Do you want to really kill your blog ? here is a to do list

• Don’t post on your blog regularly
• Don’t write anything in your about me page except the default wordpress s..t
• Don’t place a link on your blog for your visitors to contact you
• Don’t submit your blog to directories
• Don’t comment on other blogs in your niche
• Don’t link to other blogs in your posts.
• Don’t participate in communities
• Don’t optimize your site for search engines
• Don’t proofread your posts
• Don’t do your homework before writing a post
• Don’t learn from your mistakes
• Don’t concentrate on content but concentrate more on having a unique design
• Don’t track the activity of your visitors
• Don’t provide links on your blog to easily subscribe to your feeds or to share or bookmark your blog
• Don’t use social bookmarking to leverage traffic to your site
• Don’t make it easy for readers to easily navigate your blog
• Don’t try to improve your writing skills
• Don’t back up your site

I think this much poison is enough to kill your blog

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This is the question every blogger faces in his blogging journey and different people find different ways to overcome this.Here are just a few tips which may help those who are right now in that phase .

1. The first and most important thing is to choose a niche,I hope you have already done that.if not you can read my post on why to choose a niche ?.After you have chosen your niche search for the top blogs in your niche and subscribe to their feeds or newsletters,whichever you find useful.Some 3 to 4 is enough initially.May be you can use a separate feed reader and make it a habit to go through them daily for a few minutes.Usually these top blogs will be churning out posts regularly and you will be surprised to see the ideas popping in your head when you start reading those blogs.If you don’t agree with what they have written ,write a post on it on your blog noting the negative points of that particular post and use trackbacks to ping the posts.Don’t hesitate to air your opinions.But don’t over do it.Be constructive in your criticism,don’t just simply criticize just for the sake of criticizing.Who knows the other blogger may like your post and may link back to you.It’s not that you have to write only when you don’t agree on something the other blogger said.If you genuinely like a post then also you can write a post expressing your appreciation.It’s not for just criticizing or appreciating another bloggers post you need to subscribe.You will get to to know what are the things the leaders in your niche write about in their posts ? what is their style of writing ?What kind of posts people really do like ?Once you build up an audience and become popular it seems whatever you write you will just get comments and views .For example if John Chow writes wordpress has released it’s recent update people will still comment on his post.But if I write that kind of thing right now I think it will be just a waste of time and may be nuisance for the readers.We should be careful initially in what content we write as it may turn the visitor away.We should reserve those news bulletin posts for emergency.

2. Keyword research:I came across this topic while going through a post on copyblogger regarding Keyword research for bloggers.It’s a beautifully written 5-part series explaining how to go about a keyword research in the most simplest of terms.Keyword research can be a great source of ideas for new posts.You can start with some of the free tools I have mentioned in my other post free keyword tools.But if you seriously want to get into keyword research you might consider opting for some payed keyword tool likeKeyword discovery .Keyword research can also help you in better optimizing your site for search engines.
3. Join forums and participate in discussions .Forums are the best places to learn a lot about webmastering and fine tune your skills.You can get various ideas and topics which you might have never come across.You can write about some of the new topics you have found out or about some of the on-going discussions you liked.
4. If you still don’t find topics to write,then make your blog a news bulletin board and publish posts like adsense changed it’s terms and conditions or a new wordpress plugin has been released.It will keep you busy in the mean time while you are searching for posts.

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