Ways to Make Your Blog Shine

Here is a list of some very creative ways which can help you make your blog popular. If not popular, at least it will give you some ideas of what to post on your blog if you are running out of topics to write about. Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.

*Start a contest make sure to end it too
*Give away free goodies people love them
*Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to
read your blog keep it positive
*Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
*Interview other bloggers and post the interview
*Write about your personal life sometimes
*Ask questions to your visitors
*Share some secrets
*Celebrate your birthday with your visitors
*Think of innovative ways for doing this
*Celebrate your blog’s birthday too
*Write something funny or disgusting(Don’t make it a habit)
*Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car
(Just make sure you drive often)
*Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free
*Introduce a commission based affiliate program
*Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession
*Post interesting pictures of your pets
*Congratulate the top commentators occasionally
*Encourage sharing of opinions
*Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization
*Ask your visitors to join you
*Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages
*Hold blog competitions
*Create polls
*Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog)
*Write about your blog achievements
*Share your hopes and aspirations about your blog
*Start an award distribution system
*Make contact with your local visitors and hold a get-together or a bloggers’ meet
*Start a blog comic strip
*Dig up some old article that you wrote on your blog which became famous and start a discussion
*Try and get a photograph clicked with a real celebrity and post it on your blog. (Hold on Tiger..don’t rush to that Photoshop button!)
*Post videos that will help your visitors learn something new. Also submit them to video sharing websites like YouTube.com.
*Write about your hobbies and interests. (For example, if you like cooking, post a new recipe)
*Post about one of the weirdest thing that you ever did
*Get featured in a print magazine
*Buy a paid review from any famous blogger(s)
*Brand your blog with a catch phrase along with a logo
*Distribute T-shirts or merchandise with your blog name on it
*Join Yahoo! Answers and put a link on your website to your answers
*Keep a track of websites that pick up your articles or press releases *Offer them exclusive news or content
*Do surveys and publish the results to your visitors
*Build tools that your visitors might find use for
*Start a newsletter
*Podcasting is another good way to make your blog popular
*Publicize your blog to your friends and relatives and let them do some work for you
*Be active in Social Bookmarking websites
*Share Link Love and you will get it back
*People like to read about Web 2.0. Write about it
*Write about something that’s already famous
*Last but not the least, be yourself

Now get to Blogging......

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I am Tracey Burnett Cole in Birmingham, Alabama and writer for this blog.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid "organic" or "algorithmic" search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier or higher on the page, and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO targets different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, video search, academic search[1], news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a website web presence.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work, what people search for, the actual search terms typed into search engines and which search engines are preferred by their targeted audience. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of backlinks, or inbound links, is another SEO tactic.

Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site and site content, SEO tactics may be incorporated into website development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe website designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.

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I am Tracey Cole, writer at Social Media Place.