Blog Posting Frequency.

Posting frequency is important to maintain and to give life to the blog. Without frequent posting, your blog looks like dead. So far in this blog, i am publishing ~12 posts every month. This is not a big figure as compared to other blogs but the good thing is almost all the posts are quality, unique & lengthy (not less 650 words on an average). The new goal is to increase the posting frequency.

If you see my blog archive, during the month of dec 2009, i have increased the posting frequency and hence the search engine traffic had also increased a bit higher. I would like to continue this strategy for this year and I am willing to publish 1 article per day and hence publishing 30 articles a month (at least 25 articles per month). Lets hope for the best !

So at the end of the year, this blog will be having 25 * 12 = 300+ articles.

High Quality Blog Posts.

Almost all the articles published in this blog are gaining good position in search engines (SERP) for the targeted keywords. The reason is, they are unique and quality content (in terms of helping the reader). So I would like to continue that strategy for this year too but a bit increase quality. You can expect more number of “How To” and
“blog posts with videos” articles in the year.

So far i have published 2+ beginner courses, like steps to start online business, online business income from home and the pending course money making from internet. You can expect more such useful courses, especially targeting the online business beginner’s for this year. I am planning to add 1 more top linkbar with all the courses linked from every page of this blog. Also, I am planning to widen the categories covered.

Increasing Blog Traffic.

The aim is always increasing the organic traffic (traffic from search engines). And I would continue to focus on gaining search engine traffic. I have already started using twitter and other social media tools recently. So i am expecting to get more traffic using social media tools for this year. Though I have a believe that social media is WASTE OF TIME, this year i am going to spend few minutes every day on social media tools for the growth of this blog. Lets see how this experiment goes useful.

Money Making Strategies.

So far I have no such aim of making money from this blog, even though i have partly monetized this blog very recently. For this year, I will take serious decisions based on the achievement of traffic goals. If I reach my traffic threshold (aim) then for sure i will effectively monetize this blog. But heartily saying, I have not thought much about monetizing this blog. Once a considerable amount of growth is achieved, i will do a monetizing plan for this blog. Lets hope for the best again.

Blog Readers.

Now this blog has 2 figure regular readers and i hope by the end of this year, i will reach nearly 4 figure readers. I am planning to ask every new reader of this blog to subscribe, will find out some useful plugin to make the work simpler. That’s why i started using Twitter, lets see who i am building my network

For the period of 10 months, I have learned a lot about blogging and my favorite topic “ONLINE BUSINESS“. I have planned to do more experimentation’s for this year especially on Affiliate Marketing. I hope i will spend quality time continuously for this blog in future (usually, i will spend 1 hour per day). Lets hope everything goes good in 2010.

Good luck to every one & to myself

Hence the following points may help any blogger to know that there are some common factors that makes a blog popular.

Covering Latest News and Happenings.

Most of the popular blogs are covering the latest news and happenings in their topic. That means, they are more curious about publishing the up-to-date information. This way the blog content goes unique and fresh, that drives regular readers. Also, targeted visitors are driven like those who are willing to know the latest news on a topic will go to their site regularly. Its common across most of the popular blogs, so don’t wait, turn your blog into real time hub.

Posting Frequency.

It is a general believe that blog with higher posting frequency ranks good in search engines. On these popular blogs, this statement should be true most of time. Because, I saw the top 10 blogs which are breaking a blog post at least every one hour duration. Looks these blogs are publishing more than 10-20 posts per day. But not all blogs are posting in this frequency, some of the popular blogs are posting less than 5 posts per day. On my observation, posting frequency (of course, useful/fresh posts) is more important that decides the popularity of a blog. Even the post’s length is less than 500 or 400 words.

Utilizing Social Media Tools.

I found most of these popular blogs are utilizing the features of social media tools. They are building the interaction with/among the readers on Twitter, Facebook, Google connect and as usual RSS, Email subscriptions. These blogs are providing the way to build their reader network and hence they are getting regular, repeat visitors !

Video In Blog Post’s.

One more thing that i observed, almost all these blogs are posting videos. They have separate columns like Featured Videos or Popular Videos listing down their important videos. Looks most of the readers are lazy to read the content and hence videos are good replacement to just hear the news (with video) for few seconds/minutes. This way readers will become more comfort to hear a news from these blogs. Video’s are best suitable for publishing a product review or description, i believe.

Lengthy Title’s.

Though this may looks silly but you can’t say silly. Almost all the popular blogs are using lengthy titles for each blog posts. The intention could be giving a good description of the content but that really makes each of their posts popular. So don’t wait, start using lengthy titles in your blogs, it may help search engines to show your post for wider keywords too.

Some more common factors among popular blogs.

Blog Design & Themes. Popular blogs are using light colors mostly white background and contrasting corner colors. This may not be true but i am observing like that.
Banners. Banner Ads are widely used that textual ads and that’s increasing the visualization of the blog too.
Most commented/Active Posts. As blogs are open to comments, most commented posts are listed on the home page or in the side bars.
Wide Categories. Most of these popular blogs are not stick to few categories. They are covering wide number of relevant (few irrelevant) categories, almost everything from A-Z.
Page Navigation. They have the option to navigate by pages and to see the older blog posts from the bottom of the blog.

Though I found few more things but on my analysis these are the major factors that are common among popular blogs. I think this could be few of the reasons on how blogs are becoming popular. You could easily follow these in your blogs too !!!

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