Developing your Blog
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You've finally created a blog and you've made your first post. Now how do you get people to actually read what you're blogging about?
Here are some tips on promoting your blog.
Quality Content
Interesting content will keep your readership returning. Update your blog regularly. Google-bot, which is Google's web-crawling robot loves content. The more you update your blog, the more frequent the search engine spiders will return to it.
Marketing on Forums
Take part in forums that are related to blogging. Ask other bloggers for their opinion on your blog and take their suggestions to heart.This helps you have an audience for your blog and build a relationship, even before your visitors read your blog.
Publish an RSS/Atom/XML feed
If you're using Blogger, you can turn on RSS feed by clicking on settings in your dashboard and then clicking on site feed and make sure that your settings are set to yes.If on other blogging platform such as Wordpress, you can use free RSS feed services like feedburner.com.
Carefully choose your post titles
Taking into consideration what other internet users may be searching for, Use keywords in your posts title.keywords are the main texts that is preferably considered by search engines as the main topic of your posts.
Technorati.com , is a blog search engine that also lists the top search words. The more targeted your keywords are, the greater your return in search engines will be.
Involve yourself in commenting on other blogs
You can gain a loyal readership just by offering feedback to your fellow bloggers. some blogs has the comment feature that allows you to add a link back to your blog as well.
Link Signature
Be sure to include your blog address in forum signatures and in your email signature. it helps to promote your blog's link.
Submit your blog to directories
As previously posted "Indexing Your Blog On Directories", submit your blog on directories, such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and other Top Blog Directories such as BlogTopSites.
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