| Top 5 Secrets To Blogging |
Alvin Phang
Jan 9th, 2007
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I noticed when I teach my students there are few guidelines that many people fail to do for their blogs so I decided to write an article on my top 5 secrets to creating a good blog!
No. 1 Secret - CONTENT IS KING
Yesh, you hear me right. Content is the most important in creating any blog. Without good content, will readers actually bother to come back to read your site? Not only must you have good content but it must be off quality content and do not be too concern about how your blog layout looks like! Anyway people come to your site is for the content not to see your nice graphics =P
Be as honest as you get in your articles. Do not be afraid to share your ideas in your comments, in fact the more honest and open I was in my articles I realized there were more people sharing my information around the Internet.
No. 2 Secret - Find A Good Niche Topic
Before, you go out there setup your domain or blog. You first have to decide what topic you want your blog to talk about? Let’s say you are good at playing soccer and you want to focus on writing about soccer related topics. Find a good niche market on the internet to find out what people like to know about soccer and create a blog or site based on soccer only!
Example, my site www.gathersuccess.com it focus mainly on helping others to improve on their sites with topics related to Internet Marketing. Why niche topic? Well the more targeted your topic is the more targeted your readers on your site will be. Meaning those who visit your site often are the people that are generally interested to know about the topic you want to share!
So like me, I talk most of the time of topics related on Internet Marketing . Have you ever seen me write an article about dog food and soccer?
No. 3 Secret - Forums
Go to forums! Join communities that are related to your topics and share information in the forums to share put your signature link in the forums to get more information to your site.
No. 4 Secret - Install Feedburner
If you have a blog, and you are not getting index by Google. You must install FeedBurner to your site. FeedBurner will help you announce to search engines what you have posted on to your blog to allow RSS readers to subsruibe to your site and at the same time the search engine will index your entries on your site! More about Feedburner here
No. 5 Secret - Register with Technorati.com
Because my website is not only a site but it is also a blog, I can submit my site to Blog Search Engine. One very famous Blog search engine you must know is Technoarti.com. I got free traffic coming from Technoarti.com every time I post something up onto my blog. It VERY useful. Register your blog at www.Technoarti.com.
These are my top 5 secrets that I use and implemented on to my site, so I hope you do the same to yours too =) If you have not started a blog yet and have no club on where to start I have actually created a set of videos to help you create a blog in just 10 minutes at www.blogcashguide.com . Do take a look it’s 100% FREE =)
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To me secret number 3 onwards is pretty important. Even though u have an excellent and elegant piece of writing, without u marketing/advertising/telling people that u write an article, nobody will know what u wrote.
Secret number 3 onwards is a way to inform to everyone in cyberspace what u have written and where they can view ur article.
For those of u who are having problems doing secret 4 and 5, i strongly suggest trying number 3. Thats the most easiest and fastest way to generate traffic.
Here’s a hint for u. Choose a forum site which have alot of people viewing the forum everyday.
You can easily find these in google.
[search box: type *related topic* forum]
To narrow down to just singapore sites, click on the pages from singapore button.
Cheers!
Shah
Hi Alvin,
You leave out Google Blog Search. Google Blog Search almost tops Technorati
May be it does now.
I wrote a discussion about Google Blog Search in my blog, http://aldianprakoso.com/2007/01/19/how-your-blog-can-be-found-by-more-than-21000-people-at-once/
Nice tip.. thanks Aldian.. write your article.. actually in fact.. I do once in a while get hits from there too =) really useful =)