This article is for those blogger, who have a website but they are struggling to make it successful. You need to learn the following basic things to make a website successful.
1.Basic SEO
If you are not a SEO expert, then stills you can rank your website higher in the search engine for a particular keywords. You have to remember the following points to do this:
- Include sitemap
- Avoid duplicate content
- Proper use of H1, H2 and H3 tags
- Use Google Analytic to gain insight on what works and what not for your website
- Include Meta title and keyword tags
- Read the Google SEO Starter guide (PDF)
- Use robot.txt
- Use relevant images to your content
2.Design
Besides offering quality content you will need some beautiful graphics to make your website unique from others. Always do not use paid-themes that are available on the internet for other to buy. Instead hire someone to design a unique website for you. A simple and unique look will be good for starters.
3.Content(Useful, informative and easy to understand)
If you offer unique, informative and easy to understand information with good images into it, chances are that you get some good quality back-links, social media exposure and higher ranking in SERP. On internet everything is about information. If you provide good and quality information chances are that you get more and more traffic on your blog.
4.Speed
Make your website to load as fast as possible. This is very important for both user experience and SEO factor. Following things to remember:
- Use good server
- Optimizes your images
- Use CDN for static content
- Avoid flashes
- Minimize the use of JavaScript
You can also take the help WordPress caching plugin for reducing your website loading time.
5.Promotion
Promoting your website is very must to gain traffic on your sites, but don’t be a spammer. Following things to remember for promotion:
- Use Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest or any other social media to promote your websites
- Comment on the other blogs realted to your niche
- Guest posts on other established blog
- Be active on forums
6.Competitors
First make the list of your competitors related to your website. After that look at their activities like who is linking to them, SEO types, which CMS (Content Management Software) they use, which promotion technique they use on their website and so on. After that, do all these activities but in a better and different ways so that you can stand out from your competitors.
7.Monetization
After sometime when you got good traffic, use your website for monetization purpose. Place ads (CPC, CPM) on your websites.
Selling your own products (e-books, coding, coaching)