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Stick to the rules highlighted here and you will be successful doing your blogging business Do the Dos The Dos need to be done with enough passion; so you will see blogging more as fun than as a business.
Here is the list of Dos: Do 1.
Follow other bloggers: Since you are still new and fresh in the blogosphere, you need to follow other established bloggers so as to count on their popularity to have your own voice in the blogosphere.
There is one unique thing about the top bloggers.
If you follow them, they will check out your blog to know more about you.
Do 2.
Join Bloggers Community: Dont isolate yourself.
No man is an island of knowledge.
Associate yourself to other blogger in your niche and even outside your niche and build good relationship with them.
If you have good reputation, they will easily recommend you to their readers and even give you free links.
Do 3.
Give informative comment on other blogs: If you do this consistently, you will end up generating free traffic from other blogs and also increase your ranking based on the number of blogs linking to you.
If your comment is informative and not just too simple like "Hi, nice post".
Then, you should receive a considerable number of visitors from that blog.
Do 4.
Link to other Blogs: This is based on the philosophy of what you give you get.
If you link to other blogs, they will link back to you (not always the case) thereby increasing the number of links to your blog.
This process will increase your search engine ranking.
Do 5.
Post Frequently: If you want to turn your visitors into regular readers, then you need to post fresh, genuine and informative articles frequently.
If they see fresh articles each time they visit your blog, they will return some other day to read your articles.
They will turn regular readers and not just visitors.
Do 6.
Reply your readers' comment: Each time a reader post a comment that needs your attention or reply, do reply them.
It builds relationship between you and your readers.
They tend to trust you more on what you blog about.
Step 5: Avoid the Don'ts As you have it above, there are some Don'ts you have to avoid in order to build a successful blog no matter what.
Avoid these Don'ts: Don't 1.
Don't Spam other Blog: When commenting on other blogs, don't spam their blogs with URLS.
One URL is fine, two is too much, three is spamming.
You'll easily lose your reputation if you engage in spamming.
No one in the blogosphere will take you serious.
Don't 2.
Don't be Abusive: Some readers can post a provocative comment, shake them off and handle such smartly.
Don't insult or abuse any reader whatsoever.
No one will forgive you if you make this mistake.
Don't 3.
Don't be neutral: Before posting a comment on a blog, you should read the main blog post and comment based on your own opinion.
Don't leave a neutral comment under a blog post that needs your contribution.
Participate actively on blogs, don't just be a "no opinion" type.
Also, don't leave a thoughtless comment.
Nobody will visit your blog from such comment.
Don't 4.
Don't lift blogs' content: Getting fresh content for your blog can be a huge task for you.
You might sometime want to reference an article from another blogger's blog, when doing that, try as much as possible not to edit the article to avoid violating the copyright law and also leave a link back to the author's article as compensation for the article (it is compulsory).
Plagiarism is a serious offence in blogging.
You dare not do it if you don't want to lose your credibility.
Don't 5.
Don't write your content for Engines: Search engines (SEs) don't fetch you money, they fetch you traffic and if you write for SEs and not your readers, you'll lose all traffic they sent you.
This means that, write interesting articles that readers will enjoy reading.
You should not satisfy search engines at the expense of your readers.
Write more for your readers than search engines.
Don't 6.
Don't blog for Money: You are surprised at this last don't, isn't it? Well to be honest, don't blog for money, if you do, you'll get discouraged along the line if the money never come.
If you blog for authority, certainly the money (revenue) will come in.
If gaining authority is your main purpose of blogging, you'll never be discouraged.
For your success' sake, just don't blog for money, blog to build a brand, an authority.
With all these, you are rest assured that you'll have a successful blog attach to your name.
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