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• Don't launch your blog until it is properly setup.

Many people launch a blog, that is not fully setup. The Layout design may not be proper or the RSS feed may not be working correctly.So before you launch your blog make sure that your Layout design is complete, RSS feed is working properly ,you are setup to ping to the search engine or directories and your blog is optimized for search engines.Day 1 is the most crucial day because without launching with all these things in line it can hurt the future success of your blog.

• Choose a Unique topic and stick to it

If your blog is about trekking then stick to it.Dont try to include pages of ebooks or something like that,it will decrease your pagerank. And dont try to copy the content from another website, Search engine will be able to find out that you have copied the contents and there is every possibility that your pages wont get indexed.

• Be consistent

Make a schedule and stick to it. Update your blog frequently.May be four times a week should be sufficient.The more frequently you update your blog ,the higher will be your pagerank. Don't blog daily and then skip a whole month.

• Communicate with your readers

Dont leave your readers stranded.Reply to the comments posted by the user or mail them or do both of them.It is very important that you communicate with the readers especially when your blog is new.
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• Keep it short and sweet

You may write a book on web guidelines,that's great but people will find it easy and more interesting, if it is short and is upto the point.Most of the time, readers dont like to read long articles , so keep it short and sweet.

• Write something unique

Add some flare to your blog. Keep your readers on their toes by doing something unique, funny or something that should attract the readers. Whatever unique thing you do, it can really help keep your readers coming back for more.Add some pictures to spice up your blog.

• Dont expect miracles

Dont expect the world to visit your site , it takes some time for your blog to become popular.It may take a month or may be an year also.So be patient and try to update your blog frequently which will lead to improved page rank and thus to a lot of traffic .
For more information plz read these posts...
http://pesit08.blogspot.com/2008/10/tips-to-improve-your-blog.html
http://pesit08.blogspot.com/2008/10/information-about-creating-and.html

Well if you dont know what a site map is, then here is a brief introduction to it

Everyone want's traffic.You set up a blog with great content but,no one is visiting your blog,so what's the use of it?

So,here is a list of ways to get traffic to your blog.

1.SEARCH ENGINE:

1. Search engine brings lots of traffic to your blog.There are many people who search in Google, Yahoo daily.So,if your blog has many good posts and is well indexed by google,etc..you will get a good amount of traffic via search engines.
2. There are a few steps to look at if you want a decent amount of traffic from the search engines like "submitting your blog sitemap to google" to index you blog pages very quickly and regularly.
3. And the other important thing is adding metatags to your blog.If you follow these two simple steps,then you will get a decent traffic.

2.Submitting to Blog Directories:

1. You may know this before,submitting your blog to blog directories will bring you a good traffic..
2. Most of these blog directories ask you to register before you submit your blog.

Here is a list of blog directories

• Technorati
• Blogtoplist
• Topblogging.com
• Blogcatalog
• Myblogdirectory

etc........

3.Participate in forums:

1. Just go to google and enter your major keyword + forum or keyword+group and search.Suppose,your blog is about trekking,then search 'trekking forum'.You will find some forums,groups related to your site.
2. Register in the forums and post articles,etc with a link back to your blog.
3. Answer questions,clarify doubts and provide a link to your blog.

4.Social Bookmarking:Social Bookmarking is another way to build good traffic to your website/blog.If you don't know what Social Bookmarking just google it.
In Brief...
Social Bookmarking is a practise of saving Bookmarks,tagging the posts with keywords in a website.
Bookmarking means saving a specific website url(address) in your browser that you wish to visit later.There are so many Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us,digg,furl,technorati.

One good thing about these Social bookmarking sites is,you will get instant traffic.Just register with them,store your bookmarks,tags,.. and you are done,See your site meter blasting with traffic.




5.Submit Articles to Article Directories:Submitting articles to article directories is another effective way to build more traffic.By submitting to them,your articles get massive exposure and gain you more traffic.Some of the popular article directories are

1. goarticles.com
2. ezinearticles.com
3. articlecity.com

There are hundreds of article directories,just google it.

6 .Leaving Comments on other blogs:

1. Leave comments with a link of your blog .
2. Leaving comments in the related blogs is more useful and it also increases your pagerank.Always leave good comments.
3. While writing comments, dont use words like great blog etc.....
4. Use Keywords and a small description of your blog

For more details on how to increase your traffic see this video

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsj7JkxvqGc&feature=related

• Any methods that artificially generates clicks and impressions are prohibited..
• Note that if you click on your own ad for any reason your adsense account will be deleted.. you wont be able to access it , it will be blocked.  

  Encouraging clicks

1. Dont ask your friends to click on the ads. Google adsense will be able to make out.
2. Never write cachy phrases like "Click the ad" "Visit these links" "Support us"
3. Dont try to draw attention of your blog reader through graphical gimmicks.
   
4. Dont use Jargons.
   
5. Dont put misleading images next to the ad

1. Your content has to be unique
2. It should not contain any violent content, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization
3. It should not contain pornographic pictures or content.
4. Gambling or casino related content.

Following guidelines will help google to find, index and rank your site
These guidelines mainly consists of three parts

1. Design Guidelines
2. Technical Guidelines
3. Quality Guidelines

Make sure that you follow these guidelines carefully....

• When your site is ready , submit it to the Google add url http://www.google.com/addurl.html.
• Register yourself to Webmaster tools
• They'll give you a meta tag , which you have to place it above the body.
• Then add a sitemap
• The google learns about the internal structure of your blog and it will try to index your pages.
• Send your blog address to your friends and post it in forums....

Design Guidelines

1. First plan your site properly.It should contain a good layout with text links in hierarchichal fashion.All the Pages should have atleast two external links ie., it should be accessible from more than one link
2. Create an information rich site with all the pages clearly describing the content
3. Think as a user and try to put all the keywords in your site that the user might type to find your pages
4. Avoid images to display important name because the googlebot will not recognize the text contained in the images
5. Check for the web crawl errors and HTML errors present in the site using webmaster tools

Technical Guidelines

1. Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site
2. Allow the search bots to crawl through different pages of your site
3. Use webmaster tools like robotics etc .. to improve your site

Quality Guidelines

1. Make pages for users and not for the search engine.
2. Avoid hidden text or hidden links
3. Dont load your pages with irrelavant keywords
4. Avoid redirects
5. Dont create pages with malicious behaviour

Changing the template

1. Go to http://www.pyzam.com/ and choose the template
2. Copy the code given there
3. Now go to Layout tab > Edit Html
4. Now delete the previous content
5. Now paste the code

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