Ways to make your blog more popular

[sbglobal]

hello.

I just got this sent to me, I thought it was pretty good and had better share it with you. Some are easy, some tricky and some just made me laugh - it's all good food for thought if you want to stand a chance of getting traffic and therefore MONEY from your blog.

Ways to make a blog popular:

1. Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.
2. Start a contest. Make sure to end it too.
3. Give away free goodies. People love them.
4. Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to read your blog. Keep it positive.
5. Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
6. Interview other bloggers and post the interview.
7. Write about your personal life sometimes.
8. Ask questions to your visitors.
9. Share some secrets.
10. Celebrate your birthday with your visitors. Think of innovative ways for doing this.
11. Celebrate your blog’s birthday too.
12. Write something funny or disgusting. (Don’t make it a habit)
13. Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car. (Just make sure you drive often)
14. Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free.
15. Introduce a commission based affiliate program.
16. Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession.
17. Post interesting pictures of your pets.
18. Congratulate the top commentators occasionally.
19. Encourage sharing of opinions.
20. Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization. Ask your visitors to join you.
21. Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages.
22. Hold blog competitions.
23. Create polls.
24. Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog).
25. Write about your blog achievements.
26. Share your hopes and aspirations about your blog.
27. Start an award distribution system.
28. Make contact with your local visitors and hold a get-together or a bloggers’ meet.
29. Start a blog comic strip.
30. Dig up some old article that you wrote on your blog which became famous and start a discussion.
31. Try and get a photograph clicked with a real celebrity and post it on your blog. (Hold on Tiger..don’t rush to that Photoshop button!)
32. Post videos that will help your visitors learn something new. Also submit them to video sharing websites like YouTube.com.
33. Write about your hobbies and interests. (For example, if you like cooking, post a new recipe)
34. Post about one of the weirdest thing that you ever did.
35. Get featured in a print magazine.
36. Buy a paid review from any famous blogger(s).
37. Brand your blog with a catch phrase along with a logo.
38. Distribute T-shirts or merchandise with your blog name on it.
39. Join Yahoo! Answers and put a link on your website to your answers.
40. Keep a track of websites that pick up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
41. Do surveys and publish the results to your visitors.
42. Build tools that your visitors might find use for.
43. Start a newsletter.
44. Podcasting is another good way to make your blog popular.
45. Publicize your blog to your friends and relatives and let them do some work for you.
46. Be active in Social Bookmarking websites.
47. Share Link Love and you will get it back.
48. People like to read about Web 2.0. Write about it.
49. Write about something that’s already famous.
50. Last but not the least, be yourself.

[mithunsingh]

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[jaqes]

Good points, here is great ideas to make your blog popular. Top to bottom man

[vstrategy]

For me the best way to have a good blog is to make your post helpful to readers. Eventually your tips are a good and helpful too.

[kateblake]

Thanks for so many ways to make a blog popular. I haven't knwon that there are so many of them.

[aaron12]

I got some good points from this list. According to me SMO is a good way to make popular a blog. Celebrate b'day is one of the good thing to maintain visitors activity.

[pappukumar]

yes very impressive post to make blog more popular in search engine!

[max2010]

So much of everyhting here. Well, some of the points are really true. I hope you ahve taken all the tips from your won experience while having and working with your own blog.

[enni]

I think you define very well tips about way to make your blog more popular.Giving me very informative information.Its really helpful for those who have their own blogs on the internet.

[noelagnote]

Great blog topic ideas. I agree with number 1. People love reading controversial posts.

[seocorporation]

For me Social Media Optimization and guest blogging has worked quite fine to attract traffic in herds.

[Click SSL]

This is amazing sharing by you dude. You make it so easy to understand about to popular any weblog. Thanks for sharing this creditable information with us.

[AmmyTisdale]

A blogger fails in the blogging when he totally focus on the Monetization but not writing for the users.

[AmitThapa]

Update your blog on regularly.Unique post in your blogs..post should be different from other users..

[bermuda]

These are valuable tips and can definitely help blogs, almost in all niches getting popular online. I especially like the first option which definitely can help turning an ordinary and deserted blog into a hot online spot. By raising a controversy and talking about very hot points, gradually the posts will get reflected all over the net and tens of other blogs admins will be talking about the posts on the blog, linking to it as well.

The option of turning on commenting too can be definitely helpful because even if admins of the blogs are already knowledgeable people who know lots of things of the subjects they write about, but still net readers and surfers would prefer to be able to leave comments on sites, especially if hot materials have been discussed. The last point too is very important because blog authors are to have their own identities and manners.

[EnaRaven]

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