Monday, October 6, 2008

10 Effective Ways To Succeed With Your Blogs

By Uzoma Eze

Having a blog can be very challenging when you are competing with millions of blogs out there. Whether hosted as a word press blog or blogger, what is important is that you should have quality, superior content on your blog. My own experience on having a blog online can be summarized in 10 ways. If you follow these 10 secrets you're sure going to going to get to the top and have a better page rank for your blogs.

Here we go:

1. Create quality content for your blog.

Having content for your blog matters a great lot - content, they say, is king. In placing value for your blog, you must have articles that should be appealing for people to read. People like reading blogs - they can go back to and make reference to it. You should make your blog seen as a newspaper article or magazine that can drive that target audience.

2. Create A Niche For Your Blog.

Now this seems to be a very important aspect most bloggers leave out. Imagine having a blog you put up articles that have to do with several niches. What do I mean? Lets take this e.g you have a blog that talks about forex trading, the same blog is talking about weddings that same blog is posting updates on sports. Yak! That's not organized; and if you ask me that's confusing, what you should do is to have a blog site that speaks on one topic, and if you have a thousand and one ideas why not create a thousand and one blogs - it makes more sense.

3. Have keywords on your Topic.

To make your blog succeed you need to make your blog compete and stand out from other blogs You should have every topic keyword sensitive that way the search engines can crawl your blogs specific keywords here's an example, this topic is on a particular niche which is on making your blog succeed notice how many times the word blog pops up and I bet on my money so many people would visit my article and appreciate what I'm talking about, don't even get worried on how long the article will be what matters is quality.

4. Make your blog search engine optimized (SEO)

Getting your blog on search engines and making those search engines algorithms feel your website is important, something similar to creating content for your website or blog. Try to make certain features available like meta tags and the likes available its important for you to have this all important tool on your blog site, a lot of people have treated this topic in better perspective and I would encourage you to look up the search engines and get an expert to help you.

5. Sell products and promote Affiliate programs

Now for me this may be optional it all depends on you, but I've come to appreciate the fact that monetizing your blog is important. You can sell ebooks on your blog, promote affiliate programs or better still place Google Adsense or Yahoo adverts on your site, cool isn't it? I've seen people make thousands on their blog and I expect every one to do the same but haha! This important don't just sell anything on your blog site, sell content on your site, what I'm trying to say here is sell a product that talks about your blog if you have a blog that is all organizing weddings then sell wedding planners, write a book on "How to succeed in your marriage" all that stuff you get my drift don't you?

6. Create Activity On your blog.

Now this may sound funny - I've seen some blogs that have not been touched for like years and that may not sound too good for a blog. Now if you want your blog to stand out from the crowd, try to write articles at least once a week, if you have the time write like everyday, that way you bring attention to your blog.

7. Set up an autoresponder.

Now, this is a must have for any blogger, especially if you are promoting products on your blog, my advice would be give something to them for free. Let your visitor leave something behind and get something in return from you, your visitors email and first names are assets to you and make the best from it.

8. Organize events and Promos.

This sounds cool - imagine starting a group on a social network like Facebook and you organize events or promos on your blog. This would make a lot of difference for your blog, won't speak much on this but would allow you to create something out of the box for you here.

9. Participate In Online Discussions.

Join forums and discuss or take part in topics that may be of use to the community, a good example of a forum would be egusiland.com. You can hover around and discuss topics that may suit your need.

10. Post Articles and leave Comments.

Final key - post articles on article sites become a household name in your niche area visit sites like ezinearticles.com or articlevista.com. Visit other blogs within your niche and post comments on your articles that may be of interest to you.

There are so many other ways in making your blog succeed but if you follow these 10, your bound to be at the top.


Uzoma Eze is an Infopreneur and content manager, He has to his credit several websites and blogs talking about niche topics including the world famous blogs http://www.internetblogsecrets.com - forexfixedodds and his hosting company http://www.hostkonsult.com and a forum.

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