What Makes a Great Blog and how do I get people to read it?

Posted in Uncategorized by pmaurer74 on November 9, 2008

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After reading about blogs all week, I decided to try to piece together some information on how to write a good blog and then to get people to read it!

1. Write consistent articles with good content that is interesting.
2. Become an expert on something, have a niche blog.
3. Make your blog visually interesting using a well designed layout, but don’t overwhelm your readers with

too many visuals. This can make it look too cluttered.
4. Have guest bloggers write for you to break up the monotony.
5. Get a MyBlog Log widget from Yahoo and start using.
6. Have your blog get pinged every time you update it using pignomatic.com
7. Submit your url to RSS feeds.
8. Join a blog network.
9. Comment on other people’s blogs.
10. Add your blog link to your emails signatures, website, and business cards.
11. Update your blog regularly but not several times a day as this will overwhelm your readers.
12. Highlight your best content.
13. Encourage feedback from your readers.
14. Hold a contest.
15. Poll your readers.
16. Find out what your readers are looking for.
17. Send a personal message to first time commentators.
18. Make relevant blog entries.
19. Link to other blogs of the same topic.
20. Use keywords that would be easily searchable.