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Tips On How To Launch Your Blog Successfully
This article is guest posted by Ganesh from Blog Smartly.
If you’ve ever started a Wordpress blog before, you know how it feels. Its exciting to launch a new blog. Most of you jump when you get that inspiration and start your new blog right away. Slow down. You need to prepare well in advance before launching your blog. Here are some tips on how to make your blog launch successful.
Map Your Goals
Think. Ask yourself why you are starting the blog. What are your goals? Do you want to make money? How much time are you going to spend on your blog? Ask yourself all these questions. Goals are very important for achieving milestones. Just breakdown bigger goals into smaller ones and challenge yourself to accomplish them within a period of time. Its better to write them down in a notebook or something. Take some time to write some articles for your blog well in advance.
Blog Design
The blog design is the most important aspect of a blog. It has to look attractive and professional. Take some time to check out good theme or get a custom theme designed for your blog. Get all the logos, gravatars, favicons, banners ready so that you can promote your blog effectively. A well designed blog stands out to the visitor.
Use a Domain Parking Theme
It is best to install Wordpress as soon as you get the domain. If you just leave your domain as it is, your domain company would will turn it into an ad farm. Install the Launchpad theme for Wordpress. It is a domain parking theme that informs the visitor that the blog is about to launch soon and allows them to subscribe via RSS and email. Its pretty nice and professional too.
Networking
Use networking to get traffic for your blog when it launches. If you’re an active participant in some of the social media sites, then it could be a big plus for you. Although I’m suggesting you to use sites like Twitter and Plurk to promote your site, I don’t recommend using them solely for promoting your blog since that would look spammy. I also recommend using forums for promoting your blog.
I also found out that commenting on other blogs is a great way to promote your site. Remember, the blogosphere is a big community. No blogger is an island. Connect with other bloggers, read and comment on their blogs and they will surely return the favor.
Contests
You know that bloggers hold contests to promote their blogs. So why not hold one before you launch the blog too? After all, it only makes your blog more popular. You can hold a small contest and give away a small prize, lets say $20 cash, one among those who subscribe to your blog so that it creates some buzz. You can use forums to spread the word about your contest.
Conclusion
If all this sounds like nonsense, let me sum up everything you need to know – Plan well and launch your blog in a professional way. Leverage the power of social media sites to promote your site. Impress your visitors and convert them into loyal readers.
All the best!
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Carl Ocab is one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the net. But remarkably, Carl was just 13 years old when he rose to fame with his hugely popular “make money online” website: www.carlocab.com
Hi, my name is Carl Ocab or as many call me, the “Kidblogger”. I’m a 16-year old kid from the beautiful archipelago Philippines.
December 8, 2008
10:58 pm
Awesome post. the domain Parking theme would help you a lot for getting RSS subscribers for your blog before launch. And even a pre launch contest would help you a lot in getting quick readers
December 8, 2008
11:41 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the great tips. I have one question. How can I redirect my blog – http://internet-business-world.blogspot.com to a regular domain name but still keep all of the features that the blog has?
Thanks
December 8, 2008
11:48 pm
I have definitely found that doing some type of give-a-way or contest seems to create buzz and is worth whatever prize or cash you give away.
December 9, 2008
1:36 am
Nice tips.
This will really help me on my next startup.
December 9, 2008
6:29 am
Great tips! I think a blog launch last a lot longer than the first week or month of a blog. Launch mean to get something off the ground, and to really get a blog into the air it takes a good six months.
December 9, 2008
9:48 am
All this sounds like good advice. I especially like using social media sites like Twitter, Youtube, StumbleUpon, Blog catalog etc. To promote blogs.
December 9, 2008
10:20 pm
These are the overall things people should pay attention when they want to start a blog,
but whatever it is… if you want to try, no matter what platform, you’ll find yourself a way to blog which experience will teach you. Networking is the most important thing if you plan to blog, and of course if you can swip out some great content.
December 10, 2008
5:18 pm
This is very interesting, Carl. Many thanks for your advice. Keep up the amazing work!
December 10, 2008
5:48 pm
The techniques mentioned in this blog are quite useful and easy to follow. I do not feel that there should be any difficulty in following any of these if one is a serious blogger.
December 10, 2008
11:14 pm
I like it, a great to-the-point post on starting a blog. I love that you highly recommend Twitter. If it wasn’t for Twitter I don’t think my websites would be as successful.
December 11, 2008
8:20 am
Great post, very informative.
I agree with almost everything you’ve had to say except about the theme being the most important aspect of the blog as I know very successful blogs with not very attractive themes and I think that quality content is the most important.
Other than that, I think those are all great to help launch a successful blog.
December 11, 2008
3:39 pm
Oh I am LOVING that domain parking theme for Wordpress! :D THank you!
-Mike
December 12, 2008
2:53 pm
I read this great post before I launched themondey.info
Thanks so much !
@Bryan: Pls PM to me for fixing it !
admin@themondey.info
Dinh Trung
December 12, 2008
4:45 pm
Great post. You have given me some insight on what I must do to start a successful blog of my own. Thanx…
December 12, 2008
5:36 pm
Fantastic post….i am very impressive…
About one week ago, i just launched a love blog called Cupid Blogger Dot Com. 90% of my web traffic are from social networking site like Facebook, Friendster.
And i always believe with proper planning, it will definitely bring your blog to the next level…For instance, my blog hits more than 1000 unique visitors with 30% returning visitors during the first week of launch….thanks to Facebook and SEO….
For more love tips, do check out href=”http://www.cupidblogger.com”>Cupid Blogger Dot Com
December 13, 2008
2:13 pm
Great tips, I can say that these are great from exper. Keep up the good work
December 13, 2008
2:14 pm
nice
December 13, 2008
5:41 pm
Some great tips here for attaining success from blogs. “Leverage the power of social media sites to promote your site.” – This was the best tip.
December 18, 2008
12:00 am
Thank for the good tips here. Seem like a lot of thing I need to do to built my blog. Actually I just start for a week. Your tips really helpful to me.
December 22, 2008
11:49 am
This is an amazing idea. I just started a new online success blog and will definitely plan on using this idea!
December 22, 2008
3:49 pm
I follow most of these but I’ve never heard of the parking theme before, that’s really great and I’ve got a few domains/future blogs that I’ll be using that on from now on.
December 25, 2008
5:09 am
Nice little piece of information! Congrats man! Oh and by the way I just listened to the interview you did with Joel Christopher. it’s killer info! just killer!
Thanks for sharing all that valuable information. And one more thing I wanted to ask you. You said you used various tactics to get backlinks to your site. What are the most valuable tips for getting backlinks?
Thanks again and take care!
Remi Vladuceanu
http://www.remivladuceanu.com
December 28, 2008
9:36 pm
Good Information. Thanks for sharing :)
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- With Best Wishes :D
January 4, 2009
10:17 am
I have had my blog up almost 2 weeks. I am still trying to figure out about the traffic. I am doing about 100-150 uniques everyday but adsense is extreme low and no affiliates sales how can I increase my traffic.
here my blog:
http://howcanimakemoneyonlinefree.blogspot.com
January 9, 2009
11:56 pm
Thanks for the post.. That is some very solid information I think maybe I have been making some mistakes. I will try this strategy next time I launch a new blog.
Anthony Garay
Make Money Online With Internet Marketing
January 11, 2009
1:14 pm
Hi Carl, thanks for sharing this thought on how to put an online business blog, even though I already launch my blog and I read so many advice from different Gurus, but it’s still a help to read other advices, specially to those who are successful in doing this endeavor. Again bro, thanks and keep it up.