Making Your Blog Work

Many blogs are being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out from the rest. but It’s simple, People want to read good content, and with good content comes ad revenue. Well, maybe it’s not that easy…

These tips below should benefit your blog and make it more user-friendly, more easily accessible, and more content-enabled.

There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them, so here is a -short- list of tips for marketing and optimizing a blog:

 STEPS

-Use your own domain name! Having your own domain gives your blog a more brandable effect, It makes it easier for you to stand out from the rest of the blogs, Consider which is better: myblog.com or myblog.blogspot.com?

-Customize how your blog looks and fee, even a simple image header will make it work.

-Research keywords! Try to know what keywords suits best for your blog and then apply it on your blog, this is to make it more easier to find on search engines

-Ping your blog! you can use free blog pinging online tool such as pingomatic.com and pingcoat.com to ping your blog. This is to let search engines know that you have just updated your blog.

-Create Feedburner account and make a feed for your blog, this helps to build your blog's readership as many people want to read a doze of every bits when your blog is updated or when you post something on your blog.

-Setup Google acount for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission. Sitemaps let search engines know how your blog is connected and thus improving your rankings on search engines

-Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll. These are the blogs that are famous and have a lot of readers, Be part of that blog's community and then afterward, try to "show off" your blog to the readers.

-Format archived posts, related posts. Display your old blog posts on your homepage or any page, this is to help new blog readers dig to all of your blog posts

-Enable statistics for tracking especially Google Analytics. It tracks your blog visitors and make a data analysis of your blog's readers, and thus being able to know this data will help you on improving your blog.

-Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines. Submit on Blogtopsites blog directory now. It will help you get your blog discovered by other bloggers as well 

-Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog. Search for blogs or websites that welcomes free or paid press release for your blog posts.

-Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.

-Research and comment on relevant niche related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence. But be sure to comment as a human not like a robot!

-Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and of a high quality to achieve better readership for your blog.

-Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, give credits to that blogger in the comments of the post. It's more like building a readership plus your blogger profile.

-When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.

-Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you. Familiar with Digg? this will help your blog get discovered by others.

-Don't be shy! Always have the courage to talk about your blog on others, such as forums and social networking sites. This works like a free advertising for your blog.

These tips will generally help your blog from being "Just another Weblog" to an Authority and successful blog. There might be a lot of ways as well, but the tips above are the basic ways and fundamentals on making your blog work the way you want and to make it stand out from the rest of the blososphere.