I’ve compiled a list of 100 easy-to-use, do-it-yourself blogging tips to help you blog better.
- Choose a profitable, easy and passionable niche
- Choose a short and/or relevant domain name for your blog
- Use WordPress
- Post daily
- If you are using a free blogging platform – Buy a Domain and Start Self Hosting
- Optimize your blog to Search Engines
- Learn about your competitor blogs and improve yourself
- Take Blogging as a business and spend more time for it
- Chose the Right theme for your Blog
- Don’t allow people to Copy your Content – Warn, Punish them
- Make Unique and Fresh Posts
- Think Different , Do Different – Write what other bloggers missed to write
- Avoid too many outbound External Links
- Reply to all comments made in your blog
- Use ‘All in One SEO Pack’ Plugin if you are using WordPress
- Don’t blog with the only aim of Making Money
- Spend time tweeting your Posts (you can use Twitterfeed)
- Write Pillar Posts
- Link to Others blog’s post
- Reduce the number of Blogroll Links
- Make your Text font attractive and readable
- Take care about your WordPress theme design (color blending and all..)
- Include a Top Searched Keyword in your Blog Title
- Discover something new and post it
- Join forums in your Niche and insert your blog in the signature
- Make useful comments in others blog. Also try to make the first comment of a post (it can receive you more traffic)
- Make Guest Posts in Good Blogs
- Make friendship with other Blogs
- Start a Post Series (which contain at least 5 posts)
- Try to Increase Alexa Rank
- Use Affiliate programs and promote it with your blog. It is n extra way to make money
- Analyze your stats and understand your mistakes
- Try to build maximum number of High quality backlinks
- Use Social bookmarking sites to bookmark your posts. Especially Digg & Stumbleupon
- Increase Internal linking of your blog using related posts plugin, tags, archives, links in article etc.
- Read a lots of e-Books
- Use Forums and Blog Discussions sites to seek for blog help
- Be Patient
- Learn from successful bloggers
- You must include 3 important pages in your blog: About, Advertise, Contact
- Use Squidoo
- Make a new blog after making the first blog a success. Also promote the second blog using 1st blog
- Use at least 2 subscription options (twitter & feed)
- Improve your Typing Speed for Fast Content Writing
- Include Images in Posts
- Make a list of Popular posts and Post it or publish it in the sidebar
- Use Post excerpt in your homepage other than displaying whole post content
- Join Blogging Networks and be active in it (eg: blogcatalog)
- Make a Blog Contest
- Think twice before taking a big action in your blog
- Write posts in your own style – It will be attractive for your readers
- Avoid too many widgets
- Avoid too many advertisements
- Make your WordPress theme look professional and easy to load
- Make your theme W3C HTML Validated. Check it here
- Check whether your blog is appearing well in every Web Browser
- Make an Effective Post Title – Make it SEO Friendly
- Add ‘Podcasts’ to your blog
- Make a monthly roundup
- Avoid Bad Link Neighborhoods
- Organize and make a well structured Category list
- Participate in Blogging Contests and Projects
- Make use of Adsense ‘Section targeting’ for showing content related ads
- Try to become the best blog in your Niche.
- Avoid Big Niche topics
- Allow email subscriptions
- Comment on Top Dofollow Blogs
- Enable ‘Subscription to comments’
- Ask readers to contact you for Help
- Ask for Donations
- Do experiments with Advertisements till you success
- Be active with your readers
- Submit your articles to directories
- Make small posts as well as Large posts
- Write what readers expect from your blog
- Don’t copy articles from other blogs
- Post interviews and reviews in your blog (eg: Review of Darren Rowse of Problogger.net)
- Use Sense of Humor
- Insert Meta Tags effectively
- Include Keywords in posts
- Read as much as Articles regarding Blogging Tips
- I recommend you to use Google Analytics
- Encourage readers to subscribe to your blog
- Submit your Blog to High Page Rank Blog Directories
- End your post with a question so that you will receive a lots of comments
- Use Trackbacks/Pingbacks
- Make a good Permalink
- Install latest Wordpres updates
- Understand your Mistakes and correct it
- Make a lots of ‘Top 10 …’ posts
- If you can, start a Discussion Forum with your Blog
- Use ‘Head’ Tags like H1, H2 etc.
- Delete Spam comments. Learn how to avoid it
- Read your post Twice before posting.
- Try good methods of Online Money Making
- Focus on your Google Page Index and try to increase it.
- Avoid using Bad & Irritating advertisements like Pop-ups and Link ads (eg: Kontera)
- Submit your blog to Google Webmaster Tools
- Be helpful and resourceful to other bloggers (especially beginners). It will help you gain some attention in the blogosphere.
- If you fail, Quitting isn’t your only option. Moving on is a better option.
About Jijo Sunny
KISSWebmaster is the internet marketing diary of Jijo Sunny, a 17 year old passionate Indian blogger. He has been into internet marketing and blogging since last 4 years and runs a couple of dozen of blogs and other internet ventures apart from this.
Hiya, Thanx for your advice. I am taking 1 piece of advice by writing this but also I am going to check out squidoo. I do like to use blogger though, its not so bad.
Thanx Jijo
That’s really good. I am sure that Squidoo will work for you in every aspects (backlinks and traffic). Best of Luck
Thanks Jijo for good posting
nice post…
) to my blog and hope my page rank will increase.
i’ll try it (hope i can
very hard to increase blog popularity in Indonesian languege…
101. Praying…
nice post, I hope to do right things and start earn a little money by my blog
wish me luck…
Best of Luck
thanks jijo for this wonderful post.
i’ll be using the tips that apply to me as my guide to improve my web presence for the year 2010…
Excellent post mate. I’m always on the look out for blogging tips, I will be lookinh to utelise as many of these that I can.
Good work
Ben (NTF)
Very useful post, thanks for sharing the tips.
Great tips! Good to be reminded of the things we need to be doing. I hope that blogging continues to go well for you.
My blog follows me and my family as we live in China.
http://middleofchina.blogspot.com
and
http://petersonchina.blogspot.com
Thank you.
You have got a good blog.
Very good my friend, you give us many good tips, I read all and some of them are specially good to remember, you are a smart kid. Greetings.
Mario.
Thank you Mario
Thanks big time…your post was spot on and try and give it a try..
thank you very much it is very perfect
Impressive and wishes to you for achieving great success in future
Happy Blogging !
- Robin
Thanks Dude.
Same to you.
You’ve caught my attention. I just have 1 problem. No.10 I don’t see you having a problem with copywriters’ infringement problems at your young age. First, You’ve already branded yourself. You have another 10,000 blogs, articles, videos, press releases, and the likes to whereas there is no one piece of your works that could take away from your talents. the problem with thieves is they can’t produce anything to follow up what they steal. A true publisher is not going to back a person who’s work is done with the single piece they’re given. There has to be more. A follow-up, a sequel, Stolen is one piece. You did this? let me see some of your other works. Your focus could be on let a major pick me up and publish my works. You’re just that talented. Many of us writers write in hopes to be published by other networks than the ones we publish to. When you write your first book then worry about copyrights. Till then, write with the intention that anyone can republish your works for you. When you want someone to do something, they won’t, when you don’t want them to do something they will. I’d be more than glad to pass on to my students some of your works. Hey Kid, You’ve got your Benz out here on the freeway, I’ve even looked at your dispatch. (Website). The only other thing I might consider, It’s OK for now but then again should you start networking now soon you will actually be teaching, training and coaching the very thing you are now, and won’t have time to worry about one, two, three, articles, blogs getting stolen, They won’t have your style! I’m following you kid. Keep in touch. When you come to America, look me up, I’ll do a seminar tour featuring you. If you haven’t seen my profile yet, my niche is Traffic. You’re driving just fine on the internet freeway. Don’t worry about others stealing your works.
The Brinks truck with your money in it won’t be the one leading their funeral procession.
Hello Michael,
I am so amazed. This is for the first time I’m getting such a great Inspirational Thoughts and Improvement Tips. I am very Thankful to you.
I am interested to know more about you. After all, I want to make friendship with people like you for going further in my profession.
Thanks once again.
#101: Randomly capitalize Words.
hey, your blogs very well done, Avoid Big Niche topics, ok, i think you’ve made a mistake when it comes to this. Big niche topics are often what attract visitors to blogs and make them want to read topics. You even have one on yours. This post, “top 100 blog tips of all time.” That is a big niche topic. No point putting them aside, they really are beneficially for blogs.
Anyway, your alexa ranks pritty good and you can write amazingly well. Don’t stop blogging.
@peter
Hi Peter, Thanks for your appreciation.
However, You can’t compare a blogger blog with a .com blog. Am I right?
BTW Arthemia Template is really good for WordPress and Blogger Blogs. I really Love it.
BTW “Big Niche Topic” means Topics which focus on High Competitive Topics. Actually, Sub-Niche Blogs works better than this. For example, If you could make all traffic for the query “Make Money Sharing Files”.. it will be better than Making some Traffic for “Make Money Online”.
Thanks for dropping by. Keep in touch.
by the way, blogger isn’t that bad, i’m using the arthemia template and i think my blog looks darn good, anyway, don’t know what you think.
We must link exchange sometime.Cya
you have a point there about “make money sharing files.” instead of “Make money online.” but comparing a blogger blog with a .com blog is sometimes some quite important.
Often when i’m looking for hacks and tips directly for blogger i focus on visiting .blogspot blogs because generally the people who write those topics use that kind of blog provider. I can trust someone would know more about blogger if they are using the blogger platform rather than having a blog about blogger widgets and having their blog on the wordpress platform, so in some cases it can be quite beneficial to know your sources.
I’ve added you as a friend on blog catalog
See you round in the blogosphere
p.s, i think i beat you when it comes to the age factor.
@peter
Yeah.. I also do the same when I need some Hacks or Tricks. Means.. People think that Bloggers can provide something Real and Trustworthy.
But this is not the case when people search for something Professional. After all, People are likely to type Domains rather than sub-domains in their browser. Well, that maybe the reason why you’ve shifted to a custom domain. Am I right?
Thanks for adding me as a Friend.
BTW What’s your exact age? 15 huh? So you beat me? What’s your birth date?
Hey Jijo Sunny,
Thanks for submitting this blogpost for the Best blog post contest- http://achyutktelang.blogspot.com/2010/03/best-blog-post-contest.html
It is a really good post specially for bloggers who are new or those who want to improve their blog. Quite a comprehensive list!
All the best.
These tips are really helpful !!
I’ve read a lot of articles about blogging tips but this is the most extensive list I’ve seen. Bravo!
Nobody Makes money blogging and I should know.lol blogging money was spent years ago. If you want to make money today, start a religion or something related. lol
Wow thats a Century!
Anyway, I noticed that almost ALL your blog post URLS have a number!?! If I were you I would get rid of it for SEO reasons.
@TechChunks
Yeah.. All my Post URL starts with Post ID. I made this mistake at the beginning itself. Changing it now will cause severe harm to my Traffic and Link reputation
Goodness!! What a list. I’ve done some things already, but I need to check a few things out. Bad link neighborhoods…I had to click through to see what you meant. Good thing to avoid.
@Cheryl
Bad neighborhood refers to “Bad Outgoing Links” or what we call “Bad link relationship”. It can harm you.
PS just noticed how clever you are at building internal links to your best posts with great information. Well done, Jijo
@Cheryl
You’re most welcome buddy.
I have used Kontera on one of my blogs and i earn good from this ad program.`–
A simple question how can i add profile image on word press blog
good list dude….if you can employ half of them, it will be more then enough
A little chink in the text… point 18 doesn’t link correctly..
@Utkarsh
Thanks for reporting the bug. I’ve updated.
yeh… being patient is the most important point ever.
ya cool points..i remember it
i would prefer Infolinks over Kontera because they pay much better..:.
It’s really great advices , I think I can benefit
From all of it,
Thanks very much
I think I will keep visiting regularly
Though I’m not blogging for money as post
seem to be directed that way
Nice Tips Jijo for newbies. You’ve mentioned all the points for starting, maintaining and promoting a blog.
I think these are best blogging tips and you provided each concept very clearly.
Thanks Jijo…4 such a great advice..
& i wish , all the success in future…:)
may god bless you….my friend
Valueble post,you are inspiring an ideas to me,thanks yay