7 Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed

About 150,000 new blogs are started each day. Some of them never intended to be read by anyone but the family of bloggers. Others find a small but devoted following. Some become national or even international read, like The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Mashable!

Where is your blog in the form in this crowded blogosphere? If you are looking for an audience beyond family and friends, how did you find? How will your little blog is known of the many thousands of euros vying for attention?

1. Put a link to your blog in your email signature, each page of your website, all outgoing mail, your newsletter, the author blurb on the items, business cards, and anything that you publish. For example, my email signature includes "The Writing Life"

2. Includes RSS feeds so people can subscribe to your blog. RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works, such as blogs and news headlines. Popular RSS feeds including Google, Yahoo, Bloglines and Netvibes.

3. Use the trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog post. Trackback is one of three types LinkBacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to track who is linking and referring to their blog.

4. Responding to comments from readers make your blog. Have a conversation. Often, this will take you in directions you would never have imagined. Blogging is interactive in that way. If your blog is static, it defeats its purpose involve readers.

5. Create tags for each blog post so that search engines can find your blog. A tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). Use the same tag all blogs that write about the same arguments. For example if you write on the blog, use the tags as blogs, blog, blog.

6. Create a "best posts page" category on the main page, links to your best posts. Blog posts tend to get lost or forgotten, as the months go by. Read your post published previously, and chose a few that still have relevance and resonance. Remember to repeat the same tags.

7. Remember, you are a resource, provide value. Web surfers have notoriously short attention spans. If you happen to land on your blog site and did not find anything useful, they will move forward, never to return. Of course you do not register for your RSS feed. But if you always give readers something interesting and use, can sign up for your RSS feed.

There are many other ways to gather attention and regular readers, but these seven tips will give you a good start to put themselves on blogging as a valid player .......