How to Videos for Wordpress Blogging

5 Blogging Tips To Success

1) Blog Frequently, at least a few times per week. The biggest mistake made by bloggers is to let weeks or even months go by without blogging. If your blog is not being updated it will no longer be considered “sweet” to the search engines, by that I mean it will be considered a “dead” blog and they won’t visit as often.


2) Start leaving comments on other successful blogs, and then eventually leave a link back to your site after creating a relationship.


3) Research the most popular blogs within your category; you can use Bloglines.com for your research. Look at what they are doing and try to model their success without copying.


4) Add your links to the blog directories to gain more backlinks.


5) Monitor your web stats to see where your traffic is originating. It is important that you use a web stats program that can show you how many people are “bookmarking” your site. A good bookmark ratio is a good sign that people are interested in your blog and have plans on re-visiting it.


Follow these steps and you will be moving forward with a very successful blog. Please remember each blog post does not have to be pages in length. It can be as little as one to two paragraphs. Keep in mind that whatever you post should be valuable to the user and elicit a response.


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Blog Commenting

When you’ve first started your blog as we mentioned prior, comments help your blog look more active. Initially you may find that users may not post comments to your blog. It’s going to be up to you to get things going. Have your friends or family members start leaving comments on your blog as it can make your blog seem more active.

People like to see activity; if your blog seems dead you’ll likely get no responses. If you would rather not have your family even know about your blog, then you can post comments yourself but as a “Guest” or as registered user instead of admin. Respond to your own posts initially to create activity, then you’ll start to see other real users placing comments as well.

Controversial Comments

What usually works best is to leave a controversial comment. Start making comments that are guaranteed to elicit a response.   We’ve created “characters” before that post controversial statements on my blog to really get user interest going. This “character” may disagree with a blog posting we made, creating a sequence of posts that increase the activity comments of my post. Once you see that users have taken interest in your blog you can now rely on their posts rather than creating fake ones of your own.

Remember if you are going to do fake comment posts, to space the timing between posts. For example never post two minutes after you’ve posted as admin, as it’s too obvious that you’re the same person. Allow some time to pass by before making your “fake user comments post”.

Pay Per Comment

If you would rather not do the “fake posts” yourself, some bloggers have actually paid users to reply to posts on their blog. If you go to popular webmaster forums, you’ll find that users get paid for making posts on forums. The usual rate is about .10 cents per post or something within that range. The same theory applies for blog comments. You can hire a set of 10 to 20 people to comment on your posts and pay them a small fee, this way you generate some interest in your blog.

If you post a project on the sites we mentioned previously such as Scriptlance.com or Getafreelancer.com for “Blog Posters”, you can find people who can get your blog active, by making comments and paying them a small fee. You can do this until you get users posting on your site in reply to the posters you have paid. Within a few weeks your blog should be very active. This benefits you in the long run as the search engines will be visiting your site often due to the constant updates.