Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts
10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic
It's easy to build a blog, but hard to
build a successful blog with significant traffic. A blog with no traffic is
just like a supermarket without any shoppers. No traffic – no business. So it
is vital to take smart steps to boost the traffic of your blog. Let’s look at a
few tips to increase blog traffic.
1. Create
a complete profile or page
If your blog can be identified as a
business or brand, then create a Google+ Page for it. If not, use your personal
Google+ profile to connect with your blog audience. The primary step is to
create a comprehensive profile or page that completely describes who you are,
what expertise you bring to the table, how to find your blog, what your blog is
about, and what makes it special.
2. Take
part in a variety of communities
Advertisers in the current business
world have spent millions and billions of dollars looking for, properly researching
and finally determining where the various consumers with different tastes and characteristics
log in together and how they can be targeted with promotional messages.
3. Connect
with people
Once you've smartly and proficiently created
your account for Google+, you need to begin connecting with other Google+ circle
members. You should search for users you know first. Then look through the
people they take after to find more interesting people to take after.
4. Use
twitter, Facebook and Google+ to share your posts & find new connections
Due to the wonderful traffic on social
media websites like twitter, google+ and Facebook, it is much easier for you to
use these websites to increase the traffic of your blog.
5. Create
circles
Google+ circles can prove to be very
useful when you want to promote your blog, or want existing users to invite
more readers to your blog.
6. Include graphics, photos and illustrations
If you're someone who can produce
design, take photographs, illustrate or even simply create entertaining doodles
in Microsoft Paint software, you should leverage that talent on your blog.
7. Distribute
interesting content
Don't simply distribute links to your
blog posts over and over. That's boring and will be viewed as excessive
self-promotion. Your Google+ stream of updates should be interesting and
meaningful to your audience, not spammy.
8. Conduct
keyword research while writing your posts
Not surprisingly, a huge part of showing
up in search engines is targeting the terms and phrases your audience are
really typing into a search engine. It's tricky to realize what these words
will be unless you do some research, and fortunately, there's a free tool from
Google to help called the Adwords Keyword Planner.
9. Host
hangouts
Google+ joints are video chats between
up to 10 Google+ members. You can have a joint and promote it as a small
virtual webinar or tutorial session. Think of how you can tie a video chat
session with your blog topic and what kind of valuable information you could
share in such a session.
10. Be
active
Update your social media and blogging
accounts on a regular basis with brand new contents and blog posts, and make
sure that you spend a considerable amount of time liking commenting on other
members' updates also.
Conclusion
The web was not made for static,
text-just content! Readers appreciate links, as do other bloggers, site owners
and even search engines.
Blogger vs. WordPress, Which is better?
WordPress
It is an open source and free blogging tool for bloggers. It is also a content management system based on MySQL and PHP. It works on web hosting services. Basic features of WordPress include templates and plug-in system. The WordPress tool is used by more than 19% of top 10 million websites. It is a most popular blogging system used over web. It was released on May 27, 2003. Its founders were Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. Under Free Software Foundation the license of WordPress software has released. The most useful and popular feature of WordPress is plug-in. The plug-in allows users to extend their ability. You can choose any of the plug-in from a database of 26,000 plug-in. Every plug-in offers custom features and functions which allows users to make their site according to their requirements.
Blogspot
Basically it is a blog publishing service which permits multiuser blogs with time stamped entities. It was created by Pyra Labs and was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs are hosted by Google under a sub domain of blogspot.com. A single user can have up to 100 blogs for its single account. Till May 1, 2010 this tool has permitted users to publish blogs on some different hosts with the help of FTP. These type of blogs need to be moved on Google’s own server bearing the domain other than blogspot.com.There are many other things about WordPress and Blogspot which I will be discuss in its difference section. So let’s have a look on it.
Blogger vs. WordPress
These days’ people take blogging very seriously. If you want to start your own blog then you can choose hosting of various websites spreaded over internet. The most popular of them are Blogspot and WordPress. The main and most important difference between both of them is that Blogspot provide free services but they are surrounded by advertisements but WordPress is a paid tool. There many WordPress services which are provided for free but most of the services are also paid and if you will not include them in your blog then you will miss some important tricks. So for newbie’s both services are more than good enough.
Second major difference between both of them is of JavaScript. With the help of Blogspot you can include third-party scripts in your blog but in WordPress JavaScript is not permitted. In one you will get faster and clearer interface but in another you will get more interactive interface. So it’s totally up to the user to decide which is more important for him.
Both WordPress and Blogspot permits to create private blogs i.e. the blogs which are not visible to common people. Now here the difference is in the option that who can view them. In Blogspot you are limited to only 100 people but in WordPress you have no restriction. You can choose anyone and can also block the people to whom you don’t want to enter your blog.
At last, the WordPress allows password protection facility in your post (another way to limit you can view your post). These features can’t be enjoyed in Blogspot.
Both these tools are feature full in blogging across the globe. But one thing you should keep in your mind is that Blogspot is owned by Google that’s why it also integrated some services offered by Google. The most important service is Google Ad sense. This is a very important service if you are monetizing the blog that you are building.
After analyzing these differences I feel that you can now choose the services of your desire. But if you still in trouble then my suggestion is to use either of services because both of them are good in their own. I hope that you will surely create a good blog with any of these tools.