It is not as easy as once believed to create a really popular blogging site. Nevertheless, thousands upon thousands of professional blogging hopefuls each year set out on their pursuit of becoming the next big thing in blogging. One should note however, that many of today’s top bloggers themselves will be the first to tell you that they didn’t in fact intend on reaching the levels of success that they have now obtained. There weren’t dreams of easy millions and piles of residual income on their mindsets. They simply did what you should set out to do with your new blog. They set out with only the intentions and mind to create a focused, entertaining and well thought-out, content-rich blog.
Get Indexed in Blog Directories and Major Search Engines
It is very important once you have a significant amount of posts that you pursue becoming indexed in directories like DMOZ, major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Bing and even blogging and RSS directories like Google Blog Search. These sites are all free to submit to, but you will need a valid Yahoo email account to submit to Yahoo. It is well worth the time (it can take up to a minimum of 4-6 weeks to be indexed by search engines) and patience it will take to become properly indexed in these and the other major directories and search engines.
Set Up and Promote Your RSS Feed Urls
RSS 2.0 is the most commonly used RSS (Really Simple Syndication) system these days. You should always have your blog’s RSS feed prominently pasted across the top area of your blog. Some blogging experts even suggest that you go as far as adding link coding to your RSS pages directly in your single post page templates. This may not be easy for you if you aren’t experienced with PHP coding, but it will ease the pain of having to continually add the same link code to each and every new post that you make. Services like Feedburner (free Google service) can even help you monetize your RSS feed and provide you with tons of various ways to help enhance and promote your feeds.
Guest Write for Similar Blogs
In addition to all of these means of promotions for your blog, you can and should also opt for writing free guest posts on other popular blogging sites. If these blog owners like your material you may be asked to guest post more frequently and may even be asked to become a paid expert on their blogging site as well. Through this means of promotion you gain valuable networking contacts and can manage to almost effortlessly gain new readers and fans for your own personal or company blog. Just be sure you always add your contact information and a link to your blog and a short description about your blog site at the end of each of these guest postings.
Promote on Twitter, Facebook and Other Social Media Outlets
You should know all too well how important social networking is to promoting anything nowadays, be it virtual or an actual tangible item. Your blog of course falls under the virtual description here. You can easily add applications or plug-ins (many of which are free) that will automatically publish links to Myspace, Facebook and Twitter or YouTube accounts that you may currently hold. Word of mouth is now huge and these methods of promotions can’t be ignored if you are serious about maximizing your potential for success with your new blog.
Continue to Pursue Your Dreams
All of these things spoken about above do take some time to put in order, so don’t expect immediate results from most of these tactics. Good success on the Internet takes time and continual, steady maintenance practices. You must frequently promote and advertise your blog, as well as, stay up to date on changes in copyright laws and technology relating to blogging and blogging platforms.
On average it takes around 3-5 years for most bloggers to begin to earn anything significant from the personal or business blogs, so don’t expect to quit your day job. Even then, if you are one of the lucky few to begin earning from blogging on a steady basis you most likely still won’t be making enough to only proceed solely as a professional blogger.
Take your time building your blogging sites properly and honestly, do it for the passion and the love of communicating with possible millions from across the world. Then, if fame and fortune do find you on your journey you can be assured that you deserve it and that it will most likely continue to grow.
