Way to popularize your blog  
22 Jan 09, 08:05pm

Blogging, Bloggers and Blogs have been the most recently heard sensation words. Starting from Hollywood Superstar Robert De Niro to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan till the Megastar Mammootty, where have their own blogs where they post interesting facts about themselves. Well apart from this, there are more bloggers who post unique features that attracts more viewers and indeed they can start earning income out of this.

Starting a blog may be a simple process, but getting more viewers is something more contrastive. It can be done by understanding interests of the viewers and the efforts to keep the blog alive and colorful. Everyone has to understand the sites that host your blogs.

Here follows the steps of increasing viewership for your blogs.

1. Interesting Topic and Simple URL : Well, starting off a blog isn't a big deal. Two things that you've to keep in mind is brimming with an interesting idea but a simple URL. Fine! For blogs owned by Amitabh Bachchan or Shah Rukh Khan, everyone can easily remember it. But that's not the same with all subjects. So, have an URL related to your topic. For example, if it’s a blog based on Tamil movies, tamizhtalkies would be the apt one.

2. A Perfect Design : Designing your blog with color that's soft to eyes is best option. Background theme, colors, fonts and font size should be relevant with your subject. Usually, better choice is to have black test at the white background or grey text on white background.

3. An innovative contents : Whatever may be the subject you are dealing with, try posting creative articles giving room for viewers to share their views and opinions on any issues or instances. This is because Readers try to looks something different and Fresh.

4. Regular Updates : Keep updating your blogs regularly once a week or at least twice a week. Blogs that are not uploaded for around couple of weeks are termed as 'Dead'.

5. RSS Feeds and Newsletters : These are some of the best way to keep updating your viewers. RSS Feeds will help your viewers keeping track of your blogs. Apart from this, you can keep mailing newsletters to your viewers regularly, say once a week.

6. Good Interactions : When a viewers posts comments for your articles, kindly revert them with your counter-feedbacks. This will make the viewers that they are a special consideration for you.

7. Search Engines : Usually Search Engines pick the popular blogs. So a blog turns popular with number of hits, contents’ quality or the blogger's popularity.

8. Counters : Keep visit counters that shows the numbers of views. But initially keeping them invisible is the best option. Later, as the viewership increases, you can make it visible so that viewers would consider the popularity of the site.

9. Money Making : Indeed, this is the most wanted one by everyone who starts blogs. 'Earning money' is the primary source of income for many of us. So, try writing on subjects based on technology, Real Estate, Health, online marketing and more. Because most of the people are curious about knowing more on these interesting topics. As a result, you have more viewers that make advertisers to come in. Of course, visit counter records provide proof to the advertisers for coming into the blog.