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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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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“Weblog” a webpage used by an individual to post content of his interest for the intended readers. A good blog is a one which has attractive/quality content for the intended readers. Blogging tools play an essential role to keep regular readers and to attract new readers. Natural growth for weblogs takes the writer to create his identity in the form of domain name and weblog platform. Following are the few essential blogging tools one must use in his weblogs.

1. Subscription tools and News aggregation service – A very important route  to reach your regular readers and update them on latest posts.
   1. FeedBlitz
      • Zookoda
      • Aweber
      • Yutter
      • RssFwd
      • Feedburner’s Email Subscription Service
2. Updater to attract your contacts
   1.  Google Reader - Although I still prefer reading blogs directly, there’s no doubt that a RSS reader helps manage all the news happening around the blogosphere. If you want to stay on top of the game, it’s an essential tool in your blogging arsenal.
   2. Tweet this in every post, and Twitter update for every post
   3. Status updates in IMs like Gtalk, MSN, ICQ, and AOL
   4. Link in your signature
3. Blog promotion through social networking sites, in places were bloggers meet and interact, for example blogcatalog, mybloglog, blogger forum
4. Visit other bloggers websites and comment about their posts. Contribute to blogger community by writing one or two posts related to blogging.
5. Feature rich widgets to felicitate the visitors, like Google friends connect, blogcatalog visitors gallery, country from the visitor widgets etc
6. Site visitor statistics and metric tools
   1. Google analytics
   2. site meter
   3. AWstat
   4. webalizer
   5. stat counter
   6. mint and web-analyze

Other Blog Tools

1. • Pingoat – pinging service
   • Pingomatic – another pinging service
   • BlogRolling – a service to manage your blog roll
   • TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join conversations evolving on the Internet.’
   • Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and Directory 

   • coComment – Keep track of the comments you leave on different blogs in a central place
   • co.mments – Similar name to coComment but not to be confused with it – a way of bookmarking and following comment threads via RSS
   • Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site
   • TagCloud – produces Tag Clouds for your blog from RSS feeds
   • Tiny URL – Turns long URLs into tiny manageable ones
   • YouTube – a tool for putting video on your blog
   
   

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