This is in no way a science or guarantee; it's
simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success.
Set your blog to Send Pings. When this setting is activated, your blog will be
included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as
other blog-related services.
Activate Your Navbar. Do
this and you might start to see the effects right away! One of the features on
the Blogger Navbar is a button called NextBlog - click it to visit the
next Navbar-enabled blog.
Install Email This Post. If
you use Email This Post on your blog, people will be able to forward your
posts to friends. This may not have an immediate impact on your site stats but
it enables others to publicize your blog for you.
Turn on Post Pages. By publishing
every post as its very own web page with Post Pages, you ensure that your entries are
way more link-able and more attractive to search engines.
Turn on your site feed. When
people subscribe to your site feed in their newsreaders, they're very likely going to read your post.
Add your blog to Blogger's listings. When
you add your blog to our listings it shows up in Nextblog, Recently Updated, and other
places. It's like opting-in to traffic.
Write quality content and do it well. If
your "style" is bad writing, worse grammar, no punctuation, and an
ugly design, that might be okay for a niche crowd. But the idea here is to
achieve mass appeal, so fix yourself up a bit.
Publish regular updates. Simple:
the more you blog, the more traffic you'll get.
Think of your audience. A
good way to build an audience is to speak to one in particular. When you keep
your audience in mind, your writing gains focus. Focus goes a long way toward
repeat visitors.
Keep search engines in mind. There
are a few things you can do to make your blog more search engine friendly. Use post titles and post page archiving. This will automatically give
each of your post pages an intelligent name based on the title of your post.
Also, try to be descriptive when you blog. A well crafted post about something
very specific can end up very near the top results of a search.
Keep your posts and paragraphs short. Strive
for succinct posts that pump pertinent new information into the blogosphere and
move on. Keep it short and sweet so visitors can pop in, read up, and click on.
Put your blog URL in your email signature. Think of how many forwarded emails you've seen in your
day, and just imagine the possibilities.
Sumbit your address to blog search sites and directories. People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on
their list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex, Popdex, and any other site of that ilk you
come across.
Link to other blogs. Links are the
currency of the blogosphere and it takes money to make money so start linking.
Install a blogroll. It's a very
simple yet effective social networking scheme and it has the same result as a
simple link if not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for
a blogroll and get that link-list going.
Be an active commenter. This
is in the same vein as linking. Most comment systems also provide a way for you
to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least. So if
you feel inspired, leave a comment or two in your blog travels. It behooves
you.
Enable Following on your blog. Following a is a great way to keep your friends updated on the latest activity on
your blog. New blogs will have this blog feature enabled by default, but for
older blogs you will have to enable it from the Layout | Page
Elements tab.
Blog on! :-D
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