7 Ways To Check If Your Blog is in Right Direction

Now that you might have started blogging for quite some time it’s important that you check whether you are into the right path leading towards success and money making.

I have seen many bloggers who started with high enthusiasm but over a period of time loses interest because they think that they are not getting anywhere but in reality there are in the right direction but it’s just that they need to find out if they are doing the right things.

As I always say blogging requires a bit of patience and effort especially at the initial days but once you have established yourself the effort is relatively less.

How To Pump Traffic To Your Blog

Every one of us in the beginning asks this question “How to get traffic to my blog?” Well I would say it’s not easy but at the same time it’s not hard either. The tips that I am going to mention below had been spoken by many other bloggers but I will try to explain as simple as possible so that you have a better understanding. Before going further I would also want to say that some of these techniques are very easy to implement, while others requires some preparation before applying them but don’t worry its not something scary. Ok so let’s start and see if we can bring some traffic to your blog.

Top 5 Twitter Tools for Wordpress Bloggers

1)     Twitter - Twitter is a free social networking service that allows you to send and read other users’ updates also known as tweets which is basically a text-based post. The updates will be displayed in your profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them

2)     Twitter Feed - Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed.

3)     The Twitter Updater – It’s a plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your post.

Why Does Your Blog Need A Sitemap.xml File?

A sitemap is a file that allows search engines to quickly and easily find newly published content on your blog. This has been widely by popular search engines including, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live.

For bloggers running self hosted Wordpress blog a Google XML Sitemaps makes it all easier. This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog and does everything for you automatically. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

The sitemap will contain your homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages information which are arrange in order for better indexing or crawling when the Google bot updating your blog post URL on their search engine indexing list.

How to encourage more readers to subscribe to your blog?

The most important thing you can do to encourage your readers to subscribe is to write good content or post.   Though you have let you readers know about your contents it’s equally important that you encourage them to subscribe.

To help readers subscribe your blog easily add a RSS icon or image which links to your feed. I would suggest using some text below the RSS icon “Get updates to your email (or reader)”

If you are looking for a RSS icon for your feed then you can use one from my post 15 Ultimate RSS Feed Icons and Its Free.