Well, in the earlier post I told you that I went from just 6 subscribers to 200+ in 50 days of blogging. And I pretty much gave you out some my METYHODOLOGY. But for the part II of this, you’ll get some serious juice.
Creating a unique blog brand
Blogs telling you how to blog had come to be somewhat of a cliche these days. So I created my own brand of a blog that said more than “creating money online through your blog”. I wanted to do something that people will instantly remember and something would probably make a statement, hopefully with an exclamation mark at the end. So I came up with the ’super-weapon’ term. My objective is to let my readers know how they can turn their blogs into super-weapons and then make money off it. No Bull, no gimmicks, no get rich quick tricks. It’s plain proven methodology.
With the unique design of my header, eliciting this exact image, I was able to somewhat entice the one-time readers to wander into the depths of my content. And at the time, I was getting some good StumbleUpon traffic also. So this was extra helpful in turning the heads of stumblers a bit, hopefully to make them stop for a second and tell them it’s not something that they are getting every time they hit the ’stumble!’ button.
Commenting Policy
I switched to threaded comments. Some people might think that it messes up the site design and all that but threaded comments had been really useful for me to build conversations with the readers. I can make sure that whoever comments and needs something back doesn’t go unanswered in my blog.
Also, I implemented a few plug-ins to enhance the quality of the site discussions which can be found in this article. The plug-ins being mentioned in that were helpful in capturing those one-off visitors and converting them to followers.
Viral Contests
I had two contests within these 50 days. The current one - “The 10 second entry contest”, is just going viral. For a simple e-mail subscription, the subscribers are getting definite 10 Entrecard credits and a chance to win $250 worth of prizes. 50% of my current subscribers were conceived this way.
Some bloggers tend to hold contests to have backlinks to their blogs, in order to improve their link popularity. But, what most of them don’t understand is that half of the people are not at all interested in doing something like posting about a contest in their own blogs. One - it may make a blogger look like a sell-out and two - some people don’t always go thorough the trouble to do so. And let’s face it. If a blog is really really popular, what makes you think that blogger will actually post about a random contest that he/she sees in the blogosphere? And if you can’t get a backlink off a popular/good blog, what’s the point of getting a backlink at all?
The way the Google PageRank works tell us that, it’s better to get 1 backlink from a blog that has a PageRank of 5 than getting 500 backlinks from a blog that has PageRank of 0.
What I learnt from my experiences is that, when you set the bar a bit lower than other people, you tend to get more people to come and try out for the high-jump.
Networking
Through Blog Networks such as Entrecard, I got to know a good number of great new bloggers. And it really paid off to communicate with them and share ideas. Although I must confess I haven’t been on the lookout for any forum traffic from all the blogging forums out there, I believe forum traffic is more sustainable in the long-run than the plain Entrecard traffic.
All in all, I believe Networking is indeed one of the greatest aspects in building a blog. Especially because when you kick-start a blog, you tend to have more time dedicated and efficient networking through bloggers is worth every minute.
For an example, I contacted Mike of Blogging-Ads for guest blogging. (Me blogging for him) There was an article I was working on for over a week called “Are you a Sniper blogger or a Gattling Gunner blogger?”. It was one of the most original posts I’ve done, and probably one of the best. With Mike’s help, I published that in Blogging-Ads, and the reactions were just phenomenal. Blogging-Ads had experienced and is experiencing a rapid growth and I was exalted to see my guest post being well received in the community. And at the moment, it stands as the #1 in the Blogging-Ads Most Popular Posts.
Not all guest bloggers are fortunate to say something like that, and I believe I am one of the lucky ones.
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