recently received many emails from people now starting his own blog, I ask for tips, tricks, or just my opinion about this whole scene. No lecturing me for a medium in which I have so little time, and still I have everything to learn, but who take the trouble to write gentle, I decided to correspond with this entry, which will try to answer one of the questions most insistently I am asked: "How do I know my blog?".
Preamble. Who cares?
This guide is especially useful for novice bloggers interested in discovering some secrets to drive traffic (visitors) to your blog . Ojo! is very important not to confuse the term "hits" with "readers" ... are very different things. As I say, these tips will help you a lot more people discover your blog soon ... but random visits to ensure that these end up becoming loyal readers is much more complicated (and is not the purpose of this guide , it would take me longer yet another article). As a guess the key to move from one state to another (which is what we aspire to in reality) falls primarily on the quality of your work ... so before you get to work with my advice and offer you should judge whether something really interesting . Otherwise you're wasting your time: As will be gone.
1. Comment on other blogs
Perhaps the most obvious, popular and effective (initially) to make yourself known is to be an active commenter on other blogs. Which ones? If our goal hearing is to win because then nothing better than going to the most readers have (and how many more the better). There are many rankings that will help you know where to start. But beware! I say "comment", not a spammer . That is, give your opinion when you really have something to contribute, not just to say "I think the same" or shamelessly promote your blog. If you first visit because people will be interested in knowing more about the person who writes such interesting views (or fun) but if you do the second one will only earn a bad reputation ... and probably will never take you seriously as a blogger.
2. Interact with other bloggers
Establish close links with other bloggers is, for all, extremely beneficial, and it is in many areas ... also for which concerns us here. If we can establish such a union with others, plus a friend will win (as long as our work is worth) to a loyal reader, that sooner or later end citándonos in some articles, or even add in your blogroll . This will get that little by little, the audience becomes ours as well.
How and with whom you interact? Try
directly with the "big" does not usually give results ... Those responsible for these blogs so popular because of the large number of "commentators" who have (and lack of time), is likely to not notice of your existence. However if you leave your feedback (comments) in blogs more "modest" (or those who are just starting), it is almost certain that the perpetrators if they spend some of their time to visit . In your first participation one of these journals (in addition to providing a helpful comment) can be useful to invite the author directly to view your space . If you like what you see you can be sure to repeat. Thereafter, while continuing to comment, you can use other "technical approach", how to put them on your blogroll (if you really care), add as a contact in your instant messaging program (and chat about anything ) contact them by email to send you some useful information (which can be used to write or complete a paper), to send you suggestions for improvements or take advantage of every opportunity (as a gathering of bloggers-the famous Blogs & Beers-) to meet you in person.
3. Be generous with quote
Revealing what your source (or in whom you have been inspired) by writing an article (or recommend interesting or related readings), as well as give good reputation and be the morally right thing, you can serve as a weapon to win visits. By linking to other blog entry is often automatically generate a trackback to that site (but so do it manually.) Trackbacks The , which are nothing more than warning messages as a comment in the linked article, are perfect for our task for several reasons: [1] Although usually occur in the area of \u200b\u200bopinions, attract attention people who know is a new point of view or expanded information than just read. A lot of them will bite curiosity. [2] The authors of the entries that cites (to a lesser extent with the "Great") also pay more attention to the comments trackbacks . Furthermore (and even if such a signal is generated) bitacoreros most used tools to discover who has cited his articles , making it almost certain that you identified and visited.
As you can see to automatically obtain the benefits include enhanced-point-one and two of this guide , while we add content to our blog. a masterstroke that should not be missed by the fear of losing readers (if your work is good never will, and if not you can not do anything to avoid the loss).
- What is a trackback ?
- Find out who Technoratti appointment
- Find out who's appointment of Google Blogsearch
4. Contact with the "Great" when the time
Although most famous bloggers are actually (for those who know) people very close and accessible (and normal complement), we must understand that, day after day, they receive dozens of emails ( of all kinds) from their readers (and not have all the time in the world to serve them as they deserve). It is very probable that even though it read each and every one of the emails they receive, but only in passing, so if they "annoying" just to say "visit my blog" certainly be left for later and were forget. It is therefore important get in touch with them-just do not abuse this system or rush- when you've written something really good (and do well only those who can treat the topic of interest , and you know who are not readers and your blog or no miserable look like a spammer ). leave them a small snack in summary in the email ... if they like what they will read your blog. With luck you may use by writing on his blog and you cite (which I would flood of visits), but even this does not happen initially, if they see that your blog-overall-worth will add to their daily readings ... and sooner or later long-awaited moment will come early.
5. Actively participates in the blogosphere
opportunities are great for letting you know, for example, memes games (you can be yourself who start one, and its success will be proportional to the ingenuity and novelty that is). As you know it's ideas (for example, "Take a picture of your desk") that are passed from blogger to blogger, with the consequent appointment of one another. Choose wisely because the witness who spend (not aim too high, because popular blogs do not usually participate ). Pass bloggers you know like to play this kind of thing, and that still do not know you (you can mail us that they pass the meme). Other alternatives are, for example, participate in the Festival of Blogs , or designing a theme or plugin and make it available to all (people tend to echo this kind of thing).
6. Submit your blog to blog directories
Believe it or not there are always people browsing the numerous existing blog directories. Therefore takes this circumstance and submit your URL to everyone I meet, especially those who are in your country or language-. These directories usually have also has listings of the latest blog updates (always with many curious for new items), so make sure by publishing a new post, that you appear . You will need notify them manually (each board has an address where you do) or automatically (by setting your publishing tool for this, or using sites that handle it for you). Extensa
- tasty Directories Library Blogs
- Complete list address to be notified
- Pingoat: An excellent update notifier
- Update Notification List
7. Promote Your elsewhere
Why be limited to advertising only in the blogosphere? There forums, for example, that are as popular as the most popular blogs . If you participate in them (always do with ethics) can set your signature so that it displayed the address of your blog . The same can be done with your email accounts (think for example in chain mails without being forwarded to each other ... without meaning to your URL will reach more people than you imagine.) IRC channels (or chat) can also be useful for our purposes.
And why not also advertise in the Real World ? Talk about your blog with your friends , classmates / office ... I'm sure any of you is interesting and in turn it says to others, which in turn will tell others, creating a chain effect. Other forms could be more eccentric print the address of your blog on your business cards , or why not?, screenprinted on a shirt . There are hundreds of ideas, the limit is your imagination.
8. Note to search engines
Although initially receive very few visitors from Google (and other search engines), over the months watch your blog , completely natural, is receiving increasing and more traffic from this type . As in any other case, these visits may become readers, for which must be taken into account, and optimize their arrival .
Very good info on how to get specialized pages ... that would take whole days to read and assimilate. Actually, for our purposes, it is necessary to work so hard, we simply acquiring basic . Positioning is something you earn slowly as you receive links to your blog (backlinks ). But remember that forcing such links may result in fictional form a penalty.
The basic tips are: [1] Try to register your URL in a few search engines and directories . [2] Use descriptive titles for your posts (search engines give more weight to appear when the search string). [3] Help Google to index all your pages blog (since you crawled more regularly) sending them a map of your blog ( SiteMap ). [4] If you exchange links reciprocal make sure it's someone from and to, websites "real" and trustworthy.
- list of directories where you can put up your address
- positioning
- Google also has its Sitemaps Yahoo!
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