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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Building a better blog is not a one twist magic. It is a long process, carefully carried out in steps towards success. Blogbloke reveals through his posts on How to build a better blog

It’s easy easy! To create a popular blog today all one has to do is:

1. Decide on a niche topic for your blog using Google’s Keyword Tool to find out what searches are popular.
2. Using keywords for your chosen niche, get a cheap domain name and hang your shingle.
3. Borrow a professional template.
4. Hire a geek to make you a pretty banner and customize your theme/template if necessary.
5. Spend $12 a year for WordPress hosting services.
6. Go the library and/or search Google to find great content for your blog.
7. Apply CMP (copy, massage, paste) to make it your own (kinda).
8. Pretend you are an expert in your chosen niche applying the “fake it till you make it” principle.
9. Get a referral or two from your pro-splogger pals.
10. Learn a little SEO to game the search engines.
11. Apply the art of link baiting for making kick-ass titles.
12. Promise the moon and the stars to your readers.
13. Preach good things will come to those who believe with all the fervor of an evangelist.
14. Wallpaper your blog with ads. (Your guru will be happy to advise which pays best).
15. Convert your plagiarized content into a book and ouilla — you’re a success!

Related Blog posts by Bloke:

http://www.blogbloke.com/secret-tips-building-better-blog/

http://hexablogs.com/2009/custom-domain-with-blogger-expert-tips/

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

Related Posts:

http://hexahost.com/blogs/honest-hosting/free-trail-offer-from-simplified-hosting-provider/

http://www.bizblog.in/search-engine-optimization-seo-and-blogs.htm

http://hexablogs.com/2009/10-steps-for-successful-blogging/

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I’m really blown away by how many Blogger users are still using their Blogspot address instead of getting their own Custom Domain that Blogger has so generously offered.

The reasons for wanting your own Custom Domain Name aren’t only just for Blogspot users. It goes for ALL bloggers as well, so let me explain the benefits of getting your own Custom Domain name.

A lot of people don’t seem to appreciate or understand what this really means. Many bloggers are worried about how it will affect their blog page rank instead of embracing this wonderful feature.

Ironically, it’s your blog page rank that will benefit (amongst others) when you make the move to a Custom Domain.

Six Blog Tips why you should be using a Custom Domain with Blogger:

1. After you purchase your own Custom Domain you will own your blog address instead of Blogspot. Right now Blogger is getting all of the credit – not YOU.
2. Once you purchase your Custom Domain you will own your posts. Why? Because your posts will no longer have the butt-ugly Blogspot subdomain tacked on it, so YOU will get the pagerank credit and not Blogger.
3. When you own a Custom Domain you can move your blog to be hosted wherever you want and keep your page rank because your links will still remain the same.
4. Your blog traffic statistics will no longer be diluted. I own http://www.blogbloke.com, and I used to forward that URL to my http://instabloke.blogspot.com address. So I had to insert separate codefor each URL (my custom domain and blogspot) into my template which split the data for my real stats.
5. Before Blogger Custom Domains came along I had to use URL forwarding to my Blogspot address. URL forwarding is confusing because it creates a frame that makes every page show the same address as the Custom Domain instead of the actual post page. So trying to navigate your site can create unexpected results and frustration for your readers. Frames can also confuse the search engines (i.e. GoogleBot) which will have dire consequences for your blog PageRank and SEO.
6. Not having a Custom Domain also creates a problem for blog tracking sites. For the same reasons above it confuses the data for sites such as the Truth Laid Bear, Alexa, Technorati etc. So your rank with them also gets diluted.

Trust me folks when I say the benefits of owning your own Custom Domain far outweigh any concerns that you could ever have. This alone is the most exciting feature that New Blogger has introduced.

If you blog long enough you will eventually want your own Custom Domain. The longer you put it off the more you will regret not doing it so my advice is everyone should take advantage of this generous offer today.

Article in http://blogbloke.com http://www.blogbloke.com/6-reasons-why-you-should-be-using/

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