Many people are excited about the idea of starting their own website or blog.
A website or a blog is a set of related pages that contain text, images, audio and video.
All websites have a homepage which is the address that you use to find out more about a person, product, company or organization.
A blog on the other hand is a site used to input information to elicit a discussion.
Good blogs provide a comment section where your readers can give feedback on topics you have written about.
Interactive blogs can be used as a social networking tool.
Bloggers have the task not only to provide information but also to build social relations with other readers and bloggers.
Generating traffic and popularizing your blog can be a herculean task especially if you are new to blogging.
You might be asking yourself questions like; who will read my blog? Will the information I post in my blog be interesting? How often will I post content on my blog? And many more questions.
These kinds of questions are normal to ask and sometimes the idea of starting a blog can be intimidating given that the internet is a large ocean with many fish which you are expected to catch in order to guarantee your success.
People sometimes have this notion that the internet is some dark mysterious web with all kinds of people who do weird stuff but, nothing could be further from the truth.
The internet is just the same as the world around us with all kinds of people.
The idea is to know how to sift the wheat from the chaff.
Customers, readers are all the same whether you find them on the street or on the internet.
What sets readers apart are their behaviors.
In order to write a successful blog that readers will enjoy reading you need to understand who your readers are and the kind of information that will attract them to your blog.
Your readers will be attracted to a blog that is written well and the information posted is fresh and current.
Updating your blog content currently is the first step to building your blog traffic and making your readers loyal.
Secondly, submit your blog to search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing.
This will ensure your blog gets found by search engines that crawl for web pages to put in their search results pages.
Carrying out a thorough search engine optimization is crucial to ensuring that your blog get listed in the top 10 list of the search engine results.
Thirdly, incorporate a comment section in your blog.
This interactivity will keep your readers loyal to your blog especially if you respond to their blog comments.
Posting a comment on other people's blogs and adding your link after writing an impressive comment might draw some readers who are fascinated by your comment to visit the link to the commentator's blog.
Fourthly, incorporate an RSS feed in your blog.
This makes it easy for your readers to know when you have posted new information on your blog for them to read.
Lastly, linking is a powerful way to get your blog noticed by search engines.
This will notify other bloggers to investigate links that are linking to their sites.
These bloggers are likely to become your readers or add links of your blog to their blog sites.
Adding a track back will signify that you post content regularly hence draw more readers to your site.
Most importantly do not give up.
There is a saying that goes "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Don't give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end".
The more you practice the more you will become better at it and the more you will establish yourself as an expert in the area you are blogging.
A website or a blog is a set of related pages that contain text, images, audio and video.
All websites have a homepage which is the address that you use to find out more about a person, product, company or organization.
A blog on the other hand is a site used to input information to elicit a discussion.
Good blogs provide a comment section where your readers can give feedback on topics you have written about.
Interactive blogs can be used as a social networking tool.
Bloggers have the task not only to provide information but also to build social relations with other readers and bloggers.
Generating traffic and popularizing your blog can be a herculean task especially if you are new to blogging.
You might be asking yourself questions like; who will read my blog? Will the information I post in my blog be interesting? How often will I post content on my blog? And many more questions.
These kinds of questions are normal to ask and sometimes the idea of starting a blog can be intimidating given that the internet is a large ocean with many fish which you are expected to catch in order to guarantee your success.
People sometimes have this notion that the internet is some dark mysterious web with all kinds of people who do weird stuff but, nothing could be further from the truth.
The internet is just the same as the world around us with all kinds of people.
The idea is to know how to sift the wheat from the chaff.
Customers, readers are all the same whether you find them on the street or on the internet.
What sets readers apart are their behaviors.
In order to write a successful blog that readers will enjoy reading you need to understand who your readers are and the kind of information that will attract them to your blog.
Your readers will be attracted to a blog that is written well and the information posted is fresh and current.
Updating your blog content currently is the first step to building your blog traffic and making your readers loyal.
Secondly, submit your blog to search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing.
This will ensure your blog gets found by search engines that crawl for web pages to put in their search results pages.
Carrying out a thorough search engine optimization is crucial to ensuring that your blog get listed in the top 10 list of the search engine results.
Thirdly, incorporate a comment section in your blog.
This interactivity will keep your readers loyal to your blog especially if you respond to their blog comments.
Posting a comment on other people's blogs and adding your link after writing an impressive comment might draw some readers who are fascinated by your comment to visit the link to the commentator's blog.
Fourthly, incorporate an RSS feed in your blog.
This makes it easy for your readers to know when you have posted new information on your blog for them to read.
Lastly, linking is a powerful way to get your blog noticed by search engines.
This will notify other bloggers to investigate links that are linking to their sites.
These bloggers are likely to become your readers or add links of your blog to their blog sites.
Adding a track back will signify that you post content regularly hence draw more readers to your site.
Most importantly do not give up.
There is a saying that goes "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Don't give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end".
The more you practice the more you will become better at it and the more you will establish yourself as an expert in the area you are blogging.
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