Starting a blog and making money online seems very exciting and to make money online most of the people choose starting a blog and it is a good way to make money online undoubtedly but starting a blog on any topic won’t make you any money. To start a blog that will make you money you need to do a proper market research and write according to your target audinece.Once you get the niche research done now its time to market your blog and make some money. But most of the newbie overlooked the most important element of blogging that is branding your blog an and establishing yourself as blogger in blogosphere.
Following are the ways that will surely help you in creating the brand of your blog:
Guest Post
Writing for already established blog will increase the visibility of your blog and will help you in connecting with establish bloggers, if you constantly write for other popular blogs into your niche you will definitely increase the quality readership of your blog, also it will increase your network in blogosphere. The idea behind constantly writing for other popular blog is that when your provide any valuable information on any established blog which is getting huge traffic there is good chances of getting high number of comments and that will increase your communication level with your target audience nonetheless you will also get the link to your blog and those user that like your writing style will surely visit your blog.
Blog commenting
It is the second best way to increase your and your blog visibility in blogosphere .Commenting on the popular blog will not only help you in networking but also get you backlinks ;-) that will surely increase the visibility of your blog in search engines but you need to make sure that you wont become a comment spammer, whenever you write a comment on a blog you need to make sure that you are adding the value into their blog, always try to abstain your self writing “hey dude you gotta nice blog” such comments, while commenting on the blogosphere you need to remember that your trying to establish yourself as a blogger into that niche so you should always write the comment that will add the value to the content.
Tip: Subscribe to the some of the popular blogs into your niche and make sure to comment on those blog on regular basis that will not increase your presence but also provide you good quality traffic ;-)
Article marketing
Article marketing is the best sort of free marketing available. When you submit a article to article directories, your article will remain there for years, that increase the visibility of your site and create a brand out of it also for certain keywords your site might not rank but your article that you have submit to high PR article directory would rank and this way you will dominate the search engine rankings for a very competitive keyword and you could also able to drive that traffic to your site ;-)
Video marketing
This is the new way of creating the awareness about your blog and building a regular readership of your blog. As you might have heard of that “a picture is worth of 1000 words”, so in my opinion when you create a short informative video about your niche and submit to all the popular video sites that would definitely worth of 1 lakh words, also video marketing is a very good way to do viral marketing and if you make a viral video it would automatically get distributed in social media and increase the visibility of your blog.
Networking using social network and social media
Networking is very important for brand building, you need to be friend with people who are into your niche or willing to get into your niche, this will open up many hidden opportunities for you that you might could not seen otherwise. When you increase your network and get connected with more and more people you will probably learn many hidden things and surely increase the visibility of your blog among the people who are into your niche.
Content
It is the most important part of blogging, if you don’t provide the quality content to your readers than it would be impossible for you to create the brand out of your blog and you should also forget the idea of becoming a blogger, you have to provide the informative articles to your readers that solve their problem or that helps them in learning new things, if you don’t do this correctly than it doesn’t matter how perfectly you would do all the above things that I have mentioned.
If you think I have missed any point than do let me know via your comment.
Wishing success to all the SmashApps readers Happy Blogging!
My name is Shravan Mishra and I'm a part time blogger, living in Delhi, India.
