Blogging is one rewarding thing you can do online and it’s the easiest way to start your own online marketing business. Fortunately, just anyone can publish his own blog. With plenty of free blogging tools and resources online, anyone with half a brain and the simple desire to success can start their own successful money making blog. Enough said. I believe my introduction here gives you an insight into the opportunity blogging represents.
Now, let’s get started on the seven keys to making your blog successful. Don’t have a blog? Not to worry, I will show you how to get one. This pieces is for everyone who desire to build a successful money making blog. Either you are an established blogger with followship or just starting out with your first blog or only thinking of starting your first blog, this write up is for you. Here I reveal the same strategies used by top bloggers that make them successful.
OK, you don’t have a blog, right? Here is how you can easily start one. Go to www.blogger.com and sign up for your free blog. There are actually many blogging platforms that you can use. I recommend blogger not because it’s the best but because it’s what I use and I think it’s more easier for beginners especially if you are thinking of monitising your blog with google adsense. Whichever platform you use don’t really matter, just get your blog set up.
Now that you have a blog set up, here the seven keys that will help make success of your blog.
Key #1. Define Your Passion: Making your blog successful take time and a lot of energy, and so you will need to chose a niche that you’re passionate about and try to stick to that niche. Most successful bloggers blog on a particular niche and from the things they do you know they are passionate about their blog niche. You need a topic that drives you and keep you working on your blog even when nothing seems to be happening.
Key #2. Provide Value With Your Blog: This is probably the most important factor in creating a successful blog. You’ve have it said again and again that content is king. And that true. You have to provide some value to your readers for them to want to read your blog and come back for more. Visit zacjohnson.com, john chow blog or my own quotes blog at http://www.whynotaskmillionaire.blogger.com and you will sees what I mean by creating value. Create something that add value to your reader. The more value you create the more people that will notice your site, recommend it to friends and link to it. And you will get more and more new and regular readers..
Key #3. Learn From More Experienced Bloggers. One of the smartest thing you can do when starting out blogging is to pick a few expert in your niche and learn from them everything you can. John Chow, Zac Johnson, Charlie Page are just a few experts I follow. I visit their blogs almost on a daily basis to see what I can learn from those blogging gurus. And the true is that most of my blogging success is as a result of learning from those experts. I won’t make any recommendation for you, simply do a search on google for the top bloggers in your niche and start visiting their blog to see what you can learn from them that will help you in making your own blog successful.
Key #4. First Impressions Matter. Make your blog unique and interesting to your visitors. If you can’t afford a blog design service, look for a great free theme to use. Make sure your blog is functional, easy on the eyes and set up to be successful. Use powerful description that makes people want to stay on your blog. Check out the description on the top blogs on your niche and create something similar. John Chow say ‘ The miscellaneous ramblings of a dot com mogul ,’ Charlie Page have,’ Internet marketing for the real world’ and on my quote blog I have, ‘Life changing quotes inspired by millionaires.’ Learned something? Make you blog interesting for people to want hang out on it.
Key #5. Blog Consistently. This is a good advice for you. Write on your blog consistently. By blogging consistently you are telling your readers that your blog is active and they can always come back for fresh write up’s. People look up to your blog for fresh ideas in your blogging niche knowing you’re always going to put up something new on your blog and help you build a readership for your blog..
Key #6. Promote, Promote, Promote: Perhaps, one of the reason most people failed in blogging is the marketing. The truth be said, getting traffic to your blog is not an over night thing, it takes plenty of work. But the good thing is that you can do it. One of the sure way to promote your blog is to write quality articles and submit them to article directories. These directories are great place for readers and it will help in improving the popularity and traffic for your blog. A lot of blogs and small online publications pull RSS feeds from these directories; by being present on these directories, chances are high that your blog will also be featured on smaller online publications and this means free traffic to your blog. Take time to look around this blog http://www.whynotstartworkingonline.blogspot.com you will great ideas that will help you start generating traffic to your blog.
Key #7. Encourage Readers Participation: Great contents are wonderful, but you can do more. Find way to promote your contents and encourage participation in it from not only the community which you are a part of but also from every reader. In fact it is very important to encourage interaction from readers as it is to improve the number of readers sharing their views, thereby not only increasing the quality of your blog but also increasing the number of readers for your blog.
So, there you have it, the seven keys to making your blog successful, start working them into your blog and start making your blog a success.
Success!
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