Five Tips to Make a Successful Blog

I started blogging as a hobby and I didn’t imagine that I will get a huge traffic within three months of blogging. Lot of visitors ask questions to me about, how I am getting huge traffic to my blog. So I thought that I must mention all those steps through which I get more visitors. I know that these steps are not new but we forget every time that these are the only steps by which we can get huge traffic. I will start with a simple question.

Is your blog a successful blog?

If your answer is “Yes” then definitely you would be following various steps which makes your blog a successful blog. But if your answer is “No” then you must follow these steps to make your blog a successful blog.

1. Work on increasing Traffic

To make your blog a successful blog you must get huge traffic. Websites get traffic from

Search engines (Work on SEO)
Social networking sites (Work on Social Networking)
Direct traffic (Do publicity of your blog)
Traffic from other blogs (Do blog commenting)
Traffic from directories (Do directory submission)

2. Work on SEO

You may use various SEO plugins to optimize your blog so that your blog must come in top of search engine results. But before using those plugins, collect information about how to use them. If you can spend money to bring your blog on top of search engine results then you may take services from SEO firms who will work on your keywords.

3. Post new information

If your blog will contain old content then you will get less visitors. If you will publish new articles at regular interval of time then your visitors will find new content to read and you will get more traffic.

4. Use premium theme

After using Genesis theme, I noticed a great increase in visitors count on my blog. Because search engine love uniqueness in your blog and if you will use premium theme then you are above those thousands of bloggers who are using common free themes. You may opt following premium themes

Thesis
Genesis
WooThemes

5. Promote your blog

For promoting your blog you can

Do advertisement of your blog using Adwords
Send requests to your friends
Use twitter
Use Facebook

Now read all above points and think about the steps you are following on your blog. If your steps’ count is more than above steps which I mentioned, then you are going in the right direction to make your blog a successful blog, but the only thing you need is patience.

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