How to Grab Attention in the BlogosphereWritten by Abdulrehman on February 14th, 2009
There are more than a million blogs in the blogosphere, where there are about 40 categories which means there is a chance that there are 25000 blogs talking about the same thing that you are. It’s hard to differentiate when all are talking about the same thing, but there are some ways how you can lift yourself from the base and hit the top. I firmly believe that getting attention in the blogosphere is the key to success.
Once you have people’s attention, you’ll get traffic, subscribers, incoming links and lastly you’ll have the golden opportunity to make money. The type of attention that I’m talking about is that most bloggers know you and your blog, know that you have some valuable ideas to share with others and most importantly they know that you exist! It all starts with one little spark and ends up with an ever-lasting blazing fire of traffic.
Be Unique
Use the average blog theme, copy/paste articles, use concepts or strategies that have been yelled by hundreds of bloggers for years, copy the blogging style of others and you’ll get nowhere. Every blogger and I mean *every* blogger needs to be unique in order to succeed, some most classical examples of bloggers who are extremely unique than the others include Internet Marketing Sucks and IMwithJoe. For example, if you’re in the niche of Search Engine Optimization, be unique by discovering new things. You’ll probably attract a lot of visitors and incoming links.
Show Yourself to the World
After I open a blog, the second thing I do is go to the About page and read about the person which gives me a perfect image of him/her. So put up a few pictures and write something unique about yourself, your reason for blogging and most importantly a few links to your profiles on Social Networks. When you start a personal friendship with other bloggers, there are countless advantages that you can avail.
Be Creative
Creativeness can be seen anywhere, your articles, your blog design, your way of talking. Moreover, creativeness is the base of marketing and marketing leads to your content being in front of more people. I’ll make it simple, be creative and leave the rest on others it will gain exposure in the blogosphere it self. In my opinion the most creative blog is Daisy the Curly Cat.
Be Active
Be active in the blogosphere and you’ll grab attention. Make a bookmarks list of about 50 famous blogs and comment on them regularly or probably be the first one to comment. Send Pingbacks through posts to other bloggers. Guest Post on other blogs. Have other bloggers talk about you by either having them write about you or adding you to their blogroll.
It is attention which is the ultimate success to any blog, once you have attention in your niche you’ll be attracting visitors by all means with next to no effort on your part. It all takes a few weeks of hard work, but using your smartness to do the hard-work is the quick and easy way.
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There are more than a million blogs in the blogosphere, where there are about 40 categories which means there is a chance that there are 25000 blogs talking about the same thing that you are. It’s hard to differentiate when all are talking about the same thing, but there are some ways how you can lift yourself from the base and hit the top. I firmly believe that getting attention in the blogosphere is the key to success.
Once you have people’s attention, you’ll get traffic, subscribers, incoming links and lastly you’ll have the golden opportunity to make money. The type of attention that I’m talking about is that most bloggers know you and your blog, know that you have some valuable ideas to share with others and most importantly they know that you exist! It all starts with one little spark and ends up with an ever-lasting blazing fire of traffic.
Be Unique
Use the average blog theme, copy/paste articles, use concepts or strategies that have been yelled by hundreds of bloggers for years, copy the blogging style of others and you’ll get nowhere. Every blogger and I mean *every* blogger needs to be unique in order to succeed, some most classical examples of bloggers who are extremely unique than the others include Internet Marketing Sucks and IMwithJoe. For example, if you’re in the niche of Search Engine Optimization, be unique by discovering new things. You’ll probably attract a lot of visitors and incoming links.
Show Yourself to the World
After I open a blog, the second thing I do is go to the About page and read about the person which gives me a perfect image of him/her. So put up a few pictures and write something unique about yourself, your reason for blogging and most importantly a few links to your profiles on Social Networks. When you start a personal friendship with other bloggers, there are countless advantages that you can avail.
Be Creative
Creativeness can be seen anywhere, your articles, your blog design, your way of talking. Moreover, creativeness is the base of marketing and marketing leads to your content being in front of more people. I’ll make it simple, be creative and leave the rest on others it will gain exposure in the blogosphere it self. In my opinion the most creative blog is Daisy the Curly Cat.
Be Active
Be active in the blogosphere and you’ll grab attention. Make a bookmarks list of about 50 famous blogs and comment on them regularly or probably be the first one to comment. Send Pingbacks through posts to other bloggers. Guest Post on other blogs. Have other bloggers talk about you by either having them write about you or adding you to their blogroll.
It is attention which is the ultimate success to any blog, once you have attention in your niche you’ll be attracting visitors by all means with next to no effort on your part. It all takes a few weeks of hard work, but using your smartness to do the hard-work is the quick and easy way.
i was right....
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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Thanks for the tips. I just still difficult to be creative. May be I will try to it. But I always to make a uniqe article on my blog.
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I agree. But I am searching information whether hardwork done on blog is good if a person is full-time blogger. Mostly people talk about wordpress and domain.
I do not have money to invest nor I know wordpress and knowledge and I only find blog easy but does my hardwork is good to continue to earn.
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I agree with you for placing “Be Unique” at the first place
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“show yourself to the world” - i’m guilty of this, i’ve opened a new blog last month and i haven’t touched the default “about page”. thanks for the reminder!
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Being active is a big one. Commenting on other blogs plus using social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to get to know readers and other bloggers is key to driving more traffic to your site and getting it to stand out from the rest.
~ Kristi
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hi nice post….certainly helps most of the blogger….
have a nice day
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It’s hard to keep up now as there are so many blogs out there all competing for attention. You brought up some good points here as its important to try and differentiate yourself as much as possible and to network with everyone.
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Great tips. It is important to try several things to get noticed.
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Instead of just a list, you should probably add them for an RSS reader and keep an eye on it while you’re on the computer. They usually refresh every 30 mins. So when a new post comes up you can hope over and leave a comment quickly.
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This is an important subject, given the stat you cited (25000+ blogs all talking about the same thing). And it’s only going to get harder as more people decide to join in. I think being active is the most important key to getting attention. Otherwise it will be very difficult for your uniqueness and creativity to be noticed.
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One of the reasons I got out of the MMO niche was that it was just too hard for me to be unique - there were already a huge amount of unique big players, so I changed niches
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Being unique is the one thing that everyone should aim for. You won’t find many readers by simply posting the same stuff as everyone - in most cases there’s someone who writes about the same thing better. Try to find your own niche and stick with it. Hopefuly you’ll be appreciated.
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Yup, me too! I haven’t written on my about page yet. hehe..
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Yo man, thanks for the love dude….I’m always pleased when people appreciate my blog and personality!
keep pushin!
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The informations you shared is very true. Being unique as a blogger is very difficult to achieve because most of the time, you need to be like everyone due to competition. but being unique is still very important so gather more people since your uniqueness can make you very distinct to others.
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Being unique is very important eventhough there’s a tough competition since it makes you distinct from other blogs and you can gather more people as well due to that creative uniqueness.
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To express our self one of the important element i agree with yours which i never did so i wanted to show my self to world, and most difficult to be unique i’ll try to maintain thx for useful tips.
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Nice tips.. I follow all the tips you gave and I think that my blog will become popular soon!
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