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One of the biggest mistakes I see bloggers make is rushing to promoting their new blogs. Blogs by their very nature grow and develop over time. If you start to promote your site strongly from day one, then the chance is that you don’t have sufficient content in which to retain any visitors that you do attract to your site, you could also be damaging your blogs reputation early on.

In order to make the most of your blog promotion efforts you have to make sure that your blog is ready for the traffic you intend to send at it. When I say ready, what I mean is the ability to retain and hold visitors on your site and give them useful and insightful information.

All bloggers are trying to increase their RSS Subscriber count, that is why I have decided to write a post with 25 ways that you can increase your RSS Subscriber Count.

Let’s begin with the 25 ways to boost your blogs RSS subscriber count.

1. Publish Good Content - People are more likely to subscribe to a blog that offers valuable content. Make sure you are publishing content that people will want to read. This should be a priority.
2. Post Frequently - Once you are publishing good content, you then need to do it frequently. This will lead people to subscribe so that they do not miss any of your future posts.
3. Stay Focused - Stick to your niche and post content that relates to it. People subscribed to your blog because they want to read about news in your niche.

Technorati is a blog search engine, according to their site they track over 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

Here is a quote from the Technorati about page:

Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

Technorati uses several different methods for ranking blogs:

1. Authority
2. Number of Fans
3. Ranking

The Technorati Authority is the number of blogs that have linked to your blog in the last 6 months. The higher the number the better.

The number of fans is simply the number of people that have added you as a favourite on Technorati.

It is no secret, blogs that use images in their posts are more attractive than blogs that don’t. The use of images in blog posts is something that I have not done from the start, but something that I have started doing recently, as a way of adding something extra to my blog.

Images can draw the attention of your blogs readers to your posts and create an atmosphere for the post. They are also a great way to emphasize the content of your blog post.

The process of adding images to your blog posts however is not as easy as it sounds. There are some things that you need to consider before placing an image into your blog post:

1. Copyright
2. Is the Image Neccasary
3. Is the Image Useful

I was having a conversation with my mum the other day, and she asked the question: “What Exactly Is A Blog“. At first I was surprised that she had never heard about blogs, or knew much about them. This also made me realise that if she did not know then there may be many other people who don’t really know what a blog is.

So, What is a blog?

Wikipedia defines a blog as:

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.