The ongoing cycle that happens in online blogging is Create + Promote + Track + Optimize.
1. Creating Content
Quality content are the key to any website success, so content are the king of blogging. It is something that your visitors will enjoy reading, watching or listening to and will refer their friends, colleagues, family members and others to it. By building quality content on your site, you get not only search engine traffic, but trust, reputation, greater conversions and incoming natural links. If you create poor content the parts will not matter. So how do you create good content? I have compiled a list of articles, which help you a lot for brainstorming, because reading blogs inside and outside you nice defiantly help you.
2. Promoting Blog
This is very important area after writing a quality content. There were easy ways to promote blog lige submitting post on Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon etc but not any more because it is very difficult to get your post on front page. Because, need lots of friends circle how thumb up and can vote for your post. But some other way might be worth considering as well.
First of all make search engine friendly post by giving good title to your post, related description and keywords.
Secondly, When you give reference in your post for a person or company, let them know by writing an email, which may help your post to get link back from their site.
There are lots of others ways which help to promote your blog as follows:
LINK BUILDING:
- Use BlogRush
- Submit to RSS directories
- Submit to blog directories
- Submit to general directories
- Create link bait
- Participate in blog carnivals
- Comment on DoFollow blogs
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3. Tracking Blog
The is the most important part to get success in blogging but most bloggers ignore this area. Creating a quality contents and promoting them is very important but what is working and getting traffic to your blog is priceless.
There are lots of tracking tools out there, here are list of articles about all these tools, also you can Google about Blog tracking tools.
How to Track your blog’s traffic?
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4. Optimizing Blog
People learn from their mistakes, so learn from your previous post and make next post better. The Design of your blog, content, layout, and coding all should be optimized. As you continue to optimize your blog you will see your traffic and user loyalty will grow.
Resources on Blog Optimization:
How to Troubleshoot Slow loading Site and WordPress blog
Canonical URLs effects on WordPress Blog
How to Generate Search-Engine-Friendly Permalinks for WordPress Post
25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines
How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
52 EASY WAYS OPTIMIZE YOUR BLOG WHILE ON YOUR COFFEE BREAK
Optimizing WordPress Blog for Speed
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