I have been writing this blog for nearly two years now, targeting an obscure niche market of dissatisfied Christians. I am not that clued up on Blogging and techno stuff. A couple of weeks ago, I spent a couple of hours reading up on line about ways you can improve the page views on your blog. Well to be honest a lot of the suggestions were too complicated for me to understand. As you can see from this blog I don't even know how to work the design features on this site!
BUT! Even with all my limitations, spelling mistakes, and ignorance of technical speak I have managed to double and triple my page views and have in fact started now and then hitting the number one position on www.blog.co.uk . This may just mean that this hosting site is rubbish
The Four changes I have made so far are
1.I joined www.technorati.com which is the largest blog listing site on the web. I linked up this blog to my new account and every time I write something I go over to technorati and make sure it pings my blog.
2.I have started using only 1 (possibly 2) tags per guff I write. And I make sure it's relevant to what I did write about.
3.Using Technorati as a search tool, I am now actively looking for other blogs similar to my own, reading them and posting comments on them. This helps link others back to my blog who are interested in similar things.
4.I try and write lists and title them as such like '7 reasons I ...' or 10 things I did' . Google seems to pick up on these really well and also people seem more drawn to numbered lists. Nearly every time I post a list, my numbers shoot up over the next couple of days.
Reading around the web I have picked up another couple of ideas to improve one's blog but I still need to get my head around them. Have you got any idea's or suggestions? Now don't get smart and say something about my grammar.
You found a dissatisfied Christian when you found (and commented on my blog). I'll be back for more reading.