Top 5 Secrets To Blogging
I have been blogging for almost 4 months now, generating quite a number of visitors lately
and I am very happy with my Alexa ranking as it just increased again to 134,000. Thanks
guys for your kind support =)
I noticed when I teach my students there are few guidelines that many people fail to do for
their blogs so I decided to write an article on my top 5 secrets to creating a good blog!
No. 1 Secret - CONTENT IS KING
Yesh, you hear me right. Content is the most important in creating any blog. Without good
content, will readers actually bother to come back to read your site? Not only must you have
good content but it must be of quality content and do not be too concern about how your blog
layout looks like! Anyway people come to your site for the content not to see your nice
graphics =P
Be as honest as you get in your articles. Do not be afraid to share your ideas in your
comments, in fact I realized that the more honest and open I was in my articles, the more
people were sharing my information around the Internet.
No. 2 Secret - Find A Good Niche Topic
Before, you go out there and setup your domain or blog. You first have to decide what topic
you want your blog to talk about? Let’s say you are good at playing soccer and you want to
focus on writing about soccer related topics. Find a good niche market on the internet to find
out what people like to know about soccer and create a blog or site based on soccer only!
Example, my site www.gathersuccess.com it focuses mainly on helping others to improve on
their sites with topics related to Internet Marketing. Why niche topic? Well the more targeted
your topic is the more targeted your readers on your site will be. Meaning those who visit
your site often are the people that are generally interested to know about the topic you want
to share!
So like me, I talk most of the time of topics related on Internet Marketing. Have you ever seen
me write an article about dog food and soccer?
No. 3 Secret - Forums
Go to forums! Join communities that are related to your topics and share information in those
forums, put your signature link in your forum postings to provide more information of your
site. This will give you free traffic from visiting forum members.