BLOGGING BECOMES SUCCESSFUL WITH 4 C'S

A large survey of good sites and reading their content is sometimes so much essential when you do not have much to write for your own.Buzzing through the topics and closely observing key points mentioned in the posts you can derive several ideas which can be converted into a series of posts.The organised fashion of writing and maintaining the blog is what separates the best from the other rookies.

The following four C's are so crucial that if you have all of them then your blogging success is almost certain i n the near future.These 4 C's are:

1.Content

Success always depends on some crucial factors and for any blogger to succeed in the blogosphere, the content is the most important element.You can refer to my post on how to create good content for more details.What people write from their heart is most liked by people all round the world and not scraps being written only for money.Content with good expression and presentation still rules.I was not a good writer right since my school days but slowly over the past 15 months I have improved a lot in my writing skills and grammar but their is still a lot of improvement to be done so that my posts are just great for anyone to read.I guess that a successful writer is always capable of holding people through his way of writing style and use of words.Now you would surely understand how important good content is for any blog.

2.Consistency

By consistency I want to say that you have to consistent in your posting.A good blog blooms better over a period of time only when a writer has put in the hard work to update his blog every day.Its not a compulsion that you have to churn out many posts every day and this will never happen also.You have to decide what re you comfortable with and accordingly pace yourself to be consistent.Remember that Search engines also like to index those blogs which are updated every day.

3.Community

Social networking is the order of the year for 2010 and will be the same for 2011 unless something new appears to be more appealing to the readers and b;loggers.Try raising your voice and your blog through these community sites and I ma sure that even those sites which were not able to generate readers for 10-12 even after having good amount of content on their blog have started generating good traffic through by the use of Technorati, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Stumble Upon and many other such sites.

Also important thing to consider is that link building should also be performed by bloggers to earn good page rank and Search Engine Optimization for their sites.Many bloggers initially miss the trick by going only for content on their blog and later on suffer for lack of back links to their sites and hence their page rank is lower although they have good enough alexa web rank.

4.Comments

Its always give and then take relationship in blogging.Even if you have to give out more than what you take ,it should not matter for you as long as you enjoy it.I have seen good bloggers always going to the site not known much and still reading their ideas and commenting on their posts to improve their writing style.So it has to be understood that you should once again start commenting on any blog that you like and not just not on the popular ones.I think keeping these strong commenting habits will surely help to give you long term profit.

I guess these were by far the broad factors on which success of any blog depends.There might be more that one would like to say so do not hesitate and try to shell out some precious words of yours.

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ADVANTAGES OF REGULARLY UPDATING YOUR WEBSITE

Updating information frequently to a website can have a significant increase in the quantity of visitors it receives. Renowned search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN prefer sites that are habitually added with more content.

The benefits of regularly updating your website are as under:

1.Long tail Search Traffic

When a website has regular content it helps in receiving more precise "long tail" keyword searches from search engines that cannot be attracted through regular SEO.

2. Faster indexing

Most search engines catalog news and blog sites faster than normal websites there fore regular updates on websites will determine more frequent traffic and indexed faster by search engine spiders.

3.Generates discussion

Blogs, articles and news often receive comments from interested customers which in turn often creates discussion and user contribution on the website. Comments also become worthy as free content and are often indexed and ranked by search engines.

4. Solicits enquiries

Informative, articulate articles about business, products or services will promote readers to find out about services. This has been a tried and tested method of sales marketing.

5. Promotes community

Comments, inquires on any website encourages interaction between visitors and is often responsible for communities on websites. Visitors will keep coming back for discussion via the website.

6. Repeat visits

When a website has fresh, regular and remarkable content it encourages users to keep coming back. When a website is left inactive there will be no regular traffic.

7. Subscribers

Informative, appealing content on a website can promote subscription to updates via RSS. This makes sure that any new information will mean that potential people are immediately informed.

8. Internal link strength

Regular content will contain links to specific pages which in turn is beneficial to websites internal link strength.

This was the original post posted by Dinesh LG

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USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO FIND NEW READERS FOR YOUR BLOG - PART 2

This is the part 2 in the series of finding new readers through social media.You can refer back to part 1 for more details.

6. Say thank you for shares

This will encourage your community to share your content more often and also shows the rest of your community that your content is share-worthy. To get the most bang for your buck on Twitter, consider re-tweeting their share with your thank you. That way your followers who missed your original share will have another opportunity to click on your link.

7. Use social sharing sites outside of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Consider building a presence on ‘bookmarking’ specialists Digg, StumbleUpon Delicious or Redditt. The key to any of these sites is that you have to be an active participant in the network to see any real traffic from it. Simply creating a profile will not suffice. You will need to build your community there, connect with people and share content outside of your own, often. Look for vertical specific sites where people in your industry are networking.

8. Come up with creative ways to re-share on Twitter

We all know that different people are on Twitter at any given time of day, so simply sharing your post once probably isn’t the most effective. Find ways to re-share it without just re-posting the same content. Add some sort of “in case you missed it” so that those who didn’t miss it don’t become annoyed. I’d also make sure you tweeted plenty of non-self

serving content in between.

9. Call people out

If your post includes someone in your industry or another brand, let them know. If it is favorable they are likely to share it with their social networks (or through their own blogs). You can add a trackback to their site so that they will get a pingback about your post, but also try the more direct route of just reaching out to them on their networks and sharing your post with them. Many businesses have installed automated social media monitoring services. If you mention a brand or business in your posts there is a better chance that it will show up on their dashboards if you can include their website, Twitter ID or Facebook page. Hopefully they will Tweet a link to the post or create a share to their ‘likes’ on Facebook.

In the end, there is no way to guarantee that each post you write will get a lot of social buzz or a lot of traffic, but you won’t find out if you wait for someone else to get the ball rolling. It is up to the blogger to offer shareable material, reach out to their networks and then encourage the community to share.

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USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO FIND NEW READERS FOR YOUR BLOG - PART 1

The most awesome and informative post is only as good as the number of relevant people who see it. Promoting your content is a key element for blog success. If you share your content strategically it will keep your faithful readers returning often and can expand your audience exponentially. Here are a few best practices for getting shared and conversing through social media.

1. Write content that is share-worthy

No one is going to pass along a post that is mediocre. Make sure that you give your readers valuable news and/or perspectives. In short, give them content that they are proud to share and to be associated with.

2. Continuously grow your networks

The sad truth is that as your contacts grow their networks they may lose sight of you. In order to make sure that you always have fresh people paying attention go out and proactively follow/friend request new people who are interested in the content you are sharing.

3. Craft your update carefully -

Avoid cliche words and common sales-pitch terms. Also try alerting them to whom this content is for. People are busy and not everything you share is relevant to everyone.

4. Encourage comments

Posts with a lively comment trail are good for a number of reasons. From a social media perspective you are more likely to get shares from commenters who now feel a part of the post.Comments also confirm to all readers that the post is interesting and worth noting, making them feel better about sharing it with their own networks.

5. Spread out your shares and avoid syncing your networks

If you have a presence on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, don’t syndicate your update across all sites. Chances are that you have people connected to you on more than one platform, and if they see the same content, presented in the same way, they are likely to see you as spammy. Instead craft an update that speaks to the nature of the platform and spread out your sharing across a few hour time-span. (Don’t wait too long though, because even the best

posts can become old fast).

The second part in this series will talk about the other techniques and practices to follow to attract more visitors to your blog.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 4

This the final post in the series.You can refer to Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 for more details.

These are the last five of the 35 successful ways to market your blog:

31. Try a contest.

32. Find relevant forums to add your input (like Google Groups). Add your blog link to your signature line.

33. Have a point of view. If your posts are the same as everyone else's posts, who cares? Be different and get noticed.

34. Define your niche. Focus on an area that you can be the leading expert in. If your topic is too broad, you'll never be able to make a dent.

35. Never ever stop. Your blog is a promise to customers. Keeping that promise going will be a key factor towards your continuing success.

Remember that a good blog supports two way communications. Involve your audience and they will become the most important part of your blog promotion team.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 3

This is the third part in the series of how to successfully market your blog.You can refer back to part 1 and part 2 for additional details.

Following are another 10 new ways to market your blog successfully:

21. Focus on information your customers really need. If you provide valuable, relevant and compelling information via your blog, chances of success are good.

22. Use the right keywords. Leverage Google's keyword tool to find the terms that your customers are looking for.

23. Post your blog on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit and Sphinn.

24. Don't hide your RSS button. If prospects like your blog, they might want to subscribe via email or RSS. Don't hide those buttons.

25. Create a list of favorite bloggers relevant to your market. Then notify them that they made the list. If the list is good, they'll promote it, and possibly comment.

26. Use numbers in your title. I found out that most popular posts almost always included a number in them (i.e. 9 steps, 4 types, etc.).

27. Comment on other blogs. It's hard to be a blogger if you don't share. Show your expertise on other blogs and leave valuable feedback.

28. Link to your other posts within your current post.

29. Go back to older posts and add new links to current posts.

30. Don't over complicate your site. Make it easy for people to get around and share.

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35 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MARKET YOUR BLOG ---PART 2

This is the second post in the series on how to successfully market your blog.You can refer back to part 1 for additional details.

Following are another 10 different ways to market your blog:

11. Guest post

Find blogs where your customers are hanging out and volunteer to blog. Be specific with the

subject when you approach the blogger. It shows you did your homework. Also, bloggers are always looking to take a breather...as long as the information is relevant and valuable.

12. Interview

Bloggers love to be interviewed. Doing a post about them is a sure way to get your post spread

around.

13. Submit your site to Google. Just in case your site isn't getting picked up.

14. Put your blog on company invoices as well as other correspondence to customers.

15. Showcase your employees on your blog. Employees are your most important asset, putting them front and center strengthens your blog.

16. Develop an opt-in eNewsletter out of your weekly blog posts.

17. Talk about your blog when you speak at events.

18. Listen to customer issues on Twitter and respond with links to blog posts that answer their problems.

19. Be human. Stop talking like a company and start talking like a human. Write in your own voice.

20. Use the blog as your customer FAQ.

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PART 6 - RECRUIT NEW WRITERS

This the last part of the series how to generate huge amount of content for your blog.We would now discuss how recruiting additional writers will help generating good content for your blog.

Many successful bloggers all over the world have linked up with the other bloggers to write content for them or review or short promotional content for their site.If you can somehow get somebody to write a post for you when you are in need and you can give back by writing one for him or her so that its a post-for-post relationship.This might also help you if you are publishing a content of similar niche that the other writer is also about to publish on his blog.You can link back to his blog post mentioning him and he can do the same and in way your website gets better exposure.

Sometimes you have to be confident of whatever you do.So think differently to do the things how successful people do.Thank you for following all the series installments.I hope we all are going to benefit and become better bloggers in the near future.

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PART 5 - BREAK DOWN POSTS

This the 5th post in my series of generating huge quantities of content for your blog.This post is to discuss the various effects of breaking down posts on your blog.

It is very important to understand that if you are writing on a very important topic and the topic is about business or on blogging or online marketing strategies(barring personal topics and issues) then it is certainly advisable to have a good quality post with reasonably long content.I have seen many good writers write so much long on one topic for which they could have broken down into two or three posts very easily.Writing very long posts does not help readers at all as they have to read for a long time just that same post and that is certainly not a good thing for any blogger.As a writer anyone wants a reader to read most of the content that is recently updated on your blog as well as from the archives that the reader is interested in.You don't want the reader to get exhausted in one and leave the blog.

By breaking your posts into smaller size posts we can have the readers come again for the full series of posts and getting the entire information in short bursts.A long one doesn't really compel a reader to read it full unless it is really special.The breaking down method will also get the reader to come down again and again to your site over the next few months if your post is really the hot topic over the Internet.

Another plus point is that if you are spreading over your content into a series of posts then you might have variety of visitors all over the globe coming to your blog if you do some linking with other blogs and use social networking sites to promote the posts.

A huge bonus that you get is that your google page rank will increase with more targeted visitors to your blogs.Thus your page will be displayed higher in the google search for the same keyword as compared to the other site.

As of now I can confirm you that this idea is 100% relevant and more practical rather that personal opinion expressed by me.In my next post I will look forward to complete the last part in the series by discussing the merits and perils of recruiting others to write for your blog.

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PART 4 - START A NEW BLOG

This is the 4th post in the series and its gonna tell you how to generate good amount of content for your blog.You can check out the other ones of setting new targets and visiting new sites and articles.

After extensive reading from different sites I have come to a conclusion that the most successful web blogs have extremely high linking with other sites and mostly highly targeted topics for attracting and making readers visit the site again and again( for example onlinemoneywithgoogleadsense).But even after getting yourself updated on the niche you follow on your blog,you can just write limited content everyday for your blog.

The good thing to understand is that although a niche blog is better and gets a good google page rank with indexed pages,You still have a limited scope to write about.If you observe good successful bloggers, once they felt that their blog ran out of scope to accumulate all the topics that we want to write then it is very important to start a new blog.

Starting a new blog means that if you feel that you are short of ideas in one niche then you can still continue to write in your new area of interest on your new blog and thus keep on generating content for your blog.

I had certainly reached my burn out phase where I used to write 3-4 posts a day ,then reached a saturation and took a break for a little while and now again I have started to blog regularly .Of course I am thinking of having another blog so that I have a new domain to work with and keep writing regularly so that I improve a period of time.

In my next post I am going to stress about breaking down a large post which would rather not impress most readers into small posts to have certain impact on all audience visiting your site.

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PART 3 - VISITING NEW SITES AND ARTICLES

Its often worth to have good amount of ideas in your mind well before you decide to write down content for your blog.How does one get more ideas and knowledge? Well its pretty simple that more knowledge and ideas will come only if you have exposure to different topics around the Internet.Always having a knack of keeping yourself updated with the hottest topic to be is very essential.

Exploring different sites and blog that come around your niche of blogging then its not quite difficult to have new ideas and post about them from your perspective.You can find more topics more easily by using special blog tools and social networking sites like Technorati,Mybloglog,Blogcatalog etc.;The relative articles of interest from the chosen blogger sites end up giving you that required edge to continue posting good amount of content on your site.

Also, it is important to note down that if you really find the article interesting and inspiring then you can yourself rewrite that article providing the reference of the original writer by linking to that post.In this way the sentiments of the original writer is not hurt and you also get a mention from the original writer.

I guess you would have understood the fact about visiting new sites and articles to get a hang of the new topics and shell out huge content on your blog.In my next part I would try discussing the plus point of starting an alternate new blog.

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PART 2 -SETTING AND ACHIEVING TARGETS

This part aims at understanding the facts about setting and achieving targets for yourself to generate huge quantities of posts for your blog.

The first thing that you must possess is patience or else you will find it difficult in the blogging arena.Good bloggers always possess lots of time and patience to devote themselves in writing the posts.Here we can understand that good amount of investment is required called as time in blogging.

So you decide your post frequency target that you would be able to achieve .This is the basis of selecting the target for posting on your blog.

Secondly, after setting the target you have to try and achieve the target.This is possible only if you have certain discipline in your life.If you maintain the discipline even for 6 months time,I am pretty sure that you will end up getting quite a number of posts on your blog.For example if you post 5 per day then at the end of the 6months you would have 183 x 5=915 posts on your blog which is huge.this would mean that you have substantial amount of pages indexed in the search engines.

So setting the target and achieving it with patience and discipline is the only way to go if you want to have giant strides in the field of blogging.In the next part I would discuss about how visiting new articles and new sites help to generate even more content on your blog.

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PART 1 - CREATE HUGE QUANTITIES OF CONTENT FOR YOUR BLOG -AN INTRODUCTION

Almost all the bloggers who start blogging have the intent of increasing their blog readership to generate income.Not just quality matters but you should also have the relative quantity as well to to move ahead.

Even if you just land up on a good blog talking about increasing blog traffic you will invariable find out that the main motto expressed is "quality content".So what is really a quality content.The right manner in which it can be put forward is that ideas expressed in relatively concise form.But that doesn't mean that you should only end up having a post of around 100 -150 words.It doesn't sport good reactions from any reader.Important thing to note here is that whenever you write the blog posts it should normally be around 250-300 words.A more better representative post with quality and quantity is something that is desirable.

Having huge quantities of posts ready on your blog means that there are more number of ways in which there can be different reader entry.The more posts you have with appropriate keywords(this is damn important) then you will find more number of people coming to your site through search engines.It will always please any blogger if for any search on the Internet on blogging resources at least of one of his web page is always listed.

Another important reason to have high quantities of content on your blog is that search engines like google index more of your pages and consider your site legitimate and not a money making site.Because of this your page rank increases quite a bit.

So I hope you have understood the good points about having good quantity of content as well as quality.In my next part of this series I will talk about how to set targets and strive to achieve them.

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HOW TO GET HUGE AMOUNT OF CONTENT FOR YOUR BLOG

I have visited many sites and and studied their posts very carefully to understand the unique ways to have good amount of content ready for your blog.

The unique ways are going to be discussed in detail so they all form part of this series of posts.Following are the posts of the upcoming 6 part series

1.Create huge quantities of content for your blog - An introduction

2.Setting and achieving targets

3.Visiting new sites and new articles

4.Start a new blog

5.Break posts down

6.Recruit new writers

Please note that just running after generating huge quantities of content and not maintaining quality does not favour any one.The trick is to maintain bot and move ahead.

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