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There are very few people who realize that most of a popular blog’s traffic is return traffic. New traffic is something that only occurs upon occasion, whereas regular traffic will come back again every week. Plus, if you have an RSS feed, then your loyal viewers will look at your new posts and the posts that he/she missed earlier in the month. Getting people coming back is what is going to power your blog. It is the reason why you write it in the first place, since surely you are not writing each post so that only new blog attendees view it, right?

Following some ways to keep visitors coming back to your blog:

Blog frequently

There’s no point in even having a blog if you’re only going to update it once in a blue moon. Why would someone keep checking your blog if, for the past three months, every time they have checked there has been nothing new? Plus, blogs that aren’t updated frequently are simply out of date. That news story you told six months ago…. guess what? It’s not news anymore. And out of date blogs are hugely unappealing for readers.

Keep your language simple

Reading blogs is considered a light reading activity for many. I personally don’t like the idea of getting out the dictionary and spending an hour translating a 300 word post from pretentiousness into English. Keep your language straightforward and simple. You don’t need to show off your vocabulary. It’s not enjoyable reading when it’s more confusing than a lecture on rocket science in Swahili. Know what the point of your post is, get to the point and do so in a way that people understand. This has SEO benefits too, given that people generally search in simple, straightforward terms.

Ask yourself what the point is

It might seem harsh, but before you hit the ‘publish’ button, read back over your material and ask yourself what the point in it is. Has it been written to educate or inform? Has it been written to entertain? And most importantly, does the final piece do what it set out to do? What’s in it for your readers? There has to be some sort of benefit for your readers in reading the posts you publish, otherwise, why would they bother?

Let your readers get to know you

If a blogger does not apply a little of his or her personality in the posts they publish, they don’t come across entirely human. In exposing some of your personality when you write, your readers feel as though they get to know you as a person and become familiar with your style. People feel much more comfortable commenting when they at least feel as though they have an idea of who the person they’re commenting to is. Blogs that lack personality, to me, feel as though they’re auto-posted by bots! And even if this isn’t the case, I find them bland and never return to them more than once.

Invite Guest Contributions

While you may have a readership loyal to your posts, it’s always nice to inject something a little different. I think that a guest post offers a different perspective and can be refreshing for your readers. It’s also a great opportunity for you to invite members of your community to share their thoughts. This, in turn, can bring a whole host of new visitors to your site, as the poster passes the link on to their friends and contacts.
Don’t Over Police Your Comments

While spam is the bane of all our lives, closing comments altogether or getting a little too tough with the moderating is a sure fire way to put people off. By all means, delete those comments laden with links to sites offering ‘cheap Viagra’ but don’t go all power-trippy on us! Don’t completely delete someone’s comment because you don’t agree with his or her opinion, for example. Yes, any insults, expletives etc should be moderated. But if you want to build a community around your blog, you have to be prepared to let people have their say. As I see it, if you blog, you’re putting your opinions out into the public domain and then have a responsibility to hear out people who wish to respond to them.

Offer them something of use when you write

The most popular blogs are the ones that have a use. If you are looking to find the most recent movie review then you can look through the millions of movie websites, or you can log onto the blog of the person who has just been to see the movie.

Install an RSS feed on your blog

People are going to keep coming back to your blog if they have an RSS feed. It tells them when you have a new post, and reminds them of how many they have missed. It also reminds them that you exist at all.

Make sure your blog always has a happy theme

As weird as it sounds, researchers found out that lots of people do not watch the news on TV because it makes them feel sad. Avoid this pitfall with your blog and keep the tone positive so that people feel happy as they visit.

Give them funny pictures and gifs to share with friends

Give people things to share with their friends and they will keep coming back each week. When they share funny things online it makes them look good, so they keep coming back in order to look good.

Make your domain name and blog easy to remember

People will return if they easily remember your domain name and/or your blog’s name. If you make it easy to remember, people will not have to search around online as much.

Brand your blog and imprint it on your readers’ minds

Branding is there to help you keep your blog imprinted on the mind of your reader. It is there to help them remember you at certain key moments. For example, you are probably aware of car branding, to the point where you remember brand qualities when buying a car, e.g. Volvo for safety, etc.

Start a comment section and encourage a lively debate

You can get people to return by engaging them on the comment section. The best way of doing this is to kick off a lively debate. You can be the “pot stirrer” so to speak, in that you are the one that starts and restarts the comment section topics/issues.

Offer people weekly updates or results

People will visit you weekly if you give out weekly updates or results of some kind. For example, you could give updates on the latest gambling results, or the progress of your local political party.

Link your blog benefits to the user personally

This is not as difficult as it sounds, as all you need to do is find a personal issue and exploit it. It can range from the very broad such as money saving to the very specific such as new diabetic developments or party political progress.

Make it clear that your comment links are followed

Many comment sections allow you to install a link into to another website, but they install a no-follow tag. This means that the link will not be followed by search engines and so has no SEO value. Do not install a “no-follow” tag, and tell people, and they will return weekly to install links.

Give them new jokes to tell their friends or dating advice

Give them something that is both personal and that they can use. Make it a mixture of point 1 and point 4. Things such as a joke to tell at a wedding or dating advice are something that people can use personally.

Start a newsletter for your blog

This will allow you to send monthly emails to your readers to promote your blog and remind people that your blog still exists. It also allows you to remind them of all the benefits of using and attending your blog.

Turn your blog into a serial that grows every week

Serial blogs are hard to pull off because you risk scaring away new viewers. But, if you can pull it off then you will have people attending and re-attending all the time in order to see the next installments of your blog. 

We hope that this article helped you to Keep Visitors Coming Back To Your Blog. Feel free to leave a comment below!

If you’re into blogging, it is important to know how to get your blog noticed, otherwise you won’t get that much readers. Below are some of tips making your blog easily visible to search engines, so it’s easier for you to increase your audience.

- Adjust your blog’s privacy settings. You need to set the privacy settings to public and allow search engines to index your blog so it can easily be visible.

- Submit your blog to different and reputable search engines like Google and Bing. It’s one of the simplest ways to effectively increase visibilty to your readers. You can also create sitemaps.

- Select an attractive and unique blog template. The site’s appearance is the first thing a visitor will ever see, so by having a beautiful, clean and sleek design, you can attract more followers. But be careful in selecting a design. Pick the theme that will mostly help convert your posts. Go for a more professional look if you want to promote your brand.

- Use social networking and bookmarking sites. Social networking and bookmarking sites have the power to connect to a lot of people all over the globe, so use them to your advantage. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. are especially useful tools in expanding your network.

- Update your blog often and regularly. If your blog has been noticed already by viewers, you need to populate it with fresh updates on a regular basis so people will always be looking forward to visiting it.

- Interact with your readers. Constant interaction and activity with your audience is a must if you want your blog to get noticed. Allow readers to post comments on your posts and reply to them. This increases your blog’s chances of being visible because of keywords written by your readers.



We hope that this article helped you have many benefit to making your blog easily visible to search engines. Feel free to leave a comment below!

In publishing posts, there are some practices that a blogger must do before hitting the publish button for SEO purposes. Although it’s by choice, if you’re into serious posting, then you should follow these practices for essential SEO utilization to help your site achieve a higher page rank.

Below are some of the tips from well-established bloggers.

- Make your titles catchy. Users tend to click on the title that appeals to them, so writing a good title with a hook increases your site’s traffic thus also increases its SERP and get to Google’s first page.

- Optimize URLs. You need to have permalink optimization as Google pays closely to the URLs. Always use short URLs with target keywords of the topic so it will easily be found.

- Interlink to older posts. Internal linking is said to be 5 times better than related post widgets. By doing this, you connect the whole blog to readers, and increases page views as well.

- Check the spelling and grammar. One of the prerequisites for writing a good blog post is to the go by rules of spelling and grammar. Sloppy spelling, grammatical errors, and poor sentence/idea construction will negatively affect your credibility.

- Use images. Using images makes your posts more eye-catching and interesting. Be sure to use alt text and a short description when embedding your images.

  

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1. Replace the # with the Page URL that you want to navugate from the button.
2. Replace the Link 1 with the Page Title.

Social bookmarking is a great tool to drive tons of traffic to a blog/website within minutes. “Sharing is sexy” blog gadget/widget is one of the most popular social bookmarking widget in blogsphere. This gadget facilitate (or easy) the sharing of your content in cyber space within minutes. Once your readers see this widget they will automatically move their mouse on to it to share your valuable post with others web users.

In this post we are going to explain you how to add this animating widget to your blogger blog easily by following few simple copy and paste steps.


1.       First sign in with blogger

As any wise blogger knows, one of the best ways to direct more traffic into one’s blog is by sharing their blog posts on popular social sites like Facebook. However, even with the promising results that this practice brings, some bloggers still don’t do it as much, or enough at all. Why? Because they find it to be too troublesome.


There are many questions asked from visitors on some of my blog posts. But there is a problem with a Reply option of the comment form on this blog. So we apologize you about this matter. But we thought to give replies with blog posts. What do you think about it?

Okay. Now we start our lesson. The Facebook and Twitter is the main sources that we can get huge traffic to our blog. We can get traffic by sharing and tweet our blog posts on those social platforms. But it is little bit difficult to share and tweet blog posts manually. Did you think that there is an easy way to do that automatically?

If you do not know how to share automatically on Facebook, we will show it.
Now let's do it. Follow my instructions.



Step 1
Login to your Facebook account and go to the below link.
https://apps.facebook.com/rssgraffiti/
Then click Go to app and also click Allow on the next page to access the RSS Graffiti.



 
Step 2
After the get permission to access RSS Graffiti, click Add New Publishing Plan to start. Then give a Name for the publishing plan and click on Create Publishing Plan.




Add a New Source

Step 3
Now click on Add New in the SOURCES field and enter your Feed URL or Blog URL. Normally feed url like this.
http://www.yourdomain.com/feeds/posts/default





Step 4
Set the setting like below image and click Save.



Add a New Target

Step 5
Click Add New in the TARGET field.


And set the settings like below image.


Under the Choose Target you can choose your Profile or Your Page or Your Group as a target. And under the Publish on Behalf of choose your user profile. Now save it.

Step 6
As the last step Turn On the publishing plan.


You can add more publishing plans to your any blog.

We hope that this article helped you to share blog posts automatically on Facebook. 
Feel free to leave a comment below! 

Do you use custom Domain on your Blogger (Blogspot) Blog ? If yes, You can setup a Sub Domain to your Blogger Custom Domain. Using a Subdomain with Blogger is not a tough task, you just need to follow some instruction given below in order to setup subdomain on your Blogger blog. If you already have a Blogger blog with custom domain on it, and you want to add a sub domain to this custom domain. Blogger lets you create as many sub domain to your custom domain as you want. You can create many other blogs like www.abc.example.com and www.xyz.example.com under your main custom domain blog www.example.com. So, here is how to setup sub domain on your Blogger blog.


As it’s not good idea to create as many sub domain on your blog as your want. Because, A blog with sub domain doesn’t works as well as a blog with main domain on it, in terms of SEO. But what, if you have a static website on Blogger Platform, then you must create a another blog and setup sub domain your this blog. So if you are now ready to add sub domain on your Blogger blog, here is a quick tutorial for you.

CNAME Records
Name/Label/Host	www.blog
Destination/Target/Points	ghs.google.com

Hope this tutorial help you to adding sub domain on your Blogger blog. Tell me what, you think about adding sub domain on a blog. Feel free to drop your suggestion via comment box below.

Social Bookmarking Sites List

1. Reddit

2. StumbleUpon

3. BuzzFeed

4. Delicious

5. Digg

6. FriendFeed

7. Slashdot

8. Diigo

9. DZone

10. Folkd

Auto readmore with thumbnail for Blogger not use javascript

Using automatic read more not use javascript on your blog will make your blog load faster by showing few post instead of the full post on the homepage. Automatic read more for blogger posts can be done by inputting some code into your blog templates. 

Step 1. From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on Edit HTML



Tick the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox:
Find (CTRL + F) this tag: 

]]></b:skin>

...and paste the below code just ABOVE it:
.dp-thumbnail{margin-bottom:20px;border:1px solid #ccc;box-shadow:0 0 transparent inset,0 5px 0 -4px #fff,0 5px 0 -3px #ccc;padding:10px 0;width:100%;height:90px;text-align:center} .dp-thumbnail img{border:0;padding:0;max-width:96%;max-height:90px} .dp-thumbnail span{font-size:26px;line-height:70px;font-weight:bold}

Step 2. Search (CTRL + F) for the following fragment:
 

<data:post.body/>

Replace it with the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>
  <div class='dp-thumbnail'>
   <b:if cond='data:post.firstImageUrl'>
    <img expr:alt='data:post.title' expr:src='data:post.firstImageUrl'/>
   <b:else/>
    <b:if cond='data:post.thumbnailUrl'>
     <img expr:alt='data:post.title' expr:src='data:post.thumbnailUrl'/>
    <b:else/>
     <span>No thumbnail</span>
    </b:if>
   </b:if>
  </div>
  <data:post.snippet/>
 <b:else/>
  <data:post.body/>
 </b:if>
<b:else/>
 <data:post.body/>
</b:if>

Note: Image to be stored in the Picasa, video word Youtube. Automatic displayed messages of posts with no image and video.

That's it :) Enjoy!  
Don't Forget To Say Thank's

The Blogger template editor now includes a number of changes that seem interesting and make it much more friendly than it was.

To begin with, what we see now is all the template's code starting with numbered and colored lines showing us different code snippets: tags, variables, properties, etc.. depending on the HTML, CSS, JavaScript and even the language of Blogger - include, b:if and other occurrences.



This is what any decent external editor does, but certainly, from now on it will be much easier to find that little bug that drives us crazy when we omit quotation marks or add one more semicolon. This also applies to CSS, which appears mostly in dark blue without distinguishing selectors and rules, but the rest is a major improvement.

Another great help are the numbers that appear in front of each fragment of code, so that we can easily pinpoint and correct errors of this type: "Error parsing XML, line 103, column 9: The element ... "

Using the New Blogger Template HTML Editor

When you want to search for a code in the HTML editor, click inside the editor and press CTRL + F on your keyboard, then enter what you want to find in the search box that appears inside the editor.


Finally, hit the "ENTER" button on your keyboard and it should take you to the requested code.

If you want to be taken to the section of code that belongs to a particular widget, just click on the Jump To Widget button at the top of the editor, choose the widget's name from the list and it will take you directly to that portion of code.


The CSS rules can be found folded at the top of the template, between <b:skin>...</b:skin> and <b:template-skin>...</b:template-skin> tags. To expand them, you have to click on the sideways arrow next to the line number.


Another great functionality is that now we can Preview Template in the same window without needing to leave the page and we can easily go back to customize our template by clicking on the Edit Template button.

Finally, Format template re-orders the code, adding indentation automatically.

As always, we must use the Save button for the changes to take effect or we can Revert the changes.

And that's it. With a bit of effort, we can easily familiarize with this new HTML editor. Surely as usual and even reasonable to be something inherent in the human condition, this change does not appeal to many. Same with the Lightbox for images, the new template designer, the new desktop and other new things that have been added in the past. But who now remembers that they once were new?