15 tips for a Successful Blog Launch

Posted in Featured Article on Nov 9th, 2010 |

Many people think that starting a blog and making big bucks with it is child’s play. But this is far from the truth and those people who have already succeeded and have the experience would vouch for the same. Hundreds and thousands of blogs are launched on a daily basis, yet only a few manage to attract traffic to them.

Bloggers Worldwide

Check out chart extracted from Technorati’s State Of The Blogsphere 2010 above – it is easy to see that blogging is a global phenomenon. .

15 Quick Tips For Beginners In Blogging

Although this does not mean one cannot be among the few who do make good income from blogging. If you follow the following tips, your blog could be one of the most visited blogs on the internet; it is entirely up to you.

1. First impression matters

It is imperative that you create a personal bond with the readers, something which most of the other blog builders miserably fail at. Let your reader know who you are, your background and your objectives behind the blog. Also, although this is not always true, but a blog with its own domain name gives a better first impression most of the time (instead of yourblog.blogspot.com) – This is why finding a good blog hosting is important .

2. Work hard, promote later

There are lots of bloggers who do not have the patience to build their blog slowly and start to promote it without much content or information of use upon it. It is important that you fill your blog with all the information and content possible before promotion. A visitor browsing through a half-empty blog will never bother to come back ever again even if it is well furnished with valuable content later down the line.

3. Feed your own content

There are many bloggers who do little blogging and expect others to do it on their behalf. There are also some who give too much importance to SEO and just do not concentrate on the quality of the feed. SEO can bring the traffic but only quality content would bring in a repeated audience.

4. Make use of your contacts

Make use of the email addresses of your friends and acquaintances. Let them know that you have a new blog and that you would like them to visit it. This is one of the keys to having a blog become viral.

5. Visit other blogs as well

If you want genuine traffic to come to your blog, then it is imperative that you do the same for others as well. Try to visit blogs which are similar to your blog content and do not forget to comment on them and leave your blog link along with it.

6. Make use of the first couple of days post the launch

Many bloggers do the hard work before the launch and just forget about their blog once the initial promotional activities are done with. One should start working harder on their blog after the launch as your blog is now grabbing attention and you would not like to disappoint returning visitors by not updating the blog.

7. Help people with your blog

Blogging is not just about creating content and building traffic. There could be certain things that you know and would like to share with people. Do this from the start building, building a more personal relationship with visitors, rather than just a commercial bond.

8. You are just a drop in the ocean

Just because you have launched a blog and have attracted decent attention towards it does not mean that other blogs are not receiving traffic. To build loyal and repeated visitors, fill your website with content which is useful and gives a reason for your targeted audience to visit your blog over and over again.

9. Make use of blog directories

Incoming links can help you with the rankings with the search engines. If you are not aware of how to perform link building with quality websites and blogs, then you can seek a blog directories’ assistance.

10. Make your blog URL your digital signature

You must visit lots of forums and blogs to market yourself. Just visiting is not good enough, you should also make some comments on the articles or videos posted and leave your blog URL link so that when people read your comments, they also visit your blog.

11. Make Facebook and MySpace count

Use these social networking sites and post the link of your blog and specific content items in your profile.

12. Don’t get too busy with your blog

After launching your website, don’t get involved with just your blog. Try to be a frequent visitor at other people’s blogs as well.

13. Get feedbacks

Ask your visitors to leave feedback on your blog in the form of comments.

14. Meet your co-bloggers in person

If some of the bloggers you are in touch with online happen to be staying in your locality, then try to meet them some time as this could foster a healthy exchange of ideas.

15. Keep a check on your comments section

There could be lot of visitors who are posting irrelevant, and also at times obscene comments on your blog. It is important that you monitor your blog and delete such comments so that the decorum of your blog is maintained.

The above tips are designed to give a few basic ideas how to build, improve and manage a successful blog.