Here's a short checklist of things you can do to increase readership, traffic, and overall visibilty on the internet. These things are all must haves if you expect to make money!
- Write well and write often
- Write what you know and what you like writing about
- Stay with your general topic, and be informative
- Answer comments kindly and promptly
- Never make lame excuses for not updating
- Keep your site neat and orderly
- Your site should be easy on the eyes and easy to read
- Toss out the trash regularly by deleting and blocking spam comments
- Use social bookmarking icon links for Reddit, deli.cio.us and Furl and many others
- Use Technorati tags on keywords in your posts
- Make sure your readers can reach you by email or web form
- Don't have more than 2 or 3 posts showing on the front (index) page
- Make sure your site loads quickly with no major errors
- Frequently check your site in all major browsers for appearance and readability
- Leave relevant comments with your return link at other sites
- Good content is most important
- Don't distract from content with excessive buttons and blinkie ads in sidebar
- Use relevant images in posts, don't over do it
Those are the most important ones I can think of at the moment but I'll probably add more in the future.
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