Strategies to Make your Blog Noticeable Online
Building a blog, maintaining it and then making it popular is really a tough job. It takes a lot of creative and smart work, to attract visitors and make them visit your blog again and again. There are huge numbers of blogs out there, and making your blog popular among these needs a preplanned strategy. Thus, here I am going to share few tips which will be helpful to get your blog noticed.
#1 Choose a Professional Theme
When people visit your blog, the first thing they notice about your blog is theme. Thus, try to choose a professional design for your blog which can complement the content of your blog. Your theme says a lot about you and how much serious you take your blog. Thus, instead of choosing some funky themes, you should go for a professional theme.
#2 Build links
If you want your blog should be noticed online then, building just few links is not sufficient, you can’t stop building links, it should be an ongoing process and you have to try building links continuously, important point to remember while building links is to never use link farms, otherwise your blog might get Banned from search engine. The more you link to, the more your blog will get noticed. Try to exchange the link with the blogs or sites which are relevant to your blog, this way you can be noticed easily by visitors of other blogs/sites.
#3 Submit your Blog to Search Engines
Submit your blog URL to every search engine and website directory. Stay current with search engine policy for giving higher ranks, about keywords and try to find out how to make your blog on first page. Keep track that search engine’s spiders or bots are crawling to your all blog pages or not. This is best way to get your blog noticed.
#4 Be Social
Try to register on social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Technorati, etc… This way you can contact more people and promote your blog easily. Make friends, exchange views, join forums and try to inform about your blog through your messages on social media websites.
#5 Advertise your Blog
If you have funds to spend on marketing of your blog, then you should submit your blog to paid Directories, this shows that you have a standard blog and search engines also consider blog which are listed in paid directories.
These were some strategy to remember if you want to make your blog noticed online.
Hope you found it useful. How you make your blog noticed? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
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Great tips, especially in regards to advertising your blog. There are many inexpensive alternatives out there.
yeah its true..just need to be creative in marketing strategy
Agree, to hold a contest is my favourite strategy and it’s effective
Yes, it seems so. I’ve never held a contest before, but I’m considering it now after the success Lax has had with this one.
I’m waiting for my blog income stable first and will run a contest…with this success Lax has made I want to make first contest in my blog asap
I am waiting it in the same way.
Hey Akria07 when are u going to start a contest , waiting for it
I agree with you Een creativity is the best weapon in marketing.
True, I also always try to get advertise my blog on a free budget. But you can get good traffic by using paid methods as well
For bloggers like me free budget only works, since i don’t generate much income from the blog as of now. But it is worth considering it once u generate good money.
yes there is so many way to advertise a blog.
Hey John can you tell me a few which are really inexpensive ?
I am a strong advocate of linking. I love to link to other blogs because it helps them out and hopefully they will reciprocate the favor.
That’s not the only reason I link though, linking to credible blogs helps to build my credibility and adds to the knowledge base of a given post.
Yes you are right freeman, linking to a credible blog does matter alot.
I never spend dime on paid directory. But it is worth of it. Getting anchored link will rise SERP for sure.
Yup it will rise The SERP But that takes Money and some Time Too
True, i never spend on paid directories as well. But i’ve heard that popular directories are worht aying for.
Yes me too, Corporates can make the use of the same.
Which paid directory you are taking about Rahul can you please tell me ?
Good Tips…i agree to your all Points
I find it hard to Do #2 most especially if you have multiple blogs because, you have to do the same effort in each blog. It takes very long time and I think, you have to do this continuously or else, your blog might be outperformed by other blog.
#5 Advertising is also something you have to invest in. Most of the time, there’s money involved but if you are wise, you can minimize the cost of advertising.
Lax, thanks for sharing this very useful post. My wife and I have multiple blogs and I find it really difficult to make each one of them popular. So in the near future, I’m planning to put up one single blog with multiple niches. This way, I only have to promote one site, advertise one site, and introduce to social networks one site.
Every problem has the solution..Why you’re limiting yourself to one blog only? You’re doing great right now by having multiple blog..Yeah it’s take so much effort to promote multiple blog but outsource your work might be one of the solution..If you want a blog with multiple niche..you’ll never have targeted readers….you can’t mix niche in one blog unless the blog is for fun or personal blog..
Yeah Een i completely agree with you, even i am in trouble having many things on a single blog.
That’s one of the drawbacks of having too many blogs. That’s why its wise to have the number of blogs you can only maintain and promote.
I will try these tips and suggestions and hopefully I can improve my traffic more.
sure, but don’t in 2-3 days, it may take 2-3 month.
You can certainly improve the traffic if you follow the above consistently i mean over a period of time.
Choosing a Theme is important, i will recommend a simple basic SEO friendly theme for beginners, don’t use complex themes on the starting
So what theme Do you suggest that has basic SEO?
You could try Thesis. If you’re not up on your coding, it’s great so you don’t end up messing coding up for search engines.
yes Thesis them is best and SEO friendly them
I don’t know how themes choice is affecting SEO so website can be noticeable. Do you mean, a placement or design of Column, bar, menu link area, etc is affecting to SEO?
Messed up coding, usually caused by inexperienced coders modifying existing code often makes it difficult for search engines to understand.
Another great themes that I found out very good in SEO is premiumthemes dot net..
That tip to beginners only.
I mean it for the starting time, instead of beauty and earning keep concentrated on traffic,
Do not start a blog for Adsense, if you have decent traffic just put ads.
Simple SEO friendly themes will give you more traffic. sure.
Agree with you Anish..It’s annoying if new blog without good traffic putting so much ads..For newbie, I suggest them to use basic theme with simple SEO and try build traffic first..
One more thing..you have to pay to get Thesis theme but if you’re lucky you can get other free SEO theme..Just search for it..Once you have enough money you can invest for your blog theme..
Hey Ben can you suggest any free theme ?
Yes, but having a unique theme created will also help a lot as google likes UNIQUE
Oh, I didn’t know that. I thought it was just about making sure your code was clean and optimized. Why is unique important?
I can’t understand theme is affecting your serp (which mean if serp is good, your blog is noticeable). Anyway, i’m agree that google love unique, but the unique one is not always good (in this case, good on SEO coding).
But why does Google like a unique theme? What about unique makes it be preferred?
But does a theme makes a difference in uniqueness to google ?
How about using default theme? It’s one of the best SEO optimize theme..
Default theme is OK, but i think people have a reason to make a new one (customized themes). But i can’t explain more detail since i’m not understand the sytem of themes coding and it relation to SEO purpose.
It’s too ok though to use default theme..a lot of famous bloggers use default theme and their blog have good PR and good SERP..I don’t know why the theme affect all those things..but when we are too overload with many themes, it’s better we go back to the basic..I’m make a customization to my default theme though
No doubt, its the suitable one, but the problem is your blog looks normal.
It’s ok as long my blog don’t annoy anyone..hahaha..I’m still consider myself as a newbie who don’t know anything..
Which default theme you are taking about Een?
hey Anish which SEO theme you are taking about , is it free ?
Kubrick theme
Nice sharing. I’m also curious about paid advertising. Is it really works and worth it?
Ya it works a Lot
It actually depends on where your getting it and if its good targetted traffic, but yehe it mostly works
Choosing traffic acc. to wat ur blog is about will surely help…
It’s really work and worth if you know where to advertise and how your ads should looks like. Also, the key is to advertise on blog who have same topic with your blog topic.
Depending on where you’d like your blog to be noticed, there are many approaches.
These days you have gotta to zoom in your market, when I say zoom in, you have to stand out in a specific audience.
For example, every blogger has its own source of viewers – Facebook, Twitter, or blogging communities like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog.
One of the ways to stand out amongst the crowd is to get a really fresh and updated content. New contents are always at the top of the Wall on Facebook or at the top Tweet list.
Fresh content must be coupled, I know everyone knows about this, with informative and engaging content. A good post is something that generates comments.
When you’re blog is being discussed about or most commented on your social communities, then you are a winner!
There is another side to becoming “NOTICEABLE”. Again it depends on the motive. Say, if your motive to be NOTICEABLE is for publicity purpose only, you can create publicity stunts like giving freebies, or inviting to join a site-initiated contest, or generate a viral concept.
Great tips Llevon. I’m glad you mentioned social media. The rapid growth of Twitter and Facebook, make it a must for bloggers wanting to get their blog ‘out there’.
‘A good post is something that generates comments.’ In some cases, yes, but depending on the content a post is offering and what it’s readers are after, that may not necessarily be the case.
One of my main strategy is using social media..it’s a great tool….no doubt
Very good advice and tips Llevon.
I dont know these tips, and recently i installed 2 days before, and it shows report from that day only, where my cpanel awstats from the day i launched my site shows good and acurate report i got 836 uniqur visitors for my one most/day.
in cpanel stats i have 60000+ pageviews this month(todays date) so how much i need to BSA approval. my blog is 45 days old blog. any suggestion.
Hmm 45 days blog getting 60,000 page views. Good yar… It should be enough for BSA…
Use Google analytics for better picture for traffic.
Yep, analytics is best for tracking traffic. Reliable and worth using.
And its free too
60k page views? Does Google Analytics says the same?
2k page views a day is no joke.
Your blog looks like photo blog. Which attract peoples. At this rate you will rise 5,000 unique visitor in next 5 months.
Any big difference using awstats or google analytics? Anyonen have an idea?
For 45 days old blog, get 60,000+ visitor is so great, congratz for your achievement.
Anyway, just wanna asking about BSA. What is it? And why you need their approval?
You have a PR of ” 2 “, why not using Adsense ?.
Optimize your Images for more traffic, you will more traffic from images.google, lax has already wrote about this, check for old posts.
Blog also noticeable if you have great content where your readers will refer their friends to visit your blog for some good information they need.
There is another strategy of making content, and it is to make controversial article. I’m sure people will interested to come and read, because there is something controversial
Yes, that can be a good strategy for a one off read, but you’ve got to make sure it doesn’t turn visitors away if it is too controversial.
To avoid visitors turn away write the controversial content in positive way…Don’t insult
All of the point you mentioned here is really important for our blog noticeable.
One of the most important thing for blog noticeable is to update blog frequently with fresh content. Another important that you mentioned here is Building tons of backlink.
Yes, I’ve found that. I think it also depends on the content which your blog is offering as to how often you should update it. Some may prosper from posting less posts, whilst others may find it hard to gain traffic from that technique. Regular posts on a schedule though is very important.
Yes regularupdates will surely help Google to crawl your blog more frequently and thus you will get good search results from Google.
Being noticeable is art of blogger this days. Thanks for this great tips.
Nice tips
, but i have never submitted my blog to paid directories.
me too.
I’ve also never done that, i always use free ones, but i’ve heard that submitting to paid ones is a good way and will give you better juice then free ones. But i;; stick to free ones.
I also prefer the free one, and i’m satisfied enough with it. There is many free-ways alternative, the key is “to be creative”.
But of course if i have additional money, sometime i will rent paid advertising.
why have to pay if you can get a free
Great – You have listed the most important factors, I would like to add that you need to have great content to Make your blog noticeable and we should agree that content is always the King. With great content, you will get backlinks automatically and these links will be natural which is the best of its kind
Yes Kishore, content is very important, but I think it’s important to remember that content doesn’t market itself. If no-one sees your content, then what good is it? Although, yes, without good content, you can’t market effectively.
Umm, contest will does market itself when 2-3 people already read it. The key is a content should be great. Yes, it’s only 2-3 people needed. The rest, their will Do word of mouth marketing. It’s same like content market itself, right?
I disagree akira. Although content is important, I don’t believe it markets itself. 2-3 readers may have some influence, but in the short-medium term, that is likely to make little difference.
Why not? Of course when we write a good content it’ll become a reference for others..maybe in next 2 years 5 or years or 10 years..information is never died..everyone keep looking at information..
Nice tips Lax. A combination of all those factors is pretty much all you can Do. Then you just need some intuition and luck I think.
Great Tips
I think having a unique and nice theme will also be better. Having a theme that people remember. Also being social and commenting on other blogs can also be noticeable and a great way to expose yourself
Commenting on dofollow blog is also important way that will help in link Building
Definatly, Do follow blogs are very importent and will give extra juice. If you want to Comment try finding popular do follow
Yup, you are correct. I have made my blog Do follow .
Good move, it attract more other bloggers to Comment.
Is it affect PR ?.
yes commenting on other blog on same niche is very effective and now days social media also play very good roll to get good amount of Readers
Commenting on any kind of blog can get you visitors and a backlink too
Commenting to non sense blog with ruin your blog Reputation. So be careful what you are doing on commenting blogs.
Be sure that the blogs you commented is relevant to your niche so that other commentator will notice your capability of you could share on the same topic.
Commenting to any niche of blog can drive traffic to ur blog but the blog on which we are commenting should good(page rank)
My tips is Building online credibility..besides being noticeable your blog also have loyal readers too
for loyal readers u need good content
That’s why I mentioned about Building credibility..which means you have to show your expertise in your content..
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Wanna add more point, lax. To make your blog noticeable, make a contest is an alternative good way
Because the behaviour of people who always looking for easy money or stuff, their oftenly looking for contest/freebies. And that’s a time to get a chance with it.
I’m sure techzoomin is noticeabled because contest also, at least for my case
Contests will affects for blog with medium traffic, if you have no visitors, who will conduct the contests ?.
I believe contest is on of the ways to make your blog noticeable.
Good content is also a good choice to get notice where you share your mastery on the specific niche you cover.
People may want to refer your blog to their friend because of your good content.
Still content is king in blogging industry.
No doubt Content is the king and google loves the same.
Content will always remain king i agree with you
Google and all the boats love Content,
You must add your Url to these Search engine.
1, Google – its free
2, Bing – its free
3, Gigablast – free
4, Guruji – Only for Indians.
5, Try Dmoz, but its too hard
Wow! Thanks for these..
Thanks anish i was now knowing about guruji and gigablast,i will add my url to those search engines thanks.
You can find other 100’s ,
Make another email id for SEO, Submission purpose, that’s better.
How Do you add in Google and Bing?
One best strategy for get your name brand on blogsphere is use your name when you Comment. Also if you use your picture it more helpful for branding your name.
“use your name when you Comment”
If its good then why are you not using your name?
Because I Do not want to brand my name on blogsphere.