How to make a successful blog

Blogging! It isn't as easy as it seems to be. The most difficult things to do as a blogger is to bring crowd to your blog and to make your blog visible in Google, Yahoo and Bing search results. In this  post you will get to know about how to make these difficult things easier and what factors make your URL to get ranked higher in search results.

• Choosing a niche for your blog - I would suggest to go with a specific niche for your blog. The reason is if reader will like the stuff on your blog, he will definitely get back to your blog, this increases crowd and ultimately pageviews. Having a wide range of niche can reduce the crowd on your blog. This blog on which you are reading this post is having a wide range of niche, it's a risk. You too can go for it.

• Original content - Never copy paste from other sites. Publish your original content. If you are posting something copied from any other site, keep in mind to present the data in much more better way.

• Write for reader - Always posts should be written, keeping in mind that it should definitely be helpful to the reader. Write post in such a manner that makes it interesting to read. Motive behind writing any post should be to make reader happy.

•  Grammar error - No one would like your post, if it contains grammatical mistakes. Blogs with such problems never become successful. Before publishing it, check out once for such errors.

•  Keep it simple - Configure your blog design in such a way that reader can interact with the content easily. The most visited page of any site is always is its homepage, so show your best content on the home page.

• Publish articles on a consistent basis - Frequency of publishing posts shall always be same. Whether you publish once a day or once a week, I recommend to stick to the same posting frequency so that readers become accustomed to when more articles will be published.

• Develop a following on social media - After search engines, social media will be your largest source of traffic. You can display links to your social media profiles prominently in your sidebar to encourage readers to follow you.

• Engage with your readers - Connect with your readers actively through comments, social media and of course through your writing. This will help you grow a loyal readership that will help you by spreading words about your blog.

• Bring in people to help maintain your blog - Bringing in more people will reduce your responsibilities and will also result in effective maintenance of blog.

We have discussed what things actually matters to bring traffic to your blog. The most of traffic is expected to come from search engines, but if your blog is not visible in search results, it's a great drawback for your blog. Let's see what makes your URL appear at top search results.

How the search engine works?

When we search some query, search results are shown to us quickly within less than half of a second. But a great event occurs in this half a second. When we enter the search query, search engine finds the terms in your search query in all the web pages stored in it's server. Then it counts the number of times the search query is occuring in those web pages and it shows the page at top with the highest score. All this happens within a fractions of second, it's really amazing.

Other than the number of times search query occuring in our post, more than 200 factors are there which determines the rank of your site and visibility in search results. We will discuss about some of the most dominating factors.

• Submit your blog to search engines - Search engines automatically finds your site to be indexed in their server but it's a time taking process. So, submission of sites to search engines will help both search engine and you in making the process of indexing easier. To let you know how to submit your site to major search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask, we have guide for you. Click on the link "How to submit your website to search engines".  

• Create social media profile - To promote your blog make blog's page on different social networking site. This not only helps in bringing traffic but also help your blog getting listed in search engine's ranking. Learn here How to Show Facebook Fan/Like Page on Blogger.

• Use relevant images and videos - Use of pictures and videos in blog makes it more interactive to readers. This also ensures gain of traffic from image and video based search queries. This too contributes towards the ranking of your blog's URL. 

Stay tuned to our Blogging tips section for more info. Thanks for reading. Our first priority is reader's satisfaction.