6 Steps & Your Blog Is Popular!

If you are a blogger, then you must have thought how to make your blog popular in
the internet market and generate more traffic in your blog. Although a definite way of doing so is to make it search engine optimized in order to enhance its visibility in the search engine, it is not the sole way to make your blog stand discreet in the crowded internet market. There are some other tricks, tactics and strategies too, to make your blog popular and attract more people to visit it.

I have shared some tips below; most of the tips are working and from my personal experience in building our discount coupon blog that featuresphotos.com and istockphoto discount deals. Now, without further delay lets dive in.

Weekend Updates

Blogs are mostly controlled and regulated by professionals, businessmen or companies, to promote their product and services. It is almost a community, forum and platform for them to interact with their client base. However, there are few blogs that are informal, creative and recreational too. These blog users mostly update their blogs on weekends and the content remains friendly and unofficial.

They range from the week’s experience to any special occasion or even occasionally, some creative writings like movie or album reviews. This narrative mode of blogging is a unique way of attracting more people to your blog. Since, not many blogs are updated on weekends; these blogs will become prominent and will attract more traffic.

Create Universal Posts

Rather than posting contents that have immediate relevance, try to post articles and contents that have an enduring appeal and relevance. The lifespan of the posts must be long and should not be redundant after a few weeks. This will make your audience visit your blog time and again, for further future reference to your article. Thus, general universal posts are always preferred.

An informative blog

Blogs are usually about promotional activities and interaction with the consumer base. However, if blogs are informative and designed with an educational purpose then it is likely to draw more people. If the blog is educational, instructional, and entertaining, then you might find your blog to be hyperlinked with any other site, dealing with a similar topic.

If you specialize in a certain field, then you can make it the primary subject of your blog. Thus, it is advisable to make your blog educational and entertaining. This simultaneity will make your blog stand out in the crowded web market.

Start a Conversation

If you want to generate more traffic in your blog and webpage, then a useful way to do so, is to trigger a conversation with your visitors. Oftentimes, visitors comment on different posts; try to answer and reply to each and every one of them. Once you start a conversation with your visitors, they will automatically visit your site regularly.

Moreover, try to post contents which seek opinions from people reading them or ask questions in your posts that visitors can reply to. This can enhance the popularity of your blog in this otherwise crowded market. However, it is only possible if you post things that are entertaining and people find them interesting.

Visit other blogs

Try to visit other blogs dealing with your area of interest. You can also comment and reply to posts and articles. This will encourage other bloggers to visit your blog and a spiral network can be created in this process. This can be a possible way of attracting traffic in your blog and making it popular. Also try to create a page of your blog in social media sites and use them as advertising agencies. Take the help of Facebook and Twitter in this respect to promote your blog.

Have a Grabbing Content style

The style of your writing plays a very crucial role in determining the number of readers. The content of your blog, apart from being simple and lucid, must be light-hearted, witty and good humoured (if necessary) in order to be engaging. Although, this does not imply offensive language and nasty jokes, but fun and humour in language will encourage and give a gentle nudge to more people to read your posts. Usually, bloggers tend to overlook this very important aspect of blogging.

Thus, from the above arguments we can come to a conclusion that to enhance the popularity of your blogs these steps can be implemented. It is a regular, slow and steady process which can popularise your blog and you cannot expect stunning results overnight!

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DCDW January 10, 2012 at 6:53 PM

Fantastic information. Thanks…………

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Saksham Talwar January 10, 2012 at 11:19 PM

Thanks!

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vinitra January 10, 2012 at 11:38 PM

thanks you for the superb, mind blowing content! I hope my blog will be more popular than it is now after following your make your blog popular tips!

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:11 AM

Welcome Vinitra! I hope you enjoy living with a popular blog!

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הסעות January 10, 2012 at 11:50 PM

Thanks for sharing such a nice article.I have many blogs to promote and make them popular. Really i got most valuable information here to make my blog popular than it is today or in fact now!

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:11 AM

You are welcome. Keep reading BJ for up to date content on blogging!

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charly January 11, 2012 at 12:28 AM

Hi there Jane, nice post, I´m doing exactly what you suggest, I´m visiting your post and inviting you to visit ours. Hope to see you soon.

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Caroline Ann January 11, 2012 at 6:57 AM

Great tips–I’ll have to keep those in mind to make my blog popular!

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:12 AM

You really will have to!

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Suraj Nair January 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Five or six ways. The third point is where I think many bloggers misses out, and it it the one where you score 10/10.

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:13 AM

Oh, thanks a lot Suraj :)

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Makema January 11, 2012 at 5:12 PM

Great information… i will update in my blog to make it the most popular blog in this whole world!

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Melba January 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM

great post, very informative to make blog popular more. Congratulations in making your blog popular than others!

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:14 AM

Thanks Melba! Hope this post will help you make your blog more popular!

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James January 12, 2012 at 12:28 AM

I read six ways.. Maybe the Sixth one is a bonus to the readers of this article post. The title says 5 ways .. 6 ways maybe not that interesting to the readers.. But anyhow the the 3rd one is what matters as most of the content now are too marketing objective. They forgot to be more informative and fun to read.

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Saksham Talwar January 12, 2012 at 10:17 AM

Oops, there was a small typo. Its 6 steps to make your blog popular. Also I changed the title, have a look and review :)

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Pradeep Bhandari January 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM

very informative…Surely gonna implement all these things on my new blog, as I am thinking to focus totally on blogging now I have loosen up many times but not now :)

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM

Pradeep, all the best bro! Never lose hope and keep trying :)

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Latief January 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM

Great Tips Bro, and seems everybody can follow your tips as long as their taking seriously about their blogging journey, usefull contents always be the key :D
Thanks for sharing bro

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM

Yeah! As long as you want to be a professional blogger, these tips will never fail ;)

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Mr.Bhavesh January 12, 2012 at 10:54 AM

Mind blowing content.
Thanks!!!!!

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM

Welcome Bhavesh!

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Prabhakaran January 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM

yet another, useful information and tips. thanks for the share :)

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM

Welcome Prabhakaran! :)

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vicky sadhu January 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM

Quite good info for all the blogger! classi post again!! :)

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM

Thanks a lot Vicky. You all made my & Jane’s day :)

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xclmedia January 12, 2012 at 2:33 PM

Useful information, even I update my site almost every day. To strengthen the site, I add some sub-domain that contains a variety of posts still kind of information related to the main site.

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM

Hmm, that seems to be a good idea. Is the sub-domain an auto-blog fetching posts from other related sites or you write articles there?

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karan January 12, 2012 at 8:21 PM

nice post. Good writing style as usual. And talking about the points i guess i already am trying to implement these. If they work or not i will find out soon:D

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:08 PM

They will surely if you follow them correctly. :D

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sham January 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM

Apart from writing quality contents a bloggers should do good networking it does play a key role in the success of the blog.

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:09 PM

Sham, true! Networking is perhaps the most important! It always helps in becoming popular and also helps to expand your business.

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Lakhyajyoti January 13, 2012 at 8:08 AM

Thanks for sharing such a great article Jane.By following those steps anyone can make his/her blog popular easily.Learn lot from it.

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM

Thanks Lakhyajyoti! Jane totally rocks! :D

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Kelvin Entrepreneurs Discuss January 13, 2012 at 9:28 AM

Really doing a great job here… I just started my blog about 2 months ago and making it popular has been my objective. I hope to apply your strategies listed here to make my blog popular… Thanks for sharing

Kelvin Igbinigie

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM

Kelvin, do let me know if these tips worked and if you need any help, just get in touch with me :)

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Kumar Anand Vardhan January 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM

Nice information.. Anyone must have some skill to do it. I am going to try..

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rakesh January 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM

Thanks saksham for this insightful article. Do you think long informative post also help us to make a popular blog.

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Saksham Talwar January 13, 2012 at 5:12 PM

Yeah, it surely helps in making your blog popular! The writer probably did not mention it separately and instead added a general point – Have a Grabbing Content style.

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Jaison January 13, 2012 at 8:56 PM

Great list, these are really nice ways to increase blog popularity. Thanks for posting.

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Saksham Talwar January 14, 2012 at 10:56 PM

Welcome Jaison! Long time, how are you and your blog?

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Jaibee January 14, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Wonderful information.. thanks..

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Jim Luthra January 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM

The tips mentioned here are really useful, Will these work for a newly created blog for driving some traffic?

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Saksham Talwar January 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM

Quite possibly yes!

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DoStartup January 14, 2012 at 5:55 PM

Creating universal posts has been observed to ensure your blog gets popular over time.

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Bossy January 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM

Nice blogging tips. I’m actually working on building up the blog on my website. The purpose of the site is of course to sell my product (which is top-notch btw:) but I’d love to start interacting with like-minded people as well. All in good time I guess. Thanks!

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Andy January 16, 2012 at 10:47 AM

I loved the point in which you have mentioned that write a post which has long span. now days, Most of the bloggers post contents which gave them instantly huge visits but they have very short span of time.

Great post Jane. :) happy to read this whole.

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Saksham Talwar January 16, 2012 at 8:18 PM

Yeah, some posts can get you instant boost in traffic, but for how long? It’s a better choice to have evergreen content or you could mix them both i.e. evergreen content + short-term instant traffic posts!

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Blogdog January 16, 2012 at 4:53 PM

I think the longer the lifespan of your posts, the less you need to worry about contantly publishing new content :) Good stuff mate!

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Saksham Talwar January 16, 2012 at 8:17 PM

I agree, if you have evergreen content, you need not even think of it. You can simply make sure that your posts rank well and you can enjoy $$ :D

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devain richard January 17, 2012 at 5:24 AM

every one bloggie wants and may be possible with the help of your post. thanks for sharing dude

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Chantel Edmonds January 22, 2012 at 4:15 AM

This is true, you need to be informative and start legit conversations. Good advice.

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Sagar Gholap January 22, 2012 at 3:36 PM

That’s a nice post. And before everything else good and attention grabbing content comes first. If there’s nothing on a blog one can’t think of the other points :p

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Saksham Talwar January 27, 2012 at 9:44 PM

Sagar, I cannot agree more. Content is the most important no doubt! No content, no you! :)

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geetha January 23, 2012 at 12:48 PM

Posting a similar article.And doing enough promoting will lead you to a better blog.

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Victoria January 29, 2012 at 6:24 AM

Love the tip on creating universal posts! That’s something I really need to work on because sometimes it’s hard to keep writing about the same topic over and over and over (as much as I love my business). Another tip I’d like to add is to take inspiration from outside of your industry (which is slightly touched upon in the article). I find that looking at industries that are completely different for inspiration can be really beneficial for helping me come up with unique blog, business and marketing ideas.

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Rohit Batra January 31, 2012 at 1:21 AM

Nice tips jane.

Style of writing also is a good way to attract readers, like we read novels some authors style of writing is quite simple & easy to connect so we find them more comfortable to read..

“Comfort is what Readers need”

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Anny February 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Surely blogs should be informative. Especially if they were created for people (not search engines)

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Victoria February 2, 2012 at 7:43 PM

Great blog post, especially liked the part on focusing on providing information rather than promotion- that’s definitely key to successful blogging.

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Ashish February 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM

When I read weekend updates i just recalled that i get lease visits on my blog on weekends.. and i m sure good content will get rewarded if not tody may be tomorrow one needs to have patience what say..?

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Saksham Talwar February 2, 2012 at 9:23 PM

Of course I agree Ashish! Good content will pay for sure some day and it’s already being proved by the recent search engine updates :)

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Sappy February 4, 2012 at 11:49 AM

It is a great collection of blogging mantras,I suppose.I will make sure that I apply all these strategies to develop my own blog.

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