These days when online market has turned into a giant monster and is attracting money lovers to start an online business, it is blogging which enjoys being on top of the list. Although there are trillions of rich income ways, there are only a few you can trust on, and blogging is surely, one of the most reliable one.
It is certainly true too that once you establish your online empire correctly, you are no far from huge monthly revenue by running your business, all yourself. However, Blogging can surely be a tough business if you do not know how to add success ingredients in this industry and there is likely any chance of earning even a dollar from your blog posts by the end of the day.
Just like painting, writing and singing, Blogging is an art and the man best at it, takes the title and the price money home. If you are a blogger or wants to be, you must know the significance of traffic which is actually responsible for bringing in the returns of your hard work as a blogger.
Here are 20 must-follow tips that you should take care of to make your blog popular so that you can turn your blog into a real-big business.
1) Attractive Blog name
Names play an important role, isn’t it? The better the eye-catching stuff you will offer your visitors, the more are the chances that they will love what you are offering them. Think of a meaningless blog name which hardly reveals anything about its niche. It is rare to expect any progress.
Choose an attractive name for your blog, because after all, it is something that your blog and you would be identified with.
2) Professional blog template
If you go through some professional blogs like Mashable.com, TechCrunch.com or cnet.com, you will notice that all of these blogs own a decent, professional and simple template.
There are no second thoughts about the fact that every business has its own customs to follow and just like you need to dress-up formally in your workplace, even a professional blog should be dressed up that way (if you are not running a funny blog anyway).
Always keep in view your potential visitors before choosing any template for your blog.
3) Simple Blog Layout
You need to remember that your audience is visiting your page to read your content so it’s better to make things easier for them. Always keep background colors light so that it really doesn’t make reading difficult.
4) Design a blog logo
When you plan to play it professional; then take care of all the rituals that are affiliated to a qualified blogging business. Design a logo exclusively for your blog which will then represent your blog in the online medium.
5) Learn SEO
Search Engine Optimization is an essential element for a blog to earn respect out of billions of blogs that exist. The traffic that search engines sent to your blog is an actual organic traffic and if you learnt how to get into the good books of search engine robots, you can expect a luxurious life waiting for you.
6) Take care of Post length
Do not forget that your article on your blog in not something like your status post on Facebook. You need to take care of the post length which should be of minimum 300 words. Not doing so will lead you in a difficult situation.
7) Post daily at least!
Even an empire with a lazy boss dooms sooner or later, so you can imagine how your inconsistency can diminish you newly build blog’s image.
Set up a routine and make sure your visitors do not go empty hands.
8) Work on images.
We have been listening a lot on this that pictures speak more than the words can. However, images can often be perceived differently too. It is highly recommended to work on introduction images and make sure that they reveal 60% of the idea that your post revolves around.
9) Take your own screenshots
Although there is hardly anyone who cares about it now, but the fact remains a fact that using images that are owned by other blogs having a copyright over them is a crime and violating the laws here can make you land in a serious legal issue if the owner sues you for using his content.
Always try to take your own screenshots if sharing tutorials or design your images to give them a shade of ownership.
10) Keep your readers involved
The moment you will start valuing your readers, you will see that they will start relying on your posts. Keep interacting with them through your write-ups.
11) Write List posts
If you go through the shares made by professional bloggers, you will notice that they are often write list posts like top 10 , 20 best, etc., such topics bring real huge traffic.
12) Share your posts on Social media
Whether it be Facebook, Google + or twitter, social media websites hold a lot of readers that might be interested to know what you have to share. Always share your work on social networking sites.
13) Use Keywords
Refined keywords play an important role in attracting traffic and also help to make your blog popular.
14) Recheck your posts
Always proofread your content before posting them because once your publish it and a reader catches a mistake of yours, he would never trust your blog as a powerful resource.
15) Offer RSS feeds
Always give an option on your blog to get subscribed via mails. People who are busy to visit your blog daily, can subscribe for its RSS feeds and can still stay connected.
16) Reply to comments
Readers who have queries or suggestions for you often comment on your posts, never neglect them and try answering them the best way possible.
17) Use simple fonts
Blogs with difficult layout or difficult font styles suffer from lack of traffic. Try to keep simple fonts for content.
18) Keep backup drafts ready
As stated above, your consistency plays an important role in making your blog a hit. However, being a sole owner of the treasury and work, together, there are chances that you might not make it someday so try to keep some draft posts ready that you can schedule for days you are busy. Things will go great till you have some quality content to offer to your readers.
19) Focus on quality
Why would my readers read this post basically? Keep questioning yourself about it and you will then surely come up with something that will meet their needs.
20) Never Give up
Trying is the only ladder that takes you somewhere you want to see yourself. It can be a tough beginning initially but following the above shared tips would definitely make a difference. Keep trying and try to bring out the best in you to make your blog popular!
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