Whatever your reason for blogging, be it to be heard by the people around you, or be it for money - the popularity of your blog is important. There is always an exception though - if your blog is private - then again the very fact that you are reading this post, means that you want a popular blog. If you are hoping to make some money by blogging for cash, you will find the most success by having a large readership. This is the very reason why you should make your blog more popular and grow your readership - else what's the use of monetizing your blog?
So how do you set about making your blog popular? I will list a few techniques that may help.
1. Who is your audience?
In my previous post, I have mentioned a few benefits of
creating a niche blog. You should always write only about stuff that interests you and also others might find interesting. you may find that different type of
electrical switches
are interesting, but this may not interest the people who visit your blog. Hence it is better to find a target audience or a niche audience which is large enough to support your blog, but at the same time choose a topic that is not vague. (A blog on Cricket as a game is expected to have a large audience that is dedicated , while a blog on sports, though having a large audience will be vague topic).
2. Write regularly
The good thing about blogging is that you needn't be very gramatically correct and you don not have to be a professional writer. This is the main reason why blogs are such a hit! The only requirement is that your sentences are coherent and understandable by your audience. So there is no need for hesitancy and your audience will appreciate regular and frequent posts on your selected topic. Blog readers want sensible , interesting and relevant articles on the topics of their choice, If they want to read prose or poetry they may as well be reading Shakespeare.
3. Be controversial

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ave you blogged about your favourite topic but the Google Adsense advertisements are about a totally unrelated topic? This is a common question on Google Adsense forums and often left unanswered.
So how can you set this right? First of all, have patience as it takes time for the Adsense bot to scan your pages and understand what your blog/website is all about. Okay! You waited for quite a bit of time, yet, the ads are still irrelevant, now what?

A few days ago I
blogged about a giveaway - Self-Hosted blog with a domain for 1 year for free. The giveaway was run by WPWebHost and was worth around $30 dollars and the the contest closed on the 30th of September. After doing the required tweets and posting about the contest, I had given up hope of winning.


Two weeks back
BloggerStop turned 2 (two) and to celebrate this Divya Sai, the administrator of this great blog is giving away 3 domains!
The contest will run for two weeks, starting from today (5th October) to 19th October. After the two weeks, 3 winners will be selected randomly (Draw at
Random), and the results will be announced on 20th October, 2010.
Winner #1 will get a
.com domain
Winner #2 will get a
.me domain
Winner #3 will get a
.biz domain.
So head over
this post and follow the instructions and stand a chance at winning some great domains!!
While search engines are still evolving, a new breed of recommendation engines have emerged to keep you hooked to the Internet.
WHEN you begin moving beyond the default home page (MSN, Yahoo, Google etc) and start seeing more uses for the net, you will at some point or the other stumble upon StumbleUpon.com!
StumbleUpon can be, depending on how you look at it, labeled as either the biggest time waster out there or the most useful way to find new and interesting sites. In any case, when you are fed up with work and want a quick escape use StumbleUpon. This site falls into the category of what is known as a recommendation engine. Go to
StumbleUpon and register for a new account (Yes, there is no other way! You do need to register - tedious as it is).


Now, coming after the post where I said that
too much content bad for Google Adsense earnings?,this post might be a little contradictory to my readers. However if you continue reading you will realise what I mean by saying that the more content you have i the post. the more relevant will be the Google Adsense advertisements displayed on your pages.