Monday, November 23, 2009

Get Your Blog On The First Page of Yahoo & Google

By Sam Walters

It seems as if everyone has their own blog these days. Companies, music groups, individuals and even peoples pets are the subjects of any number of the millions of new blogs created each month so its no wonder why you might be interested in adding to the mix with your own commentary or point of view. With all the various easy-to-use blogging platforms like Wordpress and Moveable Type the creation of a unique blog has become an easy step for even the most novice internet user. The hard part in creating a blog comes when you'd like the general internet population to start reading your material. You need to create content that is not only interesting but also a reason to entice users to return again and again to see your site updates.

Keywords the most important step while creating a blog. The keyword you select represents what the blog is all about. Therefore to attract visitors to your blog always use a keyword which is attractive and has a great influence on visitors to have a glance at your site. Put your keywords on the title of the page and other pages, all over your site, HTML tags etc. Then we've got content. After selecting keyword, next is the content. The content you give should be strictly in accordance with the Topic which you chose. Content should not be too lengthy or too short. If it is too long then it should be divided into paragraphs. The content should be new and it should be updated daily or on weekly basis. The best way is to include forums and polls on your site.

Social networking sites can play an important role in the success of your site. Social networking sites have become a hub of several millions of visitors. More and more social websites are coming up. Join these social networking websites such as orkut, twitter, face book etc, forums, communities, chat rooms and list your blog's URL on these sites. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves let's remember a couple of the basics, for instance the importance of blog directories. List your websites on blog directories and catalogues. Find the directory that match your keyword of blog and request them to add your blog in their listing. These blog directories play a huge role in increasing traffic to your blog. Thus, it's important to get listed to such directories as much as possible. You can also go all-out and start your own community. You can start your own discussion community, message boards over the internet. It can in the form of online discussion boards, email discussions. This way you can attract more and more regular visitors to your blog. They will come back again and again for the discussions being conducted on the blog.

Try to think outside the box on this one by going beyond electronic media. Apart from online marketing you can also go for offline marketing by way of newspapers, magazines, journals, yellow pages. This is another medium to increase traffic to your blog. Another tactic is to offer free downloads. This is another new and most popular thing which is found these days on almost every site. Put interesting software such as freeware, demo etc and let the visitors download them for free. Like this you can attract visitors and influence there curiosity to visit your blog for some interesting and new downloadable software's.

Now there's the obvious concern - search engines. Get listed on search engines to get your blog being searched by more number of visitors. Few of them are MSN, GOOGLE, and ALEXA. When visitors search on these search engines your blog also get listed on search result. This way you add traffic to your blog. Don't forget about subscription links! Always put subscription links on your site. This way you can increase traffic to your blog. By putting subscription link in form of email newsletters you can force back the visitor to return to your blog for some catchy updates.

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