How to Market Your Blog: Part One

Blogs are so common these days, it's becoming extremely hard to get your own work noticed by the masses. The following procedures and techniques will establish insane amounts of traffic to your blog, and help you generate a nice income while you're at it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Blog Account
• Internet connectivity

1. Develop great content. Now, let's break it down: content is not just good information. This can range from having your articles professionally written to maintaining your site fresh and updated. If a post is written in a more casual format, it is fine as well, just make sure it fits the type of message your blog is trying to deliver. A site about jokes and pranks may deserve a laid-back style of writing, while a more conservative one needs to be free of grammatical errors.

2. Talking about content, blogs containing pictures are essential to the reader's eyes. Pictures have a beautiful, unspoken language that simply draws an individual's attention. It's an immediate attraction that serves as great eye candy from the usual text-only entries.

3. Focus on the blog layout. Try to avoid those overly used templates found just about anywhere. Readers will more likely stick to your blog if everything about it is unique...and yes, that includes any visual enhancements. Get to know your HTML/CSS, and tweak your blog to the fullest.

4. Do you have any knowledge on something in particular? Well, this is your chance to prove it! If you happen to be a mechanic, a computer genius, a real estate expert, and so on, then share your knowledge with the world. In the end, you will be quickly recognized as the Guru at any given subject. People will come to you to ask questions, and check out your latest entries.

5. Get connected! You have been socializing all your life in school, the office and the streets. Well, how about if you make connections with other fellow bloggers? Visit high-ranked blogs and sites, comment on their posts, and develop a unique partnership.
   
   Furthermore, if a blog has a similar topic to one you had created in the past, feel free to comment on it, and link back to your own work/blog (as long as the terms on external sites allows you to cross link.) If that certain site/blog generates a huge amount of traffic, you will have potentially hit the jackpot when people click on your own link and see what you have to offer.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep your content updated!
• If you need some time off, do not just stop posting and vanish. Leave a comment at the top of your blog simply stating your reason for the lack of posts (such as the blog undergoing maintenance, and so on). This way, people will keep coming back to your site and await your safe return.
• Stay tuned for more on marketing your blog; this is only an introduction.

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[chaztech]

on 9/5/2009 Nice, would like to see more about making money with blogs.

[teachermom2]

on 2/12/2009 Thank you for the information. I am just starting out with this, so I'm gathering up as much advice as I can!

[Kaoru]

on 11/9/2008 Great advice! I will definitely use instructions for success with my blog.

[Alisiane]

on 10/13/2008 Networking and blogging are the new resumes. People can resist all they want,but it ends up costing them valuable exposure and puts them several steps behind their competition. Good points.

[Miragi]

on 10/11/2008 Excellent advice, thanks!