Blogging Tip : Is Your Blog Underrated?

Millions of blogs exist in the world today. A large percentage of them are being used by spammers to place affiliate links and scrape content from other sites, while a significant amount of the others have become neglected by the owner who used to update the blog everyday.

I don’t want to ramble on why your blog isn’t considered one of the “Elite 100,” but I’d like to address some points and pose some questions that you should consider in order to expand your blog’s traffic and ultimately your placement against other blogs in your niche.

#1. You need to contact other bloggers

who may be interested in a partnership with your blog. By doing this, you’ll nearly multiply your traffic multiple times over, depending on the number of visitors that each of these sites receive. In other words, you’ll be better off linking your blogs together, rather than standing alone.

#2. Your aren’t targeting the right crowd

If you look at your analytics and demographics, make sure that your visitors are coming from the “target” area - a group of people who have their own blogs or websites - who will likely spread word about your site, linking to it and sharing your resource to their readers.

#3. Your site/content isn’t old enough

Time is the leading reason that blogs don’t grow to their full potential. You need to be able to be in it for the long-term, not to quickly generate an income from. Until your site is at least half a year old, you should be focusing on building your site’s content and overall feature set.

#4. Is your site’s content truly unique?

As long as your content is unique, your visitors should view it as that. People whose content isn’t unique shouldn’t be rewarded for the “work” of copying others’ content for their own gains.

#5. Have you proven your knowledge

to your visitors and readers? One of the main ways to become accredited for your work is to express your supreme knowledge on your blog. You shouldn’t hesitate when answering any question that arises - you should have a level of confidence, yet not at the level of arrogance.

#6. Do you connect with your readers

or avoid any interaction? Blogging is all about the contacting - in more ways than one. Without any replies to your readers’ comments and emails, they’ll likely view you as narrow-minded, thus thinking that you don’t take blogging as seriously as you should be.

#7. Your theme says a lot about yourself

The layout of your site, including your theme, determines how successful you can be, as well as how others view your content. Choose one that leaves a lasting impact on your readers - design one yourself, customize another free theme, or hire a designer to help you brand your business. After you have established your brand, there is no reason why your site won’t become a status symbol and model for other blogs to follow.

Conclusion

While these are some quick suggestions to ensure that your blog is “valued” and rated at what it should be, the general premise behind this was to raise the question of whether your blog does deliver what readers are asking for