If I ask you about 7 ingredients which can make your blog a successful one, what would be your response? Read on this blog post of mine to know more about the 7 ingredients which can make your blog a successful one.
Many bloggers asks me about how to make a successful blog or how to become a successful blogger? I have written so many blog posts on those things, but this time I thought to come up with some key factors which are very much required for transforming your blog into an extraordinary one from an ordinary one.
Let us discuss about the 7 ingredients or key factors which are very much essential behind the success of a blog. If you are a person who uses to read different blog posts, I am quite sure you must have gone through thousands of blogs. At least you were going through a few hundred blog on a daily basis. But can you please tell me how many of those blogs which you encounter daily remains in your memory?
I guess only a few, and you love to either subscribe to them or visit them again. Let us say 10 blogs out of hundred which you visit daily.
Do you know the reason why?
It is because not all blogs are developed in a way that it can attract its visitors. There are so many blogs which goes unnoticed too. Reason being they are not developed in a proper way. Now you might argue with me about the definition of proper way, though you cannot argue about these points which are crucial for the success of any blog:
The first thing which any search engine or even visitor too notices is the blogging platform on which it has been developed. If a blog is developed on free blogging platforms like blogger which has the extension like blogspot.com or blogspot.in or on wordpress.com or even on tumblr.com then neither search engine nor the visitor notices it much.
There are very rare chance that a good blog from those free blogging platform can feature in the search results page of any highly competitive keywords in Google or any other search engine. If by chance it get a place over there, then there are chances that visitors too won’t click on them to visit, considering it a free and a non-serious bloggers blog.
On the other hand bloggers who are using customized domain name (no matter on which blogging platform) or bloggers who are using self-hosted WordPress are likely to get more attention of search engines as well as of their visitors too.
Also read one old blog post of mine on how to become a power blogger while using free blogs?
So it is the reason why I always recommend using self-hosted WordPress as blogging platform for your blog. I do agree that it is a bit costly but then the returns which you are getting in lieu of it are making it worthy.
As I mentioned above too that no matter which blogging platform are you using but a customized domain name is something which can compensate for it. Although whatever I said above, simply does not define the importance of the domain name in the success of a blog. Domain name is one of the most important consideration and factor behind the success of any blog.
If you are using a proper name for your blog, and a memorable one, then there are chances that it can be easily remembered by its visitors and they will prefer looking back to it, as they might remember it. But if you have selected a domain name which is quite extra ordinary and people feel difficulty in remembering it, then there are chances that people will try avoiding it.
Other than that a domain name also plays a crucial role in the SEO of your blog. You should include your primary keyword in it.
The third point which is very important is the web hosting which you selected for your blog. Remember that these days bounce rate and blog loading time are two very important factors behind the success of any website as far as search engine optimization is concerned. It is a process which will make sure to give visitors to your website through featuring your site in search engine results pages.
Thus considering the site loading time and visitors smooth navigation experiences on your website, web hosting becomes a very important factor of your blog. Don’t forget to read my blog on things to consider when choosing a WordPress hosting. I am sure you yourself can decide about the hosting provider for your blog.
Today only I was discussing about the importance of premium themes behind the success of any blog. The person was actually asking me if he can be able to get good themes for free or not. My response was simple, you might get some quality WordPress theme or template for free too, but the benefit which you will get with a premium theme is hard to think about with any free themes.
There is one thing which plays an important role with the SEO success of your WordPress blog, it being the coding part of your theme. A well structured and coded theme can help you a lot in the SEO of your blog. A few blogs of mine which can be useful to you with regards of this point are how to make a superb website or blog in minutes, top 5 blog designing tips and how to select the best design for your blog.
The next and the most important elements of a (in fact any) successful blog is its outstanding content. Believe me if you are a blogger and providing the same thing which many others are also providing to their readers, then it is of no use. Try to provide the content in a way that it can be useful for its readers.
Try to write outstanding content, which doesn’t mean that you should write in some structured way only, but try to write it in a way that your readers should feel glad after reading it. Your content should provide some unique solutions to your reader’s queries, or provide some information which they really did not get from somewhere else.
We discussed the 5 things which are crucial for the success of your blog, but the last two things are something which is generally ignored by bloggers. People normally consider that blogs are personal site, and we should not focus much on optimizing it. Believe me the traffic of all the successful bloggers mainly come from search engines only.
So Search Engine Optimization or SEO plays a very crucial role behind the success of your blog. You should also not ignore it. Ask Vinay Nagaraju about the importance of SEO in getting the traffic to his blog, name and fame of him as a blogger, and I guess he can point out some interesting facts about it. I guess he can even make a blog with his own experience about it.
The last but not the lease element which is crucial behind the success of any blog is its presence of social media sites. It is the age of social sites and we all know the role of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. in our life. These sites have made its presence in almost everyone’s life. It is also not a secret anymore that if someone likes something, then he or she doesn’t take any moment to share it on these sites.
So social media also impacted blogging world and the effective presence of your blog in social media is the guarantee of the success of your blog.
So what do you think about this blog post of mine? Please do share your thoughts, opinion, feedback, etc. about this blog post of mine. I will be glad to hear your thought on it.
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