Patience is virtue. To be a successful blogger you have to be patient. If nobody notices your blog, ask your friends and family to visit it (you can even bribe them if you want ). It is a nice start. Remember that your main purpose (aside from monetizing your blog ) is to share your thoughts.

Do you know what experts says? Blogging relaxes your mind and helps a person to have a good night sleep. Isn’t that a good reason enough to keep on blogging? Personally, I believe the success of a blog can not be measured by its number of visitors nor by the number of decimals in your paypal account alone, but by the gratifying effect it gives to the blogger.

Never give up!

I believe, when a person starts blogging, his ultimate wish is to make his blog “famous”. Well, I am guilty …who is not, anyway!

But of course, we have to accept the truth – not all blogs can reach stardom, regardless of all the hard work and the effort to make your blog a nice one. Some are just born lucky! I think some will disagree with me. I am just being brutally realistic.

Okey, if you really want to be popular, follow all the blogging tips, write relevant and well written post, SEO your blog, etc. And, don’t forget to advertise your blog.

Well, the truth is my only intention in giving the tip “advertise your blog to social networks” is to gather a fair share of audience. Anyway, isn’t it the main reason why you are blogging, to have someone who will read your posts. If it can help your blog be popular, better!

How are you going to do that?

Think of a nice topic, (eg. Blog about your recent trip to Alaminos). Think of things about Alaminos that will interest your readers, like tourist spots, accommodation details, foods and others. Organize your topic, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to write every details of your trip. Just pick out topics that are interesting and it will also help if you will take time to gather relevant information and make your post more informative, like rooms rates if you stayed in a hotel.

Write it well. English is the common language understood by many. Use it if you are comfortable with the language if you want to draw a large number of readers. If not, how about hiring or asking someone to write it for you? But of course you can always use your native language. Personally, I suggest keeping away from writing post with mixed languages, it is just a little bit confusing.

I guess returning the favor is the key phrase. If you love reading comments on your blog, then surely the blogs you have visited are also eager to hear from you. It takes only a few minutes to post a comment. Just be sure that what you are commenting is relevant to the topic or else your comment will just annoy the blogger and end up being deleted.

And lastly, don’t forget to post a comment on the blogs of readers who commented on you blog, too. It is the best way of returning the favor. Just be sure that the blogs are legitimate and relevant, may I say just skip the spammer?

Reading comments is always gratifying for me. I love reading “relevant” comments on my blog. I remember during my first few days of blogging, it always disappoints me to see that my posts have no comments yet and so when I received my first comment – I was practically ecstatic. I immediately answered the comment of my reader.

Commenting back is a nice way of saying you appreciate their visit to your blog. Also, I think answering questions of your readers is a good way of making them a follower of your blog, not only that you even have the opportunity to meet new friends.

So don’t forget to reply back to comments, okey…

One thing is for sure – personal blogs should reflect the blogger’s personality.  But, since you are sharing it with others, at least be considerate in choosing designs and plugins. Be friendly, choose designs and colors that are not offensive.

Organize your blog! Categorize your topics accordingly. And so if visitors want to read further on certain topics they can easily check out your categories. Use of plugins like recent post and related post is also helpful. If creating links to other site or topic, be sure that your links will open the correct page and are not broken.