Is your blog in need of a boost? Here are 6 ways to improve your blogs performance and promote its growth.

1) Visit and comment on other blogs within your niche

As a blogger it's common to visit other blogs within your niche both for camaraderie and research. Participating actively by leaving comments, when appropriate, is an excellent opportunity to gain readers by inserting your link within your signature file.

2) Post useful and entertaining content

Remember a blog is only as good as its content. Be sure what you post is relevant to the niche you're in. Making your content entertaining and useful to the reader will also encourage them to not only return but also refer others to your site.

3) Listen to your readers

By reading and responding to comments left at your blog you can open channels of communication with your readers. This type exchange will give you a better idea of what they want and what improvements you can make to attract more visitors and maintain the readership at your blog. This will help develop a greater feeling of community amongst your readers.

4) Personalize your Blog

Learn to stand out from the crowd by being YOU. Be sure your blog has your imprint whether it's in your delivery style (attitude, humor, or intensity) or perhaps blog design. Don't be afraid to let it show since this is the single biggest factor that will differentiate you from the rest. By delivering your messages in a more natural fashion you will allow visitors to get a better sense of who you are, impressing upon them your individuality, while also making your posting much more enjoyable and less like work.

5) Use outbound Links to your advantage

Don't be afraid to defer your readers to other sites for additional information. The school of thought here is simply to provide your visitors with as much useful content as possible. By providing outbound links you are clearly indicating you have the interest of your readers in mind and they will recognize and appreciate that. It is impossible to be 'all things to all people' therefore utilize the knowledge of others, when appropriate, to enhance your site as not only a source of information but also a site with its reader's best interest at heart.

6) Blog Reviews

Here's a solid way to entice both new and old readers to your site. On a scheduled basis be it weekly or monthly do a review of the best blog posts from within your niche for that given time period. Hopefully you're already 'crawling' around your niche for educational and social benefits. Now let's put these results to further use and write about them. Here we're using the magic of outbound links as previously discussed while providing useful content for our readership.

By implementing these 6 ways to improve your blogs performance you'll not only realize an increase in traffic but also a greater appreciation of your overall subscriber base by their continual visits.

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3. Join the Message Board Discussions at
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4. Join Google Earth’s community (these are
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post a link to your website.
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include a link to your website. Then
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10. Create a profile on http://blogs.msdn.com
and set up your signature to link to your site.
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I am providing you the list of Search Engine Submission Links and free directories for promoting your blog. Make sure that you submit your blogs to all these links to get more traffic and to get indexed by search engines.

1. Google BlogSearch
2. Google Search Engine
3. Yahoo Search
4. Live Search MSN
5. Blog Catalog
6. Blogarama
7. Blog Digger
8. Bloggapedia
9. Blog Explosion
10. Blog LInes
11. Blog Search Engine
12. Eat On web
13. LS Blogs
14. Search 4 Blogs

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After installing the chatbox as I have said in the previous post, Join the entrecard.com, which is a boon for all the bloggers. Infact I get around 90-100 visitors per day from entrecard.com. So, don't miss this opportunity.


How to join entrecard?
Its very simple. Just follow the following steps.

1. Go to www.entrecard.com
2. Then sign up with your blog details and your E-mail id. Its easy and self explanatory.
3. Before signing up, make sure that you meet their blog standards.
4. After you sign up, Get their widget code and paste it in your blog.
5. Thats it. Now the entrecard widget appears in your blog.

How to get traffic from entrecard?

1. Once the widget gets displayed in your blog, loginto your entrecard account.
2. Click campaign and start visiting other's blogs and drop (by clicking the drop button) your card in their widget.
3. You get a credit of 1ec per drop. So, visit as many blogs as you can and earn many credits.
4. With all these credits, you can advertise on thousands of other's blogs which will drive you some traffic.
5. You can also see the visitors who have dropped their cards for you in your inbox and feel free to visit them back. this encourages them to visit back.

Here is another place where you can drop on 300 blogs within 15 mins. That is you can earn 300 credits in 15 mins,with which you can start advertising. After joining the entrecard, visit this site http://www.entrecard.thegermz.com/ . Its the entre card generator.

In short, Join entrecard.com today.

Once you start posting in your blogs, you need some readers ( traffic) right?. So, I am here up with the most simplest yet effective means to drive traffic to your blog instantly. Remember, there are thousands of way to drive traffic to your blog. I am just beginning with the simplest ways to drive you some traffic. I will let you know about the other ways in the coming days.



Chat Box:
First install a chat box in your blog. It helps your readers to leave some comments on it. Remember, readers/visitors are the lifelines of our blogs. After installing it, visit other blogs and leave your comments in their chat box with your blog URL. So that they can visit your blog and reply for your comments. Like this, you can get mutual traffic. Visit as many blogs as possible and leave your comments in chatboxes.

I don't say that you can get an exploding traffic with it. But, I am sure as a newbie in blogging, it will surely help you to start off with a decent traffic. You can get the chatbox from http://www.shoutmix.com/main/ and http://cbox.ws/

Hello Readers, I am just introducing this new contest to publicize my blog (since its new).

How to enter the contest?
Its very Simple. Just leave your comments on my blog posts and the person with the most number of comments after each month ( that is by Dec 22) will be rewarded with 5$. The winner will be announced by Dec 23rd. The contest wont stop with the first month. Top Commentators will be rewarded after each and every month.

Rules:

1. Payment will be made only through paypal.
   
2. Each person can comment only once on a post. Repetitive comments wont be considered.
3. Spam comments wont be tolerated.
4. Comment only after reading the posts.
5. If 2 commentators tops the list, I will reward each with 5$.
6. If more than 2 commentators drops the same number of comments, then 2 Lucky winners will be selected randomly.

For further queries, leave a comment here ( Start your earning right now)