Not every blog post gets the same level of traffic. Some gets heavy traffic for time and time again, while some get “buried” down (in digg’s terms). Having said that, it is also important to choose the right topic, find the right audience and promote your blog post at the right places. In short, a good blog post has the following history:

1) Choose the right topics

2) Find the right audience

3) Promote in the right places (at the right time)

Sounds simple, right? It’s just part of the basics which most people (even I) forget sometimes. But keep it going this way, and your blog will start getting known.

I’ll be writing more on this topic, but for a start, I would like to point you to this excellent article on how a blog post becomes popular, that I found on Catswhocode. 

Blogging has been around for quite sometime now. According to Mark Evans, there are about 175 million blogs on the internet.

Some days ago there was a post in Wired.com about whether you should bother to start a blog or not. The point made was that blogging wasn’t about passion anymore, it was more about commercial interests. What was once a golden age for bloggers with passion (in the times around 2004) has given way to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. With a lot of high flying players in the field and more media options than a purely text-based system, the point that was being put forth was that blogs aren’t the buzzword anymore for the average enthusiastic writer.

I saw an opposing opinion by Chris Crum where he points that blogs are still the “in-thing” because people want them to be. People can always choose what they want to read and quit if they don’t want to.

While there were differing opinions on this, some users agree to this point. …click here to read more

There are bloggers who are successful with one blog. And then there are successful bloggers who have multiple blogs. Managing one blog is itself sometimes not an easy task (depending upon the topic of the blog, time spent on it, etc.). How do people manage more than one?

Running a blog is like running a company. When you run multiple companies, you run it for profit, and do not want to run it in loss. People who manage multiple blogs have to be very much organized so that their blogs become successful.

Though this is not a comprehensive list (because you can always come up with new ideas), here is something that can help you manage your blogs - …click here to read more

If you are stepping into the world of blogging, there are some things which you’ll be working with that you will need to know about.

1) Archives - Archives are used by blogs to keep a track of articles on a website. Many blogs feature an archive based on dates (monthly or daily archives). Some blogs keep archives based on categories, while others do it by author or in alphabetical order.

2) Feeds - A feed, mostly called an RSS feed, is a list of articles of a blog given in a format making it easy for to access them. This helps people interested in a particular topic to access articles from various blogs / sites who provide feeds, through a program called feedreader. Other than RSS, there are also other feed types such as Atom, RDF, etc.

3) Blogrolls - You often see this on the right side of your wordpress blog when you set it up first. A blogroll is a list of blogs which the author links to from the site, which he finds interesting, or feels that his users would like to read. The Blogroll is often listed in a sidebar, or sometimes given a separate dedicated webpage.
…click here to read more

For starters only!

With everyone from celebrity to a common man blogging, ever wondered what exactly is Blog?

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is like a personal diary. Blogs can be about any topic from personal to politics, one can also just focus on one subject like arts and crafts etc…

Usually blogs focus on a particular topic lile technology, web design, sports, about books. It can also be personal journals presenting the authors ramblings.

Now what is the difference between a Blog and CMS?

Content Management System is a software that helps you manage your website. Most of the blogging software programs are considered to be a specific type of CMS. They have various features that is required to create and maintain a blog and can make publishing on the internet very easy and simple. Some CMS manages the whole system, you can focus on what you want to write and the blogging tool takes care of the rest of the site management.