9 Steps to Make Your Blog Successful

 9 Steps to Make Your Blog Successful:

Making your blog a successful venture is important, if you want to make money out of it. In this article, I’ll focus more on the blogonomical side of blogging. So, fortune rather than fame is the primary focus on this blog post. Read the 9 steps to make your blog successful.

1. Use WordPress

WordPress is the mother of all blogging platforms, as it allows you having access to the code. It’s free and with the help of this blogging platform, you can place items in the order you choose. Otherwise, you may not be able to rearrange the things on your blog pages they way that you want them.

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2. Keyword Research

This is one of the important parts in to take care in your blogging journey. Use Google Adword Tool to research your keyword. Select best keywords, integrating into your blog titles, your blog name, article titles and so on. I would suggest you to be restrictive when using keywords.

3. Edit Categories and Keywords

Your category should be matching with your Keywords. You can edit your blog categories to integrate keywords into URLs. Place your Keywords in the beginning of the article once or twice. Beware- More than two Keywords may be taken as spam.

4. Linking to Other Blogs

Adding links to other blogs, is important as it give you weightage. Before linking to other blogs, make sure that hey are useful to your readers and those links are trustworthy. Trust is a big issue for people using the Internet.

5. Blog directory submission

Try to submit your blog to the top blog directories. People can find you more easily this way, besides this, you will be getting quality backlinks, that are useful these days. Get your blog into the top blog directories including Google, Yahoo and DMOZ.org.

6. Blog Posting Length

Try for post lengths of the at least 300 words and integrate selected keywords near the top of the post.  It would be easy for web spiders to track your content, if you write more than 300 words. The keyword should be related to the title that is used by search engines to help understand the focus of the title.

7. Moderating Your Blog

Moderating is important of your blog. Don’t let all the comments get posted in your blog. Moderate all comments and delete those containing useless links, those that are off topic that might offend your readers.

8. Clean URLs

Edit your URL before publishing your blog post. I would suggest you to use keywords in the URLs. Clean URLs are easier for a search engine spider to crawl and index into its related search engine automatically.

9. Frequency of New Blog Posting

Make frequent postings. Frequent posts will keep the spiders coming back to see what’s new. This will help to keep fresh content flowing into search engine indexes from your domain.