When it comes to blogging, everyone wishes to be on top of the game. But gaining popularity and building your way to success is usually a hard road ahead. It usually involves lots of hard-work ranging from guest posting, blog commenting, article directory submission, social bookmarking and back-linking building.
I guess you are getting scared? Don’t worry, i’ll explain the various strategies you need to implement in order to build a popular and successful blog. It’s quite easy if you understand and implement them rightly. Read carefully the below tips, they actually worked for me in improving my blog.
Tips To Building a Successful Blog
1. Content Is King
I know you must have read this a million times, but it is one true fact that can’t be overlooked. I came to realize and learn over the years that writing quality content really pays off in the long run. One thing that helps me in making my blog more popular is because I source and write great contents. If you can prepare a list of content ideas, it gives you the opportunity to source for information, learn about the subject matter and deliver super articles. There are a couple of places I source for content ideas such as;
- Question and Answer Websites like Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers etc
- Adwords Keyword Analytics Tool
- Forums related to my blog Niche
- From Comments on previous blog post
- Youtube videos
The list for content generation ideas goes on and on.
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The second part of content is adding images to your blog post. People tend to get attracted to images more than text, in fact that must have led to the general saying that images speak more than a thousand words. Make sure you add images to all your blog post, and then optimize them for search engines using the alt tag. Google Image search can become a source of traffic for you as I’ve been enjoying this benefit lately on my blog.
Coming over to the subject of length of your articles, it all depends on you. Short and interesting articles gain more share and lengthy ones tend to bore people away from experience. Do not over do things, for me blog posts with about 800 words is on the average and works greatly in terms of conversions, comments and social media share.
If you can write quality contents that adds value to your readers, then you are about 30% to building a successful blog.
2. Promote Your Blog Articles
Building a successful blog does not end by creating wonderful contents only, you have to promote your blog articles to reach your target audience as a matter of fact. Without the traffic (targeted audience), then you will probably go out of business and your efforts in creating the contents would be such a wasted effort. There are a couple of ways to promote blog articles which you probably do not know about. Here are some of them
Social Media: Social Networking sites are great places to promote your blog post content, concentrate on a few social media sites for a start before experimenting with all others. Some of the social media sites to harness are Facebook (Facebook groups work great), Twitter (Retweet at others, and also make use of hash tags), Google + (join blogging communities) . They have really helped improve my online presence. Some other tools to try are EasyRetweet and JustRetweet, make a little Google search on those terms for more details.
Join Blogging Communities: There are lot of blogging communities you can join in order to promote your blog among other bloggers and gain popularity. Some of them include Bizsugar, BlogEngage, Blokube and more. Google is your friend if you wish to find more about them.
Make sure you promote your blog on any platform you find the chance to, it would help you in building a successful blog for yourself.
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3. Link Building
Link building is a vital point if you wish to get search engine traffic to your blog. There are a couple of places and ways to build backlinks that work perfectly and have been implementing lately some of which include Guest Blogging, Commenting, Social Bookmarks.
Guest Blogging is one sure way of gaining dofollow backlinks, you write quality content on your hosts blog and place one or two backlinks to your blog.
Commenting is another way to get mixed backlinks, some blogs allow dofollow while others are nofollow links. Try to comment on niche related blogs, this would improve your search traffic and also referral traffic.
Submit your articles to Social Bookmarking sites, this would improve your blog search engine presence and domain authority.
Link building is so much of a great importance to your blogs SEO and building a successful blog.
4. Blogging Consistency
You don’t expect me to let you know that if you do not blog consistently, you’ll loose the traffic and readers you have already built in the long run. I experimented this on my blog recently. Normally I posted one article daily and my reader got used to it, this kept them coming back daily to my blog, before I decided to experiment and here was how it went. For a period of one month, i made only 3 articles weekly, this did not immediately run down my blog traffic but I realized that my blog was no growing any longer. This prompted me to start a 30-day aggressive blogging self challenge (I now post twice daily) which i’ll be releasing the case study by the first week of next month. I’ve started gaining more exposure and traffic since I started the challenge, and it’s one power of consistent blogging.
I’m not trying to force you into blogging twice daily like i’m currently doing on my blog, but you can develop a pattern or blogging routine that your readers would know you by and would work for you. Experimenting is one key to blogging.
Conclusion
Applying this strategies would help you in building a successful blog. I hope you love this article, feel free to add your tips using the comment box. Happy Blogging.
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Nice post, its really knowledgeable and valuable, this post helps me a lot thanks for sharing with us.
Very good post! I am still trying to find that fine balance that incorporates all of this.
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Hey Oscar !
Nice to see you here man ! You’re first paragraph explains the entire logic .. Content is the kind …more relevant and unique content ..the more success you’ll achieve .Thanks for sharing this info .
-Pramod
blogging consistently helps make bloggers increase their traffic consistently. i remember when i became too busy with freelance writing and failed to check my blog everyday. my traffic decreased by 40 percent
I believe if you wanna build a successful blog, you must write quality contents as you have rightly said, COntent is the major key to building a successful Blog,thanks for this beautiful Post bro
Hi Oscar,
Nice points. Writing good post is the important thing a blogger should focus on. Next one is promotion, after hitting publish button, blogger should promote it on social media. Agree with all of your points.
Hello frank,
There are I can say an ample of possibilities for building a successful blog and it works differently with each and every blogger. But as your article is a generalized one I can say easily that yours can be implied anywhere.
The most important feature which i consider for a blog is its promotion.
Thanks a lot for sharing this generalization.
Thanks Pramod for your contribution, keep visiting Netmediablog.
Thanks Marilyn for sharing your personal experience on Netmediablog.
Successful blog starts with quality content and ends with quality content. Thanks for your contribution.
Thanks Sriram for your wonderful contribution, mind sharing where else you promote your blog posts immediately after publication?
Yes Charmie, promotion is a good way to making a blog successful because even if you write all the contents and no one reads it your blog is still as good as nothing. Promoting your blog will help you elevate it to a wider audience.
You left a great tip here oscar frank and the faster bloggers rehalise that content is indeed King! content is the hidden secret of building a successful blog.
Hi Oscar,
Thank you for pointing out the most important facts to make a sucessful blog(these are the point to be a sucessful blogger also :D ). The main thing is paitence on blogging. After that content, sharing, Link building really helps to make a blog sucessful.
great post you have here, you have really dropped it the way it should be seen. great post bro i just hope newbie will read this post and learn.
Hi Oscar,
You covered the whole of blogging journey with greater sincere.
Blogging, in fact, is an attempt to make your readers by departing value to them and the skill to use right tool to spread the good news to the blogosphere.
I like you focused on consistency.
Hello Nwosu,
Great share.!
you are right Content is King for Building a Successful blog :) Thanks for the Great tips and informative post too :)
stay updated and stay rocking ;) :P
-Mosam
Made with love, a phrase often used to describe things made by a master in their respective craft. This blog is made with love , i like it so much :)
Thanks Bishnu Subedi Nishan for your contribution. Building a blog may be easy but making is successful is the hard part. It take a lot of work to achieve this.
Yes the advise here could be useful for both experienced and mostly newbies.
Thanks Suresh, consistency in blogging is a way of keeping your audience engaged and get them to return always for fresh contents.
Mosam thanks for your awesome comment. Do have a great day.
Thanks for your compliment.
Yes, Good article. I learnt from this. We have to consider about not only about the link building, But also The Constant blogging as well.
Julia thanks for visiting Netmediablog and leaving a comment.
Good post by you Oscar!
Agree with all your points and hope am doing all to improve my blog.
Unique content blog at regular post frequency with proper promotion would shout loud in the blogosphere :)
Out of all these four, I think link building is an important factor if you’re really looking for search engine traffic. The decent content quality, right social media promotion techniques and strong link building can drive good traffic. Right Nwosu?
Off course, high quality content would really add good taste.
Content quality first then SEO and link building every other thing compliments these and then you can generate great traffic to your site. thanks Pawan for such great contribution.
I agree with all your methods. There is one more tip that i would like to share with you and that is :-
While you are doing your business there will be times when you have to make sacrifices. Get ready to make sacrifices. You might not have time to spend with your family and friends, but this sacrifice will only act as the building stones for your successful business. Thanks for sharing other tips.
In blogging content is always king .Write unique blog post and promote through social bookmarking site and commenting is the best an popular way to promote bog and drive traffic
thanks for the tips, I once put a guess blog on my site nothing but spammers, who were not engaged instead they were peddling products, The upside Google’s index them and my Traffic was hugh, if your new at blogging in the beginning its a great thing however, after your going to need to turn on or buy a software or plugin to detect the spammers as well as a recaptcha, it nearly brought my website down. If your desperate it works for a while, and you might even make some ad money. however, in the long term most likely Google will rank you low. Depending what state your blog site is in you’ll have to make that determination yourself.