Of course! We might be using the word ‘Explode’ a bit loosely here. But, not to worry. In a some niches, where competition is moderate, you literally CAN explode your blog traffic with these methods. But I assure you, even if it doesn’t explode, it will at least burst:) (Image Credit: Trey Ratcliff)

Add Technorati Tags

This is something that I’ve been doing for the past few days. When Technorati users search for content on blogs, Technorati weighs the relevant tags more than the post content to find results. Just think of Technorati as an age-old Meta Search Engine that uses META keywords to deliver results.

Well, in the earlier post I told you that I went from just 6 subscribers to 200+ in 50 days of blogging. And I pretty much gave you out some my METYHODOLOGY. But for the part II of this, you’ll get some serious juice.

Creating a unique blog brand

Blogs telling you how to blog had come to be somewhat of a cliche these days. So I created my own brand of a blog that said more than “creating money online through your blog”. I wanted to do something that people will instantly remember and something would probably make a statement, hopefully with an exclamation mark at the end.

One question - did you see MindBlogger 50 days before this day? Maybe 6 of you have. Since, I only had 6 subscribers to this blog, 50 days before this day. I had 20 unique visitors per day, an average of 0.65 comments per post and a lot of frustration building at my own pace. The reason why I hit so low key was because I had certain things going on in December 2007 and January 2008, that completely forced me to ignore my blog. So, when it was all over, I was left with this blog with 6 subscribers.

It seemed like the right time to give up.

What if you wake up on morning and find out that you’ve got a huge traffic spike from., let’s say StumbleUpon? what would you do? What would your reactions be? Well, of course, you can jump for joy and throw up a party. But party’s going to be all over when you’re down to (little more than) your 30 unique visitors the next day. It might get you some quick bucks from those CPC ads you put up on your blog. But does the one day party really matter?

If your post got stumbled and you receive a decent amount of traffic, good for you.

When I visit a new blog, there are a number of things that convinces me to subscribe to it. Off the top of my head, subscriber count, author’s best posts and the comments count. That doesn’t mean if the subscriber count and the comment count is low, I won’t subscribe to it. But rather, especially the comments count assures me that,

• People are genuinely interested in your blog.
• The author encourages and discussion and is willing to get involved with the readers
• The blog is something worth reading and subscribing to.

Are the commentators so important to the growth of your blog? In my opinion, and as an obvious fact, absolutely yes.

When you take a folded newspaper, what do you see first, even before unfolding? Everything that is visible even before the newspaper is unfolded is called “above the fold”. As for the whole purpose of it, something above the fold in the newspaper is to persuade the frequent browser to buy the paper. How many times have you bought the newspaper just looking at the headline? I have to admit. Above the fold marketing, if exploited right, can be really powerful for newspapers and blogs alike. Newspapers, virtually run on above the fold advertising.

So how can we apply the same thing to a blog?