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March 13th, 2007

How to make a Killer Blog


The following presentation will illustrated about the basic tips for making killer blogs, you can also go through the below article for more details.

Note:This article was written in 2007 so ignore few old information’s !

In 2007 i have got more then 1.9 lakhs visitors in just 4 months (now its more than 3 million/month) of start so i decided to describe few hacks that i used to drag the eyes of visitors. These tips will help you to make a attractive killer blogs.

Few basic tips to consider while nurturing your blogs

Start with what is a Blog anyway? It’s a good question to ask at the beginning of a blogging for beginners series as it is a question i am asking every week.

A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.

Many first time bloggers automatically assume that once their blog is setup and they put a few posts on it, they will get some hits and regular readers. This is quite untrue. You won’t get any traffic if no one knows about your website. In this article I hope to tackle these problems and discuss some of the common ways bloggers and webmasters drive more traffic to their site by understanding the user. I have got more then 2 lakhs vistors in just 4 months & wanna describe the hacks i use to drag the eyes.

Blog Usability

Before I get into getting your name out there, your blog has to have some style. Most web users are instantly turned off by tacky site designs or extreme neon colors. I know I won’t stay at a website too long if the layout or navigation annoys me. The goal is to have a unique blog, different than all the other weblogs on the net. The one thing I really stress to others is making it easy for your readers to contact you. It shouldn’t take a reader more than a click, if any, to find your email address or a contact form. This makes the reader feel like someone actually runs and cares about the website. An about page is also a great asset to have on a personal site or blog. The more a reader knows about you, the more they trust your content. I highly recommend reading this weblog usability article by usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

Stuff you write

Your blog’s usability goes hand in hand with its content. You can specialize in a niche subject as long as you have an idea of how many people might be interested in that subject. If you do well with your niche subject matter, you could get some crazy traffic for being the only decent blog online with that type of content. On the other hand you could have widely used content, such as some aspect of technology, but add your own twist with your opinion or comparing/contrasting from other tech analysts. People won’t go to your site to read something they could have read on CNet(www.cnet.com) or Tom’s Hardware(http://www.tomshardware.com) they want a unique take on it. If you learn anything from this article, I hope its that reblogging is a very bad thing. The one thing to kill your traffic is having identical content to another several hundred blogs.

Online Community & groups like ORKUT
These are the best platform to medias your site and orkut, Goggle/Yahoo groups are best for this. If you post a topic or send a mail atleast 1/10 people will see it.I use this in starting of my blog & now its popular by name honeytech.

Technorati The Best shot

Technorati is one of the best traffic providers for bloggers. It makes your blog much easier to find when people search by technorati tags. Technorati is also a large blog ranking engine. Based on the number of links to your blog from various websites, your blog is given a rank. Get one here http://technorati.com/signup/.

What do you use?

Here are a few categories of addons with some of the things I use – but I’d love to see yours also. To contribute to the conversation either leave your list of blog tools in comments below or write a post on the topic on your own blog and leave a comment below with the link (or trackback this post).

Statistics

News Aggregation

Burn Your Feed

By now you may have a few extra readers, but how can you help them come back? Many blog users will immediately scan the page for an RSS feed if they like your content. Most blogs, such as WordPress, already have RSS feeds integrated for entries and comments. Using the default feeds may suffice, but you won’t have any idea about how many people you will be catering to. The FeedBurner{http://www.feedburner.com/} service will take your feed and reproduce it on their fast servers while tracking reader statistics. I highly recommend signing up for the service and letting them burn your feed. I won’t through the steps of signing up for FeedBurner, but once you’re done with that find the “Publicize” tab. Click on “FeedCount” and activate the service. FeedCount lets you post a little icon on your blog that displays the current circulation of your feed as well as make it easier for people to subscribe to your feed. Select the colors you wish to use for the icon and post the code somewhere on your blog. Come back a few days later and you should see some detailed reader statistics under the “Analyze” tab on the FeedBurner website.

Blog Rings/Networks

Submitting your website to a blog network or blog ring is another excellent way to get more readers. There are many of these networks but the one that I use is BlogTopSites.com. BlogTopSites is a blog ranking website that makes your blog easier to find and search for as well.

Hopefully my suggestions have helped out at least a few people.



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36 Responses to “How to make a Killer Blog”

  1. Hey people go to http://www.undergroundforum.net.tc they have uploaded the rapidshare section they have many nice stuff as well in their website…. You may also post any latest… I got my premium account from there as they are giving away free accounts to those who post new threads..You will be selected!!Go there

  2. Try this site

    http://www.sharingengines.com/forum/index.php?board=19.0

    He explains everything with videos.

  3. Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! ksilckmhmniq

  4. *Many first time bloggers automatically assume that once their blog is setup and they put a few posts on it, they will get some hits and regular readers. This is quite untrue. You won’t get any traffic if no one knows about your website

    *Blog Usability ie easyability

    *Share Blogs/link exchange of other bloggers

    you can visit me at http://onlinemoneymaster.blogspot.com/

    *Stuff you write
    Your blog’s usability goes hand in hand with its content. You can specialize in a niche subject as long as you have an idea of how many people might be interested in that subject.

    *Online Community & groups like ORKUT/(Google/yahoo groups
    These are the best platform to medias your site and orkut, google/yahoo groups are best for this. If you post a topic or send a mail atleast 1/10 people will see it.I use this in starting of my blog & now its popular by name honeytech.

    *Use attractive heading/Topics of you post

  5. Hello

    I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don’t have anything to say recently.

    Bye

  6. Interesting…

  7. thanx a lot honeytech…
    your website is great it help in very much to improve my blog.

  8. Sorry :(

  9. Cool.

  10. Cool.

  11. hi honeytech, i like your ideas.

  12. Thank You all for your comments.
    Feel free to bother me in case i can help you.

    ::Human Knowledge Belongs To This World::

  13. @blogtech
    Thanx dear for liking my 1 cents.
    :)

  14. The font size on your blog is too small. I had to squint to read it. Also, Technorati is overrated and their technical support is non-existent.

  15. Excellent use of visual aids which stick the essentials to your mind.

  16. Nice blog man. But your font is too small for my screen.

  17. does anyone knows if there is any other information about this subject in other languages?

  18. Padma Lakshmi Says:

    Hello…Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts ! it was a great Saturday .

  19. That was quite a useful stuff dude. I am very impressed? Are you on Twitter, anyway?

  20. What exactly is an RSS Feed?

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