Alright, so you got a blog, Now What? There are so many blogs out there why should they get all the readers and unique visits, you can also get in on the piece of the blog pie. Read this article to get great tips about blogging, its usability, content, the tools you can use, and great sites that help you get visitors.

Blog Usability/Content

Before anything, you must have an idea of what your blogs’ content will be made up of. You need to create content that people will come back to read and send to others. Your blog would have to be presentable, not something that was slapped on in three minutes using blogger.com
Your content is crucial for the readers and for the unique visitors. This is basically your whole blog. If you have a tech blog you might want to visit other tech blogs to see what type of content they have and learn from the blogs that work.

Tools for Bloggers

Their are many options for bloggers a great way to is to submit your site to as many blog networks or blog rings as possible. BlogTopSites.com is a good example, they rank your blog by the amount of unique visitors your blog receives.Another site which helps boost visitors is technorati.com, they rank your site by the amount of sites linking to your own site. The higher your rank is the easier it will be for people to find your site by using keywords that you provide when you sign up.

Feedburner.com is an RSS aggregator, which creates a way readers can keep reading your daily new content. They have all of the popular RSS tools and chiclets ranging from yahoo, google, newsvine, bloglines, rojo, newsgator, pluck and much more. They keep track of all the new unique daily readers.

Once you are up and running and using these free tools, you want to keep the look of the site professional, not to mention the name don’t use the blogger.com account name or the wordpress account name. Get a hosting account, and setup a wordpress account from wordpress.org If you want a good list of hosting services esspecially if you use wordpress you want to get a service with PHP and MySQL enabled. wordpress.org/hosting gives a good list of providers.

Submission Sites

Alright, now that the tools of blogging are done you want to get more popularity, more visits, and readers. One of the best ways is to write an article and submit it to digg.com, which is a tech news site driven by the users, if a certain story has enough diggs it is brought to the main page for everyone to see, this is the granddaddy of all the ways to get traffic to your site. If your story gets dugg to the main page you are almost gauranteed atleast 10,000 unique visits. The other site similar to digg is del.icio.us, same here if your site makes it to frontpage the page visits will just keep on coming. You should also submit it to search engines such as google or yahoo, or visit addme.com

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