Glad to be back to Hexablogs after brief hibernation, I miss u all my regular visitors. In this Blog post with tips on blogging i am gonna talk about one of the important aspect of blogging. We blog not just to have online copy, we like visitors to read come back share their ideas etc. Biggest way to attract more reader is via Search engine. SE optimization is one of the important areas you need concentrate regularly. Many people think 100 good links, and participation in many forum traffic generation technique will bring visitors. Do not follow those dump ideas, Mark my mantra “Content is king”

Original posts, your own views written over  a period of time only can bring sustainable traffic increase. Links will follow automatically. I practice what i preach, One of my high traffic soccer blog http://simba.in has gained user traffic only because of content.

The number of impression i have create over this small amount of time is really phenomenal. in just 6 months of active participation and decent work on content i am able to bring 3000 clicks, Imagine few people around selective content. Organizations should work on these areas rather than hiring external SEO companies, Once you have content optimizing them for result is easier, without content SEO will eat and  gas your money.

I have concentrated only on original content, updated periodically. I never followed link building exercised, people came in for links. The niche articles i write brought audiences, they kept my posts in their blog. Now i have more visitors. Bet on content, spend as much time you can on content rather than site design. Do a little bit research on what you are going to write, start building articles around those keywords. Title them appropriately, work in social networking sites against those of your titles.

I am sure the result will be abundant Traffic. Do keep me posted with your ideas.

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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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Directories has collected websites in an organized manner for easy understanding and access, It offer local searching too. Directory listing helps web sites to increase organic  and inorganic traffic. Web directory listings is the first and best way to let a search engine crawl through your website. Best maintained directories with proper anchor tag, categorized in correct place is equivalent to a link exchange. There are 1000s of web directories available today to choose from, but not all of them are good to park. By far the most used and popular directory is Dmoz (largest humanly maintained directory). Dmoz is used by some of the other popular directories like AOL, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, lycos, gigablast, teoma etc. Getting a place in Dmoz is not that easy. Since it is maintained by voluntary editors, If editors of chosen category is so lazy or reluctant to accept your link you are out.

When to Add in Directory ?

As and when you book your domain name start submitting to directories. Beware of fake directory site submitters. Free directories often accept directory listing on exchange of reciprocal link. Having an orphan page created just for directory sites is a good idea. Some directories demand for a particular anchor text too.

Where to add in Directory?

Choose your category based on how that directory is formed.  DMOZ directory is classified based on your site content and hence listing is easier. There are some niche directories available like Internetdir.in where in web sites are listed based on their function rather than what they contain example Blogs, Social Networking Sites, Forums etc. Having your site in a proper place category – sub-category is so important to have search engine and directory surfers attention.

Article Submission

Choosing a directory with article submission option is an added advantage. Not many directories support this feature. Make sure you have important article submitted in multiple directories and back linked to your sites.

Internetdir.in helps in bother article submission as well as in web site listing. It allows you to list any number of web sites and article for one reciprocal link.

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Blogs pave the path to share and to express your ideas. Blog needs a  fuel called readership. Social media helps you to increase readership and hence adding a social dimension becomes an important aspect of blogging. People love to share useful information. Your fresh short posts should have ways to share and express. Comments in your blog is one part of it, presence in sharing platforms like facebook, twitter, Yahoo buzz, digg, delicious, stumble upon helps to attract external readers. This is also termed as organic readership growth. Power of social media is well know. One classic example is the story of Time Warner cable and it’s increased use of tweets as main medium to solve customer issues, and information exchange.

How to add social dimension to Blog?

Comments etiquette – Comments are compulsory in blog posts. Allow readers to express their opinion. Respect freedom of expression, anchor to any blog.

Twitter - Having a twitter account against your domain name or blog motto is  must. Create auto tweets using plugins. A tweet in url, if useful will get re tweeted by others and sharing will provide exponential traffic to your blogs. Read more about how to get engaged in twitter. Plugins you must have in your blog.

Social Bookmarking – Bookmarking websites helps you to create incoming links, and link sharing. Most of the bookmarking websites allow you to give abstract of your actual content. Some the famous plug-ins for social bookmarking sites are Sociable (WordPress) helps you to share contents in close to 199 social bookmarking sites.

Web profiles – Let your web profiles have link to your blogs and blogs to your social profile. Blogs are not just  a way to create a posts, It is a way to “LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE“

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