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Bloggers Do You Know These Secrets! 15 Secrets About Your Blog Page!

Bloggers Do You Know These Secrets! 

15 Secrets About Your Blog Page!


I am sure many bloggers do not know some of these secrets about their own blogs!

I mean, I am talking 

about some of the

hidden facts about our own blogs which we quiet often do not notice or do not know!


Read on these facts and some suggestions along 

with…

· 1.  It is estimated that there are 80% visits in your blog are new.   Especially if you build an email list and a regular activity on social Medias like Facebook, twitter, Google Plus, Digg, linkdIn, Pinterest and many others.


· 2. If you are a regular blogger and post quite often, say daily, there are every chance to get your traffic 5 times more than the regular one.


· 3. When you reach a total of 51 posts your blog traffic increases by 53% it increases by 3 times after you complete 100 posts and 4.5 times after 200 posts.


· 4. There is a slight confusion among bloggers about the needed length of the content.  Is a long content or a shorter one will fetch more accessibility among readers?   The recent statistics say that, there are a good chance to get more backlinks if it’s a longer one. A post of 1300 or above words content will fetch more backlinks and thus more traffic than a shorter one.


· 5. It is another factor that a blog post with more images will get attracted by the general readers and also get more backlinks.  This include screenshots, graphs, infographics, cartoons, art works, and other attractive pictures in your blog post.


· 6. Your social media shares matters a lot. It is estimated that 41.6% people measure the social influence by counting your post’s social sharing by others. Note that your page should have a share button which helps to reach to different social sites.


· 7. Another important factor to note is about your blog page’s look.  If it is adorned with some lovely images along with your quality contents it will easily get the attention of the browsers.   If your visitor wants to stay back at your page it must carry some solid, quality worth reading material. Otherwise all our efforts will go waste. If our visitors do not find any interest in our contents there is a less chance of their visit again or share. So make it a point to fill your pages with quality contents. Though sometimes it may be a bit difficult task, a bit of a research and hard work will pay the bill.


· 8. This is yet another unknown thing to many that your posts on Monday’s get more visibility and traffic.  Notice the difference between the post published on Mondays’ and other weekly days.


· 9. Also another fact found out recently is that: If you publish the post on Thursday’s there are a good chance to get more social shares.  So apart from Mondays’ Thursdays’ too carries wait!  So make it a point to not to miss Mondays’ and Thursdays’.


· 10. Your social media numbers (more friends) will fetch you more shares and simultaneously you get more traffic. Here we need to have more care while selecting new friends or accepting new friends.  Try to stick on the friends who are interested in your niche, or products and accept only such requests.  If you accept all your friend requests you may sometimes land in trouble without any response and at a later stage you need to do a complete purge of such friends.  And note that this is a time consuming thing process and I did this lately with my all three major social media.  I bet it’s a cumbersome process and am sure in the process you may even lose some valuable friends too. And then again to go with an explanation or accepting new request etc.  To avoid these processes select your friends wisely.  That will surely give a good share and traffic to your pages.


· 11. It is observed that more contents about a product or company will fetch the attention of more people. More than 70% people’s attention will get to a quality content than from an attractive add. Notice that adds will fetch less but quality contents will fetch more.  So concentrate on contents which attract people by reading it.


· 12. Post your blog post regularly on a daily basis that will fetch more leads, it is found that it generate 4 times more leads than a weekly or a monthly post.  So this will encourage people to post on every day, but the problem is that the frequency increases there are every chance to miss the quality.  This is very important to be note while doing the more frequent posts.


· 13. Visit 5 to 8 blog pages daily if possible more on a daily basis that will surely increase your knowledge but at the same time make a good rapport with them by commenting on constructive and meaningful comments relevant to the subjects.  Eventually that leads to a new relationship with new writers and get acquainted with them well that will surely increase your readability and status.


· 14.  Build or develop a good relationship with fellow bloggers by visiting their pages and by interacting with feedback through comment columns and via email or social media contacts.  Though some may not respond immediately slowly and surely if your relationship develop in a systematic way it will pave way to have a concrete relationship and that will fetch many benefits in the long run in relation to your writing.  

   There are a good number of outstanding personalities in the blogging world who emphasis on this subject. Prominent among them are Adrienne Smith, Harleena Singh, Mi Muba, Chery Schmidt, Carol Amato and many others.  There is no doubt the list of such personalities are a big one and the space constrains to accommodate all of them.  May their tribe increase!


  If you are a visitor to these pages you will very well understand the importance of rapport between blog writers. Their pages links are given below:


You can read more about them 

HERE ON THESE LINKS:


Mi Muba -  Be A Money Blogger  


Chery Schmidt -SuccessCoachChery  



Adrienne Smith  - AdrienneSmithnet  



Harleena Singh -  Aha Now  


Carol Amato   -    CaroAmato .com


Atish Ranjan   -  TechTricksworld

Nisha Pandey  -   SEOTechyWorld

Rohan Chaubey    Learning with TeamSR




· 15.  The last but the lease is about Guest blogging.  62.96% people feel that multiple authors’ engagement add more credibility to our blogs.
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   Also this will create a good rapport between bloggers.  Getting good writers to our blog pages are a bit difficult task, but a constant relationship with the good bloggers can surely fetch good offers from them.  
   
   And their write-ups in our pages will get an international attention if we do the promotion well. In the recent past I have done this and I enjoyed the benefits on a mutual basis. 
   
   If they make note of their guest post writings in our page by posting a note in their page as well as in their social sites will surely fetch a great traffic and can build a strong relationship with far off people, I mean the people from around the globe.   

   I have created an initiative on this line recently and I am on the lookout for new Guest authors in my page. And few well known authors already did this and a good number of others are already offered their posts. 


   I am sure this will be a great land mark to my page.  


  You can read more about my new initiative here @PhilipscomWP



This is my post for the month of October at IWSG pages (Insecure Writers Support Group) pages. In other words, a group of people join together from around the world on the first Wednesday of every month to help each other and to air their doubts, fear, suggestions, tips etc on blogging and other related writings.



This is an initiative started by Alex Cavanaugh one of the Co-founders of A to Z Blog Challenge. The Ninja Captain and his team members are celebrating its first Anniversary this month with lot of celebrations. To know more about this group and to join the celebrations please click on the below link:  

Sources:
 
IWSG; bufferapp.com; Impactbnd.com; Hubspot.com; Socialmediaexaminer.com; Moz.com; Velocitydigital.co.uk; Socialmarketingwriting.com; Kissmetrics.com; Socialmarketingwriting.com; Convinceandconvert.com.

Come Let Us Roast Our Good Friend Arlee The Bird!!! (CHEERS!!!)


 Come Let Us Roast Our Good Friend Arlee The Bird!!! He Is Ready!!!

Lee the juggler did wonders not only with his magic tricks but also did miracles with his jumping or throwing words. Indeed his activities in his page at “Tossing It Out” and other places he knitted a beautiful net/circle.Especially when it comes to the A to Z event he created an amazing atmosphere with the like-minded people from around the world with his magic words.  That was indeed an inspiration to many in the World Wide Web.  I am so glad to jump in when I first heard of this, and was so sad since, I could not join in him from its inception. 


Jermey Hawkins
That one event itself is proof enough to show his love with the words as well as to spread those among the like-minded people around the world. 


Arlee's fb profile pic.
I am sure those who participated in those
wonderful events will have the same opinion. The allotted 200 words are not sufficient to explain it further.  So I am putting a small coma here.  Let us join together this day and roast (cheer) our dear friend and the wonderful juggler Arlee The BIRD.

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To Know More About This Wonderful Personality
Please Click on the Below Link:

The Blog Man Is Here

There is still time to join the fest. 
To join in please click on the link below:
The below given links are the registered 


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Hi, Here Comes The First Wednesday Of The Month!!!

Hi, Here Comes The First Wednesday Of The Month!!!
Picture Credit IWSG

 Today Is The First Wednesday of the Month.

Hey, what is that specialty for this day?

You may ask!

YES, There is a specialty for this DAY!!

It’s IWSG DAY………in detail “Insecure Writers Support Group”

Yes, it’s the day dedicated to the writers especially the blog writers by the well known Sci-Fi writer cum blogger Alex J. Cavanaugh, the famous Ninja Captain and his associates @ IWSG

On this day the people (the blog authors –The members of IWSG from around the world) post their piece on their blog pages about their fear, doubt, insecurity, etc and spread the news across the world via World Wide Web pages. Like their social networks (facebook) and of course via the web pages of IWSG members.


I think “INSECURE” is a word which many afraid to even talk about!!!

The Oxford dictionary says the meaning of this word: “uncertain or anxious about oneself; not confident”
The New American Webster Handy College Dictionary says: “Feeling unsafe/ not tightly fastened: not safe..”
Yes, this insecure or unsafe feeling  happens to everyone even the well established writers are not an exception to this.  They too sometimes face this and worry.   Of course some may find  some kind of solutions to their insecurity and at the same time many may not find one.  This is the dilemma especially  in the writers community quiet often faces.



But here is a group in which they deal this in a systematic way to solve or fix their problems in a measure, by asking each other and answering or suggesting solutions to their problems/insecurity.  This is mainly dealt with in the area of their writing.

Keeping this in mind, to help the writers’ community Alex Cavanaugh initiated this group a year back and the group recently celebrated its second anniversary recently.

Though a bit late I am so glad to be part of this community recently and this post is my third installment in line….

It all started by Alex to help out the people around the globe especially the writers in particular the blog authors.

The group’s main aim is to help out the writers who are insecure in this field and to clear their doubts and fear in the field of writing.
Any writer can join in this group by registering their name and the URLs in the IWSG web page.HERE

And post your thoughts on your blog in connection with the doubts and fear you faced and solved.  Present your struggles and victory and discuss with the fellow bloggers.  Also post a word of encouragement to other fellow bloggers who are still struggling to find a solution to their fears.

The group members are suppose to visit other fellow bloggers posts and give their opinion, suggestion etc in their post’s comment column.  This can be done a minimum of five to ten blog pages, if one can visit more pages and air their views it will be well and good.
After becoming a member when you post the Wednesday posts ‘Be sure to add or link the main website of IWSG in the post.  One more unwritten condition is that,  “Do not forget to display the IWSG badge in your post as well as embed the code at the side bar of your blog page.
So get set and ready to go…………………….
Talk about your fears, doubts, insecurity etc and how you conquered it.  Surely this may help few of your readers!!

I would like to add one of my fears I conquered:

Like many of the new bloggers here, I too just happened to be a blogger by mere chance.
In the beginning after the first post I was just waiting for a reader to come to my page,  and I worried a lot and waited and waited.  That waiting was really a laborious one!!! And I could not find hardly anyone to drop in to my page and my worry increased and I thought that 'Oh, this is not my cup of tea!' I will put a full stop to it and do something else. 

I was sharing this struggle with one of my close friends and he encouraged me and said, "Brother Philip, don’t worry this is the case with most of the bloggers, please don’t stop, instead keep writing and posting" and here you can do one thing he continued,  keep writing quality post and share it through your social media net works and also tell about it to your friends through email and by other media.  People will surely have a look into your stuff. And here another important thing you can do is to visit fellow bloggers posts and take time to read and post a constructive comment. And if you are interested in the blog page, join in by clicking the followers button placed at the side bar of the blog pages. If you do this you get intimation via blogger when they upload a new blog post.  Try to do this at least  a minimum of five blog posts daily, if time permits do it at more places, surely some of them will turn to your page.

My Malayalam Blog Banner "Ariel's Jottings" 
Yes I did this very religiously for quite some time, but in the initial time very few responded or acknowledged my visit and follow.  Please do not worry some established bloggers do not care who visits and who follows, don’t worry! you do your part and the rest will follow.  I am sure you need more patience here, otherwise you may go back without much result.  As I said I am sure, in the long run your pages will show a great rush of people to get in.  This I am experienced and conquered through my efforts.  Now my page views and  comments increased tremendously.  A year back I started yet another blog page in Malayalam (my native language) which I can handle with more ease than the English language.  There too,  I am experiencing the same thing.

This process helped me to get more and more readers/visitors and comments (responses) to my both pages in (English and  Malayalam). 

Do not worry if your comment box is not filled with comments, but note that your page views will increase tremendously.  Most of your readers will come read and go they may not get enough time to post a comment, don’t worry this happens quiet often but notice that your page view number will increase steadily.  So take this as a challenge and go forward.

Though my page views now are nearing to 2 lakhs, I do still visit read and comment even now whenever I get time.

Once my main fear was of not getting readers/visitors/comments.  It is almost nullified now.

So friends, Read, Write, Visit, Comment as much as you can!!

Keep Going! 
Keep Writing!
Keep Inform!
Don’t Give up!
Good Wishes!

See You All Until Next ISWG

Yours Sincerely 

Philips & Associates


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