Blogs have become very successful and popular lately. SEO consultants say that they can be very profitable if they are managed and marketed the right way. Generating profits from a blog doesn’t require selling anything. Profits can be from ad placements, banners, or contextual advertising. The best blogs draw the attention of a large audience and keep them coming back for more. In this post we are going to talk about how to create and grow a successful blog that attracts a lot of visitors and keep them coming back for more.
There are many types of blogs available. The most common types are:
- Professional blogs: These blogs are focused on discussions about professions, job aspects and career building
- Personal blogs: These blogs take the form of an online diary and contains thoughts, poems, experiences, and other personal matters
- Topical blogs: These blogs focus on a certain topic or niche, discussing specific aspects of the chosen subject
- Business blogs: As its name suggests, these are discussions about business and/or stock market
Other types of blogs include but are not limited to science blogs, cultural blogs, educational blogs, and photo blogs.
In order to have a successful blog that attracts a lot of visitors and keep them coming back, you need to follow some simple rules.
Here are some recommendations from SEO consultants:
1. Pick a profitable niche to create a successful blog.
Before you begin blogging, carefully consider what you are going to write about in your blog as there are lots of interesting topics out there, waiting to be discussed. You can find them in every day life, in the media, in the news, anything that attracts attention and a loyal following is good. You can look for blog subjects in many places, the most important being the Internet of course.
2. Quality over quantity when posting.
Put quality content in your blog. If you have quality content people like to read, they will return to your blog and tell other people about it as well. Posting articles containing useful information on your blog is very beneficial for attracting more traffic. Make sure you add your URL address below your posted article! If other web site owners find your articles useful and decide to include them within the content of their web pages, the added link will contribute to increasing your popularity every time it is hyperlinked.
3. Keep it fresh.
Update the blog on a regular basis. If you don’t do this, visitors will not return and they will move on to reading another blog that is updated more often. You should try to update your blog at least one a week. Many newcomers have blogging fear, fearing their inability to update it often. If your blog is interesting enough, offer your readers the ability to keep it updated by posting their own personal thoughts and share stories so you won’t have to do all the updating work yourself.
4. Listen to your audience.
Listen to what your readers have to say. Always pay attention to the readers’ suggestions and try to find out what people were actually searching for when they found your blog. Try to focus on that theme and even consider developing it by encouraging the visitors to discuss new aspects of that particular theme.
5. Keep it short and concise.
You don’t need material that takes hours to read, people usually like to quickly skim a blog for quick tidbits of useful information and if you post materials that are difficult or take a long time to read, you will most likely drive them away.
6. Make it visual appealing by adding images.
You can also include some artistic work or pictures in the blog, to make it more visually appealing. Blog picture managers such as Picasa and Pexels are freely available on the Internet to accomplish this.
7. Include backlinks.
If your blog has interesting, original content, bloggers might decide to add links to it on their web sites and comment on your suggested topic. By gaining back-links to your blog from other web sites, your web site will place higher within search engine queries, thus boosting your link popularity.
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8. Keep up with your Email list.
Offer to inform readers of your blog with free email management services like Feed blitz (if you don’t have an email list management solution) in addition to offering RSS feeds for subscription. Readers and visitors can be kept updated of any new information being added to your blog without having to check the site constantly.
9. Ping your blog.
Utilize blog and ping to get sites indexed quickly by the search engines. By notifying popular ping servers monitored by blog search services such as Google Blog Search, you attract search engine spiders to a blog. A blog can automatically be setup to ping certain web sites. An easy method of doing this is by adding the Pingomatic service to the sites to ping in the blog software which pings many popular ping servers at once.
10. Use social media for free marketing.
Use all social media platforms to expand the reach of your content, by reaching new readers. The most important one these days is Pinterest. Besides that, I personally use Facebook groups, Twitter and Instagram.
11. Use blog directories to increase traffic and ranking.
Finally, remember to submit to popular, high quality blog directories to boost your web traffic and link popularity! To see some options for blog directories check this link.
Other posts you might find useful.
How to increase your blog traffic as a new blogger.
How to find inspiration for relevant blog topics.
Blogging, the things I have learned after 1 year.
Final thoughts.
If you respect these rules you will most likely have a successful blog, and you will be rewarded in the process.
After 2 years of blogging and 200 thousand visitors to my blog monthly, I wanna to share the things that has been essential to the growth of my blog with you. There is something else I’ll like to add, and that is consistency. Posting at least once every week, or two times if you can, will also improve and grow drastically your blog.
To visit my blog click this link.
I hope you learn something with this article today, and that is helpful to you. Thanks for reading.
Zadi, xo.
You are very welcome dear, I am glad it was helpful