your readers
59. Put your blog’s advertise in the local newspaper
60. Write an e-book and allow to your visitors to download it for free
61. Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization
62. Build free online tools that your visitors may find useful
63. Make a sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car
64. Start an auction and let people bid for something useful
65. Make contact with your local visitors and organize bloggers’ meet
66. Brand your blog with a catchy phrase along with the logo
67. Use your logo and avatar through the Net
Be Social:
68. Be on twitter, ex. http://twitter.com/devtheweb
69. Tweet This button after your posts
70. Create a Facebook Fan Page and Include its widget in your blog, example of it you can see in the bottom right of the page, you can enjoy it too :)
71. Socialize with other bloggers and add them as friends at Facebook
72. Submit your blog post to social bookmarking sites
73. Target niche social news sites
74. Post comments in other blogs similar to yours
75. Do not post comments only for marketing purposes
76. Join Forums from your niche and be useful to the people there
77. Join Yahoo! Answers and add a link on your website as an answer
78. Get on StumbleUpon, too. it brings huge targeted traffic if you do it right
79. Submit only good stuff in social bookmarking sites, so people get interested in you and visit your blog
80. Suggest your blog to your friends and let them do some work for you
81. Submit others blog posts to your favorite social bookmarking site and vote there for them
82. Send Email to other bloggers if they have “Page not found” or other problem in their blogs
83. Contribute guest post on other blogs
84. Do not annoy other bloggers, contact them only if it really makes sense
Blog SEO Tips:
85. Submit your blog info to blog directories
86. Use Google Analytics to your blog
87. Use blog communities like BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog
88. Use CLIQ to be displayed on similar blogs you like
89. Ping Google Blog Search and Technorati
90. Link to others to get linked
91. Don’t do conventional SEO on your blog
92. Do not copy-paste content from other websites or blogs
93. Learn Other SEO tips and use them to your blog
Most Important Tips:
94. Put beauty in everything you do for your blog
95. Learn something new every day, that will make you an interesting writer
96. Be open minded. Let everything and anything inspire you
97. Respect your readers and other bloggers
98. Be patient
99. Be yourself
100. Don’t give up
Well, That’s all. I hope you’ve found something useful in the tips above :)
12 Comments to “100 Tips How To Make Your Blog Popular”
Weird useful!
Must read for newbie bloggers, especially who want to make good money with blogging.
Thanks a ton for this list I have been struggling for the past couple of months. But I shall implement this and see how it improves my site.
Thanks again you can never go wrong with tips.
Each and everyone of use can use a little help now and then.
thanks a lot fro the timely help!
good and useful points!
I think i have found the best way to make my blogs popular.
Though I do not agree with some of the tips, i would stick to these useful points!
Yes indeeed these are very good points and I do make not eof them. Bookmarking.
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Great list! I’ve read it twice now. I have a lot of work to do now! Thanks for your advice.
haha, the point about “do not write too long posts”, “do not write too short posts” are rather confusing. What is long post? What is short post? Even popular websites such as Ezinearticles, and Hubpages have different guidelines.
Very useful and common sense stuff. Thanks. – Lela
Never give up. That’s a biggie. I’ve done it many times, but only when you don’t give up, can you succeed
What’s “CLIQ”:
88. Use CLIQ to be displayed on similar blogs you like
Very nice list.. I must pay attention to some of “rules”..
this is the article that i found more useful then others.thnx
eveything is describe clearly.
its really a brilliant list.This will help every bloggers in the biosphere no doubt…….