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Popular Widgets for blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Fortunately, blogger user have developed functional widget using javascript. Here's the list functional widget for Blogger that really you need.

Random Post Widget

Bloggodown

Recent Post with Thumbnail

Bloggertricks

Total Count Post and Comment

Bloggodown

Popular Post Widget
Popular post widget show link of most commented post. This widget is usefull as visitor reference which is most interesting post. Get this widget and installation setting on Bloggerstop.

Search Engine Optimization Myths

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:30:00 +0000

These days, there seems to be more myths about search engine optimization (or SEO), than there are truths. Numerous though they may be, there are three primary myths that are very commonly circulated…

Myth 1: SEO is a fairly easy, straightforward process.

If search engine optimization were easy or "straightforward", then most SEO firms would be out of business. On the contrary, most anything related to Internet marketing (namely search engine optimization) continues to grow in popularity. So is search engine marketing really that big? Yes, and "big" is the right word. Case in point… Rob Hof of Business Week states, "If you can believe it, Google's $144 billion market value tops that of Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA), CBS (CBS), ad agency giant Publicis Groupe (PUB), and the New York Times Co. (NYT) combined. "

Is it easy to grasp and successfully implement website changes for higher website rankings? To answer that question, let's first consider a few things. It has been commonly understood that Google has more than 100 variables it uses to determine how to rank one website higher than another. And guess what? They don't tell anyone what these ever-changing, variables are. Combine the challenge of trying to better understand Google's "black algorithm box" with the fact that new competitors are always entering your market and what you have is a process that's anything but easy. At the end of the day, improving ones' website rankings in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN requires painstaking and time-consuming testing and tweaking.

Myth 2: If I take all the right SEO steps, my website will organically rank number one in search engines within a week or two.

So to achieve higher organic search engine rankings, continual testing and tweaking are a must. But how long should one "test and tweak"? Indefinitely. Some websites may take a year and often longer to achieve top rankings. In many ways, we are all at their mercy. Sure, a website's rankings can and often do quickly rise. However, beyond those initial increases, typically the amount of difficulty required to compete with the top contenders exponentially intensifies as you move closer to the top.

So how long does it take to "rank high" (which of course is often relative)? Well, it just depends. But to expect to rank high (and stay there) in two week or even two months may be overly optimistic.

Myth 3: Having a hip website is very important when it comes to obtaining high organic rankings.

Not true. Having a stylish website does not necessarily equate to high organic search engine rankings. Depending on what you mean by "nice", having a nice looking website can certainly be vital to a successful usability and branding strategy. But a website with very little visual appeal could beat out your competitor's Flash-laden website in regard to organic rankings… 10:1. Case in point: the website. CraigsList is not exactly the most stylish website on the Web and yet when you search Google for "online classifieds", CraigsList is right at the top of the list. It's all about ensuring your website is "SEO friendly" not necessarily "cool".

Don't get duped by these or any other SEO myths. Get good search engine optimization guidance from a certified search engine optimization analyst.

Blogger Hack for your blog

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:03:00 +0000

For enjoying your blogger and make it friendly for you, you can hack some code for your blogger blog's. And there are some trick for make your blog better than before.

The Title For SEO freindly

Find this code from your template
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
and then replace that code with this

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Replace default atom with RSS

Ifyou want to replace your default atom with rss find this code

<b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'>
<div class='feed-links'>
<data:feedLinksMsg/>
<b:loop values='data:links' var='f'>

</b:loop>
</div>
</b:includable>

And replace that green code with this :

Print Your Article

For print your article from your blog, you can add this code in every page or every post.

<a href="javascript:print(document)">Print this page</a>

Place the icon before name of your comment

You can add the iconbefore name of comment. Find this code #comments-block .comment-author{ . And add with green code below, in your CSS code :

#comments-block .comment-author{ margin:.5em 0; padding-left:25px; background:#FFFFCC url("https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9UDxq_VmG91A7Q77BDMP2AlcSkfKVQ7GiiaHSbbPvVxDk3nUvLmIMimPji9Vr3mbIljtP8TfKfxGJ1jH0nx9how6-WtaLzvwJYteOIVm1rZW00Oj39Wol6wGQVD-kPmRJZ6mV8vCBtFNp/s400/icon_comment.gif") no-repeat 3px .3em; color:#111}

There are some code for your blogger blog's, Let's Try it.

How to add your blogger sitemap to google webmasters tools

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:20:00 +0000

Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster helps the search engine(Google) to crawl your webpages easily and more quickly! This post explains the procedure to add your blogger blog's sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools.

You Sign In with your google account, and go to Google Webmaster Tools.
Click Add Site and write your URL there, then Continue.
Verify your blogger blog's by adding Meta Tag to your Blog (There is 2 ways, with add an html file to your host and add meta tag, for blogger add meta tag is possible).
Copy the Meta Tag code given by Google Webmaster.
Now go to Blogger Dashboard - Layout- Edit HTML - then search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below <b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content"/>
Paste the Meta Tag just after the about code and save the template.
Then Click Verify in the google webmasters.
Next step is to add your sitemap to google webmaster tools. Select sitemap in the left sidebar.
Then you can add this URl of your sitemap with this : http://www.YourBlog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false or http://www.YourBlog.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss (just add the bold text).
Finished! Your Blog's sitemap will be added to Google now!

Article Directories For Increase The Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

The more enterprising internet business owners spend a great deal of their time understanding how business on the internet works, and how information is bought and sold on the internet. One of the very popular sources for internet content is called an article directory. An article directory is a place where people post articles and essays on various topics and allow people to use the articles on their website for either a nominal fee or free of charge. Submitting your blog articles to Article Directories will increase the traffic and backlinks to your blog. There are some of the Top Article Directories to submit your blog articles, From PR 8 to PR 0 :

Digg................................. (PR 8)
StumbleUpon

Yahoo Buzz..................... (PR 7)

GoArticles....................... (PR 6)
Buzzle
EzineArticles

ArticlesBase .....................(PR 5)
ArticleDashboard
ArticlesAlley
ArticleClick
ArticleCity

ArticleRich ........................(PR 4)
ArticlePlanets
212Articles
ArticleBiz
ArticlesFactory
ArticleGeek

ArticleFinders ....................(PR 3)
ArticleSnatch
Web-Articles
ArticlePros.com
abcArticleDirectory
ArticleBlotter
TalkInMince
ArticleFeeder
A1-Optimization
Website-Articles
ArticlesLash
ArticleSphere
44Articles
SubmitArticlesFree
ArticleBar
articlebin
ArticleHub
ArticleBeach
ProductsHerbal

ArticleGold ...........................(PR 2)
ArticleCompilation
1888Articles
SubmittedArticle
FreeArticlez
ArticleCo
Articles43
eArticleSubmission
BigaAticle.com
Article-Hut
SubmitYourArticlesNow
ArticleAvenue
ArticleGarden
LeadArticles

Articlexplore ..................... (PR 1)
UrArticles
azArticle
EzinesArticle
aFreeArticle

Social Posts ......................(PR 0)
Articler
Linknami
ArticleCityss
SubmitOnDashboard
MintArticles
ArticleEra
BestArticles
Articles4Free
ArticleWorld
ArticleStreet
ArticleCat
MyHowToArticles
a2zArticlesLibrary

4 Big Keys To Getting 30,000 Views A Month

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:14:00 +0000

"Boy oh boy if your looking for article traffic you just landed of 4 surefire secrets to receiving tons."

Here are 4 tips to getting tons of article traffic

1. Article Title

This is where it starts. Remember "first impressions are the most important." This holds true with articles.
*Always Capatalize The First Letter Of Each Word
*Be specific in your title
*Use emphasis for a particular word
*Implement numbers

2. Article Format

Everyone wants to know the laws of submission and link building but the most important factor is article format. Push for spacing your articles every 4-6 lines. The more readable you can make your article the more responses you'll receive.
*Add keyboard funtions
*Proof read every article
*Create a tone of voice(funny,serious,direct)

3. Do testing

Before you go full force in your article automation campaign, you want to test out by submitting to one directory at a time. Even though this take time but once it is tested, you do not need to worry whether it works on not in the future.

4. Here are some of the tricks you can use to further enhance your article automation campaign :

Get familiar with the tool on how it works and how to use it effectively
Write down the steps on how to use the tool effectively
Outsource the article automation process to a freelancer
You are done with process!
Turn one article into 4-5 by using article spinners. Spin the body and create unique intro's

The Basics on how to Increase Site Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:32:00 +0000

In current terms of website traffic is the number of visitors from a website from all sources over a period of time. This is one of the basic parameters for judging the success of a site.

If we do a simple math - more visitors mean more conversions, but this may or may not prevail if sufficient attention is not given to the essential, that we tend to ignore altogether.

The parts to be kept in mind

• focused content: Your content must be targeted. The content must be adapted to different set of visitors - so much so that even to think about how your company profile will be submitted to the respective segments. The quality of writing must be top notch business degree.

• Title and description tags: When someone searches for keywords on search engines, results are essentially a struggle of the title and description. This is where you leave the first impression. The user will be more inclined to a convincing way he perceives your website to better than others.

• Provide the source and quality information on your website: This is the best way to attract traffic to your website. Offering original and unique information that visitors can not find elsewhere. This also contributes to the brand image of your company as industry experts and you'll also get good quality one way links.

• Give Freebies: Who does not like freebies? Offer your visitors free electronic books, free Cd's, white papers, free consultation, free people, etc. love these webinars and keep coming back for more. This will not only further increase traffic and repeat, but also help in link building.

• Social Media: Use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to share information with your audience. Share your writing and research, participate in discussions, and help others in solving their problems. This will propel people to visit your site more often and seek the desired information.

• Announcements: There are many free / paid ways to advertise your business online. Classifieds is free and is a means to place ads related to business to help generate traffic. You can also benefit from paid methods like Google Adwords programs that are more targeted and assisting visitors based on demographics, location and preferences. However, you must decide on a budget for this and plan accordingly.

• Regularly update the website: Update your site by adding new content, relevant and useful for your site. Search engines also give preference to sites with new content and relevant.

• Blog: Using unique and effective writing strategies is one of the best ways to boost site traffic. Create a blog that supports your site and make sure your speed navigation of your blog visitors to your website easily. Also include your products / services links in your posts so that visitors who read your blog can easily navigate your website.

Tips The Content for Increasing your Site

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:12:00 +0000

Although it is true that "content is king" in the blog-publishing, writing blog content is not the only activity that a blogger should do to attract a following. Quality SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is also important, otherwise the blog is still a well kept secret - all content and very few visitors.

Many bloggers may not know it, but there are actually several SEO tips that will come in handy to turn an ordinary blog into a very congested site.

Strategic Keyword Placement

One of the most important SEO tips to remember is that search engines like Google and Yahoo that sends automated crawlers or "spiders" to categorize and rank all publicly available websites and blogs on the Internet, making it by searching for relevant content through conspicuous and strategically displayed keywords. Be sure to follow the following best practices:

1. The title tag of the site are always reviewed (ie points) in the search engine spiders. Blog with keywords located in title tag will be placed higher on search engines.

2. The title tags are also widely reviewed. This means that keywords should be incorporated into the titles of each blog whenever possible.

3. Images in a blog entry is ignored by search engine spiders, but keywords placed as textual descriptions in the Alt tags of images is not. This is one of the SEO tips that are specific to graphics-driven posts as photography or travel blogs.

4. Search engine spiders ignore keywords in incoming or outgoing links to blog sites. For incoming links from other sites to your blog, this means using the keyword as a part of the text (the clickable text of a link). For outbound links on your blog to other sites, so make sure your URL link is the key word.

5. Another relevant SEO tips is to get the right number of keywords to keep keyword density (how often the keyword appears on your page). Bloggers have direct control over this parameter, by writing blog posts with about 3 spiders may have to miss the key word for blog.

6. Search engine spiders are also kind of keyword synonyms. Then you are welcome to include synonyms to restrict keyword monotony of blog posts, and while continuing to optimize your blog site.

Linking for Ranking

Another useful SEO tip is to develop quality links in the blog, especially incoming links from other similar sites. Similar sites to translate web pages, which are technically your niche competitors. Come competitor sites to link to your blog is considered a major vote, which increases the blog's status in your niche circle and search engine rankings.

Another SEO tip related to the links, the configuration of permanent inbound links. Aging links are favored by search engines, be construed as an endorsement of the linking site and as evidence of organic link building.

On the other hand to avoid broken links at all costs, because search engines will downgrade blog location if they find links to non-existent sites.

How to Write Articles That Maintain the Readers Interest !?!

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:45:00 +0000

If you want to learn to write articles that maintain the interest of your readers you want to avoid wandering from the intended topic too often. Your article writing efforts should always focus on the subject or point you're trying to make to the reader. By deviating from the main topic you risk confusing and losing the reader while also making the writing process more difficult.

Let's face it writing articles can be challenging enough as it. By adding content that is meaningless to the reader you are also creating more work for yourself.

Effective writing skills should include trying to make your point using as few words as possible while keeping the reader's interest.

Let's look at 5 major advantages you gain when writing articles that are concise and don't stray from the intended point.

Increases Authors' Focus

By sticking to the subject or theme of the article the writer can maintain better focus and complete the composition quicker. Allowing yourself to ramble needlessly requires more time and effort to be invested into the article writing process.

Keep Reader Attention

The reader selected your article based upon a given point you made to attract them to the content either thru a snippet or headline. The more you deviate from that point the less interest the reader will maintain.

Prevents Long Rambling Articles

Concentrating on the central theme of the article helps prevent the author from going off on tangents of no interest to the reader. This focus thus allows the article subject matter to be presented in a more concise fashion.

Another benefit of a more concentrated focus when writing is there is less likelihood of important points or issues being forgotten and left out altogether.

Easier to Read, Easier to Complete

An article that sticks to the point is generally easier to read due to the content being consistent and therefore more flowing. With fewer distractions or diversions the readers' interest is held and the content is easier to understand.

Withheld Content = New Article

You know all those diversions and tangents you didn't take but wanted to when you were writing that last article? You can now use them to base a brand new and totally separate article on. More content means more articles which in turn translates into a greater circulation and increased exposure for you.

As you see when you learn to write articles using as few words as possible you automatically make your own article writing efforts easier. By focusing primarily on your intended subject you shorten the entire writing process by excluding any additional and useless content. Effective writing skills like this not only benefit the reader with more concise and interesting content but also save the writer extra time and effort. So remember the next time you sit down to write an article just focus on making your point. Your readers will be happier as will you with the time and effort you save.

Link Building for Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:54:00 +0000

Building links is one of the few required for the use of SEO techniques. Some rumors that more than one binding site (the input lines to be exact), the best search engines like Google, Yahoo to make! Or MSN. For this reason, were varied link building techniques. Popular techniques used to link building involves the mutual relationship, to ensure the mutual relationship between two objects, usually between two points in the relationship. This technique usually requires three-way and two-way connection. This technique, however, were superseded by the use of a bidirectional link.

One way Linking

One way link is a term used among webmasters for link building methods. After SEO Philippines Consultant, is a link to a website without reciprocal link, then click the "round" in the address field. It is used by many SEO Consultants Philippines, which would link such as a natural, the suspect in the eyes of search engines. One of the bilateral ties are also called Incoming Links or Inbound Links.

A technique used by the consultants is one way to get links by distributing articles through content sites and article directories. Such general, containing articles on the Author box that returns a bidirectional link contains the address of the author. Other Article Directories Link is possible in the article body. By publishing these articles, you must use the One-Way links help authors increase their page rank.

Other popular link building techniques

Because of high demand and competition, different techniques are now used for link building. Recent trends in the use of link building include:

Link Campaign

Link campaigns are a form of online marketing and SEO. A company trying to increase the number of visitors to your website with its strategic partners, professional associations, chambers of commerce, suppliers, pray, and customers to get links to their websites. A link campaign may involve mutual links back and forth between related sites, but does not require interaction between the compounds.

Link popularity

Link popularity is a measure of the amount and quality of other websites linking to a specific page on the World Wide Web. It illustrates the tendency to search engines from the page criteria to determine quality content. In theory, off-page criteria adds the aspect of search engine rankings for impartiality. After, Philippines Consultant SEO, link popularity plays an important role in the visibility of a website on the top of search results. Indeed, some search engines require at least one or more connections to reach a website or delete it from its index.

Link Bait

Link bait is content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to other websites. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to start people's attention. Link bait can be a very effective marketing, and viral in nature.

Add "Read More" For Your Article

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:42:00 +0000

For blogger, there is no automatic setting for split an article. And If you have long article and you want to split it into two section, There is a trick for you to setup your blogger template and you can add "read more" for your article. And for split your article with "read more..", you can add this code below, go to EDIT HTML, and add this code before </head> code in your template blogger.

And there is the code :

Just copy-paste it ....

var thumbnail_mode = "float" ;

summary_noimg = 250;

summary_img = 250;

img_thumb_height = 120;

img_thumb_width = 120;

</script>

//<![CDATA[

/******************************************

Auto-readmore link script, version 2.0 (for blogspot)

visit http://en.vietwebguide.com to get more cool hacks

********************************************/

function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){

if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)

{

var s = strx.split("<");

for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){

if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){

s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length);

}

strx = s.join("");

}

chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2;

while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++;

strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);

return strx+'...';

}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){

var div = document.getElementById(pID);

var imgtag = "";

var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");

var summ = summary_noimg;

if(img.length>=1) {

imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';

summ = summary_img;

}

var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';

div.innerHTML = summary;

}

//]]>

</script>

And If you finish with it, save it first. And Then "expand widget template", and find this code <data:post.body/>

and replace that code with

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><data:post.body/></b:if>

For Edit your parameter you can find :

var thumbnail_mode = "float"; => "Float" is for your thumbnail float left
summary_noimg = 250; => 250 is number of character for summary in front of site without image.
summary_img = 250; => 250 is number of character for summary in front of site with image
img_thumb_height = 120; => 120 is number for your thumbnail height
img_thumb_width = 120; => 120 is number for your thumbnail width

Emm..... OK, lets Try It bro :)

12 Ways with Twitter to Promote Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:41:00 +0000

Twitter is a popular microblogging service. Tweets This is writing that are short-changes of up to 140 characters to their followers to tell what they do. Despite their tweets is technically to answer the question: "What are you doing?" Twitter is rotated too far. Tweets are sharing stories, links to photos used, content promotion, news, peace, and much more. Twitter has become an incredibly important tool for professionals in the social media marketing. Here are 12 ways Twitter can be used in the social media marketing campaign.

1. Sharing links to articles of interest

Once you read something online that you think is interesting, it is easy to shares on Twitter with all his followers. Twitter is highly effective in this way, because it reached a quick way for a large group of people. You can also use a lot of great ideas for blog posts from Twitter and many new ideas and stories circulated that not even the blogosphere have achieved and definitely not to the media.

2. You build your network

With Twitter is a great way to build your network, allowing you to find and follow people with similar interests. You can find Steeple people in your geographic area. You can also use other tools to help you to follow on the basis of new people who follow your Twitter friends.

3. Creating relationships with your existing network

People in different networks often Twitter with their contacts immediately take the place of instant messaging for this purpose in touch. In addition, many people use Twitter to connect with their network in connection with events such as conferences.

4. Re-distribute the contents of your blog or website

Twitter can be used to distribute the contents of your blog or website. However, you must be careful to do it carefully, as many of your Twitter followers can now read your blog. For this reason, you may want to avoid using a plugin that automatically tweets your blog posts. The best way is to manually adjust every tweet tweet, and so you do not get older.

5. Engaging Events Live Tweeting

Twitter launched at SXSW last year, catapulted to fame microblogging conferences. Tweeting live events are great because it is a form of citizen journalism that you are connecting with many new people in place, while active and valuable contribution to current debates rent in their community.

6. Pitching stories to journalists on Twitter

You can send a direct message to a journalist who is as follows Twitter to launch an idea of the story.

7. Communicate with your team

You can Twitter as a corporate intranet that connects all of its employees. Twitter can be especially helpful in this regard, if you have a virtual company with employees in different geographical locations. You can configure the updates for private reasons of security. Whenever you are working on group projects can get in touch with the team members are using Twitter.

8. Brand Monitoring

Keep up with the indication of your company on Twitter. If there is something negative, you can respond quickly. You can also get Twitter as a way of feedback from their customers and improve your business. Ask your supporters to give their opinion on something. For example, if you created a new Web site, ask your fans what they think about it and get their constructive criticism, so you can make your site even better.

9. To buy more votes on social media sites

If you put a story to Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, or any other social voting site, tweet a link there to the documents that they try to score more votes from his supporters. If fans like what they see, they are sure to vote for their content.

10. Recruitment

Looking for a programmer, designer or writer? What kind of career you want, try to find on Twitter. Just send say a tweet supporters, they are looking for someone for a job. Can you recommend someone or offer for the job. Using Twitter on this form is ideal to find a qualified independent experts. It is much more convenient to place an ad.

11. Build your personal brand

If you Twitter, to talk about such everyday things as what you had for breakfast or how he goes to bed, early evening, make your fans feel that they are casual and accessible. Even those using with the functioning of a company that has a cold, the branding of the company to create more attractive and build a unique personal brand has Twitter.

12. Streamline electronic communications

If you Twitter, is likely to encounter on the use of instant messaging, e-mail and other electronic means of communication less. Twitter is not only through Tweets in public chat, but also you can send messages directly. Twitter will contribute to their electronic communication so that you can re-scale online.

Search Engine Optimization For Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Jagoan Dollar) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Search engine optimization is the process done to generate traffic through search engines. It became a need for websites because 80%-90% of visitors come from major search engines. Higher rankings mean greater number of visitors. The same concept applies to blogs. However, many blog owners are not aware of their chances of being more visible on the web. They just update it once in a while and that's it. Considering the great number of blogs on the net today, from personal to corporate blogs, all their efforts will just go to waste if they do not optimize it.

Yes, blogs can be optimized, too. It should be done for the benefit both of your readers and search engine spiders. Although the process is quite similar with the standard website search engine optimization, it is a bit different. Here are some tips that you can do to start:

Consider the Design

It is not advisable to use the default template being offered by blog publishing sites. You wouldn't want to bump into a girl in a party wearing the same dress, do you? Same thing goes to blogs. You can hire a designer to do the work for you. If running a tight budget, you can always look for free templates offered by web design companies and you can customize it a little to make it unique.

Optimize the Tags

Use the most substantial phrase for your blog in the hard code of the title tag. Also, you have to double check that each entry's title appears on the tile tag. This is sometimes overlooked.

Keywords

You should always use your keywords in the blog post titles and categories. You can also use many categories in one entry if appropriate.

RSS Feed

It is best that you have RSS subscription button available on your blog. This would be more convenient to your readers because it will publish your recently updated work. If your blog publisher don't have RSS automatically available, there are RSS feed button creation tool on the net. But make sure that you place it where the readers can easily see them. You can put it in your sidebar. It is already on the blog owner's prerogative if he/she wants to full or partial RSS.

Use Email

Because there are some people who are not familiar with RSS feeds, go the extra mile and offer them something else with the same benefits. I'm talking about You can have your blog post via email. Free tools are also available online to do this.

Compelling Introduction

Introduction about the blog post is sent out via RSS feed. Make sure that it is compelling to enough to make your readers want to have more of it so that they would click the “more” button and read the entire article. Therefore, it should be interesting.

Check you CSS

It is common that blogs come with overwhelming amount of CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. The solution to this is to place it in an external CSS file to avoid clutter in the main template and for the main entry not to go further down.

Keywords-rich Anchor Texts

In placing links in other sites/blogs and even in putting internal links, make sure that you are using keyword-rich anchor text. Remember that it is always better to use your keywords than “click here” or “more”. It would benefit you when search engine spiders crawl your blog.

Keep Your Posts Bonded

If your blog post is somehow connected to your previous posts, link them to each other. The idea is that if your reader is interested in this particular topic, then he/she probably can also be entertained of a different story with the same subject matter. You can use Related Posts Plugin for this.

Do the same in other blogs. If you see a blog entry or an article on the same issue, make them knowledgeable of your existence by placing a link going to your post.

Purchase a Domain

We all know that blog hosting companies will only be around for such a time. Once they close their business, they will be closing your blog as well. If that happens, where will your loyal followers find you? Or there are change in the domain of your blog host, it will surely affect your rankings.

In case you have limited resources and can only settle to free hosting companies, look for those who offer to display your own domain rather than displaying their own like Wordpress and Blogger.

Proper URL Naming Convention

It is always a bad idea to use dynamic URLs whether on websites or blogs. You should always take advantage of any chance you have to use keywords, without keyword stuffing, including this one. Meaning, instead of using “www.xyzblog.com/?246”, you can consider “www.xyzblog.com/blog-post-keywords-here”. When you cannot do anything about it, use mod rewrite.

Good Navigation

If your blog is just a part of a website, it is not ebough that you a have a link going to your blog's main page. Use the sidebar to syndicate your new posts because the visitors of the website might get interested in your articles if they see the titles.

Fast Page Load

The amount of time involved for a page to load all depends on your host. There are some blogs that takes about half a minute just from the snippet of RSS feed to the full article. You can lose a lot of readers just because of this reason alone.

Moderated Trackbacks and Comments

Spammers are everywhere. They always find a way to abuse your blog by putting non-sense comments with links going to their website. It is annoying and it can also affect your rankings. There are numerous tools available online which you can use to moderate and avoid comment and trackbak spam.

Don't just create a blog to share great information or to prove that you know a lot about the field you are into. Do not settle on the number of followers your blog has. Start to optimize now and see the great changes on the next few months.