7 steps to get your blog readers comment endlessly

A good blog needs constant traffic for its survival from its readers who contribute to the process of continuous conversation. If you find that your blog is not getting enough comments, then it could be that you are not sufficiently stimulating your readers for inputs to your posts. It may not be the content itself which you are providing but perhaps you are lacking in opinions. Without your opinions and arguments there is very little that your readers can comment about. Therefore, your blog has to be really thought provoking enough to get the desired response from your readers. There are some techniques which might be useful if you want to improve the comments in your blog posts.

Why Blogger is Better than Wordpress and Tumblr

It seems like modern internet platforms and applications breed faster than bacteria. Within moments of the big new thing taking the stage, there’s tons of copycats and new versions powered by big old companies. The same is true of the blogging platform. In the beginning there were just a few places to write online diaries or weblogs. There was Genie, BiX and so on. With the blog revolution becoming tied into advertising, search engine algorithms and social networking, there are dozens and dozens of platforms to choose from

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Google AdWords is a tool to help you in advertising your products or services in Google, and its affiliate sites via the various Ads placed in them . With the help of it you can target specific audience in your niche with particular keywords and other parameters.
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Blog Post Ideas

Blogging serves to be one of the strongest tools in the arsenal of a marketer but the most difficult part of it is to grab the attention of the readers. Posting regularly on the blog is very crucial. But, what to write about every single day? This is indeed the toughest job for a blogger. While at some times it may be easier to find ideas for your next blog posts, at others, you may feel like just banging your head on the wall. Finding topics for your blog is a tough job. But with some easy tips and ways, you can search for the topics to write upon for your blog.

Sharing Links using Visibli

Sharing is the most fundamental act which drives traffic to blogs. The only beneficiary in this process is the content being shared and not the person sharing it. It would be so much better if the person sharing it would also get the due credit. This is exactly what Visibli does. It creates links with a fixed bar present on the top of the content, something similar to Digg and StumbleUpon. That bar can include a loads of things including Links, Like button ,Tweet button, RSS Feed tickers, to name a few. It also has some really interesting options which can make you a shareaholic by heart. Lets dig in.

First Dynamic View Template : Elite Classic

Presenting the First Ever Blogger Dynamic View Template on the Web named Elite Classic. Well its a very interesting thing that even though it has been possible to create Dynamic View Templates for a while now yet no one has created it. Coming to the core functionalities of this template ,it is based on the Classic Dynamic View and Supports the Template Designer fully. The modifications done are all CSS based. The reason for its creation was the monotonous look of the Dynamic Views and no real choice of a different style to choose from in being present.

Build a Community around Your Blog

Every successful blog demands a strong build up community around it to create a distinct identity in the world of other competitor blogs. It is therefore necessary to build up an effective community around your blog. A strong community base can increase the level of interaction in between varied users. This encourages visitors and readers to create positive impressions for your blog and its contents. Interaction also enables to grab maximum attention of the visitors thus encouraging in link-building, comments and feedbacks too.

Advantages of using Videos and Images in Posts

If you are a blog writer working as an affiliate or an organization or just for personal stuff, you must be searching for ways to make your blog more interesting so that the number of readers is increased. One of the best ways to make your blog creative and exciting is to make use of visual presentation of data i.e. using videos and photos on your blog. There are many bloggers who are turning their blogs in to photo blogs to attract more and more readers. The advantages or benefits of the usage of videos and photos on the blogs are as follows:

5 Warning Signs of a Dying Blog

Many bloggers have created successful blogs but there are very few blogs that pass the test of time and remain popular for years. Most blogs rise with a particular trend, create some waves and fade away. What is the difference between these two types of blogs? How do you know if your blog is dying?

Giving your blog a personal touch

It’s not personal – its business, a saying which most of us try to keep in our minds before starting or operating any business venture. We try to bring in professionalism in our work and tend to forget the values of building customer relations. A brief study shows existence of a million blogs which are just kept in the dark, hardly receive any traffic and are lack a proper approach to hook its customers. The secret behind some blogs doing so well is not that how well they are optimizing their website, but how well they are interacting with its customers. Though this has been the main question of debate over years, the argument often reaches a point where ‘content’ matters the most.

Must Read 1st - 10th Apr 2012

In the past 10 days I have focused more on Blogging and SEO rather than Blogger. So I have collected some of the best tips and tutorials related to Blogger that have been shared on various blogs across the web. From explaining the various New SEO features to Multiple Level Commenting in Threaded Comments to the New G+ Gadget exclusively for Blogger, these are a must read for every Blogger User out there.

5 Best Twitter Tools for Bloggers

Twitter is one of the best ways to promote your blog. The Twitter has great use in the blogging. The success of blog only depends on the visitors and you get it with the Twitter easily. Not only the visitors, but the Twitter also helps in representing your blog as a brand. Twitter can work as a great source of traffic for your blog, is you use it in a proper way and use the necessary useful tools with it. Due to the large rush of the Twitter related tools, the selection of best tools to get best results has become a very tough task. That's why I decided to create this post, in which I am going to post about the best Twitter tools for the best results in the blogging. So let’s have a look on it.

6 Must Follow Tips for Newbie Bloggers

Whenever a newbie blogger starts up his own blog, he has to take many decisions and setup his goals. In the recent years, blogging has grown to a very big extent. Today, one can start up his own blog for free using WordPress and Blogger which are the most powerful and free blogging tools online. Not only can this, by writing on these blogs you earn too from them.

3 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid

Gone are the days, when people used to take blogging for granted (if this has ever happened!). Blogging is one of the most cherished internet practices these days. People are blogging for business expansion, there are bloggers doing the charity work, blogs are used to raise funds or serve as promotional platforms, there are bloggers who blog for fun only and then there are those, who earn good amount of revenue from their blogs.

5 Tips for Successful Blog Promotion

If you’re hoping that your blog suddenly becomes the next big hit within your particular niche then the first thing you need to do is start promoting. You can write the best posts in the world, but if no one is reading them then it doesn’t make an ounce of difference. This is where blog promotion comes into play; when it’s done right it gives you the power to take your blog from 50 visitors a day to 5,000… and what blogger doesn’t want that? Confused about how to start? Read on…

Don’t Lose Your Blog Readers

If you are running a blog then you would be very well aware of the fact that blog traffic is exceedingly hard to earn but extremely easy to lose. In case you really do not care about it then your blog’s traffic will start flowing out from your hands and you will not be able to do anything other than just watching it moving away from you. Therefore, it is better to get curious about your blog’s traffic before it actually starts slipping away from your hands and you should be investing your valuable time to retain and maintain the traffic.

7 Tips To Choose A Niche For Your Blog

It was very tough to decide on a niche to start a blog. Almost every blogger might have faced this trouble of selecting the topic to start with. Niche plays a very important role in the success or the failure of your blog. No matter you are blogging to bag some money or just as a leisure activity, selecting the right niche is very imperative. However some blogger do blog with a broader path which cover many different niches but selecting a particular niche brings many benefits in blogging.

5 Top Blog Post Ideas

As a blogger, you probably know that you need to post often to be successful and to build a following. Some say that this means posting at least once a week, but most think more often is the key to success, claiming that posts once a day or more are integral. It doesn’t matter if you update your blog once a week or once an hour, it can be hard to think of a good blog post idea. Of course you should try to stay on topic and close to your niche, but there are certain blog post ideas that can be adapted for your blog to keep you with top content. The following are 5 of the top ideas for blog posts, ideas that can hopefully help you think of ways to update your blog and keep it fresh.

20 Things to Remember when Guest Posting

Guest Posting is a way to make yourself known in your niche and in the process get targeted traffic back to your blog. When guesting posting you have to keep a lots of thing in perspective so as to make it into a success. Today we will be discussing 20 such important things to keep in mind while guest posting through means of a Infographic. From originality to topic selection to promotion, it covers all the points in a simplified manner to make it easy to understand and implement.

How To Introduce An Achievement Program On Your Blog

A couple of months back I did a guest post on How To Introduce A Free Loyalty Program On Your Blog on Spice Up Your Blog . PunchTab ,the company responsible for it has now come up with a new product called the Achievement Program. Rather than awarding coupons to users for showing their Loyalty (a.k.a. Liking ,+1'ing ,etc ) , it focuses on giving users Social Rewards to drive behavior. Users unlock badges for visiting, liking, tweeting, +1'ing, sharing or commenting. This creates a healthy competition between users to earn more and more badges and achievements ,in the process promoting your content.