Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tips To Make Your Blog The Next Big Thing

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By Daniel Will


Give your content a theme. If readers like those posts on your blog, they will be likely to come back and read more of your work. Whether you want to create a humor blog or one related to film, anyone can create a unique and interesting blog.

Social media sites offer wonderful opportunities to increase traffic to your blog site. Social media is hot on the internet, so if you're not utilizing it, you're losing out on a lot of potential visitors. If you want your blog to succeed, you'll need to post content on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.

Proofreading can not be stressed enough. If your blog has lots of mistakes, you won't have a lot of readers. That may be a bit dramatic, but it is very important that you don't depend solely upon spelling and grammar checkers, which will not catch errors that involve their/there/they're, you're/your, and so forth.

Include polls and surveys in your blog. Your readers will enjoy interacting with you via polls and surveys, and you may attract new readers using these tools. After your survey has been up for a while, you can blog about the results and your opinions about those results. The level of participation you get in your polls or surveys can help you determine whether you are accurately tapping into interesting subject matter for your readers.

To garner more interest in your blog, a great idea is to comment on other blogs. Google Reader is a excellent method for organizing other interesting but related blogs. Make sure to leave comments on them regularly, whenever you have something interesting to offer.

Try creating a different homepage for your blog. Many blogs stick with their standard template format that only shows your recent post listing, but you can add many other things to create more reader interaction. That way, you'll be more likely to be indexed by the major search engines.

Blogs with visuals are typically more successful. This can be images, graphs, polls or even interesting videos. It's easy to do, but will garner you excellent results.

Wait until you have something you want to say before you update your blog. Don't write something just to update your blog, or increase the number of articles published. Users will quickly notice if your blog seems to be a "just for you to hear yourself" type, and they won't stick around.

No matter what the purpose for your blogging, you have hopefully just garnered a lot of valuable information on how to go about it successfully. Use the ideas that work for the specific blog you are intending to write, and wine you put it online, you are making your mark on the Internet forever.




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