Making a Successful BlogWritten by: yourcinderella | This article will introduce you to blogs and teach you how to make yours successful.

What is a blog?

A blog is contraction of the online term "weblog". It is a website that contains thoughts, insights and views of the writer. He or She may also share his/her personal stories in his/her blog posts.

A personal blog can be considered as the description of what kind of people we are. It often reflects the author's life in the real world. So in order for people to have a good impression of you and for them to keep on visiting your page, you must keep your blog site as attractive and nice as possible. A professional blog, however, is conventionally a blog that stays relevant to a specific topic that the writer, organization, or company specializes with. But regardless of the blog's topic, a blog is a mode of communication from the writer to the readers.

Making your Blog Popular

To keep those visitors coming, let's start with your website first. Top 3 factors to consider:

1. Layout - It depends upon your website's theme. If you offer free graphics, then make your layout colorful and kawaii. If you love to talk about politics, don't design your header with lots of hello kitty images. Instead, make your site look professional. If it's a personal blog, then design it according to your taste. Just make sure that your layout is neat and attractive. The navigation should be visible. Make sure that everything is organized because no one wants to browse in a messy website.

2. Text Content - Of course you can talk about anything you want, it's your blog! But make sure that your way of writing will encourage your readers to read your posts periodically (to come back and follow your blog) and also, write as if you are actually talking to your readers. (Tip: You may highlight or bold a sentence or a phrase that will surely get them reading.) Don't give a super hefty serving of your everyday life. Remember, you are not in show business, some people don't care if you broke a nail. :)

3. Resources - Offer something. Like free hosting, free graphics, free themes etc. The links back to your site from those using these services will be a great help, trust me.

Expanding Your Blog

Here are some things that can help get your blog noticed by more people.

1. Be a regular commentator of various bloggers so that they will more likely comment you back on your blog.
2. You can also set up link exchanges with other bloggers.
3. Join social networking sites. Websites like Twitter and Facebook can help your readers follow your blog updates.
4. Promote your blog url. One way is by joining and being active in forums and including your blog url in your signature.
5. Invest in paid advertising. There are lots of free advertisement oppurtunities out there, though, but one thing you should make sure of is that the website where your ad is placed receives a large amount of "unique" hits/visits per day, regardless of it's paid or free advertisements.
6. This is the most important, BE NICE AND DON'T BITCH AROUND. Don't bash other bloggers through your posts. What goes around comes around right back at you.
7. Lastly, join the IceCaves.net Topsites so that you can track your blog's growth. (:

   

| Written by: yourcinderella | Added: Jul 19 2009 | Last Modified: Dec 21 2009 | Views: 2,204 | (Log in to rate) |

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