In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

I have a list of top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers created by Yaro Starak of BlogMastermind. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who, like me, have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

Yarak states, it helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what he called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

To make his list a lot more easier to read. I've broken it down into a 3-part series. I've found that things are much easier when broken down into smaller chunks, don't you agree? Here are tips 8 through 10 tips by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my new blog mentor (point of disclosure I purchased his mentoring program last week.)

Top 10 Powerful Blog Traffic Tips (#10, 9 and 8)

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

A technique that I use, from reading the book "Getting Things Done" by Robert Allen, is what he calls, "batching."  I block time every day, to write at least four 300 to 600 word articles. This has helped me stay ahead of the game.  In a future article, I will let you know the program I bought at Best Buy, that has been very helpful with writing.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

An example of this would be like my new blog on golf called www.ThePhoenixGolfer.com

I've started www.ThePhoenixGolfer.com blog a few weeks ago, and I'm going to put in place these exact strategies and more. I'll keep everyone abreast of how it progresses by way of page rank from Alexa.  Last night, my blog rank was around 5.3 million.

I've been doing the blog thing for awhile, but I've decided to really step-it up a notch and treat it as a business. I hope you enjoyed these 3 tips. However, if want more tips? Here you go.

Blog Responsibly,

Kendall Matthews

www.StressLessHomeLoan.com

P.s. You can find page rank of different webiste by visiting Alexa.com

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