Creating a Popular Blog - Part 1

If you want to make money through blogging, creating a popular
blog is the key to success. If your blog receives very little traffic, you
will not have much success monetizing it.

No matter which method you use to make money from your blog, you
will find the most success if you have a large readership. Because
of this, making your blog popular and growing readership should be
one of your primary concerns.

There are many ways to make your blog more popular. The first
thing you should consider is who your audience is and who you are
writing for. You should always write about something that interests
you, and that will interest others.

You may think that your new kitten is the greatest thing since sliced
bread, but there are probably not very many other people who want
to read a blog about it. It is best to find a niche audience that is large
enough to support a wide readership but not too vague.

One of the great things about blogging is that you do not have to
be a professional writer to have a popular blog. You do have to obey
common grammatical rules and at least be able to put together
coherent sentences, but you do not have to be a highly skilled writer.

Blog readers are looking for interesting, relevant topics to read,
not the next work of Shakespeare. Make sure what you write is
interesting, edgy, or even controversial.

Popular blogs are never boring and add value to reader’s lives
either through information or entertainment. Make sure your blog
adds something of value to your reader’s life otherwise you will
not develop a large fan base.

Making your blog popular is a lot like driving traffic to a website.
You can use many of the same techniques to drive traffic to your blog.
Finding places to link back to your blog is a good way to drive traffic.

Social sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and You Tube provide lots of
opportunities for this. You can also use social book marking sites such
as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg to promote your blog. Blogging on
a popular blog site such as Wordpress and Blogger are also good ways
to make your blog more popular as these blogging sites help to bring
in traffic for your blog.

Stay tuned for Part II.....