Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
Make your blog easy to read
Below are the 15 tips and secrets that aims to make your money-making blog more user-friendly. It is very important if you want to gain constant traffic to your site that can generate considerable amount of money from Adsense.
- Buy your own domain name. It is fa more easy to be memorized if you have your own domain name. It is quite cheap to buy a domain name with .org and .info. It just cost you about $3-4USD, and it last for a whole year! On average, it just costs you $0.25 month! Action now!
- Offer RSS and feed subscription buttons. Also ensure to place these buttons on highly visible area. It enable your reader to keep tight with your blog. I am sure you must know how to do it.
- Offer posts via email. There are some people who prefer email than RSS feed. Both Feedburner and Feedblitz offer this email service. I am also the subscriber of these two great company.
- Try to use a mild background and write for your readers comfort. This is the reason why I change the dark background to the new template. Help them have a wonderful reading experience. Use proper font, size, color and spacing. Check also the spelling, that will make you like a professional blogger.
- Have a better hosting who serve reasonable amount of time to load up a page. Guarantee on the up-time is also very important. Usual hosting company can guarantee up to 99.99% of that.
- Make your blog look outstanding. Try not to use the default template, especially those from blogger.com. Best, hire a designer to create a unique look for your blog. You can also used free templates but have it customize to create a unique look. As a cheap alternative, try to google the term "blogger template".
- Choose the right color scheme. While you can experiment with colors to find a good mix for your blog, keep in mind user experience and their expectations.
- Make RSS available. If your blogging solutions don't have RSS by default, have it added. Also ensure to place your RSS link on highly visible area. Go to http://feedvalidator.org to ensure your feed is working without any problem.
- Do not overload the widget. Don't sacrifice loading time for nice but not necessary widgets.
- Have a more descriptive and easy-to-memorize title of your post. Also, keep it short.
- Post consistently and regularly. This is the ultimate method to generate traffic to your site, indeed! Also, Googlebot and other blots are more likely to stop by on a more regular basis.
- Link up well to your post sources and to other complementary post. Use keywords or content phrases as your anchor text.
- Use a related posts plugin. Not only does this make sense to keep readers around for other articles on your site that are related to your current post, but it also allows you to deeplink from a current page on your blog to older entries.
- Manage well your trackback and comment spam. Don't wait for Google or Yahoo to find masses of spammy links on your blog.
- Use a good URL structure. Don't use "permanent links" such as www.yourblogsite.com/?p=123 . Instead, use www.yourblogsite.com/2007/01/01/blog_entry_title_here
Generate readership of your blog
Search engine is one of the greatest thing on the internet, and in fact, it changes the way how people surf the net. Search engines are also important to an adsensers. Without a doubt, you can drive traffic to your site/blog whenever a person search a term. But one thing you need to realize, can you really get your site to the top 10 result pages? If not, do you think you can get significant traffic from search engines? I don't think so. In light of this, I think you better find other solid way to improve your traffic without search engines. One basic way is to keep update your blog.
Successful bogs overtime have managed to build huge numbers of readership. Their readers are their source of sustainable traffic. Search engine algorithm can change anytime. Your blog maybe number 1 now from the search engine results but changes can happen anytime. There is no guarantee you will have search engine traffic for a lifetime. Since readers are the source of sustainable traffic and since they are the engine of blogs sustainable success, how to have a large readership is one very important question.Is there a secret of having a large readership? I begin to make research and this is what I found so far. To build a large readership, you must understand your target audience and know what it is that they want.When you write your post, write it as if there is just one person in your mind. Think of him as a person whom you know intimately, you understand his goals, his dreams, his aspirations and things that really interests him. He is your ideal reader, he soak up every word and he clicks every link you include in each blog post.
You cannot please all the people all of the time. The best strategy is to focus on pleasing the people you can influence. You want people who will take action. You want readers who will click a link because you have recommended a new eBook or a new software product. You want readers who will click the "Buy Now" button and earn you an affiliate commission.Think about what people are usually looking for online. Your job as a blogger is to make that information available. Your job is to make your content closely match the wants of your target audience.
Other things you can do:
