10 ways to make your blog succeed

These days everybody has a blog, some people even more than one.BUT! What people have not noticed is that with the right strategies your blog can start making money for you. Want to know how to do this? Just read the following steps.




Make your blog professional.
1. First and for-most you have quality articles which in-turn will bring in traffic.
2. Make your blog stand-out, don’t use default blogger templates as this will automatically make readers think that it is a personal blog and not a professional one.
3. Update your blog frequently, it is not a must it be daily but at least twice or thrice a week, this shows how seriously you take blogging.If you have nothing to write don’t force it as it will just dilute the quality articles you have.
4. If you have many widgets arrange them nicely in your sidebar as this will make them look organised.
5. Respond to reader feedback such as comments or questions asked via mail. This will cement the relationship between you and your readers encouraging them to come back often and comment.
6. .If possible get a TLD(top level domain) such as .com or .net as this shows readers you are willing to spend money in order to get your articles read.Now again if you don’t have the resources you will be just fine with the .blogspot or whichever sub-domain you use.

Know your readers.
When I say know them I maen know which countries they are from,the sites that reffered them to yours and such details.Now in order to get this information you are obviously not going to ask each and every reader these details but you can get analytics such as Google Analytics or Histats.This information will help you improve your blog even further as you will have a rough idea of what the reader is looking for.For example if you have many readers from countries that do not speak English it would be wise to add a language translation widget to ensure that you do not lose all those valuable readers.

How to make money
1. Sell ad space on your blog directly(which is harder but more profitable) or via services such as Google Adsense and Adbrite.Directly is where advertisers contact you and you negotiate the price and duration their ad will be up.
2. Get refferals to the GPT(get paid to) sites that you are a member of.
3. Grow a blog and then sell it,which many big time bloggers usually do.
4. Get a sponsor,this is a company or website that will pay you if you put ads and links to their respective websites.