Blogging Tip : Is Your Blog Underrated?
Millions of blogs exist in the world today. A large percentage of them are being used by spammers to place affiliate links and scrape content from other sites, while a significant amount of the others have become neglected by the owner who used to update the blog everyday.
I don’t want to ramble on why your blog isn’t considered one of the “Elite 100,” but I’d like to address some points and pose some questions that you should consider in order to expand your blog’s traffic and ultimately your placement against other blogs in your niche.
#1. You need to contact other bloggers
who may be interested in a partnership with your blog. By doing this, you’ll nearly multiply your traffic multiple times over, depending on the number of visitors that each of these sites receive. In other words, you’ll be better off linking your blogs together, rather than standing alone.
#2. Your aren’t targeting the right crowd
If you look at your analytics and demographics, make sure that your visitors are coming from the “target” area – a group of people who have their own blogs or websites – who will likely spread word about your site, linking to it and sharing your resource to their readers.
#3. Your site/content isn’t old enough
Time is the leading reason that blogs don’t grow to their full potential. You need to be able to be in it for the long-term, not to quickly generate an income from. Until your site is at least half a year old, you should be focusing on building your site’s content and overall feature set.
#4. Is your site’s content truly unique?
As long as your content is unique, your visitors should view it as that. People whose content isn’t unique shouldn’t be rewarded for the “work” of copying others’ content for their own gains.
#5. Have you proven your knowledge
to your visitors and readers? One of the main ways to become accredited for your work is to express your supreme knowledge on your blog. You shouldn’t hesitate when answering any question that arises – you should have a level of confidence, yet not at the level of arrogance.
#6. Do you connect with your readers
or avoid any interaction? Blogging is all about the contacting – in more ways than one. Without any replies to your readers’ comments and emails, they’ll likely view you as narrow-minded, thus thinking that you don’t take blogging as seriously as you should be.
#7. Your theme says a lot about yourself
The layout of your site, including your theme, determines how successful you can be, as well as how others view your content. Choose one that leaves a lasting impact on your readers – design one yourself, customize another free theme, or hire a designer to help you brand your business. After you have established your brand, there is no reason why your site won’t become a status symbol and model for other blogs to follow.
Conclusion
While these are some quick suggestions to ensure that your blog is “valued” and rated at what it should be, the general premise behind this was to raise the question of whether your blog does deliver what readers are asking for 
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I’m strongly agreed with contact other Blogger and connect with reader.
In fact, I feel excited while seeing other Blogger’s great article and like to learn more from them. The reader can be very challenging (oh yeah), but it’s really joyful when someone knows and loves your work. ;D
Hi and thanks for this post.
I learned a few things and will have to put the other ideas in practice. A lot of people think it’s hard to keep a blog going but it depends on your long term goal. Some people blog to get things out and they enjoy it while others think they can make some serious quick cash.
True. I firstly thought only on money making. Then after knowing more bloggers, I feel more exciting in blogging rather than just money making
That’s true.
Many new comers people fall in this category in just money making website or blog without understanding the actual requirement of quality traffics to generate revenue.
And they end-up spamming everywhere by spreading their messages.
Awesome post!
Great tips!
hmm.Nice article buddy..You are slowly making your blog a place for SEO tips and other important tips for bloggers for their benefits.
Really good post. One of the best you’ve made and you’ve made some really really good ones too. Connecting with readers, other bloggers, and consistently writing good content for a niche. Great post.
I try to update my blog at least once every week. You are right about connecting with the blogosphere and coming up with unique content.
You are doing a great job of providing SEO and blogging tips.
Right on with the theme .. I think a lot of bloggers forget that part or dont know how to make it look more pleasing. The have great content but everything is just laid out all wrong or tacky. For a web flipper those sites are goldmines though.
Hi…
Just wanna say that you have nice blog..
So cool…
Need effort to update my blog with consistent, cause I work and sometimes my work in office make me busy and tired
But I ‘ll try to…
Cheers – Leet
Same happens with….. Will surely do my best..
Yup, I’ve started blogging for the money, but after a while I realized that I enjoy doing it. Keep up the good work and good luck with your contest!
uniqe content ? that’s hard cause I am running many blog by my self
I’ve been actively blogging for nearly 8 months. So far, content is still the king of any blog success. Entrecard help us to give the traffic but most of it are bounced traffic. Search engine traffic give more quality visitors that helps us in blogging industry. I suggest taking SEO as another serious measure for all bloggers.
Yeah, not targeting the right crowd could mean death for all blogs… can’t emphasize this enough.
When i read all your 7 points here, it really hit me hard and have a better understanding in regards to blog rating.
Contact blogger with the same niche is very important as you can word hand in hand in a partnership basis for better web traffic or banner ads/link exchange.
Besides that, genuine or unique content is important too. Readers does not want to go to spam blog with duplicated content rite?
Guys, i would appreciate if you can spend some time and check out my recently launched love blog – Cupid Blogger Dot Com as i need your feedback so that i can improve further
Please could you give you opinion/advice about my blog:
Google Webmasters tells:
-820 links from extern pages
-average 22 pages crawled each day
-average 838kB downloaded each day
-googlebot is seeing 13 links to my site
-sitemap 94 urls indexed
Google analytics (24 days in use):
-1600 visits
-4200 pageviews
-22% from searchengines
-28% direct
-50% from other websites (99.5% from google)
Google pagerank = 0
-My blog url= Speedsurfing Blog
I was thinking of getting a better url without blogspot.com, is this a good idea??
Good checklist given. Now, I feel like my blog is underrated. Will find ways to improve it, starting from template. You have given a list of blogger templates sites, how about wordpress templates?
Now this is something that can really come so very handy to you. Excellent stuff.
As per #7 – My blog has just been re-designed and I can’t believe how beautiful it is! Can’t wait to see what impact it will have on my readership. It’s one of the nicest blogs I’ve ever seen (but I suppose I’m a little biased).
You can still create a quality blog and make money off of it. Like you said you need to get in contact with other bloggers and join the community – get involved and you will be rewarded.
Many thanks for this post, it has been very helpful and also for the button ‘Add this’.