by nissa_amas_katoj

Created on: November 30, 2008

Do you want more traffic to your blog? We all do. There are a lot of websites which offer to help you boost traffic to your blog- for a price. But there are some more basic steps you can take to make your blog more popular.

First, review your blog. Write down, in one sentence, what your blog is about. Is it difficult? You may have too many topics on one blog. A reader interested in your political articles may not be interested in your articles on crochet and on wildlife photography. You may need to split your blog into two or three blogs with fewer topics each.

Should you go for popular topics in your blog or uncommon ones? With the common topics you may have more interested potential readers, but you may have more competition than you bargained for. With an uncommon topic you may actually generate more traffic because of the reduced competition. But the most important thing when choosing your blog topics is to find some things you are passionate about.

What does your blog look like? The worst problem is when your advertising is too obtrusive. Your reader will accept some advertising, but when your blog looks like more advertising than content, you are in trouble.

How often do you post to your blog? One or two posts a day is good, ten or twenty a day will overwhelm the reader. (If you normally write ten or twelve blog posts a day, have several blogs or perhaps convert your other blog-post ideas into Helium articles.) At the other end of the scale, you should try to post to your blog at least once a week. Regular posting to a blog builds readership.

Once you are sure the quality of your blog is as good as you can make it, start making friends with other bloggers. Visit other blogs and leave a friendly comment there. Write about the interesting blog posts of others on your blog, including a link to the blog in question. Start a blogroll in your blog sidebar featuring all of your favorite blogs. Blogger now has an easy widget for doing this. Do all of this in a charitable spirit of genuinely wanting to help other bloggers with no strings attached.

Many blogs devoted to some topic or cause have a blogroll you can join. You will be asked to display the group's blogroll on your blog, and you will be added to that blogroll, and thus a link to your blog will appear on all the blogs in the group. Make sure, however, that you are regularly posting about the topic common to the group.

Add your blog to the directory at Open Directory Project. Also add it to sites like technorati, delicious, digg and StumbleUpon. These will create greater visibility to your blog.

Finally, be patient and persistent in your blogging. It will take time to build up a readership, but anyone who blogs consistently over time is likely to find some fans.

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