Okay, so we talked about Mistakes in blogging, and How to develop stickyness to your blog.I thought we needed to cover some basics now - let’s see.

How about this topic - How to attract first time visitors and convert them to readers?

Say you are going to launch a new blog. Or you are going for a revamp edition of your existing blog. What are the things that will get you instant attention, when you show it off to the world? What will ensure you that your first time visitors (guests)…

One of the most common things i see in blogs is a change of direction of the content in the blog. This is especially true in personal blogs but it also happens in mainstream blogs as well.

Clearly a blog about basketball which has the word basketball in the domain name will struggle to find a presence if it all of a sudden turns into a blog about football. However, other non specific blogs might find themselves drifting towards a different topics and to them i say ‘Don’t fight it -…

Comments are a very important aspect of blogging. The ability to contribute to articles allows readers to participate in the topic in question. The number of comments in blog posts is usually a pretty good indication of how popular the blog is.

How to encourage readers to comment?

When your blog is still new you may struggle to get some or even any comments to your posts. If you continue to update your blog with good posts though the comments will come in time however there are a number of methods you…

I always try my best to link to articles i am referring to. It makes sense to show the reader the article you are talking about.

Linking to another blog is great because :

• You give credit where credit is due
• You show your reader a good post that they would like to read (unless you like linking to bad posts - unlikely!)
• You generate a link back from the post in the form of a pingback (assuming they haven’t switched it off)

It’s this last point i want to expand on. I…

I posed the question last month ‘When should you display your feedburner rss to your readers?‘. Before you can even think about displaying the number of subscribers on your blog you need to actually encourage readers to subscribe to it.

One of the most important ways to do this is to display your rss feed details in a prominent position on your blog. I have the BloggingTips RSS Feed displayed at the top right hand side of every page on the blog. I’m sure that this is a factor in the number…