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My blog is doing really great and many bloggers are really impressed with the achievement of my blog so far. I am also happy with this level of achievement and I am going to be achieving many more great things to come in the future.
This is because I have put in a lot of work into this blog because I am determined to make my blog a success and to educate others on how they can make their blog a success as well.
In this post I am going to share with you what I did to get this blog off to a really great start. Getting this blog to where it’s at now was a lovely but challenging journey.
First Step To My Success
In order to get this level of success you have to take the word free out of my mind. This is the reason why I am on a WordPress self hosted blog. There is nothing better than self hosted and this is one of the 5 common mistakes new bloggers make.
I remember being on free hosting and waking up one morning to find my blog deleted with all my blog posts. All my articles were gone, never to be seen again. So my tip for you is to stay away from free hosting of all sort.
Domains:
I purchase my domain at Dynadot.com, so I recommend you getting a domain there for your blog. Please don’t use free domains.
Quick Tip: When buying a domain name, choose a name close to the niche the that you are going to blog about.
Hosting Packages:
Hosting is very cheap and affordable. Check out these prices below by Hostgator.com
HostGator has hosting as cheap as $4.95
If you order your hosting package now and use this coupon code below. I will give you a discount of $9.94 off the package price.
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Your Blog’s Design
This is a very important part of your blog and basically almost the blog itself. The layout, design and outlook of your blog also helps visitors to like your blog. If you don’t have an appealing look then your readers will hardly want to visit, so this is why it is important for you to have an eye catching blog.
Thesis Theme
WordPress Theme
The WordPress theme that I am using is called Thesis, it is designed by Chris Pearson. Thesis is a great frame work and allows you to customize it very easy with or without the knowledge of HTML or CSS.
You can easily change your layout in 3 clicks, move from 1 column to 2 columns or even a 3 columns theme in just 1 minute.
Click here to watch a demo video.
ThemeSheep
Theme Sheep - WordPress Themes
Themesheep is a WordPress theme and community site that aims to deliver the industries best WordPress themes.
ThemeSheep is all about creating the most beautiful WordPress themes on the web.
Themesheep is a business that a friend of mine, Rob Rammuny, he works with along side with his two business partners Josh & Jeremy. Alongside with delivering the industries best WordPress themes, they have formed a WordPress community for all WordPress lovers and fans.
Click here to check out ThemeSheep.
WooThemes
WordPress themes for everyone
WooThemes was started by 3 respected designers in 3 different countries.
WooThemes is also another great site where you can get an eye catching Word Press theme. Auto Updating the WooFramework is the ability to automatically update the WooFramework from older versions. So you don’t have to download it again when a new version is out, with a few clicks of the mouse you can easily upgrade to their latest version.
They also have tutorials, support forums and theme documentations.
Click here to check out WooThemes.
Must Have Plugins
In order to get your blog off to a very great start there are some plugins that you must install for you to be successful at blogging. I have a list of my favorite 18 plugins, but listed below are the plugins that will get your blog noticed in no time.
- All In One SEO – This SEO plugin will help your blog to rank better in search engines.
Feed2tweet – Automatically tweet post as they are published to my twitter account
Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
TweetMeme Retweet Button – Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.
WordPress.com Stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.
WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
SEO Slug – The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
Blog Posting
Posting is the heart of the blog. Without good blog posts then your blog will die.
When I started blogging in March of this year I wrote 3 post on the first day. Why did I post 3 post on the first day? Well my blog was new and I didn’t want it to look new. So I wanted to fill my blog with post so that my newest visitors think that my blog was off to a great start. The first 3 post that I made got 18 comments, and I was really impressed with this start. I got those 18 comments because I wrote great post which captured my readers mind and this made them leave a comment.
The next day I wrote another great post and that post got a total of 19 comments. Imagine on the first 2 days of blogging, 4 posts with a total of 37 comments. WOW!!! This was really great.
In the first month, March, I made 18 posts and that first month now has a total of 161 comments.
So what I encourage new bloggers to do is to write there best posts in the first month to get your new blog off to an excellent start. Click here to find out how I write such great blog posts and how I develop such great writing technique.
Promotion
Promotion…Promotion…Promotion…
This is also another important role that you have to do on your own if you want your blog to have a successful start. You have to promote your blog from the start as soon as you publish your first few posts.
3 ways to promote a new blog:
- Use Social Media
- Blog Commenting
- Guest Posting
Social media has given me lots of traffic over the 3 months being online, and I am so happy and thankful for social media sites. So I encourage you to make good use of social media.
Blog commenting has also given many unique visitors and good traffic. This is also a great way to get others to notice your blog and to make comments on your post as well. Make a list of the top trafficked blogs in your niche, leave some good comments there and watch your traffic grow.
If you would like to reach new people from other blogs then guest posting is what you should do. Choose other blogs in your niche as well and write a really great post and I bet this will draw people to your blog.
Those tips will surely help you to improve your blog statistics.
Group Discussion
These are this things that I did which made my blogging successful. For every month there is an average of 1 post every 2 days.
How did you start off your blog?
Or, Do you have any other tips for new bloggers who want to skyrocket their new blog?
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June 10, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Yeah.. even it’s a new blog.. we have to enhance it or we’ll waste our time. Don’t wait too long to enhance the site because in blogging and Internet time is very precious where in just a few secs the results could change.
I also use WP-Stats and honestly it helps me a lot!
June 11, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for the comment Nasrul Hanis. You are right, you don’t want to wait too long to sky rocket a new blog. It’s best to start as soon as you launch the blog
June 10, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Great tips, Kharim
. One tip I’d also provide is that when starting a new blog and you are already on a social media site like Twitter sharing your knowledge and expertise there, it helps to skyrocket your blog when promoting cos you are already established there so your followers will visit your blog and become readers, targeted ones at that, and thus bringing great and quality targeted traffic to your blog 
.
June 11, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Thanks for the comment Shirley, and thanks as well for the tip
Great stuff! Seems like you are pretty much together and set. I’ve always thought connecting all of these factors together were the hardest part when starting an online business. Nice post!
June 11, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Thanks for your input Justin Dupre… Thanks for stopping by and reading
June 11, 2010 at 3:22 am
I agree, all in seo pack and google sitemap generator are the most important plugins, great post dude
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June 11, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Hey Kimi
Thanks for stopping by
June 11, 2010 at 6:17 am
Hey Kharim,
Nice Post kharim. Those are awesome tips
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You have really awesome stats man. Keep up the good work bro.
Thanks for sharing this great post. Good Job.
Btw. You Fb profile pic is really looking awesome
~Dev
June 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm
LOL Thanks Dev. These are the stuff that I did to make this blog have a great start and new bloggers can use this as an example to sky rocket their blog as well
LOL You like my FB pic huh… Thanks bro
June 11, 2010 at 9:26 am
Hey Kharim,
Do you have any other promotion tips? I’m especially interested in marketing to a Caribbean audience but it’s been slow to catch on.. I’m on Twitter and I’ve created a FB Fan page so far, but I think I’m being a bit impatient…
June 11, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Thanks for your comment Natalia (@caribiztips)
You have to be patient with blogging and getting to the top. I have checked out your blog, I love your design and I have a few tips for you.
I have some posts coming up, one with how to steal traffic from other sites. So stay tuned for that article
June 11, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Hmm… Sounds great! You’re on my reader so I’ll see it when it’s up
Keep it coming!
June 12, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Sure thing hun
June 11, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Hey Natalia,
From what I have experienced, the Caribbean audience can be a bit stubborn when it comes to dedicated readership. I think you could try guest posting on already popular Caribbean blogs, ensuring that you are providing info that is specifically suited for the host site’s niche. I realize that readers of Caribbean blogs don’t really venture out to find other blogs. So reach out to them on already established carib blogs and offer something useful and new. You could gain some readers this way.
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June 12, 2010 at 7:24 am
Between the both of you I’m sure I’m in good hands
Thanks for jumping in Sam!
June 12, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Really great tip Sam. The Caribbean audience is really hard to please at times, but I guess it’s the way you try to go at it.
June 11, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Really Great and Detailed Post.
Thanks a lot for writing great posts like this.
-Onibalusi
June 11, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for the comment bro, Onibalusi.
June 11, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Great post, Kharim! That’s practically this whole website in a quick post
Excellent tutorial on how to start up a Wordpress blog
June 11, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Yep these are my secret to making this blog it’s best :p
Thanks for the comment Joe
June 13, 2010 at 7:29 am
I couldn’t agree more! Having a self-hosted blog on your own domain is paramount. After all you want to be the one in control of your blog’s destiny, not some free host who has no real interest in your success at all.
Wordpress is definitely the must have blogging platform if you are looking for real flexibility and ease of use. You can’t go wrong when there are so many great themes available choose from, either.
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June 13, 2010 at 10:49 am
Thanks very much Joella for your comment…
WordPress self-hosted is the best…
June 13, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Hey Kharim
Great post ive only started my blog in the last month i got a lot of great advice from this post also some really cool plugins just want to say great work really helpful
Thanks
Davy Norton
June 13, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for reading Davy and I really appreciate your comment
June 14, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I think the best way to skyrocket a new blog is to come up with a strategy that fits well with your own schedule and just STICK TO IT without fail.
I think your promotion tips are great, and if you follow those three simple things (as well as update your blog regularly with GREAT content), all you have to do is just KEEP doing it and your blog will become a success.
Thanks for another great post Kharim
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June 16, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Thanks for your comment Jonathan and your tip
June 15, 2010 at 9:40 am
I have not heard of SEO Slug before. I am going to try out this plugin to see if it can improve serp rankings.
By the way, without common words like a and the, will keywords density become higher?
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June 16, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Guess you need to check it out Paul. Thanks for the comment
June 16, 2010 at 4:45 am
Thanks for give us the formula you are using to sky rocket your blog, it is doing very well. I think time to do all this is the main problem blogger like me used to have, some of us know this things, but the time to exquisite it is very small.
June 16, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Thanks Luqman
Use these tips and you will have a successful start to a new blog
I definitely prefer a self hosted WordPress blog over anything else in terms of free alternatives. You can do whatever you want and you actually own it. It’s pretty cheap to do as well.
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June 18, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Thanks for your comment Tech
June 21, 2010 at 1:18 pm
As somebody who has been at this for a year, I can say you are definitely on the right track. You’ve got some great ideas here. I think connections and community are the key to really growing your traffic. I found that guest posting above all things is the #1 source of traffic and subscribers.
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June 21, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for the comment Srinivas. And you are right on that one
June 25, 2010 at 7:01 am
It took me quite some time to read the whole post, but it was definitely well worth it. I have to agree that if you really want to become successful, going for a paid domain name is a must. Although there are a lot of free blogs in existence that are getting tens of thousands of visitors a day. I have heard a lot of positive feedback on Hostgator and I believe that I will be using it in the near future.
June 25, 2010 at 8:22 pm
True Daniel, this is the longest post that I have written because I wanted to cover all the things that must be done to make a blog successful at start
Hi I have a quick question. How do you promote a fresh new beauty tips blog/website? Where and how?
July 26, 2010 at 8:25 am
You have to post on blogs, or forums in your niche in order to get targeted traffic, or buy ads space on other sites.
July 27, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I have done all of them. For the plugins, I do recommend replace wp super cache with W3 total cache
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August 3, 2010 at 8:16 am
Why do you say that Tinh?
August 1, 2010 at 1:32 am
Kharim, I’m confused as to where you got all those comments from on the first and second posts. Were they friends? New People? Search engine people?
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August 10, 2010 at 1:44 pm
They were new visitors on my blog. Remember I had just launched the blog and did lots of promotion
August 14, 2010 at 8:24 pm
I’m glad I came across this post as I will be starting a new blog for my wife. It is nice to know that others have had success when starting a new blog.
Providing value to your readers and working hard are always good keys to a blogs success.
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August 16, 2010 at 8:14 am
Thanks for the comment Paul, I wish you success for your new blog
October 7, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Great tips. It is always difficult to get a new blog going. thanks
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October 7, 2010 at 4:58 pm
You’re welcome Hunter. Thanks for the comment
January 9, 2011 at 7:59 am
Awesome !
great post for someone like me who is setting up things to become a blogger and will try to share my knowladge on Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
You will see mr around.
January 11, 2011 at 1:26 pm
If you follow these tips then you will never go wrong as a new blogger
This is really a great and effective tips.
And I am also totally agree in your very first point that don’t go for FREE hosting as free are never comes with guarantee so as a results there is always a risk that when your blog will disappear and your all hard work gone dead.
Another tips is also mandatory that -Must have plugins. Plugins are really plays an important role in success of blogs as they works as MAGIC.
Finally this is very informative and inportant post for NEWBIE. I like it very much.
Thanks a lot for sharing such wonderful post with us.
Rest all are basic tips but important also and not to be neglected if you don’t want to loose any LOOPHOLES.
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October 17, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Hmmmm thanks for the long and lengthy comment
Really appreciate it and the tips that you gave
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July 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Great tips, they can really help a newbie get started blogging
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October 17, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for the comment bro
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Hey Kharim,
Brilliant post! you’ve mentioned all the important points and I can figure it out because I often visit blogs and the points you mentioned either draws me to a blog or keeps me away. A lot of newbies who are running blogs can benefit from this post, its loaded with all the right information.
October 17, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Well if you come across any newbies, just refer them to this article
Thanks for the comment
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September 16, 2011 at 9:09 am
Keeping the blog updated with the interesting posts may also do the job for you. Isnt it?
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October 17, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Yep that’s true.
I agree – guest posting always generates traffic in your niche to your blog.
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October 17, 2011 at 5:45 pm
That’s true. Build backlinks, establish a brand, more traffic, etc.
Thanks again Kelli
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October 14, 2011 at 3:45 am
Guest posting has been huge to my success. I recently guest posted on ComLuv, actually six days ago, and the response was great. Over 68 comments on the original post, 30+ new subscribers to my personal blog, and a great traffic spike.
Definitely helps you get your name out there with a new blog – find a high-traffic website accepting guest posts, write some quality stuff, and submit it!
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October 17, 2011 at 5:48 pm
WOW!!! That’s really awesome man, So that is living proof that guest post really works. Keep up the good work.
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January 17, 2012 at 11:27 am
Thank you sir, you explained very nice tips to start our own blog .. thanks for share
QUality blog posts and social media sharing will help any new blog to gain new visitors regularly.
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April 16, 2012 at 10:35 am
Good tips, it’s important to lay the foundations properly in order to prepare for success in the future.
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May 7, 2012 at 9:55 am
Very true … One should never opt for a free domain and host. This is from my personal experience, once I opted for a free domain and after a few weeks I was threatened to pay $$ or else the domain will be deleted.
Also I agree with your words on choosing a theme, plugins and posting frequency.
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May 7, 2012 at 9:58 am
Thanks for the comment. I had a bad experience where my blog got deleted.
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