Blogging: Tips for a successful post

As a relatively new blogger, I am still learning what are good topics to blog. One of the metric I used to see how I do is the data https://blogs.msdn.com provides about how many people read my post (Aggregated and normal).

Krzysztof and I had a nice long discussion about this over coffee one day. Our conclusion is that it's all in the title. That's the basically the blogging world's one liner advertisement. On the BCL blog, we found that Krzysztof's post "What if we give you $100" has one of the highest hits since the relaunch of the BCL blog. Therefore, like all marketing schemes, titles that hints at giving money away always works. :)

Here is my theory on how to create a success post:
1) Discuss a topic that many people wants to hear about
2) Provide value in your topic that cannot be found any where else
3) Provide a forum for discussion
4) In your title, include anything that relates to money i.e "Win $10,000" or "What if we give you $100"

As a reader, what do you look for? As a blogger, what tips have you picked up?

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 17, 2006
  I look for quality and consistency on the topic

• Anonymous
  April 17, 2006
  Hi Eber,
  
  I agree with quality, but I would say it more concretly like.. "Every post should have value." However, some of the topics requires quite a bit of homework, like my string format post. An annoucment post like Rotor 2.0 ship have value, but require less homework. Do you include annoucement post as "quality" posts?
  
  Kathy

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2006
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• Anonymous
  April 18, 2006
  sure there is some value on announcements, but then I get another 50 blogs with the same thing, so I don't know
  
  on the other hand, if you follow up with some stuff about it, then it adds value with consistency (and hopefully quality)

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2006
  I just try to get as many search terms as possible in my titles so people can pick them up easily on search engines. That is where I get most of my hits from, and that is my target audience.

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2006
  Hey Kevin,
  
  That's really funny! :) Our blogging title should follow the spammer's tactics.
  
  How do you like this title?
  "How to make $1 million dollars with BCL APIs". :D
  
  Now seriously, I personally find it more fullfilling to establish a loyal readership rather than depending the one off "google keyword" to get me my readers. This way, we can have conversation and discussions! :)
  
  I think my readers will leave if I have too many post falsely promising get rich quick or diet schemes!
  
  Cheers,
  Kathy

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  June 13, 2006
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