Blogging entails more than simply creating a blog and posting to it.
If you’ve started a blog be aware that there are steps you’ll need to take so that your blog gets noticed, attracting readers and gaining subscribers.
In a recent article I discussed blog monetization so that you earn a little something for your efforts. Once you’ve set that up, you’ll want to consider ways to get your blog noticed.
Blogging Basics: 15 Steps to Get Your Blog Noticed
- Add quality content: craft well written posts with lots of links to your other articles and links to helpful sites and resources. In other words, offer value to your readers and your blog will get noticed.
- Add your blog to free blog directories. One of my favorites is Blog Catalog. Add blog directory badges or widgets to your blog so you can keep track of directories you’ve submitted to.
- Feedburn your blog via FeedBurner so readers have the option of receiving your posts via e-mails. You can also use FeedBurner’s Headline Animator to draw attention to your posts, helping to get your blog noticed.
- Install the Add This button so readers have access to additional bookmarking options.
- Add your blog to Technorati and install the Technorati Favorites button on your blog.
- Make sure your blog is ping-enabled.
- Submit your blog post URLs to Twitter, which is a great way to gain readers. (Right-click on the time-stamp to grab the URL to a particular post or simply add a title and include your general blog URL.)
- When writing articles at other sites, link to your blog at every opportunity and place your blog link/URL in your profiles.
- Create an e-mail signature that links to your Blog. This is a great method that works away in the background and will help your blog to get noticed.
- Add the StumbleUpon, Digg, or Buzz Up button code to your blog template’s HTML, so these buttons show at the foot of your blog posts, which makes it easier for readers to Stumble/Digg/Buzz your posts, thus helping your blog to get noticed.
- Include attractive widgets on your blog. Widgetbox offers some neat widgets.
- Submit your posts to Blog Carnival on a regular basis.
- Comment on similar blogs so that trackbacks point back to your blog. At some blogs, parsing shows your post titles and you can choose which post is shown.
- Create a Blogroll of similar blogs and place it in your blog’s sidebar.
These 15 steps to get your blog noticed are effective methods that will spread the word about your blog.
FAQs:
1. How do I add meta tags to my blog’s template?
2. Can I accept Credit Card Payments?
3. How do I install a PayPal Button?
4. How do I install a Contact Form?
5. How do I set up Email Me?
6. How do I install a Chat Box?
7. How do I add AdSense?
My article Free Blogger Training Videos offers resources so that you can take your blog to the next level.
Further Reading:
March 12th, 2009 at 3:21 am
I will Stumble this,thanks
March 12th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Im gonna stumble this too great work and good information that I know that I will use for one…. great work as usuall Athlyn
March 12th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I’ve just set up a blog but not done anything with it yet, thanks for sharing some very useful information, great article.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Good article! I didn’t know about Blog Catalog before. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
March 12th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Sounds great but I still don’t even understand what blogging is LOL Michael
March 12th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Great article and advice.
March 12th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi nutuba and hfj,
I tried to click on your names, here, to comment on one of your articles, but can’t access your profiles to do so.
March 12th, 2009 at 11:59 am
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March 12th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
very useful article… bookmarked!!
March 12th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I agree, this article is very useful. I checked out your blog, and indeed it is outstanding. I am learning that aside from the wealth of knowledge you have to share, you are also a very organized, dedicated, and tech savy writer. My poor little blog looks like a crayon drawing compared to yours.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Great advice, I’m learning so much more about blogging every day. Thanks
March 15th, 2009 at 12:04 am
How kind of you, Jo!
Thanks everyone.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Excellent advice – thanks, Athlyn!
March 21st, 2009 at 12:29 am
Thanks, R J.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Great advice that even I can understand. LOL! Thank Athlyn and I currently in works using your tips.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Thanks everyone,
I’ve taken all these “steps to get your blog noticed” and they really help. I’ve learned so much from other bloggers and blogging articles.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I purposely included the links to all those sites so that someone can use this article to find everything from one place. Hope this proves helpful in getting your blogs noticed.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Just revisiting for info to fix up my blog.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Hi Chris,
These 15 steps to get your blog noticed are really the building blocks for a blog.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Even though the topic is common, the presentation is really nice. Recently I posted a topic called personal blogs Vs commercial blogs.
Thanks for the useful info.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Great piece, Athlyn… so many things for me to work on to improve my blog and get it noticed : ).
June 27th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Thanks, Jules,
I help people to set up their blogs, too.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Thanks for these useful tips for getting our blog noticed.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Great tips! Thanks!
August 25th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
These 15 steps to get your blog noticed can really help a blog to gain traction.
September 5th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Very basic and important points…Thanks for sharing this.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Hi sonia,
I’ve been asked so often what steps to take when setting up a blog so wrote this article to address those questions.