Blogging is no longer  a frequently updated short posts on your area of interest. Blogs are the place to Interact, collaborate and share likes, dislikes, experience, feel etc. Your web site should interact with your reader engage them in conversation. This will lead to bookmarking, referring friend, tweeting on your writing etc and hence more traffic to your site. Google web elements have created few interactive tools to enhance your support for Google signed in users. These are the must tools for anyone to create collaborative and interactive weblog platform. All you need is to signin to google and take a code, paste it in your website.

• Google Connect – Common thread to connect your visitors. Every posts (number of posts by user) in your blog will be available as href link in users connect page. This will available as a profile, a unknown person visiting a user’s profile will see your link as well. Popularly known as Google Friend connect is a simple way to grow your community.
• Conversation Element – Conversation element helps users to post comment and interact with themselves. Conversation is an add-on to signed in google friend connect users.
• Orkut Share element – It helps users to share your posts/site to his orkut buddies.
• Maps – Helps you to add a small map window in your blog posts in order to refer places mentioned in your posts. Location specific details is a great utility to increase user experience.
• Custom search element – It allows user to search you site or web from your web site.

More than the usage of these enhancer, actual placement matters more. Visitor for the first time mostly happens through organic, but making them visit again is completely on your control. Add more useful element and allow conversation to grow. Though blogging is so powerful with comments and track backs, untouched areas like sharing utility, conversation utility, social media through using friend connect ornaments further.

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Soon after connecting to internet, Do a google search on your own blog name ? Do a google search about your domain name? Do a search about your own post in search engines? If you have been doing this for some time. Then your are attacked by a bad virus called “N1TB” – Not even 1 Traffic to Blog site.  This virus attacks your passion towards writing, Your eagerness in creating more value added posts, and ultimately Blogging habit slowly moves away from you.

Every blogger have to go through this while starting a blog. Allowing this virus to sustain for long time will kill you as well as your blog site. The Cure is, expert guideline, well known small steps, well controlled strategies and few link exchanges here and there. You will see traffic coming through.

My first and fore most advice is, Decide your platform (Free Blogger OR Free WordPress.com OR self hosted WordPress OR self hosted MVT etc). Self hosted blogging is very cheap than before. With just $20 per year you can own a domain name as well as hosting space per year. This $20 is only the seed fund, once you reach considerable amount of post $20 is nothing when compared to add revenue. Choose your domain name either general OR target a particular keyword OR area of blogging.

Blogging Tips for Beginners

STEP1: Engage yourself in places where blogging community meet. The base line of blogging is read as much blogs you can, blogging community as a whole love to read. Try to engage them, and let them interact about your blog or blog post. There are many popular forum available like blogcatalog, Mybloglog, Blogged,  and indiblogger. Feedback from such a huge community will help you grow rich with blogs. Collate your blogs in Technorati, and blog pulse) but also through different blog directories (eg blogtopsites) and blogging communities (eg blogcritics).

STEP2: Get your blog listed in best directories. Try to place your blog in Dmoz. There are quite a few free directories available for free listing against reciprocal link one such site is http://internetdir.in/. Internetdir.in also accepts free article more number of article pointing to your site from directories are good way of attracting Search Engines.

STEP3: Configure automatic rpc ping tools. These tools will help you in updating new posts, posts changes and comments to blog search and aggregators.  Almost all weblog platforms have provisions to insert rpc ping urls.

List of BLOG PING SITES FYR:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

STEP4: Social Networking Sites will help you to get identified among your contacts and peers. Have your blog URL in status message, change it frequently as and when you create a new post. Digg, Delicio.us, Twitter, Facebook, hi5, Orkut are the best ways to express your blog site to others.

STEP5: Strictly follow the steps from 1 to 4 meticulously N1TB will never even come close to you. You will receive both organic and in-organic traffic and hence more users to your blog. Last but not the least It is the content that attract the readers neither listing nor presence is SNS. Think of niche idea and express your posts on your own.

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Twitter can be a very effective tool to promote your blogs. Most of the Inherent characteristics of twitter  has the potential to ease blog promotion. 140 characters of crisp introduction to your blog along with links to your blog post is the base for effective and efficient blog promotion using twitter. Your followers in twitter are the targeted reader, a link to your blog along with post title is the route. so the first and foremost step is to get associated with your targeted audience i.e getting followers. In twitterism “Following is the way to get followers”. Having a clear strategy is the easiest way to success.  A unfocused, and scattered tweets can not fetch useful result. pen down your strategy first.

Give confidence to your followers, Base line to keep your followers

“Follow me .. I think i know where i am going”

Feel free to increase your following,

In My view “A good twitter will have more following than a followers”

Well know blogger Blog Bloke’s view,

Twitter is more of a social “chat” tool than real blogging. But regardless of what definition you want to give it, it is indeed a boon to business and it will only get better.

Here comes 8 valuable tips from a well known blogger Blog Bloke,

1. First of all, more blogs today are getting rid of blogrolls. They are considered old school and going the way of the dinosaur.
2. Twitter is designed for short, burst announcements to communicate with your followers, grab their attention and to build relationships. But it is NOT a replacement for blogs.
3. Your blog is your most important tool in your Web 2.0 arsenal. You should think of it as being concentric to your overall social media marketing strategy (Twitter or any other Social Networking site) for leveraging your followers over to your blog.
4. Heck, Twitter (like all social networking sites) doesn’t even offer you a top-level domain. Might as well just stay on Blogspot — right? (NOT).
5. Twitter is quickly becoming a search engine in its own right for finding more fodder to write on your BLOG.
6. If you are a marketer trying to make money you will want your Twitter followers to visit your blog and click on your ads.
7. Like I said before, as a communication tool Twitter is still rudimentary and needs a lot of work. It is more efficient to conduct a discussion on your blog comments section than it is to follow a conversation on Twitter. (Especially with all of the third party plugins and scripts that are now available).
8. Ultimately your blog is where you want the action to be. You want your readers to follow you over to your real blog on your own domain and a site that belongs to YOU.

Source Post:  http://www.blogbloke.com/twitter-tips-promote-blog-traffic/

Few Good post to read about twitter,

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/twitterism-effective-usage-of-twitter/

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/a-must-know-for-bloggers-twitter/

http://twittertips.org/

http://www.twitip.com/13-twitter-tips-and-tutorials-for-beginners/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/how-to-use-twitter-tips-for-bloggers/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/35-twitter-tips-from-35-twitter-users/

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