- Surfers around the world are not scholars in English. Use a very simple (English) language to hold up every single user.
- As always said, content is the king. Write articles for humans, not search engines.
- To get a good display of your title in search results (while searching in those search engines), title of the posts should be less than or equal to 64 characters (40 characters for optimization of BlogRush widget). Of course, you should use a plugin like All in one SEO or IMM Meta tags along with this tip. Check out “The top ten WordPress plugins of MT Herald” for those plugins.
- Limit your plugins only to those that are very essential as too much of plugins could lead to late loading of your pages and slow pages turn visitors away.
- If you decide to monetize your blog, experiment multiple revenue sources. Place ads wisely. Try Google Adsense, Text Link Ads, BidVertiser, Auction Ads etc., but don’t make your blog’s advertising look like The Strip on Vegas. It annoys people off and keeps them from liking you as they feel you are putting your revenue ahead of your usefulness.
- Add a “Related Posts” feature. This increases internal linking as well as retaining the reader at least for a few more pages. I recommend the Aizatto’s Related Posts plugin for WordPress. Check it out in Top Ten WordPress plugins.
- Add Top Ten posts feature to display most popular posts. This develops curiosity in the minds of a new visitor to see those posts that gained top ranking.
- Similarly add “next” and “previous” post buttons to increase page views and to direct and retain a visitor to a few more pages.
- Claim your blog at Technorati and use Technorati tags.
- Place a human readable sitemap and archives page at a well visible place on your blog. This would help a reader find the article for which he came for, if at all he didn’t land on the post what he came for.
- Back up your blog/database at regular intervals to bail you out at times of crisis.
- Invite like minded bloggers to perform guest post on your blog.
- While deciding titles, prefer words that people might key in to search for your post. Don’t forget synonyms and plural versions of those words. Same is the case with category names.
- Successful blogging is 10% blogging and 90% marketing. Hence writing quality contents is only 10% of the work done while marketing/link building is 90% to draw the crowd and crawlers. Work in that manner.
- Do not claim yourself all of your posts in social bookmarking sites. Repetition in this case does worse than good.
- Traffic from social book marking sites has a short attention span and may leave your blog in a few seconds; try the maximum you can to retain those readers to build the reader count.
- Place a good site-search tool in a very good visible area. A blog/site without a decent site-search tool annoys me. That is the case with every internet user. Check out what else annoys me while on a blog at “Top ten ways to annoy to your website visitors” and try avoiding those to ensure a pleasant experience for the readers.
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