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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.

FOND REMEMBRANCE OF A BELOVED FRIEND (TINA DOWNEY)

FOND REMEMBRANCE OF 
A BELOVED FRIEND





READ A TRIBUTE NOTE HERE


Source: Philipscom/Wordpress

An IWSG Post With An Apology! My Installment For The Month Of August.

Blog Comments: How Are You Responding to it? Or What is Your reactions? My Take For The Day At IWSG

Blog Comments:  
How Are You Responding to it? 
Or What is Your reaction?

Picture Credit: IWSG
Yet another time/day for IWSG post!

Those who are not aware about this wonderful group, a word of introduction is very necessary at this time!

We the members of I W S G (Insecure Writers Support Group) post the first Wednesday of every month our fears, insecurity, thinking, doubts, questions answers, suggestions etc. all related to writing.  Most of the group members are blog authors or writers in different fields.  We help each other by asking questions from the field of writing. 

Even the well-established authors sometimes feel insecurity.  For such situation this is the secured place to share their burden to find some sort of solution to their fear/insecurity. You can ask your doubts, questions etc in relation to writing . There are people to help you out at IWSG.  That is the specialty of this group.   Indeed it has been a great blessing to many of the members here.

In short this idea is the brain child of the Sci-Fi writer Alex J. Cavanaugh. to help out his fellow bloggers/authors.

The registration is still open to join in this wonderful group, anyone who is having one or two blogs or any other authors, can join in this group and exchange their ideas, fears etc. through their pages linking back to its web page.  You can reach to the main web page by clicking here:  IWSG, 

Today’s wonderful co-hosts are Sheena-kay Graham, Julie Musil,Jamie Ayres, and Mike Swift. Please be sure to visit their pages. 

Also the group have an informative and lovely page at Facebook. Don’t forget to visit and join in the page! Facebook Group.

MY TAKE FOR THE DAY:
Pic, Credit: morefromourtblog.com
We the bloggers' or for that matter any writers' of any kind expect feedback from our readers.  There is no doubt about this! It’s a universal fact that writers expect comments/feedbacks from their readers!  Even the well-established authors look out for some kind of response from their readers.  Though some may not accept this fact openly that is a fact. Indeed, every one opt for some kind of appreciation or feedback from their readers.

Sometimes these feedbacks are very nasty or very negative ones! Of course major ones may be positive or a highly praising ones.  Whatever it is, writers always expect some kind of feedbacks especially the blog authors always look or check out their comment boxes to see if anyone commented!

Here is a CAUTION: Whether it is positive or negative comment, we need to address or respond to it that is a common courtesy.  But unfortunately some of our friends/authors take it lightly and just ignore it.  In the recent past I have notice some good blog owners who comments back or respond to their readers very promptly with all required details in their comments.  I am sure in this busy world, writing blogs and responding to their readers’ comments in a detailed way is a bit difficult task, but yet there are some blog authors very religiously respond to each and every feedback they receive in their comment boxes.  This is a good practice and we need to do it systematically.  I am sure this will definitely increase our writing ability as well as to build a good relationship with the readers, and ha of course the traffic flow too will increase by these continuous process of communication.

I would like to introduce or tell about few such wonderful bloggers to my readers in one of my future blogs.  Their dedication to respond their reader’s response made them real authors in the sea of blogging world.

Commenting to blog post and responding back to that comments is the key word for the day. Let us make it a point to read each ones page and find time to post a constructive comment there.  Surely most of them respond back and that will also be a great help to go further in our writing job.

Wish You All A Happy IWSG DAY !!!
Philip Verghese 'Ariel'











An Alert And A Tuto: My Janauary Installment At IWSG

Greetings to all my friends here at IWSG. 



Every First Wednesday is dedicated to the writers’  especially the to the blog writers' by the well known Sci-Fi  writer cum blogger Alex J. Cavanaugh, the famous Ninja 
Captain and his associates @ IWSG.

Since This January's First Wednesday falls on the New Year Day, this month's IWSG day is shifted to the 8th the second Wednesday.


Before I jot down my take for the month’s installment I must tender an apology for the bit delay happened in submitting the page.  As I was not fully well I could not concentrate on this month's piece.  Due to the giddiness and the related ailments literally I was away from my desktop.  Though I was intermittently using my mobile phone to post few short notes and likes at some of my social networks.  Today I am much better thus this post.

Again before I enter into the original text for the month, I must say a BIG word of thanks to the wonderful team of IWSG under the leadership of Alex J Cavanaugh, for bestowing me the prestigious award for 2013 IWSG contest held on December 4-16  2013.  

THANK you so much for the International Prize Package given to me.

To read more about the contest and the related post in this regard please click on the  links HERE AND HERE:

I wanted to give a caution or alarm to the readers here 
through this post.

We are living in a world of uncertainties, anything can happen to anybody at any time!
There is no doubt that, it is an undisputed fact.
But I wanted to caution you about our hard earned or made contents at the World Wide Web pages.  Suppose if you lose all your contents in a fine morning what will happen!  No doubt that will be a big disaster! 

Did you ever thought of such a situation? If not just imagine one fine morning when you try to open your blog pages its showing a big zero or let me put it this way a big blank page on your computer’s screen.  There are many possibilities to happen this, even while you typing or editing the contents this can happen. 

There are several other ways to lose our valued blog pages, another one is by hacking.  There are a good number of hackers out there in this World Wide Web.  The WWW is no doubt a mixture of good and bad.  The hackers, some do this as a fun and few others purposely do this to spoil other’s reputation and images.  This types of things are happening even in some official web sites of different nations.  So be always ready to face such situation of losing all your content by the act of hackers.

The other day I was just talking about this to one of my blog friends’.  Immediately he said, no worries! before that you can take a precaution.  Why don’t you take the backup of your files in the blogger pages?  

Hey, hey, how I can do that?  I yelled, instantly and he suggested few pages to visit to learn more about this.

Here I am with that pages for your information and further visit.

And another informative post on this line please click on the below link:

Also watch this simple video
It gives some more insight into the subject.




To Read my previous post in this series

 please click HERE 

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We Wish You All A Blessed 

And Profitable New Year 2014.


Goodbye  now

Till we meet at next IWSG.





Philipscom Bagged This Year's IWSG Contest Prize - International Prize Package

Philipscom  
Bagged  This Year's 
IWSG Contest Prize
(International Prize Package)

Picture Credit: IWSG Group
I express my thanks 
to 
all the team members 
of IWSG 
for this prestigious award.

To read more about the contest announcement 
and the related articles 
please click on the following links:


IWSG Post Day and Announcing a Contest!


To join this group 
please click on the below link:

IWSG Sign-up