Blogsphere is the unique world of the internet, the world of personal publishing. No one ever wondered that simple web journals or web logs could grow up into a massive media of people and informations. Now there is no one to set rules and boundaries for the blogsphere, it’s universal and you can write anything. But still there are some un-written rules you can hear a lot in the blogsphere, lets take a look at the 8 most heard un-written rules of the blogsphere,
Content is the king
The most heard thing ever on the internet. You have to write original articles and this is the one thing that will attract visitors to your blog. Don’t just write original content, write good quality content. Everyone loves to read informative posts and search engines too!
Establish something you own
If you’re serious about blogging, then look at the long term benefits of your creation. A blog’s final profit can be selling the domain or even selling the whole blog. Most of the time new bloggers spend a lot of time, effort and money to establish a sub domain that you don’t own. Your only asset is the domain that you own and the content hosted on your own server. Because if there’s a time when you’re able to sell your blog, you’ll have to own your blog.
Build upon what you have
Try to think the positive things while blogging. Don’t be sad if you have only 50 visitors a day -this is a good thing and most blogger don’t even have that. Try to build something bigger upon what you have already. Don’t feel bad about your blog if it’s a free blogspot blog. I’ve build my blogs upon the very minimum resources I had and the same way you can do it too!
Don’t put your eggs in one basket
Your blog is a goose that will lay eggs and then golden eggs. From the very beginning, try to focus on different income streams. Don’t just focus on adsense, try other ways of money making like affiliate earnings, PTC or direct advertising. Also apply for paid review sites such as PayPerPost or Smorty. Your earnings will grow over time when you’ll earn in multiple streams. If one stream falls, other will help you out.
If you build it, they will come
Your blog, site and creations are immortal and nothing dies on the internet. If you wrote something, it’ll be indexed on google and people will keep coming to your blog forever.
Be the purple cow
Just like Seth Godin said, be the purple cow of your niche and everyone will love to read from you. You have to create outstanding articles with out of the box creativity. Create articles and blog which will make you stand out from thousands of other bloggers.
Provide the value first
Most new comers in blogging try to bring traffic or earn a nice amount of money doing nothing. It’s not possible in the blogsphere because you have to provide a value before you can bring out something.
Networking with people works
You can’t succeed online now if you don’t want to connect with people. The internet is driven by people like me and you and the more contacts you have, the more you can succeed. These people around the web are your readers, customers, advertisers and promoters. Network with people around you and you’ll succeed.
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Tamal I love your blog! You also lead by example, good for you!
Hey Tamal, in your experience, does PaytoPost affect your google rankings?
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@Diana: Thanks a lot and wish me success!
@krjx: What I learned, google was highly against paid posts and blogs that sells links. But now they’re supporting paid links and it’s not hurting page rank anymore. Google’s PR algorithm has changes a lot within the last year and let’s see what happens in the next update (may be late March or April ‘09)
“If you build it, they will come” – I do not agree with this, even if you create a great content you have to spend time/energy to create awareness, promote your blog until you have a decent amount of reader/follower who can help you to spread the word about your blog. Everyday I found new websites, some of them are really great, many time I ask myself how I did not see this website, it is so great and it was online for years, the answer is maybe they are waiting for “get found”.
Thats good to know. I have holding off on doing paytopost to avoid google’s wrath
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This is all pretty awesome advice and things everyone should remember if they want to be a big-time blogger. I do get sick of hearing about Content is King but that doesn’t make it any less true.
@krjx: what will you do with a big page rank if you can’t make profit with it? Get more reviews and make more money as long as you have a good page rank.
There are 2 google page ranks. One that we see on the toolbar and the other set to rank your pages on search terms. You should only focus on the search PR, because the toolbar PR is always changing!
@Blog Income Report: Content is king and producing quality content is only 20% being a big time blogger -the rest is about networking, SEO and promotion.
Great content + networking is definitely the formula to blogging success. And I love that picture of the Golden Eggs.
~ Kristi
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@Kikolani: Thanks Kristi and I love that too because it’s related to blogging :D
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Yest this is why John Chow said: “If you build it, they won’t come!” producing quality content is just 20% of the big time blogging, the rest is promotion and optimization.
Standing out from the crowd, social networking and quality posts are definitely the top three.
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Do you recommend any good paytopost services?
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@@krjx, I recommend Payperpost because they have lots of offers regularly. Smorty, Loudlaunch, sponsoredreview are my second level choices. You can also try for linkworth.
A nicely written list! I also love the images you select. There are too many ‘new’ bloggers who jump right into the pond of money-making alligators. They don’t realize that they need to be established to attract advertisers with the big bucks, while keeping current readers. By the way don’t be shocked by the title of my last post. LOL
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@SBA, That’s a wonderful post title to attract social bookmarkers :D I’ll read it in my free time.
Thanks for this write-up. I’m a blogger who started a bit over half a year ago (in May), and I’m definitely still getting the hang of things.
I decided early on that I was going to concentrate on providing something useful. I’m not out to make money (though i have adsense, I’m up to ~$30 so far), I’m more out to create a sense of community in my niche.
According to Google Reader, I’ve got just over 430 subscribers, and a few more on bloglines, netvibes, etc.
I don’t know what the metric is, so I don’t know how successful I am in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve exceeded the total number of subscribers on most of the blogs I read, excepting people that everyone else has heard of ;-)
@Matt Simmons, The real blogging is all about creating a community of people, not just making some money -I like the way you said. Over 400+ subscribers is a great number. You should burn your feeds with feedburner, and then you can manage the actual number of RSS readers.
Great advice. It’s really frustrating to write something and to have practically no visitors, but as you said, build the blog content up, build your network too, and over time the traffic will come, and hopefully the revenue too.
It’s taken over two months for my blog to take off, and traffic is still low some days, but I imagine that as the articles increase and search engine ranking /. backlinks kick in, that traffic could double in the next month.
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@Tony, Building a blog from scratch is hard when you’re new on it. It’ll give you the benefits over time, just need some patience.
Great content + networking is definitely = success.
Thanks for the advice. Nicely written article.
@Salwa, Thanks Salwa, hope my articles will help you in blogging.
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Thanks dear, happy to have you in the team.