Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2016

Russia is interested with Bhutanese

Whenever I visit this blog and see its views, it has never been Bhutan from where the maximum of my readers come from. It will be either India, Bangladesh, Russia or Brazil. Bhutan is either in second last, last or sometimes nowhere to be seen. 
Pageviews for last 24 hours


This often makes me wonder if Bhutanese are actually using an internet. No matter how many contents I write, that are targetted to Bhutan, I hardly receive visitors from Bhutan. 

I get only sometimes. 

And that also with search query something like www. actor tandin bida naked.com. Don't assume I have made a mistake in spacing. It's how my blog actually receives. 

This will make anyone wonder if they actually know how to give a search or submit search queries to Google, Bing or other search engines. 
 
This is also the case with my self-hosted WordPress blog Bhutanics.com. Even 20% of the total visitors are from Bhutan. However, I am quite optimistic that the number will grow. 

Because more population are getting access to internet. More computer literate people are entering into blogging.


Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Join Grammarly.com to write Blog Articles BETTER

CLICK HERE TO JOIN. It's FREE. But before that, it's important to know why you must join Grammarly.com.

When we keep on writing an article in our blogs, it's very much likely that mistakes of different magnitude will be committed. Those mistakes will be mainly spelling errors and non-implementation of basic grammar rules.  

Blogger doesn't have a mechanism through which we will be notified of our mistakes and line of corrective suggestions will be given. MS-word has spelling error detection mechanism. Wrongly spelt words will be underlined red. 

We'll try to write the best article. An article may appear 100% flawless in our own eyes. So then we go on publishing it.
          
When a third person reads our articles, our silly mistakes and improper use of some basic grammar rules will result us in being judged and intimidated.  


Therefore, we need a tool that will detect our spelling and grammatical errors long before publishing them. 

Is there any tool capable of doing such level of works?

Yes. There is Grammarly!

Did you hear about Grammarly before? Of course not. So you didn't sign up for it and use its wonderful features. But you are not late. You can join now.

If you join Grammarly, you'll be able to do the following:
  • Spelling mistake corrections in all online works
  • Basic grammar rules implementations
  • Plagiarism level Analysis and Reporting
  • Proper use of punctuation marks
  • Real-time synonyms recommendations  
Moreover, you can use its features both online as well as offline. It has add-in for Windows, Outlook and Ms-word for offline purposes. It can be downloaded from your Grammarly profile after joining. 

Oh, I have forgotten to tell you that, you can join as either paid customer or free customer. But for a blogger like you and me, free account is more than enough. Free account has free facilities that are needed for us.


Paid or premium account are for online writers, freelance writers, online editors and other people who have to write stacks and stacks of professional documents. 

          
If you use it online, you just have to either paste your whole MS-Word format article or upload it. In both the ways, your article will be proof-read of spelling errors and grammatical issues within few seconds. 

My Last Word
One of the sexiest thing of using Grammarly.com for blogger is writing high SEO and Readibility rated articles. One can even use its features in writing Facebook status, Tweets in Twitter, Pins in Pinterest, Bio-data in Linkedin and Emails. 


Thursday, June 9, 2016

Mad Mimi - Email Marketing Tool Suitable for Bhutanese Bloggers

I would like to give few backgrounds of Mad Mimi before actually explaining its suitability for Bhutanese bloggers. Mad Mimi, as an email marketing service was founded in the year 2008 by Gary Levitt, who was then into the business of Music Production. Mad Mimi was borne out of his mind when none of existing email tool could meet his expectations. 
 

In 2014, GoDaddy purchased Mad Mimi at an agreed price of $45 millions. Therefore, Mad Mimi is now 100% GoDaddy owned Email Marketing Services. 

Why Mad Mimi would the best email marketing service for Bhutanese Bloggers?

If we look into the number of bloggers from Bhutan and their patterns of blogging, one can say for quite sure that Bhutanese bloggers aren't a bunch of serious bloggers. They don't care whether their blogs are free-hosted, self-hosted, paid domain or free domain. They only want some area to write. This means they are also bunch of bloggers who won't be willing to pay for their email marketing services and paid advertising of their blogs - they aren't serious bloggers. 

 
They want their blogs free-hosted with free domain. They don't care of content advertising because they aren't a group of pro bloggers aiming to take blogging seriously and also make some money out of their monetization. 

In other countries, bloggers are treated as people who are into business. But in Bhutan, blogging means just writing articles and sharing with friends. Nothing much. 

They don't care of email list building and email marketing. 

Email marketing means sending your blog's contents as emails to a list of contacts you have gathered-email list. In blogging term, this is called as campaign. 


You must have received some emails giving you links to purchase so and so from this and that links. These are nothing but campaigns. 

Mad Mimi also provides services in email list building and then creating campaigns. There are many companies that provide email marketing services like Mad Mimi does. But then why Mad Mimi for Bhutanese Bloggers?

Bhutanese bloggers don't like to pay for email marketing. Yet they want to share their post articles and increase traffics. In this case, features provided by Mad Mimi come as missing link. 

Mad Mimi features to suit Bhutanese bloggers:
  • Bhutanese bloggers are new into blogging. Mad Mimi is a simple Email Marketing Tool.
  • Bhutanese bloggers aren't willing to pay for email marketing. In Mad Mimi an email can be sent to 100 people.
  • Bhutanese bloggers like any blogger love beautiful designs. Mad Mimi has good campaign designs. 
  • Bhutanese bloggers love sharing to many friends. Mad Mimi is integrated with other social media.
  • Bhutanese bloggers want something ready. Mad Mimi has email marketing templates already being designed.
It's only when you send emails through such campaigns, your blog will receive regular readers and also new followers. I have been using Mad Mimi for few months and has also created two-three campaigns. 

How to join Mad Mimi?

Step-1
Open Mad Mimi.

Step-2
Click on Create Account

Step-3
Get your Email ID verified
     

Step-4
Open your Mad Mimi Dashboard 
      
Step-5
Click on Compose for New Campaign

Step-6
Click on Audience to add Contacts 
        
Step-7
You can then send the campaign.
   

If all the people you have added in audience open their inbox, your campaign would have got delivered. If they happen to open it, your blog's views will get increased. It seems cool, right? Try it then.

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

5 star free rating widget for Blogger+Installation procedures

There are plugins to rate books, movies or any other products in self hosted WordPress blogs. You just have to install the plugin. But this isn't there for blogger. However don't freak out, we can add it as a third party gadget.
 

In blogger, we can install 5 star rating gadget/widget to rate blog post individually. 5 star rating gadget is some sort of readers' feedback gathering mechanism. When a reader sees the rating option just below your post, they just have to click any star to rate the post. Returning readers will be tempted to check out your blog post that has got maximum ratings.
       
Read: How to register your blog with Bidvertiser to make money online?
        
This means you also want this rating gadget installed in your blog. If that is the case, please follow my steps in getting it installed in your blogspot blog:

Step-1
Login to your blogger account
              
Step-2
Choose the blog (if you've more)
              
Step-3
Click on Layout
             
Step-4
Click on Add Gadget
               
Step-5
Select HTML/JavaScript
               
Step-6
Keep the title blank
            
Step-7
In content, add the given HTML:
<script type="text/javascript">(function(d, t, e, m){
window._rws = window._rws || [{
huid: "313365",
 uid: "ab0d94c20f7af1fb72707290db5186ab",
source: "blogger",
options: {
"size": "medium",
"type": "nero",
"style": "thumbs",
"isDummy": false
}
}];
// Append Rating-Widget JavaScript library.
var rw, s = d.getElementsByTagName(e)[0], id = "rw-blogger-js",
p = d.location.protocol, a = ("https:" == p ? "secure." +
m + "js/platform/" : "js." + m + "platform/"),
ck = "Y" + t.getFullYear() + "M" + t.getMonth() + "D" + t.getDate();
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;           
rw = d.createElement(e);
rw.id = id; rw.async = true; rw.type = "text/javascript";
rw.src = p + "//" + a + "blogger.js?ck=" + ck;
s.parentNode.insertBefore(rw, s);
}(document, new Date(), "script", "rating-widget.com/"));</script>
       
Once you have added it, click on Save. You have added it successfully in your blog. To see whether it appears or not, click on view blog and view any post. If rating options appears below post article body, you have been successful. 

Monday, May 23, 2016

15 reasons commenting is a powerful marketing tool for Bloggers

If I were to tell something to Bhutanese bloggers, it would be for them to develop a habit of reading other blogs and leaving comments. Blog commenting is an indirect method of doing free blog advertisement. It makes sense, because unless you comment in others’ blogs, how can anybody know you too are a blogger. 
 
When you comment in other blogs, indirectly you are saying that you also maintain a blog and why you guys not check my blog too. There are also other reasons for why you as a blogger must develop the habit of commenting in other blogs.


#1 Discover New Blogs

Blog commenting is a mechanism through which your blog will get noticed in a pool of thousand plus blogs. So much your blog gets noticed, you’ll also notice new blogs that are very much compatible with your interests.
 

#2 Blog Readers

The classic reason of blog commenting is to receive readers. If you leave valuable comments, there is every possibility that visitors of that article or blog will click on your profile. Since profile is linked with the blog, your blog will receive readers.
 

#3 Blog Subscribers

If your article can impress first-time visitors, they’ll subscribe your blog via email subscription or social media page to stay in your loop. This shall guarantee consistent visits from them. 
 

#4 Back-link Sources

When your blog has a large number of readers and subscribers, one or two of them will surely refer your posts or ideas by giving links in their posts. This can be a source of back-links for your blog which is very important for SEO purposes.
 

#5 Blog Searches

When your blog has good number of readers, subscribers and also praiseworthy back-links, your blog will also appear as search results in queries submitted by readers via different search engines. 
 

#6 Exposure

Your blog will get exposure in the cyberspace. You as a person behind it will also get exposure in blogging world and get opportunities in learning many from other bloggers.
 

#7 Blog Rank

What shall determine the rank of a blog? Obliviously, readers, subscribers, traffics and back-links. When your blog has acquired all of them, your blog’s rank will also improve.
 

#8 Interactions

Blog commenting is one of the most beneficial models of interactions among bloggers. It’s often through comments, we get to know new bloggers and become friends online. 
 

#9 Problems-solutions Sharing

When you get to know more blogger friends and then interactions pick up the pace, we often get answers for our questions and solutions for our problems. You can connect with other successful bloggers. You can learn or help others in learning.
 

#10 Work Appreciations

When you leave a comment, it is a sign that you read, analyzed, cared and appreciated the views or solutions presented by the author. Unless you leave comment, how can the author know you read it or even cared to read it? So commenting is a proof of your appreciation for his/her works.
 

#11 New Ideas

Blog commenting has been one of the sources of new ideas for my blog posts. When a reader leaves comment with his/her doubts or problem, I can develop a post to address that problem or answer that question.
 

#12 Opportunities

When you are active in reading a blog or leaving comment, more often than not, that blog owner will feel that you are so much interested in him or her blog. To thank you for your constant support, you’ll be given a chance for guest blogging, invite for workshops or conference which will help you introduce your blog to a wider audience.
 

#13 Social Profile

When you are active in blog commenting, more and more people will come to know more about you online. They may follow you various social networking sites which thereby will improve your social profile.
 

#14 Community Building

When you get good number of friends in your various social network circles, more and more people will start coming together with you. This will in long-run functioning as some sort of online community.
 

#15 Brand Image

You have good number of readers, followers, subscribers and commentors in your blog just because you are consistent with blog commenting, the voice of your blog will be heard far and wide. This in turn helps you in maintaining the brand image of your blog.  
 
So, now how to leave a comment?
It’s very easy. Scroll down to the bottom of a post for which you want to leave a comment. Fill up the details, type your comment and click on Post Comment. Easy!

When you leave a comment, don’t be in too rush and leave un-related comment. And also don’t leave single-worded comment which blog owner won’t publish it as publishing that one-worded comment will be as good as having no comment. Read: The Smart Methods of Commenting in Posts of other Blogs.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

How to add cool social media tools of GetSiteControl in Blogger?

Social Media tools are very important for bloggers. They'll help a blog to speak itself loud in various social media and then gain traffics. They'll help a blogger in discovering loyal readers and subscribers or followers for the ideas presented in the blog. 

They will make your blog more sticky in a sense that they'll increase the amount of time spent by every visitor across your blog. This means they'll reduce the bounce rate of your blog. A blog having bounce rate more than 50% is said to be professionally weak and poor. 


What are social media tools actually? In short, following of various social networking sites can be classified as social media tools:
  1. Follow Button
  2. Subscribe Button
  3. Pin Button  
  4. Share Button
  5. Chat Button
  6. Contact Button
  7. Recommended contents Button
There can be many more tools. But in one way or another, they'll come in line with above tools in their workings or intended purposes. 

The torch-bearers in providing such tools, I have come across in my thus-far blogging journey are:
  1. AddThis
  2. GetSiteControl
I have introduced AddThis tools in a post posted sometimes last year. If you've missed that time, you can get it read here

In today's tutorial, I am going to introduce another site that also provides free social media tools which are either better or equally professionally elegant compare to tools provided by AddThis. You can go through it and if you think you'll love that, get yourself registered and use their professional yet free services+tools. You can see its Share buttons and follow buttons in my blog. To get them, steps are as given below:

Step-1
Sign-up with GetSiteControl

Step-2
Confirm your email

Step-3
Go to its dashboard

Step-4
On its left side, click on Create a Widget

Step-5
Choose applicable widget (Follow and Share usually)

Step-6
Choose the appearances of a widget and click Content

Step-7
Add buttons, Facebook, Twitter, etc and Instagram and click Behavior

Step-8
Once done, scroll down and click OK and activate.

You're done and then if you visit your blog, the widget will start appearing in position where you have define in Appearance>Position. You can also use many other free tools (like survey, chat, contact, promo and subscribe etc). But unluckily we can use only in one blog unless you can go PRO. 

Friday, May 6, 2016

How to customize WordPress Theme Twenty-Ten for Blogger - II

We have guided you through the basic tips on customizing Blogger version of the WordPress theme-Twenty Ten in our Part-I. We have actually completed on how to customize its: 
  1. blog description statement
  2. navigation tabs
In this tutorial, we'll guide you through customizing the remaining 3 areas. We may also touch on adding the customized second level links in its footer.

You can change the default header banner. But the image should be rectangular with size more than 940X198. Otherwise, the image you gonna use as the banner will get stretched becoming distorted, blur and unprofessional.
If you love the default banner image, you can keep as it is. You don't have to locate its CSS code and then change the image. If you don't and like to try other images, follow the given steps:

Step-1
Right click on the header banner of your blog

Step-2
Click on Copy Image Location

Step-3
Click on Template>Edit Template

Step-4
Find (Ctrl+F), paste (Ctrl+V) of step-2 & press ENTER

Step-5
Keep that highlighted code note. It's your current banner's URL 

If you want to change that banner, you just have to replace that link with URL of other banner photo. If you at all don't want the banner, just remove that link and save the template.  
   
   
I think it's quite cool and standard as far as appearances of post title font, color and font-size are concerned. I recommend you better keep it unedited. But for bloggers, who like this to be stylish, Read this tutorial for some beautiful customization.

Customize Footer Area/links
The blog should have legal ownership notice in the footer. But according to this template, instead of this, the template name is given on left and template designers' link on the right. This means, the owner of the blog cannot claim the ownership over the contents therein. This isn't fair. We have to add copyright notice.

Step-1
In the edit template tab, find (Ctrl+F):  <div id='site-info'> and its closing </div><!-- #site-info -->

Step-2
Delete all the CSS codes between this two and add the given CSS code:

Copyright &#169; 2015 <a href='Your Blog URL' rel='designer'>Your Blog Name</a>. 

In above, give URL and name of your blog as indicated. When you click Save Template, it's done. You can see the legal ownership notice. Read: 5 methods to show copyright notice in blogger.

We have completed customizing the left-hand side footer. Now towards right, there are also links. The designers request to keep this link to respect their works. But this appears less necessary when details of designers and their links can be known from clicking page source.

Read: How to change the default post thumbnail from blogger template Iconic One?
       
It would be better we add some second level links of our blog. In the template, find opening CSS code:  <div id='site-generator'> and closing CSS code: </div><!-- #site-generator -->. Delete all these codes (including opening CSS as well as closing) and paste the given CSS:

<a href='#'>Privacy Policy</a> &#8226; <a href='#' rel='disclaimer'>Disclaimer</a>&#8226; <a href='#' rel='contact'>Contact</a>
You can also add more links if you need. You just have to paste one from above. In every link's href='#' replace # with their respective URL. Click Save Template and you're done.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

8 Free blog Auditing Tools to study the health of your BLOG

If you are serious into blogging, you need to know the health of your blog. I have shared how to study the health of your blog using free tools like Google Analytics and Google Webmaster

When you use those tools, you'll know the search your blog has received, key words, queries, bounce rate, geographical details and also test the quality of your submitted sitemap. 

They don't give you reports on competitors, back-links, referring domains and also SEO scores. To have those reports for your blog, you have to use some more tools that are in generalized term called as site auditing tools. 

I have compiled a list. Please try using them and see how good is your blog and make strategic plans as to improve its health. 
   

SEMrush

This is designed for online marketers. Since bloggers are also online marketers of their own blogs and contents therein, this tool proves very handy. If you use this tool, you'll be able to know:
  1. Organic searches
  2. Paid searches
  3. Back links
  4. Maximum searched key words
  5. Organic competitors
  6. Domain from which your blog is being searched
If you want to use it at optimum level, you can purchase any of its three plans. Otherwise, you can also use it for free. But free facilities will have limitations. 
   

XML Sitemap Generator

This will create XML sitemap of your blog as soon as you submit your blog's URL to it. This tool is free. You can do following with this XML sitemap generator tool: 
  1. Generate free XML sitemap
  2. Process all pages of your blog
  3. Test your sitemap
  4. Help you submit sitemap to Google Webmaster
  5. It helps you know quality of your sitemap

Content Auditor

This is very user-friendly site auditing tool. It automatically audits your blog as soon as you submit your blog's URL and then click on Begin my Free audit button. It helps you do following:

  1. All blog's content audit
  2. Check correctness in your tags
  3. Get link report 

Free SEO Report Card

You have to first sign-up for free with it and then proceed with your blog auditing. It'll test the health of your blog considering SEO features as the basis of it. This tool will:

  1. Give score summary
  2. Rank Analysis report
  3. Link report
  4. On-site analysis report
  5. Blog accessibility report

Website Grader

This free tool is also very user friendly. You just have to submit your blog's URL along with your email address. It will take lesser than a day to complete your blog's audit and then send the report via email. 
              

WooRank

It's very suitable for instant site audit. It will also give overall score received by your blog. It also considers SEO. 

It's a free tool. But you can also purchase any of its three plans to use it at the optimum level at the best interest of your blog.
             

Found Seo-tool

It's very interesting site audit tool. Once your blog's URL is being submitted and then Go button is being clicked, it will proceed with the content audit. 

It has three different areas with different colours. They are Red for errors, orange for warnings and then green for success. Your blog is said to be in good health if the score in red and orange are low. 
            

SEO Overview Tool

This is a site audit tool which considers the SEO features, accuracy and then ranks received. It will show:
  1. Google rank of your blog
  2. Alexa rank of your blog
  3. Domains linked to your blog
  4. No. of internal links
  5. No. of external links
  6. Maximum used Key words
Those are the free site auditing tools that will prove helpful for professional and new bloggers alike. Try to use them and study the health of your blogs!



Thursday, January 21, 2016

How to create inline links in blogger posts to make blog sticky?


I have also shared my secrets of 10 effective methods to improve pageviews of a blog. And also shared my story of how I harvest 5k plus views per day using 15 sexy tactics. Hope they helped you. Because traffic is very important for any blogger.  
        

And today I want to share yet another method to improve the traffic and make your blog more sticky to your readers. Sticky means to make your readers spend more time in your blog. This will reduce the bounce rate being displayed in your Google Analytics report or Google Webmaster report.

In today's tutorial, I will guide you through how to build inline link within your blog posts that will surely reduce the rate at which your readers leave your blog. This is also one of the proven helpful tactics to improve traffic. 

If you have noticed, I have added many inline links in above paragraphs. All that are underlined are linked or hyperlinked. They are nothing but inline links that will make my readers navigate through my blog visiting various posts I have already shared. If you click one of them, you'll be taken to another content. Boom! This will make my readers stay more in my blog. 

So, now how it's to be done in your blog?

Step 1
Complete a new post in your blog

Step 2
Open your blog's home page in a new tab

Step 3
Select a sentence/word in your draft post that you want to link

Step 4
Open a post (published post) to which you wish to link

Step 5
Copy the URL of that published post

Step 6
Move to selected sentence/word in step no.3

Step 7
Click on link on the top-right hand side of your draft post area

Step 8
Paste the URL you have got in step no. 5

Step 9
Click on OK

Step 10
Make sure a word/sentence you link after clicking OK in step 9 gets underlined.

You are done if you it appears so. Otherwise, you have to cross-check whether all above steps have been incorporated or not.

We can also provide inline external link in above manner by pasting external link URL in above Step# 8. This means links are being made to other third party websites/blog which will not make your blog more sticky. It will indeed take your readers to that linked website or blog. 

Friday, January 1, 2016

MS-paint and MS-snipping Tool, which one is better for Bloggers?

Bloggers have to share some images or photos inside post texts to convince our readers with visual examples. To add images or photos, we can directly upload from our computers or external drives. 

But it's not only photos we have snapped, we have to share, we also have to take screenshots of some parts of our blogs and then present to our readers in the form of images. In such cases, Ms-paint and snipping tool become very handy for us. 
    
    
Ms-paint and snipping tool are some sort of tools that can be used to convert virtual images into visual images. Both can be used to take screenshot of any visually computer displayed content and then save as various formats of images. There are also many such tools. 

   
But today let me limit only to these two-Ms paint and Snipping Tool. So now the point of discussion is which one is better for people are into blogging. Is it Ms-paint or is it Snipping Tool?

Let me first go with my own recommendation and explanation. I prefer Snipping Tool over Ms-paint. 
   
    
The main difference between the two is MS-paint along with screenshot taking features inbuilt in any computer will capture the whole display. It sometimes happen that whole isn't needed. But snipping tool can be used to capture whole or part of the displayed contents. 
         
     
In most of the computers, Snipping tool will be inbuilt. If not you can always download and install it. To check whether your computer has it or not, just click on window start button>on search bar, type and search snipping tool. If it is already there, it will be displayed. If not, you have to download and get it installed which is also easy. 


But Ms-paint, it will be always there. No need to worry!

I am sorry. I have told, snipping tool is better for bloggers. The reasons are:
  • captures the part/whole of displayed contents
  • doesn't make the image blur and vague
  • can save image directly
  • it's easy to use
  • image size doesn't get reduced
  • independent tool
  • can capture in various forms
To make it more clear on which one is better, let me given image saved using Ms-paint as well as snipping tool.

In Ms Paint

 In Snipping Tool



To see whether my justifications are right, you can save both above images and compare them in different parameters. I am sure image extracted using snipping tool will be much better. 
  

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

How I harvest 5K plus views per day with these 15 Sexy Tactics?

If you are a serious blogger, blogging to make money online through various monetization methods, survival in blogging is a game of traffic. Only the blogs with good traffic will be noticeable for search engines and advertisers. 


I am not a serious blogger. I don't blog to make money online. I blog out of my passion to write on various blogging tips and tricks I know.
   
Read: How to add Google Sitemap to your blog for better page-ranking?
  
However, views my blog receives in a day or month plays vital role in my blogging passion. I don't know how far it can be true. But I take it as a basis to judge whether my blog is doing good or not. 
My blog is doing quite fine as far as I know. On an average it receives at least 100 views. Sometimes it receives 5,000 plus views. But maximum visitors are from the USA, Australia and India. 


So the views it receives appear quite encouraging for me as a person behind it. But don't think that it is receiving this much views simply out of writing post after post and not doing anything at the back. I am doing many on my part. 
I am using various methods to harvest this views. If you also want to increase the number of views your blog receives like me, you may use the following methods to bring traffic. I am using them.
   

1. Facebook Groups

Facebook will be one of the main sources of blog traffics. You can also share in your Facebook wall. But only who are in your friend list will be able to see then. But if you share your posts in Facebook Group in which the objective of that group complies your contents, whole group members will read your blog. In Bhutan, we have following Facebook groups:
There are also few more Facebook groups that will be related to blogging. But these two are the most popular among Bhutanese bloggers.
   

2. Facebook Page

Your blog can be treated separate entity. You can give its existence in Facebook by creating a Fan Page where people can subscribe, like or share things you have shared there. You can also add it as a likes box in gadget. We have shared how it can be done. Read this post for steps.
  

3. Google Communities

There are many communities in Google. You can browse them via your Google Plus Profile. Join in ones that are in line with your blog's contents and start sharing them to bring more traffic. I have also created a Google Plus Community. You too can join. 
   

4. Pinterest

Pinterest is also one of the potential sources of traffic for a blog. You can also provide link to your blog and also pin the post images of your blog in one particular Board. People in Pinterest can click on your blog link and the possibility of getting new followers is high.
   

5. Instagram

You can also provide your blog's link in your Instagram profile. These days there are as many people in it as there are in Facebook. You can also share images from your blog with some statement on them giving hints of your blog's contents. 
    

6. Google Product Forums

Google has as many forums as it has products. You can open blogger help forum and then start asking questions with your blog's link. You'll get answers and also answer questions other bloggers have. This will help to get visitors for your blog to see your workings of what you have given in answers.
   

7. Blog Commenting

This is the most sexiest source of traffic newbies can have. When you comment in other blogs, it's an indication that you also maintain a blog and an invitation them to visit to your blog. You also should reply to comments left in your blog posts. Readers hate non-responsive bloggers. 
              

8. Twitter

You can also directly tweet the posts of your blog. You have to add twitter button in your blog. You can add tweets in sidebar as a blog's gadget so that readers can not only follow you in twitter but also in blog.  
              

9. Guest Blogging

You can contribute articles in other blogs. This is called guest blogging. This is not something suggested for newbies unless you can write very good articles. If you can write good articles in some big blogs, you will get quite a lot of visitors and followers. But many pro bloggers won't suggest guest posts from a newbie. Better don't try this if you are new in blogging.      
            

10. Blogging Challenges

There are quite a number of blogging challenges. One of the most popular I have come across is A-Z blogging in February of every year. Some conduct inspiring blog award nominations which is called tagged blogging. This also helps a lot to bringing more bloggers together. 
               

11. Helping Newbies

We have heard the adage 'Giving is the start of receiving'. This applies to blogging too. When you help new bloggers, the possibility of following your blogs in return and also referring to his or her friends in times of facing problem is higher. So start helping people who don't know as much as you do.
                

12. Email Newsletter

Your blog should have email subscription form so that readers can subscribe your blog and then start receiving updates as emails in their inbox. You can also add some attractive popup email subscription form
           

13. Blog Directories

There are many community blogs where numerous blogs will be listed country-wise or in some cases continent-wise. In Bhutan, Blog-yul is one such blog. I have listed my blog in Pick a Blogger. You can browse such blogs. There are thousands. Registration is free in many. 
               

14. Offline Marketing

You can also do your blog marketing outside social media. You can attend bloggers gatherings, workshops, seminars and make your blog's business cards. They will make others feel tempted to see your blog and then if you have good and related contents, they will follow it.
              

15. Bloggers Interview

This is one of the methods that has proven very very successful for me. I have started a program IBB-Interview Bhutanese Bloggers. No post in that label has views lesser than 1K. It's just an advantage of human psychology. Who doesn't want to read an article something about him or her is talked? You too can start such interviews, which is easy.  

Those methods have helped me harvest this-level views/traffic. If you also want to increase your blog's traffic too, you may use those methods. If you have some other methods that have helped you in improving your blog's traffic, please share with us. Sharing is loving.... :)       


Monday, December 28, 2015

Which Blogging Niche will be good for Bhutanese Bloggers?

Bhutan has population of around 741,000 in 2014 (source: NSB). And general literacy rate for the same period is 63%. This means 63% of total population can read and write. And then around 33.9% of the total population is in access to good ICT facilities. This means approximately 251,000 Bhutanese people know basic computer operating languages and skills. 


I am talking about literacy rate and computer literacy rate of Bhutan just because they are closely related to blogging culture. If the literacy rate is very low, you cannot expect anyone to read your blog. If computer literacy rate and access to internet facilities are low, targeted readers cannot read a blog’s contents.  

When we talk about which blogging niche will be favourable for Bhutanese bloggers, we have to look into which niche will be given the maximum attention by this portion of the population. 

 
We know which section of Bhutanese population contributes on these – general literacy and computer literacy rates. They are mostly urban dwellers working in some government, private and corporate organisations. 

People in rural don’t have noticeable access to internet facilities. Internet is quite expensive in Bhutan. They cannot afford. They don’t need much either. General literacy rate will be lower there. So they contribute less in these rates. 
 

Blogging is all about getting accessible internet to write contents and also to read the updates. So blogging niche that will be favourable for Bhutanese bloggers will be areas in which the section of Bhutanese people, who contribute to making of above general literacy rate of 63% and 33.9% ICT access rate, are interested.  

On surface, blogs that focus on political issues, bureaucratic glitches, corporate scams, private sector fronting cases and corruption receive maximum attention. This is the reason why blogs like that of Wangcha Sangay, Yeshey Dorji, KB Wakhley, Dasho Sangay Khandu and HE Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay are the top most Bhutanese viewed blogs in Bhutan.

They make public known about issues of various magnitudes in bureaucracy, politics, private sector, NGOs and corporations which media houses cannot bring out due to various limitations posed by their organisational jurisdictions and mandates. This section of population that makes 63% computer literacy rate loves them.

But we must know what it takes to be a blogger in such blogging niches. Every issue to be brought out in public should be based on facts. Timid, ambiguous and opinion-oriented bloggers shouldn’t at all blog in such areas.
  
 
This blogging niche will be favourable for you if you are a Bhutanese blogger whose targeted readers are also Bhutanese people – if you have kept Bhutan as targeted geographic audience in your Google Search Console settings and you want to see Bhutan on the top when you generate Geographical Traffics report from Google Analytics

If your targeted readers are other countries and you have also set other countries in your Google Search Console settings, then there are other niches that are favourable for Bhutanese bloggers. It’s always Bhutanese fashion, Bhutan travels and tourism that are searched maximum in Google and other search engines. 

Let us see the frequencies at which those blogging niches related searches were made using Google AdWords tool:
 

And Google Auto Complete features:
 
This must be the reasons why Bhutanese fashion related Facebook pages like Bhutan Street Fashion and Bhutanese Girls have praiseworthy number of likes and followers across the world. 

If you want to become a professional and full time blogger, Bhutanese fashion and Bhutan Tourism related blogging niches have a potential of getting good global traffic and also online income.

Blogging thing is quite new in Bhutan. There isn’t any full-time professional blogger. Bloggers that are from Bhutan are mostly casual bloggers who are blogging out of passion for writing stories and journal entries online. They blog in mixed niches ranging from their personal unrequited love ripples to various social problems.
  
  
Blogging experts and established online marketing professionals think that blogging on one particular niche is far better than focusing on many for building online brand and social media community.

However, you can manage to get a good amount of readers despite blogging on mixed niches if you’re active in social media and has a community around you. Passang Passu Tshering blogs on various topics yet he has already managed to cross 7-digits pageview. He is active in social media and also has a circle of people around him with similar interest. 

If you don’t want to keep specifically Bhutanese people as your blog’s targeted readers then blogging in the niche of blogging tips, tricks, SEO, templates customization and other blogging related stuffs will receive a good amount of search and traffic. My blog receives 100-2500 hits a day. And maximum visitors are from the USA, Russia, India and Australia.  
   
  
Therefore, to be a successful blogger in Bhutan, you can either blog on political and bureaucratic issues targeting Bhutanese audience or on Bhutanese tourism related or Bhutanese fashion fronts targeting global audience. But you know what it will take to blog in political and bureaucratic issues niche.  

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