50 Creative Ways to Make Your Blog Popular
Sep 16th
Here is a list of some very creative ways which can help you make your blog popular. If not popular, at least it will give you some ideas of what to post on your blog if you are running out of topics to write about.
- Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.
- Start a contest. Make sure to end it too.
- Give away free goodies. People love them.
- Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to read your blog. Keep it positive.
- Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
- Interview other bloggers and post the interview.
- Write about your personal life sometimes.
- Ask questions to your visitors.
- Share some secrets.
- Celebrate your birthday with your visitors. Think of innovative ways for doing this.
- Celebrate your blog’s birthday too.
- Write something funny or disgusting. (Don’t make it a habit)
- Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car. (Just make sure you drive often)
- Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free.
- Introduce a commission based affiliate program.
- Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession.
- Post interesting pictures of your pets.
- Congratulate the top commentators occasionally.
- Encourage sharing of opinions.
- Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization. Ask your visitors to join you.
- Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages.
- Hold blog competitions.
- Create polls.
- Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog).
- Write about your blog achievements.
- Share your hopes and aspirations about your blog.
- Start an award distribution system.
- Make contact with your local visitors and hold a get-together or a bloggers’ meet.
- Start a blog comic strip.
- Dig up some old article that you wrote on your blog which became famous and start a discussion.
- Try and get a photograph clicked with a real celebrity and post it on your blog. (Hold on Tiger..don’t rush to that Photoshop button!)
- Post videos that will help your visitors learn something new. Also submit them to video sharing websites like YouTube.com.
- Write about your hobbies and interests. (For example, if you like cooking, post a new recipe)
- Post about one of the weirdest thing that you ever did.
- Get featured in a print magazine.
- Buy a paid review from any famous blogger(s).
- Brand your blog with a catch phrase along with a logo.
- Distribute T-shirts or merchandise with your blog name on it.
- Join Yahoo! Answers and put a link on your website to your answers.
- Keep a track of websites that pick up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
- Do surveys and publish the results to your visitors.
- Build tools that your visitors might find use for.
- Start a newsletter.
- Podcasting is another good way to make your blog popular.
- Publicize your blog to your friends and relatives and let them do some work for you.
- Be active in Social Bookmarking websites.
- Share Link Love and you will get it back.
- People like to read about Web 2.0. Write about it.
- Write about something that’s already famous.
- Last but not the least, be yourself.
Why use WordPress?
Sep 15th

If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
Plugins Extend Functionality
WordPress plugins allow you to do just about anything that you want and can be installed in a jiffy. For example, you want to paginate your blog posts, just look on Google and you can easily find the relevant plugin that will easily do the job for you.
Standards Compliant
WordPress is one software that follows all the Web Standards and keeps your blog or website compliant to all the rules that have to be followed when running a website.
SEO Friendly
Search Engines have to be definitely kept in mind when building a website. WordPress uses different functions which allow it to be search engine friendly. For example sending pings to other sites, making categories, tagging your posts, use of h1/h2 tags etc.
Large community Support
As per recent statistics, WordPress is used on more than 1% of the websites on the Internet in the world. There is a large user community backing the development of this software. So, whenever you face any problems, you can go through all the available WordPress forums and communities and find answers for all your questions.
So, you see the benefits of using WordPress now?
Amit-Farah’s Picasa Web Albums
Sep 15th
Picasa Web Albums – Amit – Amit-Farah
Amit & Farah’s Photo Album
305 Photos & Counting…









