Friday 19 April 2013

How to gain recognition with your blog

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Ask pretty much any blogger what the biggest challenge was when they first started blogging, and getting their blog noticed will probably be one of the most popular answers. While we all want to have the greatest blog ever existed straight from creation, its highly unlikely that this is going to happen unless you’re the most famous person to have ever lived! With millions of bloggers giving up because they can’t seem to get enough traffic to their blog to make it worthwhile for them, anyone can see why getting your blog noticed carries such importance.

While we can all hope for a bit of luck and being in the right place at the right time can certainly help, there are a lot of ways that are guaranteed to get your blog noticed.

So in this post I am going to talk you through just how to do it.

Learning SEO

One of the most tried and tested forms of any website or blog being found is search engine optimization, or SEO. As the name suggests, this is making sure your blog is as optimized as possible when it comes to being found via searches on the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo and more.
When you start blogging, usually you’re going to want to be known for a certain niche or topic, and be found by people searching for that topic. This is where knowing SEO and its benefits come in.
SEO is the practice of improving and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors that you receive to your site from search engines. There are many aspects to SEO, right now we will cover some of the basics. One aspects are the words on your page to the other way other sites link to you on the web. Sometimes SEO is simply a matter of making sure your site is structured in a way that search engines understand.
The majority of your website traffic is driven by the major search engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo. Although there are many other aspects that are becoming major types that generate traffic like social media. The process of SEO is complex , but most people can understand the basics. Even a small amount of knowledge can make a huge difference.
Taking some time to learn SEO would be beneficial to absolutely anyone that wants to generate more traffic.

Make Your Contents Easy to Share

You have a blog or website, you slave over and write top quality posts every day. You help people out and show them how to get over obstacles they didn’t know they could, and they want to share this great contents with their social networks. So they go to share with their friends and acquaintances by using the social sharing buttons on your post. Except you don’t have any, or you have very limited options (usually just limiting those to Facebook and Twitter). Why? Why would you erect any barriers to letting people share your post you’ve worked so hard on? Add them all! Digg, Tumblr, LinkedIn and many more. The more options you give your reader the more chance you have of getting your amazing posts out to the whole world. So make it easy for people to distribute your blog post. There are a ton of options available.

Comment More Than You Blog

This might sound like the last thing you want to be doing when you’re trying to get your blog noticed. After all, isn’t the whole idea meant to be growing your blog, as opposed to growing the comments of someone else’s blog?

Well, yes it is – but there’s method to this madness. Because as you comment more on blogs, the more people will start to notice you. The more people notice you, the more they’ll become interested in what you have to say. The more they become interested in what you have to say… well, all they need to is click on your URL and come to your blog.

Take an hour or so every now and then and take a look at other people blogs. You never know you may find something out there that might just help you out.

Tell Everyone About It!

Sounds pretty stupid yes? You have a great blog or website set up and your publishing all over the place, or maybe you will be, and the whole wide world is at your finger tips. Umm… Unfortunately No! Not if there is nobody at out there who know about it. So tell everyone about it.
Register your blog on blog communities (especially ones in your niche). Sites like
Scribnia, BlogEngage, ComLuv and more are great starting points.

Update your email signature to have your blog URL on there. If your email service supports it, use something like
WiseStamp to give you a cool email signature that allows you to share your latest post automatically (via the RSS feed).

Update your social networks to share your URL, and send a message to your friends to ask them to check it out.

Ask your friends and social network connections if they can spread the news about your blog.

Put it on your business cards if you use them.

These are just five ways to help you get your blog noticed, either as a new blogger or someone who’s been blogging a while. While (technically) nothing is ever guaranteed, by following these five tips you should start to see a difference in your traffic.

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