BLOGGING AVENUES

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Spottt works slightly like a CPC campaign. That is, you'll display ads of other members on your blog or site. Likewise other members will display your blog's or site's ads on their blogs or sites. The concept of this program is to promote each others' websites for free. This works on the basis of credits. You earn credits when a visitor to your blog or site clicks on the ads. You can even earn credits when you click on the ads yourself. The more credits you earn the more is the traffic to your site. Its that simple and easy.

Its a fun way of not only driving more traffic to your site but also a way to discover new and undiscovered blogs and sites which will give you an opportunitity to get to the vast oceans of new informations and resources. And all that for FREE!

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After i’ve posted tips on how to improve your website, now it’s the time to find out what should you be careful at. There definitely are some things that can ruin your work and make your readers leave.

Look and design

Take care what design or theme do you use, because it may scare the readers or it may be a hard job for them to find out what are they interested in. Don’t place too many animated gifs, weird images and unpleasant font.

Also, don’t fulfill your website with ads, but try to blend them and place fewer, not to disturb the visitors.

Content

I will not talk about the quality of the content, because that definitely has to be high, but the formatting.

Don’t post blocks of text, 3 pages long, because the readers will get bored. Don’t post when you remember, meaning you post 3 posts today and 2 after three weeks, but try to post them regularly. Also, don’t post too many posts, because the readers will get bored. You should find out how many is too many in your niche.

Put yourself in your readers shoes

This is the most useful tip, because there may be other issues that can scare the visitor i might have missed and you have to check your website to find them. In essence, try not to use malicious scripts, pop-ups, expandable flash ads, floaters or anything that might disturb your visitor from it’s try to read the content.

A few years ago, where there were much less blogs than now, a website made fast, with some copied content from here and there or with a writer that was showing no interest could bring you lots of money. Now, you need to do a lot of things to make your website successful. I will not rewrite the tips you can already find on my blog, but things behind scenes, that makes a blog a bit different than other, tips more related to copywriting and to you, the blogger or webmaster.

Your reader is your client

You have to treat your readers well and fulfill their requests. Well, you don’t have to jump off a building if he asks you too, but neither you should answer with “that’s none of your business” if he asks you how did you start your blog, made it successful or other things he may be interested in. You don’t have to tell them your biggest secret, but to act well.

Keep in mind that your reader is your client, because he may click an ad, he counts on CPM ( cost per mile ) banners, he may buy an affiliate product and if he doesn’t do it this time, he may do it next time, if you convince him to return.

Blog first for pleasure, then money

You have to enjoy what you are doing, not to say “damn, i have to post on my blog again”, because your readers will read that into your posts, there’s a difference between blogging by pleasure or obligation. For example, I have some satisfactions when i see comments, more feed readers, more traffic and then I look at the money. Don’t get me wrong, money are important too, but you have to enjoy your job and make your readers enjoy what they are reading too.

So choose a niche you like and start writing about it, don’t just start writing about pills because they monetize better.

At any time, success is far away

You will probably reach a specified amount of traffic, reader or income where you say your website is earning you enough and it’s enough for you so you won’t work any more to improve it. That’s definitely wrong, because an unmanaged, not updated website or blog is dieing and it will be very hard to resuscitate it. It is better to keep working or hire someone to manage it, with you being a web CEO, so you don’t have this problem.

I’m waiting for your feedback on this.

You have finally created a blog for yourself. Now how to go about promoting it? There are various ways of promoting your blog. You can do that by submitting your blog in various search engines and community sites. You can also use other forms of publicising tools like bookmarking tools that can be directly integrated to your blog page. These bookmarking tools allow users to easily refer back to your blog for new informations and updates in your blog. You can also verbally spread news about your blog to your friends and ask them to check and give comments on how they feel about your blog. This way your blog will start attracting more and more readers. Whichever way you take your primary concern is to take your blog across wide spectrum of audiences. Below is some recommended blogger community sites where you can become a member and submit your blog and can use them as platforms to promote and publicize your blog.

1. Del.icio.us
This is a social bookmarking site. It gives users the option of tagging your blogs under specific categories. If your blog falls under 'technology' then your blog reader can bookmark it under the technology category of the site. Currently the most popular tool used by many bloggers.

2: Digg
This is also a popular tool that you can integrate in your blog. With this tool, you can allow readers to submit the articles of your blog directly into the digg community site. It gives the option of digging your article or in other words voting your articles. This way your articles can be popularised and thereby streaming more and more traffic to your blog.

3. Reddit
This also allows user to submit articles from the blog directly to the Reddit site using an integrated submission tool in your blog.

4. Stumble Upon
Here you can submit your blog for others to discover. Stumble Upon has a huge collection of blogs and members of the community can discover each others' blogs very easily through the community platform.
5. Technorati
This is a big blogger community. Thousands of bloggers interact with each other and get opportunity of sharing and discussing each others views and opinions related to their blogs.

6. BlogEngage
BlogEngage is a growing communtiy with thousands of registered members. You can even make friends with other bloggers through this platform.

7. Facebook
Facebook is one of the most popular social community sites with millions of active users. Through this community you can connect almost with anyone around the world. Right from your family members, relatives to unknown sea of people, you can find all sorts of people of different race and creed here wanting to get in touch and make friends with each other.

These are the few ways and options by which you can effectively promote your blog site. Promoting and publicizing blogs not only bring laurels, name and fame but also the much needed traffic which helps immensely in your monetization programs.

Good luck and all the best in your endeavours.