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5 Tips to Effectively Start a Brand New Blog

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In this post,  Brandon Walker talks about some good tips on getting how a brand new blog can easily get recognized.

I often get asked “what is the best method to use to effectively start a new blog to give it the best possible chance of being successful?”

It’s always a difficult question to answer particularly because starting a brand new blog can be challenging and difficult for webmasters as they usually have no audience, no traffic and have not been recognized as an authority within their niche. It is therefore extremely important to have credibility and that can be difficult to achieve, particularly if you have only been active in internet marketing circles for a short length of time.

But don’t become too discouraged because you will find many successful bloggers will say the most difficult time they faced during the beginning stages of blogging was when no one knew who they were within their niches.

  1. Write Good Content – Writing good content in your blogs is essential if you’re looking to get noticed within your niche. This is the most effective means you can utilize to connect with your readers because through your content you can project your own style and personality.Readers appreciate good quality content and if they like it may even consider linking to it because they like it so much. From my own experience I have sites that tend to do well and attract traffic simply because I had put a great deal of time and effort into writing good quality content.

    This is generally because readers bookmark the content, refer to it in their own posts, resulting in natural links and traffic.

    The golden rule for writing good content is that one stunningly well written post can receive much more traffic and attention than many very ordinary posts combined.

  2. Guest Posting – Often when you begin a new site you don’t have an audience of people reading your content while other sites in your niche may have.To generate interest my advice is to search for credible blogs in your niche and look to see whether or not they accept guest posts. If they do accept guest posts write a top quality article using your very best material and then send your article to the blog site by email. If the blog author happens to like your material, they will post it on their site resulting in you gaining credibility, recognition and generating traffic to your own site.To help you get started, one method you can use to find guest posts is through Google. This can be done by entering the search string (niche keyword) + “guest post. This search will bring up pages of results on blogs that are willing to accept guest authors.

    Find appropriate blogs in your niche and get writing!

  3. Gain Trust With Google – Thousands of brand new blogs are started everyday, many of them spam sites. It is important for you to convince Google that your site is not another one of these low quality sites by building quality links from reputable sources.For example Ezinearticles, Hubpages and Squidoo are all sites looked favorably upon by Google. Further, they all allow you to create a page on their site with a link pointing to your own site.

    In simple terms, by getting a single link from each of these sites you are effectively letting Google know that you are not just another spam site and you should therefore be trusted. This can be very powerful because gaining trust from Google is very important because ‘traffic is king’ and can over time lead to search traffic flowing to your new site.

  4. Become a Credible Source of Information Within Your Niche – It is very important that you build credibility within your niche when you begin a brand new site. It is necessary to show people you should be trusted and are knowledgeable with regard to your niche.As already mentioned guest posting is one way to gain this credibility along with forum marketing and commenting on high profile blogs being another excellent method.

    The key is to post relevant and exceptional comments so people will take notice.

  5. Build a List – Generally when you start a new blog, visitors to your site are very limited – that’s why it is important you try to retain these visitors who do come calling.One method you can use is to produce a free report with valuable information about your niche and offer it to your readers in exchange for their name and email address. This can require effort on your part in putting together the report but there are several advantages to be made by following this approach. For example, apart from collecting their details so they can be contacted later, you are also importantly building trust and credibility with your readers through the free report you are providing.

Conclusion

Clearly the success of your blog or any website for that matter is dependent on how much effort you’re a prepared to put into your site.

If you work hard and apply the 5 methods I have mentioned above, then before you know it your brand new site will have visitors clicking onto it and generating ongoing income for you.

Brandon Walker is an accomplished internet marketer who provides tips, techniques and advice to other bloggers on how to generate income from working online at Foxmarketer.com

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Comments

  7. Great tips Brandon!

    I just started blogging few days ago by writing an guest article on branding.These are really very nice tips for a new blogger like me.

    Thanks again for the nice tips.

  9. Hi everyone and thank you for the positive feedback!

    @Mikkel Trust comes from developing a good reputation with Google. These includes solid backlinks from reputable sites like ezinearticles, hubpages, and squidoo. If you can get solid backlinks from blogs in your niche then that helps develop trust as well. As well as pagerank, Google also gives a “trustrank” to sites which in my opinion is just as important.

    @yogesh thank you for the nice comment 🙂

    @elmot Keep working at your blog and building backlinks. If you can, try and target a keyword in your niche as getting ranked in the SERPS can bring you consistent traffic to your site everyday. Build a list if you can, and make it easy for users to subscribe to your RSS feed. If you getting only a few visitors, work on retaining those visitors. Getting started is definitely the hardest part. Once you have a readership it gets much easier.

    Thanks for the comments. I appreciate all of them.

    Brandon Walker
    http://www.foxmarketer.com
    .-= Brandon Walker´s last blog ..Part 3: Buying Expired Domain Names =-.

  10. I agree. That’s because creating sites for search engines has been long done. If people do care about your site then Google would start caring too.

  12. I think its “timely good content” that is. In my personal opinion, a lot of bloggers are producing great content even before they are getting noticed and I think its a waste of effort. So for me its like push good content, then gather traffic then increase the efforts and produce SUPERB content.

    i think its getting noticed first before bringing you’re A game. but thats just me

  16. Useful tips! I would like to add that using forums (especially warrior forum) is important when you have a brand new blog.First of all you will get valuable links back from your sig file and you will learn a lot from people who have been online longer than you.Personally, I have learned more about blogging from Warrior forum than any ebook or course could ever teach.

  19. for example Ezinearticles, Hubpages and Squidoo are all sites looked favorably upon by Google. Further, they all allow you to create a page on their site with a link pointing to your own site.

    In simple terms, by getting a single link from each of these sites you are effectively letting Google know that you are not just another spam site and you should therefore be trusted.

  20. I have sites that tend to do well and attract traffic simply because I had put a great deal of time and effort into writing good quality content.

    This is generally because readers bookmark the content, refer to it in their own posts, resulting in natural links and traffic.

    .-= dating´s last blog ..Fonthill Bishop =-.

  22. Build a list if you can, and make it easy for users to subscribe to your RSS feed. If you getting only a few visitors, work on retaining those visitors. Getting started is definitely the hardest part. Once you have a readership it gets much easier. unlimited broadband

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