Promote Your Blog with the simple ways (Habbits)

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This is in no way a science or guarantee; it's simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success.
Set your blog to Send Pings. When this setting is activated, your blog will be included in various "recently updated" lists on the web as well as other blog-related services.
Activate Your Navbar. Do this and you might start to see the effects right away! One of the features on the Blogger Navbar is a button called NextBlog - click it to visit the next Navbar-enabled blog.
Install Email This Post. If you use Email This Post on your blog, people will be able to forward your posts to friends. This may not have an immediate impact on your site stats but it enables others to publicize your blog for you.
Turn on Post Pages. By publishing every post as its very own web page with Post Pages, you ensure that your entries are way more link-able and more attractive to search engines.
Turn on your site feed. When people subscribe to your site feed in their newsreaders, they're very likely going to read your post.
Add your blog to Blogger's listings. When you add your blog to our listings it shows up in Nextblog, Recently Updated, and other places. It's like opting-in to traffic.
Write quality content and do it well. If your "style" is bad writing, worse grammar, no punctuation, and an ugly design, that might be okay for a niche crowd. But the idea here is to achieve mass appeal, so fix yourself up a bit.
Publish regular updates. Simple: the more you blog, the more traffic you'll get.
Think of your audience. A good way to build an audience is to speak to one in particular. When you keep your audience in mind, your writing gains focus. Focus goes a long way toward repeat visitors.
Keep search engines in mind. There are a few things you can do to make your blog more search engine friendly. Use post titles and post page archiving. This will automatically give each of your post pages an intelligent name based on the title of your post. Also, try to be descriptive when you blog. A well crafted post about something very specific can end up very near the top results of a search.
Keep your posts and paragraphs short. Strive for succinct posts that pump pertinent new information into the blogosphere and move on. Keep it short and sweet so visitors can pop in, read up, and click on.


Put your blog URL in your email signature. Think of how many forwarded emails you've seen in your day, and just imagine the possibilities.
Sumbit your address to blog search sites and directories. People look for blog content at Technorati every day, are you on their list? You should be. Submit your blog's url to Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex, Popdex, and any other site of that ilk you come across.
Link to other blogs. Links are the currency of the blogosphere and it takes money to make money so start linking.
Install a blogroll. It's a very simple yet effective social networking scheme and it has the same result as a simple link if not stronger: traffic! So if you don't have one yet, sign up for a blogroll and get that link-list going.
Be an active commenter. This is in the same vein as linking. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog which begs a visit at the very least. So if you feel inspired, leave a comment or two in your blog travels. It behooves you.
Enable Following on your blog. Following a is a great way to keep your friends updated on the latest activity on your blog. New blogs will have this blog feature enabled by default, but for older blogs you will have to enable it from the Layout | Page Elements tab.

Even more TRAFFIC to Your blog

It just seems like everybody and their grandmother has a blog these days. But what is the difference between, say, a Perez Hilton and all the other thousands of blogs that fall into obscurity everyday? Well, let me show you a couple of simple ways that you can increase blog traffic without spending a red cent most of the times. So let?s get started, shall we?
First of all, it?s very important that your blog is meaningful and not some kind of repository of rehashed articles. One of the best ways to attract visitors to your blog is if there?s already heavy activity on the blog. This will have many implications: first of all, every time someone posts a comment on your blog, it is updated, and search engines usually favor sites with fresh content that is updated often. Second, it will encourage others to participate as well and come back frequently to see how others reacted to their comments or just to see how the conversation is evolving.
A good way to build interest to your blog is by posting on similar, yet more popular blogs related to yours, with a link to your blog of course. If you disagree with the blog?s editor, don?t be scared to start a flaming war, this might encourage the blog?s editor to respond and other onlookers to visit your blog to read more of what you have to say. If you completely agree with the blog?s editor and notice that there are occasional guest posters on the blog, try to contact the blogmaster to see if you can write a guest post for them.


Social networking sites such as Digg.com are also a great way to increase blog traffic. Digg works by users giving a thumbs up ? a ?dig? ? or a thumbs down to whatever they read online and on the Digg site itself. It?s pretty much a way to rate different pages on the web so that the best stories get the most attention. If you want your site to rate high on Digg, there are a few things you have to know.
First of all, you have to write a meaningful and eye catching headlines since it?s the first thing you see before reading a post. Second of all, when you submit your post to Digg, make sure the description is meaningful and that you can get a sense of the post before reading it; nobody likes bad surprises and people are most likely to give your post a thumbs down if the description had nothing to do with the post. Make sure your first paragraph is good and that the rest of the article is meaningful as well, or else you?ll run the risk of irritating your readers, get bad reviews for your posts, and get your site banned from social bookmarking sites; because social bookmarking sites tend to ban people who post junk all the time.
There are plenty of ways that you can attract more traffic to your blog and that was just a few of them. But keep in mind that even the best promoted blog will fail if it doesn?t have good content.

100 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle

Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis. Probloggers really have to work at it. I thought about all the different ways and angles a blogger can approach choosing posting topics. Here are 101 different ideas that I think are great to stimulate your mind and jumpstart your blogging.

1. Brainstorm by matching up your readers wants and needs using the Visitor Grid method of brainstorming.
2. Write a post by examining the pros and cons of an issue.
3. Write a tutorial.
4. Do an interview with key people in your niche.
5. Create a mock head-to-head competition like what Daniel did.
6. Do a case study like what Read/Write Web did with the hot topics on Technorati 100.
7. Take an alternate position.
8. Write a long comment.
9. Pick a topic by reading business book titles.
10. Research a topic by doing research on Amazon.com.
11. Drill down on a topic using Ask.com’s search feature.
12. Do a post that answers your readers’ questions.
13. Create a comprehensive list.
14. Create flagship content.
15. Interview controversial people in your niche.
16. Post about current events in your niche.
17. Invite your readers to submit articles.
18. Instead of exchanging links, get together with other bloggers and review each others’ blogs.
19. Connect with bloggers around your same level and share ideas.
20. Do a “speedlinking�? post.
21. Post about posts made by others in your My Blog Log community.
22. Be opinionated in your post.
23. Turn off the nofollow attribute to encourage comments.
24. Do a “tag” post and have other bloggers who are tagged add to a list.
25. Do an “IM” PPC campaign and then post about the results.
26. Be a guest blogger and share ideas with new readers.
27. Review your statistics to see what keywords referred your visitors to your site and post about those.
28. Answer your readers’ questions with more questions (i.e., have you thought about…?).
29. Contrast two or more positions in a post.
30. Make a post that solves a problem.
31. Make a post that is inspirational.
32. Make a satirical post.
33. Write a series of posts.
34. Post your research findings.
35. Post an “advantages/disadvantages” post.
36. Update an old post for new ideas/findings.
37. Link ideas from different genres in your posts (e.g., Celebrities and the gadgets they own).
38. Debunk a myth in your post.
39. Make a post for beginners.
40. Make a post for advanced readers.
41. Invite experts to comment on your post.
42. Ask your readers to Digg your best posts.
43. Change up your posting style (e.g., tutorial, reviews, etc.).
44. Write a funny post.
45. Create a huge list of your best posts.
46. Add to a list started by another blogger.
47. Create a mission statement for your blog.
48. Make a post simplifying a complex problem for your readers.
49. Create a guide for your niche.
50. Make a post turning a negative into a positive through humor ( e.g., tell a joke: “My parents tell me I’m autistic. I tell them they have an attitude problem.”).
51. Browse through a thesaurus and see if synonyms help spark ideas for your posts.
52. Respond to criticism in a post (e.g., respond to the Wall Street Journal’s criticism of bloggers).
53. Write a post like you are telling a story.
54. Spruce up your posts with pictures.
55. Post about frequently asked questions in your niche.
56. Pose a rhetorical question in your post.
57. Post about what’s popular and why it’s beneficial ( e.g., “Twitter” for tech blogs).
58. Pose a hypothesis and conclusion in your post.
59. Support your post with related post links.
60. Make a [blank] for dummies post.
61. Post a picture that speaks a thousand words.
62. Buy a how-to book from a bookstore and use some of the ideas from that book to generate ideas for posting (e.g., a book about Photoshop).
63. Look at the archives of your niche competitors and see if any of their old posts can be expanded in an “update” post on your blog.
64. Post with a personality (e.g., John Chow is evil).
65. Write about how to do something more efficiently in your niche.
66. Write about generally unknown secrets in your niche.
67. Write about how to use a product in an unconventional way.
68. Do a post transcribing live events (e.g., Macworld conference).
69. Dissect an argument in a post.
70. Make a post summarizing someone else’s post.
71. Make a post about how things have changed from the past.
72. Make a post that expands on someone else’s post.
73. Create a post that incorporates the words, “desperate” and “futile”.
74. Make a post alleging a conspiracy (e.g., Is there a Digg Bury Brigade?).
75. Make a post that encourages visitors to subscribe by offering a reward.
76. Make a post that involves New York City, London, San Francisco or Sydney.
77. Make a post that incorporates in the title the word “crossover”.
78. Create a post that utilizes a bar chart or pie chart.
79. Create a post that has a cliff hanger to be answered in a later post.
80. Make a post about pitfalls in your niche.
81. Participate in a reciprocal guest blogging scheme where you blog on someone else’s blog and that other person blogs on your blog.
82. Do a paid posting targeted to your readers.
83. Profile the competition in your niche.
84. Post linkbait.
85. Make a post about your fellow bloggers’ top posts.
86. Make a post about your most popular posts.
87. Read some sports (or other genre) magazines and incorporate some of the writing styles in your posts.
88. Write a post that pinpoints similarities and differences.
89. Write a post giving a free recommendation.
90. Write a post about something that is merely “good�? but not “great�?.
91. Write a post about a hack for your niche.
92. Make a post that constructively criticizes someone else’s post.
93. Run a poll and post the results of that poll.
94. Ask your loyal readers to email you links to their best resources and make a post about what you found.
95. Write only about a particular theme for a week.
96. Designate each day of the week as a theme day where you will always post about a particular topic on that day.
97. Review your blog’s (weekly, monthly, yearly) performance and post the results.
98. Write an “attack�? post by setting up an argument and then shooting it down.
99. Combine some of your best posts from your archives into a new series.
100. Hold a conference via blog posts.

How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

1) Blog frequentlyMost new bloggers dislike hearing this. Trust me when I say that the struggle for content is ongoing. New bloggers, however, feel like it`s just happening to them. The truth is, don`t get a blog just to have a blog. Get it and keep it updated. It`s the quickest way to gaining traffic. How often should you blog? Three times a week. The best days to blog? Studies have shown that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are key days for blogging.

2) Stay on point

I tell authors this a lot: stay on point, stay on topic. Why? Because if you don`t you`ll lose readership. Once someone commits to your blog they want to keep reading relevant information. So don`t blog one day about your book, your speaking, or your mission and the next day share Aunt Ethel`s pot roast recipe.

3) Plan your blogs

While spontaneity is the catalyst for creativity, planning is a good way to stay on track. Start to map out key dates that you want to blog about that have some relation to your topic – this way when you`re at a loss for topics, you can always pick one from your list of planned out blogs. Also, consider these topics to blog about:

a) Future predictions: everyone loves these, to the degree that you can predict market trends in your industry do it, and the readership will follow.

b) Discuss industry news: what`s happening in your industry that you can talk about? Even if you`re a fiction writer there`s always *something* going on worth mentioning in publishing, writing, or marketing that directly relates to your topic.

c) The elephant in the room: talk about the stuff that everyone is afraid of. What new trends are emerging that consumers/readers/companies need to be aware of? What`s next for your market and how will it affect the industry? How can we keep publishing books when we already publish 800 a day? You see what I mean? Think of things that frighten you and talk about them. People will respond. Every time I do this I get a ton of comments on my blog.

d) Write reviews: review other people`s books, product or work. This is a great way to network and to become a “filter” for your market. Filter out the new stuff and feature it on your blog (this goes for you fiction writers too!).

e) Other blogs: what are people talking about? What did your favorite blog just say? Virtual networking (with other bloggers) is a great way to grow your content and get to know others in cyberspace. Don`t forget to link to the blog you`re discussing!

4) Invite comments on your blog!

This is really important! The more folks you can get commenting, the quicker your blog will get passed around. If you have a “no comment” feature on your blog, remove it! You want people to be able to comment and give feedback. In fact, at the end of every blog, why not invite readers to comment? If you start getting a lot of responses to this, begin featuring your favorite comments in future blog posts!

5) Comment on hot topics in the news

The quickest way to get traffic is to get your blog featured on a high-traffic site. But how can you do this? By commenting on news stories. Most major news sites have a feature that will list blogs that are talking about the various news stories. Not all blogs get featured but: a) if your if your topic is related to the story they`ve featured; and b) you`ve written an insightful post on the topic, you`ll likely get listed. For an example of what these look like take a peek at a recent story on CNN:http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/simpson/index.html

6) Digg yourself

Make sure that your blog has a bookmarking feature. Sites like Digg and http://Del.icio.us are great places to get started. You can go there, sign up for an account (very easy to do) and then follow their instructions for bookmarking your individual posts. This is important! You don`t want to bookmark the blog but rather, the posts. The posts will then show up in these sites and, hopefully, other folks will bookmark them as well. Even if no one else bookmarks your posts, it doesn`t matter. You can still get traffic by being positioned on these sites. Super simple to do, go ahead, give it a shot!

7) Twitter your blog 
Got something to say? Try microblogging at Twitter: http://www.twitter.com . It`s a free service that asks the question: What are you doing now? Go in, sign up and start posting your messages with links back to your blog. We tried this and it`s fantastic. You can also blog from your cell phone and blackberry. You can not only use it to promote your blog but your book, speaking event, whatever you want. It might sound like a “who cares” idea, but trust me, everyone`s Twittering these days.

 Syndicate yourself

Using simple RSS feeds through http://www.feedblitz.com you can syndicate yourself and let folks subscribe to your blog. If they don`t have a way to subscribe to your blog, they may forget you altogether. Once someone subscribes, every time you post new content it will notify them. And the best part? Your messages won`t get stuck in someone`s spam filter. They`ll get the notification, head to your blog and voila! Your readership stays engaged and growing.

Finally, don`t use an “official” voice on your blog. Pretend you`re sitting across from your reader over coffee. Talk to them in a more casual, conversational tone and you`ll not only get more readers, you`ll likely get more comments too! It doesn`t take much to grow a blog, just a little dedication and creativity. Happy blogging!

Instructions: How to Upload a Blogger Template on your Blogger Blog?

Step 1. Un-zip the zip file that you downloaded from http://www.bloggertemplatesblog.com/, in order to extract the XML template from it.
Step 2. Log in to your Blogger’s dashboard, then go to LAYOUT -> EDIT HTML

Step 3. It’s best that your backup your old template (just in case any thing goes wrong), by clicking on the “DOWNLOAD FULL TEMPLATE” link and then save the file to your hard disk drive.

Step 4. Once you have created a back up, upload the new template by clicking the ‘Choose File’ button. Select the file’s source and click ‘UPLOAD’,
Step 5. After the upload is complete , you can either which to preview your template or click on the ‘SAVE TEMPLATE’ button to start using it.

In case you are unable to upload or encounter other problems, simply drop a comment and I’ll help you out!

50 Amazing Blogger Tricks & Hacks

Have you ever wondered how those bloggers remove the Blogger Navbar? Or how they add a Read More link in their posts?

Well in this article, I’ve post an amazing collection of 50 Amazing Blogger Tricks Hacks which are useful to bloggers using the Blogger platform.

1. Expandable Posts or Read More Hack

2. Recent Posts Widget

3. Recent Comment Widget

4. Top Commentators Widget

5. Remove Label Post Count

6. Add Page Element to Header and Blog Posts

7. Sticky Posts in Blogger

8. Add Images or Icons to Sidebar Links

9. Remove NavBar in Blogger

10. Add Scrollbars to Blog Widgets

11. Add Favicon to Blogger URL

12. Simple Search Widget

13. Wrap Adsense Ads in Post Body

14. Special Effects for Peekaboo Posts

15. Page Navigation Hack for Blogger

16. Uploading Animated .gif Image to Blogger

17. Making Pull Down Menu

18. Add “Print this” Option in your Blog

19. Speed up your Blogger Page Load Time

20. Random Background Image

21. Ratings for Posts

22. TabView Widget

23. Adding a Front Page to your Blog

24. Creating Thumbnail Pictures

25. Adding a BreadCrumb Trail to your Blog Post

26. Showing your Blogger Labels as Vertical Tabs

27. Navigation Bar

28. Add Digg Button to Blogger Post

29. Social Bookmarking Widget

30. Add Signature to your Posts

31. Add Background Music

32. Embed Comment Box Below Blogger Post

33. Remove Word Verification from Blogger Comments

34. Show Blog Post Headers In Archive

35. Disable Right Click on Blog

36. Label Cloud in your Blog

37. E-mail Icon Generator

38. Podcast in Blogger

39. Transparent Background

40. Rounded Corner Headers

41. Insert Powerpoint and PDF Files

42. Flash for Blogger

43. Author Comment Highlighting

44. Control Number of Posts in Label Pages

45. Sidebar Comments Display

46. Show Recent Referrers

47. Language Translation Widget

48. Postpone or Delay your Blog Posts Via E-mail

49. Add Clickable Pictures to your Blog

50. “Email Me” Link

51. Make your Blog DoFollow (Thanks to DoFollow Fan for the tip!)