9 Killer Ways to Make Your Blog Popular

9 Killer Ways to Make Your Blog Popular

I have been working on my blogs for a while and finally decided to share my personal experience and methods to make your blog popular and stand out in the crowd. I know it is not easy if you are new in the business but if you are hard working, I can guarantee you success.

There are many ways to take your blog to the next level but always make sure you know what you are dealing with. I have seen people spamming and using social bookmarking sites such as digg, reddit and requesting people to vote for their links. Please do not do that. This is considered spam and is detrimental to your blog. I am listing out several killer ways to get your blog popular in the right way.

Customize Your Blog Design

This is very important and that is why I listed it first. Every blog should have a unique design. People are attracted to something that is unique and interesting. When a person visits your blog, the design gives them the first impression and this determines the amount of time they spend browsing your blog. Now to be honest, if your blog has a crappy design, I am not going to visit it. Even if I visit, I might spend a few seconds before I leave.

There are plenty of decent templates you can find online. I am running a customized Thesis which is one if my favorite and it is quite reasonable. It gives you tons of sweet options and you can easily change fonts, color with a click. If you still can’t afford a premium templates then Google for free ones. I am sure you will find many.

Add Your Blog to Blog Communities

Blog communities are really popular for blogs. There are tons of other bloggers and web enthusiasts constantly checking out these communities for blogs and information. There are many communities you can deal with but it’s better to stick with the ones which are popular and have a decent Google PR.

Some good ones would be Blogged, FuelmyBlog, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, NetworkedBlogs etc. Try to Google and you will find a lot.

When you follow a blog, you are basically increasing your visibility in the community. A lot of people will check you out and also subscribe to your blog if you are good. Always try to participate in a network and engage in conversations.

Write Tutorials and Pillar Articles

Yaro Starak who is one of the top bloggers has always emphasized the importance of pillar articles. Now think about this, if you write an article about what happened on a certain day, the content is meant only for that day and with time it gets old. But, if you write a How-to Article or a tutorial that solves a problem, it stays there forever.

If you write something about “How to get rid of twitter spam or How to get loyal readers to your blog”, you know that you can use these tutorials whenever you want and they won’t get old. Tons of people will share it and bookmark it for future reference. Pillar articles are Killers and you can easily write at least 5-6 a month.

Check out 7 Tips to Avoid getting Unfollowed on Twitter . The post was retweeted more than 190 times in one day. I know it is not a big deal but this is just the starting and if your content is good and useful, it can go up to 1000.

Be a Guest Author on Popular Blogs

Most blogs you will come across these days accept guest posts. Popular blogs like problogger, shoemoney, johnchow just to name a few; they give all the new bloggers some space on their blog to get noticed. Now this is a great opportunity and shouldn’t be missed. You can’t just post anything you like but it should be related to the niche and you have to prove your worth.

Writing guest posts is a truly amazing way to get noticed and drive traffic to your blog. Of course you don’t get paid for it unless you are a big shot but this is a great and a free way to get traffic.

To start with, you are most welcome to make a guest post on this site

Give Something to Download for Free

I love free stuffs and so do you. A good way to gain readers and make your blog popular is to give free stuffs to the public. It can be almost anything; an eBook, a wordpress theme, some popular tools or even free online class.

I have not put up any free stuff on this blog yet but I am working on several valuable items that will be available here pretty soon. Based on the experience from my other blogs, people love free things especially when they are premium and valuable.

Blog Frequently

Fresh content is the key to your blog’s success. Do not just blog once a week and expect people to check in every day. Your readers are hungry for information and they expect to see something valuable and new on your blog frequently. I know sometimes you can be busy and miss out but, if blogging is your passion, you can manage time for a post. The search engines can find out how often you blog and they love fresh content. The more often you post to your blog, the better it gets.

Link Love

One of the best ways to get your blog noticed is to trade links with other bloggers of the same niche. There are multiple ways you can approach a blogger or an author and request for a link love. You can email them (make sure you don’t spam), you can comment on their blog post and request and of course add them on your facebook and talk about it.

Create a Facebook Page and Promote it

Facebook pages are rising in popularity. Check your account right now and tell me how many invitations you got to join a page. I bet it’s a lot. Create a Facebook Page for your Blog and start sharing it with other millions of Facebook users. When requesting to join your page, make sure you don’t spam because it can be really irritating. You can also set up your Blog’s RSS Feed on the Page itself so that people can check out your posts without even visiting your blog.

Some good methods you can use to promote your facebook page is by adding a widget on your blog, writing a blog post on it and also including the page details in your newsletter.

Get a Twitter Account and Tweet your Posts

I am sure everyone of you have a twitter account and use it to broadcast what you eat, when you sleep etc. There is no problem in doing that but to make it more productive, how about tweeting your blog posts to your followers. People follow you because they are interested in sharing things with you. When you tweet, they are most likely willing to check it out. Again, do not spam with your affiliate links.

To learn a little more about twitter, you can check out 4 Reasons Why You Do Not Need to Mass Follow Twitter Users to Gain Followers & 4 Methods To Gain Twitter Followers For Free

Keep following the right thing and you will get a taste of success. I hope you all found this article useful. Please feel free to share your thoughts and methods through commenting.

To your blogging success…