Saturday, February 14, 2009

100 Blog Tips, I Learnt in 2008 Part-I


Sorry folks for the delay in post. I am very much busy now a days with some geeky stuffs. The second interview of an extremely successful entrepreneur is ready, will publish it very soon. :)
I prepared a list of 100 blog tips, I have learnt in 2008. These tips actually work. Using the basic tip of blogging "Post shouldn't be too long" I am going to post this list in two parts, 50 tips in each post. Here are first top 50 tips:-

1. Final year of your Engineering, start blogging today
2. Write about something that you love a lot, I like internet surfing
3. If you are serious about blogging buy your own domain
4. Make sure your domain name resembles with blog topic
5. Use short and easy to remember domain name
6. Use BlogSpot
7. Use BlogSpot widget
8. Use simple and attractive template
9. Customize your blog template
10. Choose a specific topic for blog
11. Content is king
12. Blog with consistency
13. Write at least 3-5 posts a week
14. Proof read
15. Interact with other bloggers
16. leave meaningful comments
17. Backup your blog
18. Participate in online forums and communities
19. Put a link of blog on your signature (:P)
20. Use trackbacks
21. Use social bookmarks
22. Join various type of blog networks. Eg. I am the member of Mumbai Bloggers group
23. Use all type of social networking websites to publicize your blog
24. Put URL of your recent post as your IM’s status
25. Write “Top 10″ lists
26. Use Shout box
27. Write “How to” articles
28. Write about Startups
29. Write interviews of successful entrepreneurs
30. list your blog on directories
31. Ask questions to your readers
32. Use Feedburner
33. Use sense of humor
34. Encourage readers to subscribe
35. Link exchange with other bloggers
36. Have some spare posts for emergencies
37. Encourage readers to digg your posts
38. Stumble your post
39. Put an RSS subscription icon on every single page
40. Use “series” of posts
41. Return comments
42. Write about how to increase blog traffic
43. Write about How to blog
44. Use readable fonts
45. Break long posts in more parts
46. Experiment with different revenue sources like adsence, bidvertiser, chitika
47. Use Google Analytics
48. Have an "About Me" page
49. Create your own "Advertise with me" page
50. Read as many blogs as possible

Remaining 50 tips will be coming in next post. Write your views and suggestions. It encourages me. :)


7 comments:

Parag February 14, 2009 at 7:05 AM  

Thanks man! thats a really helpful list...bookmarked and stumbled

Anonymous,  February 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM  

cool list ! waiting for the next 50! ( Still not able to digest you actually got 100 points [:p] )

Ashish Gourav February 14, 2009 at 8:45 PM  

I personally have learned many things just by observing your blogging activities but this is a good post for revision and I liked it :)

Golani February 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM  

you should definately add.... dont get scared of any threat mails from google.. :P:P you know what i mean ;)

Eva Vesper June 30, 2009 at 7:55 AM  

This is awesome Ranjeet. I don't always see people actually writing a clear bulleted list of what they did to make their blog more successful.

And duh, of course you need to buy your own domain name if you're serious. :)

Hemal Mehta December 7, 2010 at 9:08 AM  

Great stuff!
U inspire me as a blogger!

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