This is a guest post by Felix Albutra who shares legitimate money making ideas and blogging tips on his blog bloggingaccess.com
We can’t deny the fact that there are hundreds or even thousands of blogs are created each day. Most of this blogs are using blogspot platform because it’s free and have user-friendly feature interface.
What I noticed is that, only few of them have succeeded in their blogging career especially those who don’t use their own custom domain name, hosting their blog and the likes.
Some of the blogspot user felt inferiority from those bloggers who used wordpress. It is because wordpress have those great useful search engine friendly plugins and beautiful professional themes that made the blog stand and recognizable in the crowded blogosphere. Then, how to become a successful blogspot blogger?
1. Use Professional Looking Template
They say that, first impression plays a great role in blogging industry. So using a good – looking template seems catchy to the eye of your readers. People love beautiful things and they tend to explore more about your blog. Sometimes, people might not notice that you are a blogspot user because of your professional templates.
There are many free professional templates out there that you can use in your blog. I recommend you to visit eblogtemplates because they have many professional blogger templates in their archive plus they have good tutorial lesson on how you install the template to your blog.
You can also do a request to some bloggers out there to convert wordpress themes to blogger format template. I suggest bloganol dot com, because he has lots of experience on converting wordpress theme to blogger template.
2. Use Your Own Custom Domain Name
If you want your blog to be your business, using your own domain name is necessary to build your own brand. Many readers just ignore blogspot blogs because they think that your blog is not professional or something that they won’t trust it.
Using your own custom domain is easy to remember especially if you use short names for your blog. Google let blogspot users to use your own custom domain and they also have some offers plan for blogging business.
3. Do Basic Search Engine Optimization To Your Blog
Now that you already set up your blog, try to put some “meta tags” in your home page and in your post. You must also submit your blog url to different blog directories.
Creating a sitemap and submit it to search engine, this will make search engine crawlers easily find your blog’s content.
4. Publish Your Best And Unique Content To Your Blog
Useful information could stick your readers and tend to learn more from you. To become an authority in your niche, you must build the trust of your readers first through sharing your unique and valuable content in different style of sharing your information.
Controversial issue could also grab someone’s attention and tend to share their own opinions through their valuable comments.
5. Market Your Blog Post
No one knows that you publish great information on your blog. So marketing your blog post is necessary to every blogger. You can invite other blogger to see and read your blog post and ask them to have their impression in your blog.
If you think that your content is the best for you, then build your confident to ask people in some social media networks like facebook to visit your blog. But make sure to do double checking from your blogging buddies and ask them if your post is good to be market.
6. Do A Guest Post To Other Blogs
Doing guest post is a good way to be recognized by other bloggers in your niche. It is also the best choice to build your links to gain good page rank and visibility to search engines.
Building relationship with other bloggers is also a good way to build your brand because if they found out that your blog and content is good, they will recommend you to their readers.
Take note, you must do guest post on other blogs with the same level as you or near level to your blog first before targeting class – A blogs.
Conclusion
Market, market, market… Keep on marketing your best blog post and try to drive more readers to your blog. Doing it consistently or do more, would rapidly increased your visibility to other people.
My Words…
I’ve seen a rare successful blogger out there that made its success even though he don’t use a custom domain on his blogspot blog. But I am very sure that because of his great efforts of publishing valuable content and keep on marketing his blog, he deserved it.
Who is he? Try to visit Alan Liew’s Money Maker Info blog where he shares how to make money online and in fact he is now on the #1 spot of the first page of Google SERPS for the popular keyword term “make money online”.
So my blogging advice for you is that, do your best and don’t be afraid to fail and start over again. Because from those failures; you gain a big advantage to success.
I am sure that many of you used blogspot as your blogging format. So what’s your experience in your blogspot blogging?
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Hey Felix,
Great Post man. Using your own domain is every important.
There are many bloggers like alan, seth who are still using free domains.
And yeah guest posting is easiest and effective way to get traffic, backlinks, build brand awareness etc.. !!
Thanks for sharing this great post.
.-= Dev | Technshare´s last blog ..Weekly Roundup #6: Link Love to Blogging Friends =-.
Thank you Dev,
Ohh! I forgot to mention Seth Godin, he really great man. These people is really an inspiration to any bloggers,
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra | Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
i was personally waiting for the point regarding “custom domian ” . Without a custom , your blogspot blog is nothing but trash . Great post.
.-= venkat@blogging tips´s last blog ..Using Linkworth To Monetize Your Blog =-.
Hello Venkat,
Thanks for sharing your opinion, I don’t we should consider bloggers who are using a blogspot subdomain as trash, because there are still people who build their authority on their niche.
Like what I’ve set an example above that Alan Liew used the blogspot subdomain, but he manage to be on the first spot of the competitive keyword term, “MAKE MONEY ONLINE”.
I don’t think that we should criticize them because some of the successful bloggers these days use blogspot before they used wordpress. For example, Carl Ocab and Me.
But anyway, thanks for your comment.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
what i said was a account of my previous experience with blogspot. I dont think potential bloggers deserve the disadvantages of blogger. Good to hear that you moved to WP as well.
.-= venkat@blogging tips´s last blog ..Using Linkworth To Monetize Your Blog =-.
I think its the content that drives the blog and not any other features, ofcourse search engine friendly plays a major role, but to get decent subscriber content is the KING.
.-= Hariharakumar´s last blog ..Blogger Silently Testing its New Share Buttons =-.
Hello Hariharakumar,
What a long name…. But anyway, many have considered that “Content is King”, but I think your King would be lonely if the “Queen Marketing” is out.
So you do marketing to gather traffic and make them your “Prince and Princesses”.
Thanks for the comment my friend.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
I agree. Blogspot is one of the easiest and simplest blogging platform. If you have a custom domain and some basic css knowledge, you could even create a high- class blog with blogger. I loves it ….
Thanks your for opinion Rajeel,
You are right my friend. I’ve seen many blogspot users having a good template on it. Try to visit bloggerbuster.com and you will see her unique and beautiful template.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
This is a great post but plz post some good ways to do the seo in more effective ways rather than Meta tags .
Are there any tools that can automate the seo process that works for blogspot blogs ?
.-= Shikhar’s last blog ..Difference between amortization, depreciation and depletion =-.
Woork(Antonio Lupetti ) and labnol(Amit Agarwal) are two examples who started their blog with blogspot and earned fame that not everyone can get.
.-= Asad @ Blogger Templates´s last blog ..Add Popular Posts Widget to Blogger =-.
Hi Felix,
Thanks for the tips. I haven’t figured out how to add meta tags to my Blogger blog. How do you do it?
.-= Ileane @ Ms. Ileane’s Blog´s last blog ..Google I/O 2010 For Dummies =-.
Hello Ms Lleane,
Have you already knew how to put the meta tag in your blogger blog? If in case not here is the link.
http://www.bloggingaccess.com/10-things-to-do-after-creating-blogger-blog/
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
Hello to all the people who commented here. Thanks for sharing your thoughts regarding the topic I covered on this guest post.
By the way, for all people who already knew me and those are not, I want to inform you all guys that my previous Real Blogging Advice dot com was already sold. That’s was the result of my successful case study on “How to Create a Blogspot Blog that sales”.
I’ve tried to do blog flipping and I used the blogspot platform since I don’t have the money to buy a hosting plan at that time.
Now, I am already using wordpress and it seems that I am having a good new experience using it. I need your support through spreading you this information.
Thank you very much. Here is my new blog anyway, Blogging Access dot com.
Typhoon, thank you very much for such an opportunity having you to be one of your friends. I hope this comment would be published. As commenting other blogs is our way of connecting people. God Bless….
Best regards,
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
In my opinion, there is no success when you are using a free domain. Your hard work can be delete by Google anytime. My suggestion is using blogspot just a place to learn how to star blogging
Thanks bro for the awesome article.
.-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..Why We Should Linking Our Articles =-.
You also have a point Latief, but I think if you don’t do something that violate google’s TOS, they won’t delete your blog.
Alan Liews blog was there for how many years. Try to check his archive….
But anyway, thanks for the comment.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
I think Blogspot is a really great place for many people to start off blogging.
We don’t all need to have the huge backend like Wordpress, our own servers and domain when we’re just writing about a few personal things but they should be considered once you plan to make it completely your own.
I say if you’re new to blogging, get a little taste of it first on Blogspot before you jump in and invest in a Wordpress blog. You can always delete it if it doesn’t feel right for you. You also get to understand interaction with a community and may build up your ideas to launch your flagship blog at a later point.
.-= Murlu´s last blog ..Should I Blog On National Holidays? =-.
Yeah… you have a point there Murlu. I also suggested to people who wants to enter the blogging world that they must do a research about their passion in blogging using blogspot.
If they found out that their test works, then they should invest on that or maybe it’s optional.. Thanks for the comment my friend.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
It is always good to make blogs on blogger.com. These are free and allow you to use adsense and other advertising and affiliates etc. I have used this platform with success. You are right that there are lots of wordpress themes and people like them. But i have seen that even standard blogger themes are very good in terms of conversion.
.-= imran@make money online´s last blog ..Earn Online Money By Doing The Forum Postings =-.
I also experienced to become successful blogspot blogger. Because my blogspot blog earned enough money to invest to wordpress.
I can’t believe that a blogspot blog can be flip or sale. Someone bought it last week and now I am using wordpress. Why not visit my new wordpress blog?
Thanks for the comment.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
I failed as a blogspot blogger in the past. lol. Thanks for the wonderful post. Worth a stumble (stumbled)
.-= Ricky@twitter apps´s last blog ..Download Opera 10.60 Alpha 1 =-.
You failed? But you did to recover it. Thanks for the comment.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
Hi Felix it’s very usefull post but in my opinion I have tried everthing to my blog,still I am not getting
traffic to my blog I invite you to take a look @ my blog.
.-= BlogTech´s last blog ..ASUS Eee Tablet: A Kindle-Slayer or An iPad-Killer =-.
What blog marketing techniques did you use? Try to do guest posting and commenting other related blogs.
And also submit your blog to various search engines and blog directories. Try also join forums and also join BlogCatalog and try inviting people there.
If you have some more queries, just visit my blog and contact me. I am please to help you.
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
Nice article Felix, however, there just isn’t the number of plugins, themes, etc., available for Blogspot as there is WordPress. We have both, and prefer WordPress.
.-= Colleen@Kennewick Real Estate´s last blog ..Homes for Sale in Cottonwood Springs Kennewick Washington =-.
Thanks for the comment Colleen, wordpress plugins really helps the wordpress bloggers to make their blog more optimized and easy to navigate.
Wordpress also have to search engine friendly plugins…
- Felix Albutra
.-= Felix Albutra @ Blogging Access´s last blog ..10 Things to Do After Creating Your Blogger Blog =-.
Point of fact people, just buying your own domain name does not mean you own the blog. It can still be shut down any time Google feels like it, and they do. I could never put a lot of work into something i didn’t actually own.
Point of fact #2 – Seth Godin blogs on TypePad – it is NOT free.
.-= Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..The Future of DEDC – Part 2 – This is Part 1 Simplified =-.
Yeah… Typepad is a paid blogging platform. What I mean is about the domain. As you can see, Seth Godin still use the free domain from typepad.
Informative post in true words for blogger, seo and social media one of the most important factor after creating blog for marketing, very few of blogger providing tips for optimizing blogspot blogger.
.-= Melvin´s last blog ..A Perfect Navigation System Makes a Website More SEO Friendly =-.
Hi Colleen , I admit that wordpress has whole lot of themes but Does someone know whether such themes are available for blogspot . Listing some of them can be a great help ..
.-= SK@Placement Papers´s last blog ..Difference between amortization, depreciation and depletion =-.
Brother do not be inspired someone for blog on blogspot, it is completely risky, which I have experienced very badly. One month ago blogger team deleted my blogspot blog, my blog was one and half year old and all stats are good like PR, google SERP rank. But suddenly I have got my blog deleted. After deleted my hard work blog I am now not able to work for my new blog.
Furthermore Alan Liew’s blog also deleted but good luck to him that blogger team revert back his blog. So I never suggest people to start blog on blogspot.
Did you not send any complaint to blogger.com? I’ve also experienced what you’ve experienced before.
But as long as you didn’t do anything that would violate their rules, they will reconsider your blog.
My blog was deleted twice and was also considered my blog as a spam once. But I made a complaint and my blog get back to life again.
That was the blog that was sold for 550 USD as a successful result for my case study about, “How to create Blogspot Blog That Sell?”.
By the way, my google adsense also was terminated trice but still I manage to convinced them to bring my account back to me.
I think, it was not just a luck. As long as you are not guilty, you win the case.
I hope this helps you…
i moved to wordpress simply because i dont know anything about coding. With wordpress, i just plug it in , turn it on … no other reason ( i think )
I agree to all of your points Felix, especially having an honest interest and dedication in blogging. For me, these two points keep us from moving on and pursuing our chosen career no matter what odds we come across with. A combination of your tips would definitely result to a successful blogger. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this useful information to share with us.
I have a question. I have made a blog on blogspot about three months ago I have written almost 35 posts I also do social bookmarking and marketing of my blog. my blog has page rank2 but I don’t have as much traffic as I have expected. Is there anything you suggest? I am now loosing my hope to turn traffic to my blog.
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Hi Azib,
You know, getting traffic is not based on the number of Page Rank that your site has.
Though you got a good PR, you still need to do some other marketing techniques.
Did you use Google Analytics? If so, try to know where your traffic came from.
If most of your traffic came from social media, then continue that. But if you target the traffic came from Search Engine, then you must do a lot of natural backlinking on the keyword term that you are promoting.
Also make sure that the keyword you promote got a good amount of monthly search volume because if you promote a keyword that no one search on that term, your effort would be useless.
If anything I can help you, you can reply on this comment.
Thank you for your comment and I am happy that you benefited from my article.
- Felix
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