1. Submit articles. There’s no need to go overboard on this if you’re a novice. In fact, the smarter method could be to save your best content to build the body of the blog. Still though, two or three articles on topics within your area of interest that you submit to a couple of directories can really help. The more bylines it is possible to collect for yourself, the better off you are likely to be. Just make sure that the articles are very good.

2. Prior to deciding to put up your advertising, try using a several traffic exchange programs. These programs may also be methods for you to uncover blogs that you would like to read. While you happen to be reading other websites that the system sends to you, the system is giving your blog to other users. Two to one is the common percentage. For just about every two weblogs you read, your blog is sent to one person. People locate you while you locate them. It works wonderfully for anyone involved and can help beef up your stats.

3. Comment on other sites in your niche. Make sure that the comments are well crafted and truly add something to the conversation. Your opinion needs to say a lot more than “good job”. You need the comment to indicate that you have truly read the whole post and that it contains a real opinion. Not only will this get the attention of the weblog operator and other commenter, it could encourage them to also visit your site.

4. Reply to the comments that you receive. You should do this both privately and publicly. When an individual takes time to comment on your blog two things must happen. You should respond to that comment in the comments area on your post so that others will see that you’re continuing the conversation. Second, you need to send the commenter a private e-mail to say thanks to them for taking the time to comment on your writing. This goes a long way to endearing yourself to the commenters plus it motivates new people to contribute as well.

These are all things you can do to boost the popularity and awareness of your blog. There will be more to choose from!

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Google XML Sitemaps: Search engine optimization works best when your website or blog is easily indexed by search engine bots. Using Google XML Sitemaps ensures that your blog is properly indexed, increasing its web visibility.

Statpress: For all your statistics needs! Statpress collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browser and more.

Advertising Manager: Recognises a wide variety of ad networks, including Google Adsense. The plug-in manages and rotates ads on your blog. It can also be used to modify the positioning of advertisements within your blog.

Askimet: Provided by WordPress, this handy plug-in is skilled at catching out spam comments without scaring visitors off with annoying captchas.

Bookmark Me: Bookmarking has become one of the key marketing techniques used by successful bloggers and business owners. Bookmark Me makes it easy for visitors to bookmark your blog for future reference.

Subscribe Me: The Subscribe Me plug-in adds buttons that let your visitors share your content on social media sites such as Bloglines or Google Reader.

SRG Clean Archives: Not only does this plug-in make your archives toolbar look neater and more visually appealing, it arranges it so that it is more search engine friendly.

Simple Feed Copyright: With plagiarism a constant issue on the internet, it is useful to have a simple copyright message at the end of articles and posts. This can help to deter would-be plagiarizers.

No Self Pings: On a professional blog, it may be appropriate to block ping-backs from within your own site.

WordPress Related Posts: This plug-in will automatically insert links to related posts at the end of your article via WordPress tags.

SEO Smart Links: The name speaks for itself.

SEO Slugs: “Slugs” are the part of a web page address that give all or part of the page title. SEO Slugs automatically works out the best slug, by removing small, cluttering words such as “a” “the” “and,” etc.

WP-PageNavi: Gives your blog a more sophisticated paging navigation (ie, numbered pages instead of the standard “older” buttons).

Thank Me Later: Sends an automated email to those who comment on your blog, encouraging them to engage further with the blog. Various features of this plug-in can be manipulated to create a more people-friendly outcome.

WP-DBManager: All your database needs, including back-up, optimization, repair, restoration, and more.

BackType Tweetcount: A plug-in that combines the power of social networking with your blog.

WPTouch: Connect with your mobile audience using WPTouch. It automatically converts your theme into a phone-friendly theme for visitors accessing your blog from their mobile phone.

HeadSpace2 SEO: HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

WP Super Cache: A convenient tool for owners of high-traffic blogs, this plug-in generates static HTML files from your WordPress blog. This reduces the demand on your server, making it faster to download.