Blog Visitors

Without visitors your blog has no life. You must somehow bring people to your blog. Professional bloggers use paid and free search engine placement, networking and syndication methods to promote their blog sites.

So, you will start your blog with your friends and relatives. If you have 5 to 10 friends or relatives - I am sure all of you have more - you can confidently launch your blog.

Request your friends to tell their friends about your blogs. Don't feel shy to ask. That's the best way to promote your blog. Each of your relative or friend may have 5 to 10 friends. Within a few days the number of people who know about your blog can go up to 100. If you provide great content or a great service, people will come back to your blog again and again.

Once you have added some content, submit all your pages to big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Whenever you add new pages, submit them too. Over time, search engines will index your pages - if your content meets their criteria. Search engines are the biggest source of traffic. Go to search engines and find out the procedures for submission. Read the guidelines carefully and make sure that your adhere to these guidelines.

There are community halls, clubs and associations in most cities and towns. If possible organize a circular to announce your blog.

Exercise your creative intelligence. You will find many ways to promote your blogs without spending any money.

There are many other promotional methods. We will not take up them now.

Blog Topics

The king of your blog is the content. People come to your blog site for content. So, you must be careful in deciding about the topic of your blog.

You must work on topics that you love. Only then you will be able to produce great content. But, what you like may not be a favorite topic among your visitors. If this happens, then you will be the lone visitor to you blog.

Both you and your visitors may like the topic. That does not mean income will follow. There must be a business value in your topic.

For example, if you write on stones in Mars or Moon, and your visitors like the blog, there is not much here for the advertisers. The advertisers do not know what products they can market on this blog. So, they will keep away from your blog and you will not make money.

If you write about lucky stones for people whose ruling planets are Moon and Mars, then jewelers, astrologers, psychic readers and many others will happily advertise on your blog. That means money to you.

You love the topic, your visitors love the blog and  advertisers like it. All are happy. It is a win-win-win situation. Your blog must focus only on such topics.

If you have time and are good in many topics, you can start as many blogs as you like and as can manage.

Deciding on the topic and the content is the most difficult part of the blogging venture. Some of the key factors in deciding the topic are:
(1) You know the topic
(2) You like the topic
(3) There is an audience for the topic
(4) The topic has a business value
(5) You can supply new content or add value to existing content
(6) Your topic is not a dead end topic; you can keep the content fresh
(7) You can build a community with the topic

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