5 Best Ways to Challenge Top Bloggers

I have already written several times about to start blogging, writing mistakes, sponsor your blogs, monetize blogs etc but this is very first time that I am going to write about a topic one can not dare to because by doing this I am openly giving other blogger an authority to write against me but I don't care because writing is my passion and I can write what I think I can do.

So here are the 5 best ways to challenge top bloggers who have hold on the online audience in large scale. But now this is our turn to write and discuss on each topic to challenge top writers.

Anyone can compete with those and I am sure if you follow these 5 simple but best and effective rules, also challenge top bloggers for online writing.

Keep a Note on:

1. Write longer posts more than 3000 words with in-depth content - Most Important
2. Develop skills to grab ideas form different sources other than blogs
3. Develop skills to write on any topic which is in trend
• Current Trends
• Old vs New Technology
• Motivational vs Inspirational
• Gaming devices and other media for sports etc.
4. Write killer titles for your post that should shows the meaningful definition - Most Important
5. Criticize through blog comments if you feel that you can give better than the already written matter

Apart from above mentioned best ways, always try to organize your data with the following checklist in terms of your blog writing. These are another best ways or checklist to make your blog a point of attraction so that you fetch more readers, not only the first time but for revisiting in a search of more valuable and helpful information for the new as well as for old bloggers.

• In-depth Blog content
• Focus on Keywords
• Importance of Landing Pages
• Importance of Images in Blog Content
• Importance of Social Media in blogging
• Be Genuine - Speak your own Voice
• Start Guest Blogging
• Invite others to write for your blog as well

1. In-Depth Blog Content:-  

   The benefits of In-depth Blog content are numerous and the first most important benefit is that it will help in getting traffic from the the search results and the articles which are written in detailed content would be the first preference of any search engine. If you are not writing content on broad topics that is thousands of words long, it is unlikely that you’ll receive more search engine traffic.
   
   In addition to writing detailed or in-depth content, the last step in getting more in-depth articles traffic is to promote your content on several social networking websites. 

2. Focus on Keywords:-

   This is another important aspect of blogging because adding quality content to your website on a regular basis is a very good SEO tactic but if it contains focused keywords then the out put will be double in terms of readers. Google sees that your website is active because new pieces of information are added frequently. On top of that, you increase the volume of your content. If your keyword strategy has been crafted properly and your content is nicely optimized for the right keywords, adding content will increase your search-ability.
   
   But how to choose the perfect focus keyword? Especially when you’re blogging and focusing on long tail post and keywords used for your blog post, it can be quite hard to decide which keywords to optimize. In our view, there are at least two things you should do before writing an amazing or high quality blog.
   

   • Choose a focus keyword

   • Research on most searched Keywords 

3. Importance of Landing Pages:-

   In blogging or online writing the importance of landing pages is quite on top of all other checklists. I suggest you all that if you really want good attraction of your visitors then your landing page should be dynamic in the form of design, quality introduction about you or your blog and the interesting topics a reader will be shown in a few seconds. Landing pages must be well designed, visually appealing, and easy to use if traffic is going to be converted into something valuable from your blog. This conversion is ultimately the first goal of a blog.
   
   Apart from above, there are several things that factor into the effectiveness of a landing page. At the focal point, is how well a blog/website helps a visitor understand what to do next. Many good landing pages will have succinct and concise verbiage that tells users what process to follow so that each party gets what they want. 
   
   This is often laid out in a collection of paragraphs, images, buttons, and fields to fill. There’s a good chance that you’ve been to a blog page where you’ve been asked to give your name, email address, and some other information, click a submit button, and receive something of value in exchange. Further expediting that process in the simplest way possible is what a landing page is supposed to do for your blog.
   
   Among other things that are important in creating an effective landing pages is the overall visual presentation of the blog. Many blogs look outdated, untrustworthy, or flat out too complicated. Although this doesn’t bother some visitors, it’s not a good idea to rest on one’s laurels and assume that most people don’t care. Consequently, it’s critical to have professional looking blogs that help visitors feel confident in where they are. You can search the web and find hundred or thousands blogs which are written by professional or successful bloggers but even then too shows some flaw in terms of proper formatting. Also some pro-bloggers give stress that formatting is not required but I don't agree with this statement because if a thinks looks good then only it will be getting proper attention and this applies on blogs too. The next question arises about the landing page is that Why Landing Pages Are Important? 
   

   3 Reasons Why Landing Pages are Important

   • Focus on Conversion

   • Better Metrics

   • Cost cutting on Advertising

   Above mentioned reasons about why landing pages are important are in-trend now a days and every blogger would love to be trendy but the problem is several bloggers/writers spend most of their budgets on things that drive massive amounts of traffic to their blogs, like PPC ads, social media and email marketing. This is great, but what happens with visitors click on an ad or link in an email? If they land on the company homepage, you’ve already failed because that gone visitor will never come back on your page once left the blog.
   
   With so much investment in traffic, many forget the second part of lead generation - conversions. That’s where landing pages come in. They help convert more traffic into qualified leads.With a single focus on converting visitors into leads, landing pages are all about positive ROI and this way usually, landing pages make all the difference. 

   1. 1. Focus on Conversion:-

         I’ve written on my other blogs about this term that bloggers believe sending PPC ads and email campaign clicks to their homepage of blog isn’t wrong. I usually have to start with why this is a bad idea and how a landing page will improve their conversions of visitors of blog.  
         
         The simple fact about is that a landing page of any blog, focus on one thing and that’s converting visitors into leads. Whether you’re asking for contact details in exchange for a white paper, download of software or something else, a targeted landing page is going to convert visitors more.
         
         Think about it, wouldn’t you rather have one page to go through instead of trying to find what you need from a company homepage? 

      2. Better Blog Metrics:- 

         See there’s different metrics you can gather on your blog homepage, but with a conversion with targeted landing page, I really concentrate on what’s working and what’s not for a blog.
         
         if you have a high bounce rate on a landing page, but a low time on page visit then you know you need to tweak some things in your landing page design.

      3. Cost Cutting on Advertising:-

         In most of the cases, do you know that your blog landing pages actually help reduce costs on advertising? With more conversions through focused pages, you can generate more leads, for more sales revenue from your blog. That in-turn decreases costs and you can put more funding into things like higher PPC ad budgets or other techniques, such as SEO and social media.

4. Importance of Images in Blog Content:- 

   Presently we are living in the age of visual effects and the age of visual culture. The more your will show graphically the more you will attract. This is the need of time for being visual. In-fact visual content is the backbone of a blog.(this is first ever that #Visual-Content-is-the-backbone-of-a-blog posted by us as you are reading on My Own Stories Blog).
   Do you remember how much you would have read a book with lots of pictures versus one with only text when you were a kid? The same applies, even now and nothing is changed till date, only way field of using images are grown. As you know that a picture speaks a thousand words, and when it comes to your content, that cannot be truer if your image is relevant and Image can add richness to your blog content and also make readers more willing to read a long article. Relevant photos can help your blog audience to feel the point you are trying to make with your blog post as well as breaking up the text making the story seem like less of a daunting read.

   7 Ways to use Visual Content

   1. Screen Shots 

   2. Social Images

   3. Animated GIFs

   4. Charts and Graphs

   5. Slide-shares

   6. Info-graphics

   7. Data visualization

   The above mentioned 7 ways to visual content itself a vast topic to be discuss here. No, I am not going to discuss here and I promise I will be writing on these soon in a separate post on this blog.

5. Importance of Social Media in blogging:- 

   Now, it is time to be social with the social media or social networking sites and if your blog have connectivity with these social media then you can get a loyal visitors for your blog content and make thousand or lacs of impressions in a day. This will work only if you are active member of these social medias and updating and connecting with your contacts through the media being used by you and your contact list. But make sure you are not going to spam anything on your social media because by doing so you will lose faith of your audience and they will block or un-follow you from the account. The terms (Importance of Social Media in blogging) is first ever used by My Own Stories blog.

6. Be Genuine - Speak your own Voice:- 

   In blogging one must have attitute is that always be original with your content, however you can take ideas from other blogs but never copy each and every line from scratch, this will not give you genuine readers or revisitor. Write what you know about. Explain with the examples of others of you don't have your own. Always give credits from where you have taken some piece of blog content or any other information which is related to your blog post or the topic you are writing on. 
   
   
   If you are not following this most urgent advice then you will be thrown out of the blogging crowd. You can check my small but effective post about plagiarizing a blog.

7. Start Guest Blogging:- 

   If you really interested in writing a good blog post and also want to challenge top bloggers then this would give most advantage of guest blogging or writing on other blogs as a guest writer. You will be sharpening your writing skills with this simple but a favorable method of guest writing. But this is not as simple as I am writing here because for this you have to write more and more on different topics several times than expected. Even for this you must approve your title from the host of the blog on which you want to write. you can read my post on this topic also and if you qualify then you can also write for my blogs running on different topics. While writing a guest post you are supposed to give your better than the best because a post whether it is a guest or it is being written by the owner of the blog represent to that blog and no writer would like to give a negative impression of the blog to the audience which read to that blog. a guest blogging contains several important factors which I suppose you must read from my other post about writing a  Guest Blogging.

8. Invite others to write for your blog as well:- 

   This is another best way of writing an effective blog to compete or challenge top bloggers. If you are writing for other blogs then there are several other bloggers who can write for your blogs too. It is just like vice-verse in terms of writing on blogs. So you can opt this also for getting more readers and attraction so that you can become a renowned blogger.
   
   I hope the above rules or way of writing a top blog post will raise your audience level and you can easily develop writing skills and also can write for top bloggers or even can challenge to them in blog writing on any topic.
   
   If you have any question then you can write through the comment section or follow me on Google Plus.

4 Reasons You Should Write for us

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How to Write for My Own Stories (plus Guidelines)

Before you start writing, I suggest you to read a warning:

A lot of what you read here may shock and amaze you.

I think this would seem odd, it sounds silly. How could something so mundane as editorial guidelines shock and amaze anyone?

Because we do things differently at My Own Stories. Very much differently.

Most blogs have an easy to publish model for guest writers / bloggers. You submit a post, and it’s either accepted or rejected. Maybe they do a little tweaking, and then it is published.

Overall, it is rather easy. You can get published on most popular blogs far easier than you could get published in a major magazine or newspaper.

We also offer guest posting on our several blogs written on different topics.

But there are exceptions.

In the beginning a small number of blogs become so big and influential that everyone wants to write for them. As a result, they become choosy in terms of quality content, better writing skills etc.

Instead of just writing a post and sending it in, you have to get your ideas approved first. For this you have to submit your post to us via email as mentioned below. You might go through two-three revisions before the post is finally accepted.

For others, we are one of those blogs.

On average, writing a post for us takes 5-8 hours from start to finish. And because we only publish 4-5 guest posts per month, your chances of getting accepted are less than other writing on other blogs.

Well, let’s talk about that next

4 reasons you should to write for us

The reason we can be so choosy is that there are lot of benefits of writing for us.

Have a serious look on:

1. Money:- Initially we are not giving any money to all, except in some cases and the final decision will be our but a lot of our writers make several thousand dollars per guest post by linking to product and service sales in their bylines. We have no problem with it. In fact, we’re proud of them for being so clever. 
2. Exposure:- Our blog My Own Stories is quickly becoming most popular blogs on the web. You can assume that thousands of people will read your post. If your post goes viral, as they sometimes do here, you could reach hundreds of thousands or even more readers. 
3. Followers:- If you’d like to get to know our founder and CEO, Mohinder Verma, getting a guest post published here is one of the best ways to do it. He takes an interest in all of our writers. Lots of popular bloggers also read My Own Stories, and if they like your post, it’ll give you double benefits. 
4. Spread Social Sharing:- If you are writing quality content for other blogs too, the tell us about it, and if it’s relevant to our readers, we’ll share it on Twitter and Google+. Over time, this can be worth thousands of visitors to your own blog and other guest posts. 

And when you will put all of those benefits together, each guest post you publish for us is potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars to you. In return, we expect the best quality content.

And let’s be very clear on the main reason of excepting your post is that...

Not every post you pitch us will be accepted. We are just considering posts from more than 200 different top writers across the web, and only the best of the best will be published.

We have an editing department setup for received posts and your post may go through two or three drafts before it is ready to publish. After you have delivered your final draft it will be given a second final touch by us.

If you want to get your post published after your very first draft then My Own Stories is not the blog for you. We don't mind to pick ideas from other successful blogger's posts but for a copied content there is not place on our blog.

What sort of ideas should you pick?

Although there are thousands of ideas can be generated for which you can write your post for us but we like Motivational or Inspirational because these topics are current and for most searching keywords on the net.

Here are some headlines from popular posts on the blog:

• How to write a Quality Blog? 
• 7 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block 
• How frequently you should write for your blog?

We cannot overestimate the importance of crafting a strong headline.

Your proposed headline will very likely be our first contact with your post. If it doesn’t grab us and demonstrate that you have a good understanding of how headlines work, then we are unlikely to ask you to write for My Own Stories.

It doesn’t matter how good your post idea is. If you can’t sell it to us via your headline then we can’t be confident you can sell it to our readers either.

My Own Stories ever want to write on the core topics i.e. on traffic techniques, writing tips and blogging techniques. These break down as follows.

Traffic techniques:

• Getting traffic from social media i.e.Facebook,Twitter etc. 
• Getting traffic from organic search result
• Converting more traffic into re-visitor

Writing tips:

• How to become a good writer
• How to be a creative content writer
• How to develop writing skills

Blogging how-tos:

• How to set up a blog using WordPress and configure useful plug-ins 
• How to migrate from wordpress to blogspot
• How to optimize your blog titles for more conversion rate

What type of post should you write?

Many writers who pitch a guest post to us, should take care and try to write inspirational, essay-style posts, we are more  interested in highly practical posts packed with genuinely useful content and backed up with insight, also it should be in very much detail and concrete, well explained and examples should also be there.

To be frank, we like list posts content the most.

What makes a good list post?

As I have already discussed in my previous post that the web loves big list posts and so do we. It includes while discussing about the list post:

• It addresses a genuine topic with an interesting content  
• It makes points that are surprising or unexpected but as per the headline 
• Each point is backed up with detailed research and helpful examples that allow the reader to take action 
• The points are organized in a logical way that enhances their impact on the reader

You first imagine that the first stage of writing a great list post is to think of all the obvious points to be made on the topic and then discard them. You might even have to eliminate the next most obvious ideas before you get to something of genuine interest and value. Expect to be pushed to take your ideas to the next level, and then the next and so on every time.

When you take an example of someone then don't shy to give backlink or credit to that site or person because doing so you are not keeping their credit into your pocket and this is genuineness of a good writer / blogger.

When creating examples to back up a point, make sure they are not generic and bland but are novel and interesting even entertaining.

Most importantly, make sure you’re making points that readers won’t have heard elsewhere. In other words, if we haven’t made the point clear, don’t go for the obvious or usual suspects. Go beyond. We also love to have the final word on a topic and that’s why we’re also very keen on “ultimate” guides .

• It should cover a topic of interest to our readers that has not yet received a detailed or definitive treatment elsewhere on the web. 
• It is written from the perspective of someone with in-depth understanding of the subject matter. There is a sense that the author’s knowledge extends even further than the scope of the guide.

The content should go beyond the typical advice given on the topic and shares expert insights, insider details, or experience earned in the trenches. Even if the basics are covered for the benefit of beginners the guide quickly gets into detail that is valuable to readers of all levels.

Key points are backed up by detailed examples and, where necessary, with links to other essential resources elsewhere on the web. Supporting examples might include actual screenshots, helpful diagrams or a step-by-step walk through of a typical scenario.

Where practical advice is given it should be clear to the reader exactly where to start and what steps to take to get the desired result. If there are exceptions to the process these should be highlighted and alternative steps given as we are doing in this post step by step. This is another sort of helpful guide.

Here are some possible ways to approach a helpful guide:

• Pick a new or emerging topic from the web where it is simply too early for much quality content to have yet been written 
• Take a narrow view on a popular topic and explore that one aspect in much more detail than has been covered elsewhere 
• Pick a popular topic which has been covered widely elsewhere and simply go further with it than others have. Provide extra detail, better examples, more up-to-date information, etc. 

How much longer content should be pitched to write a guest post for our blog?

We do not except a post which is pitched to us with words up to 1500 - 1700. We love and more interested in excepting post between 2000 to 3000 words. The more longer content you will write the more chances for your post to be picked up by us.

The reason we want posts this long is that we are looking for authoritative, definitive posts that deliver the final word on a topic. Posts that remain valuable over time. Posts that people feel compelled to share and link to because bringing them to the attention of other people makes them look good.

If you are more comfortable writing 500 - 750 word posts that skim the surface of a topic, then My Own Stories is probably not for you. However in the early we except a post of about 500 characters but now time has changed and a good length and a well structured post gets attraction in search engines.

How to structure a great post?

A post with some best elements posses the title "Structured Great Post" and frankly speaking, the elements of a great guest post are:

• A Killer Title of headline that makes a strong, relevant promise 
• An engaging, empathetic opening that builds momentum and anticipation for the main body of the post 
• A well structured body full of strong points that give an interesting and distinctive take on the topic 
• A motivational closing that makes the reader want to take action

What’s the process for pitching a post?

Send us your proposed post headline, you can send more than one headline for the same topic and if your post is selected then we will decide which title best describes your post content and that would be our final decision. Also send a couple of paragraphs about what the post will cover. If you’re pitching a list post (remember, we love list posts) please include a few example bullet points as we are doing above in this post.

What next?
If you think you have what it takes to write for My Own Stories, shoot an email to the owner of this blog at mohinder.verma@aitcc.in following the format in these guidelines. You can expect a reply within two or three days, not excluding weekends.

Good luck!

Build a Multi-Million Dollar Blog - How?

Blogging is interesting and fun oriented if you are writing with passion because Interest & Passion have minor difference between you can check on my previous blog about writing mistakes. 

For achieving this target you must follow these simple but effective rules

1. Build a Loyal Community
2. Start Guest Blogging
3. Post Regularly
4. Write Longer, In-Depth Contents
5. Optimize Your Titles
6. Share your content Open-minded

As you all know that I am writing since 2011 and written several blogs till date so above rules are first published in my blogs several times in different posts. Although you will find these in other blogs too but the idea is mine.

Now read carefully and tell me what you have learnt from these rules and what you are going to write in your blogs about. 

You can share your ideas and can also give your thoughts to publish with your blog link where you are going to publish. We don't have any problem with that and your thoughts would receive a DoFollows Link as a credit.

1. Build a Loyal Community

   Are you ready to create a business that will generate dependable and constant income for your family?
   
   If your answer is 'Yes' then you must start Building a Loyal Community. But you’ll also have to work hard, maybe harder than everyone.
   
   If you can do this, you’ll be amazed by what you’ll become and achieve with the time you spent on dealing with your community. But before your blog can become a special place for a particular group of people, you’ll have to publish lots of great contents.
   
   If you regularly publish great contents, and this group of people or community, considers them helpful, they’ll come back and also introduce your blog to their friends. This makes blogging a powerful Internet marketing weapon.
   
   Now you will ask that how and where you can start making community. It is a hard work and lots of time spending task but very simple now a days of mobile internet availability everywhere where you are at home of outside your home.
   
   For this you just have to show your presence on social media. Join major social medias and start interacting with people with the same interest. Like their content, follow them and comment on the topics they share.
   
   However there are lots of social media but you can choose as per your interest of circle.
   

2. Start Guest Blogging

   If you have built community and providing more value to others and your blogs too so what next?
   
   Now you must start writing as a guest blogger to raise your value in online media. You can easily do that through guest blogging.
   

   What is guest's blogging?

   It’s simply writing for other blogs who are related to your own blog from your community. See you create a high quality content and give it away for free for the other blogger to publish that on their blog. What you get in return is amazing and will be in numerous ways.
   
   After doing this you’ll get new valuable readers who will trust you immediately. Because they have so much faith in the blogger that published your post and that faith will be passed on to you for ever.
   
   
   You know that any search engines like Google and Yahoo will begin trusting your blog more when you guest blog on other established blogs whose topics are related to yours.
   
   You’ll get a link mentioning you in the article you publish on other blogs. This link is like a vote in favor of you. It tells Google that you’re trustworthy.
   
   Always keep in mind that Google want to present quality websites to its users. Guest blogging on other quality sites tells Google that your blog is a quality blog.
   

3. Post Regularly 

   If you want to achieve your goals in terms of a successful blogger or if you want to be a successful blogger in terms of monetary then you must have to write and post regularly but a quality content.
   
   
   As I have discussed that Blogging needs lots of effort and hard work to gain trust of search engines as well as readers. Blogger’s who just start their new blog needs to work regularly on it to make a successful blogging career. 
   
   
   There are lots of things that we need to do to reach our blog at next level like SEO and social sharing. But the most important thing is to update the blog regularly. 
   
   
   However there are several other benefits to post regularly but I am giving best five (5) benefits below:

   # To Increase Search Engine Ranking
   # To Improve Indexing Rate
   # To Build Solid Readership
   # To Boost Our Alexa Ranking
   # To Attract Advertisers 

4. Write Longer and In-Depth Posts

   Do not search for this because this post you are reading is the best and suitable example and itself defining about the above title. You will be successful if your reader or visitor is staying or spending more time on your post and if you have a long quality content then surely your reader will spent good time for reading your post.
   
   
   Always remember that a quality post with good length does leads to higher rankings on Google and other search engines and your blog search-ability increases than a short content blog post.
   
   As per many successful or professional Bloggers, Google believes that longer and quality contents answers most of the questions a search by others. Therefore, it ranks long form contents over short form contents.
   
   Because Google wants to provide its users with the best results, having a more through contents will give you a big edge over other bloggers who are competing with you for the same audience or on the same search request on a particular topic.
   
   
   So if you truly want to build a successful blog or blogging as your career within a short time, you should start writing contents that are longer than your competitors.

5. Optimize Your Titles

   This is another way of getting good search engine ranking for your blog with an optimized title of your blog post. 
   
   
   This is very simple and you can easily optimize your blog post title. See if you have just started your blog on blogger’s default template, then definitely you’ll not be aware with this fact that your post titles are not properly optimized for search engines. You have to do some modifications / editing in your blog template to make your post titles properly optimized. 
   
   
   And I am sure that you will see a noticeable change in organic traffic of your blog after making this change. 

   Show Post Title Before Blog Title in Blogger 

   NOTE:- Post titles and blog title plays a vital role for better ranking in the result of any search engine. This is the very first thing which is checked by your blog visitors. That means your traffic depends on your post title. Having Keyword Rich titles can bring you more traffic and increase your blog page views.
   
   
   Google shows only first 66 characters of the title in search results. That’s why you should use them effectively. By default, in blogger, our blog title shows before post title. This reduces the SEO benefits because our post titles which have the main keywords got chopped because of the characters limit in search results.
   
   
   So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results.
   
   
   
   1. Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML. 
   2. Backup your blog template.
   3. Now search below code in your template. "<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>" .  
   4. Replace that code with the below one.
   
           "<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>
           <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
           <b:else/>
           <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
           </b:if>"You are done. 
   
   
   Isn't it so simple to use. I know most of you are new blogger and don't have required technical knowledge to update default template of blogger. If you face any problem then you can get help from me through comments and I am sure that you will be get within 24 hours.
   
   Now wait for the update in search results. Once search results got updated you will see the changes and your blog post title will be placed before your blog title.
   
   
   You can check your page rank just by giving small information about your page url.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly:

   This page rank checking tool is powered by PRChecker.info service

6. Share your content Open-minded

   When you have completed everything as explained above then what are you waiting for, just go and start writing and Build a Multi-Million Dollar Blog.
   
   Waiting for your valuable feedback in terms of comments. I also like to be criticized by the people like you because criticism is another step towards success and to be a successful blogger.
   
   

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10+ Best Way to Make Your Blog Work

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More than thousands of blogs are being created every day, but this is not possible for many bloggers to make their blog stand out from the rest.

Let me tell you the truth about, it is possible because people want to read good content, and with good content comes more ad revenue and with more readers you can earn a passive income. Well, maybe it’s not that easy.

These tips should benefit your blog and make it more user-friendly, more easily accessible, and more content-enabled.

There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs are available online and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them, so here is a short-list of tips for your blog to optimize and marketing a blog:

10 Best Tips for a Blog to work 

• Use your own domain name.  By having your own domain gives your blog a more brandable effect, It makes easier for you to stand out from the rest of the blogs on online crowd. Customize how your blog looks and fee, even a simple image header will make it work. Consider which is better- yourblog.com or yourblog.blogspot.com? 
• Research for keywordswhich are suitable for your blog content. Try to know what keywords suits best for your blog and then apply it on your blog, this is to make it more easier to find on search engines. 
• You must Ping Your Blog. These pinging tools are free to use you can use free blog pinging online tool such as www.pingomatic.com and www.pingmyurl.com to ping your blog. This is to let search engines know that you have just updated your blog. 
• Create Feedburner account and make a feed for your blog, this helps to build your blog's readership as many people want to read a doze of every bits when your blog is updated or when you post something on your blog. 
• Format archived posts, related posts. Display your old blog posts on your homepage or any page, this is to help new blog readers dig to all of your blog posts. 
• Enable statistics for tracking especially Google Analytics. It tracks your blog visitors and make a data analysis of your blog's readers, and thus being able to know this data will help you on improving your blog. 
• Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines. 
• Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it. 
• Research and comment on relevant niche related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence. But be sure to comment as a human not like a robot. 
• Post regularly on your blogs but each post must be unique and of a high quality to achieve better readership for your blog. 
• Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, give credits to that blogger in the comments of the post. It's more like building a readership plus your blogger profile. 
• When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made. 
• Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.

And I am sure if you are reading and following these simple but effective tips for blogs to get popularity in terms of readers / visitors, you will definitely be a popular blogger.

There might be a lot of ways as well, but the tips above are the basic ways and fundamentals on making your blog work the way you want and to make it stand out from the rest of the blog-crowd.

How To Sponsor Your Blog?

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Thousands or even lacs of blogs in all categories are being published on daily basis and it is not possible that all blogs would get popularity in terms of visitors or revisitors.

This is because most of the blogs share same content or about the same topic. But if one want to get popularity then must use some free online tools to sponsor blogs.

What are those free tools to sponsor a blog?

Blog Sponsorship

This is a free to use by BLOGTOPSITES and you are requested to read this carefully before enroll your blog for popularity through these free media.

Get To The Top - Reach Over 3 Millions visitors every month.

Sponsor a category and get the exposure you and your blog deserve. Your blog will be placed at the top of the results within it's category. You get increased exposure, more traffic and more followers. Only 5 spots per category are available!

Features:

• Listing in the area "Highlighted Blogs" at the top of each page within your blog category. 
• Listing in the blogtopsites app on Facebook.
• Listing in the site details of same category.
• Rotating listing in the "Featured Blogs" on main page http://www.BlogTopSites.com
• Listing in "Bloggers in Spotlight" on main page
• Rotating listing in dashboard, tags and posts areas.
• Direct links to your blog (instead of your blog details page).

This is another free to use by BLOGSAVENUE and you are requested to read this carefully before enroll your blog for popularity through these free media.

BLOGLOG is another way to get free and unique visitors from worldwide. Just create your account and start posting on your blog, rest is the responsibility of this website to let the visitors find your blog.

Before winding up this tops of sponsoring your blog, I must discuss about the writing mistakes while blogging but for this you have to visit one of my blog post which I have already posted earlier. Always draft your blog first, before final submitting for your readers and avoid minor or major Writing Mistakes.