8 Steps to Building Your Blog Into a Community

There are other people blogging about the same subject as you, maybe better or maybe worse—but, as you probably have figured out by now, content is no longer king; context is.

Getting repeat readers who become brand ambassadors for you is pertinent to the success of your blog. So is getting repeat customers. It allows you to focus on what you do best: make great art—writing material that people enjoy reading and writing material that will help thousands of people around the world.

All successful blogs are communities and if you want to turn your blog into something special, something that will grant you financial freedom, and something that will help countless people thenyou must create a community out of your blog.

There are a lot of great blog posts about creating communities, but this one is different. The 8 steps I describe below is the exact process I used to build the world’s biggest collaborative blog for personal trainers, in less than 2 years, with no connections and no technological acumen.

Turn Bloggers into Broadcasters

Blogging no longer has to be a text based conversation. Google+ has allowed bloggers to become broadcasters, adding a visual component to each blog post, and all you need to become a “Blogcaster” is a webcam, an internet connection, and Google+.

Understanding the Basics of Google+

Narrow-minded individuals have been quick to dismiss Google+, seeing another Facebook; however, the true functionality of Google+ goes beyond keeping up with friends. This platform offers a unique feature that allows you to live-stream face-to-face video chats to the masses through a feature known as Hangouts.

Google’s Hangout feature is unfolding into a product that is changing how people collaborate and learn, providing real users with the tools and information to accomplish real-world tasks, and the ability to display it for all to see via YouTube.

Email Technique To Bring Attention To Your Blog

It’s safe to assume that you want your blog to succeed, right?

It’s easier said than done, but whenever your trying to market your blog to others, it can be a very discouraging process.  Not only that, as bloggers, we continually suffer from the inability to get in touch with those we aspire to be like.

It’s not that those individuals don’t want to connect with us, but their email inboxes are full to the max and the Internet is flooded with content.  Tough obstacles ahead of us to stand out from the crowd I’d say.

Obviously, email marketing is an effective way to communicate with our readers, but more often than not, a well known blogger is not signed up to your email list.  The thing is…being associated to these well known bloggers in some capacity can help build the authority your blog needs to get attention.

How To Add a Gadget (Widgets) To Your Blog

This post shows how to use Blogger add-a-gadget tool and remove blogger gadgets from our bloggers, It is very easy.
Blogger allow you easily add all type of widgets and gadgets to your blog. You do not have to know any programming to add really nice features, like popular-post, Recent post, Facebook like box, Labels and more.

Make Your Own Favicon In Favico.Com

Favicon In Favico.Com

Maybe all friend already know what is Favicon?? Yapss ... Favicon stands for "Favourite Icon" which is a picture / logo from a website or blog that appears on the browser, the user Blogger - Blogspot by default already has the form of a default favicon icon logo blogger.
Blogger Favicon is an image with the letter B logo with orange color background. If it is too general you can replace it with our own image. Favicon image that can be used is the image format. Ico, Well this time I gave a little tutorial of how to make their own favicon in favico.com.
Favico.com is one site favicon providers, there are many more sites like favicon.cc favicon providers, etc.

Metro Simple Premium Blogger Template Free Download

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Blog Template Name: Metro Simple Blogger Template

Template Type : Free Blogger Template

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Basic Instructions : How to install a Blogger template

Metro Simple is a free premium blogger template with 2 columns, 1 Right Sidebar, 1 Sidebar, 3 Columns Footer, White, Blue, Fixed width, Magazine, Menu Links, Top Navigation Bar, Bookmark Ready, Header Banner, Adsense ready, slideshow, social bookmarking icons, posts thumbnails, tabs, drop down menu and threaded comments ready.

Bringing Google+ Comments to Blogger

Bringing Google+ Comments to Blogger

Google introduced a new comments system for blogger.The feature isn't on by default. but once activated in the Blogger Dashboard, Google+ comments created about a blog post hosted by Blogger can seem aboard comments created directly on the blog without any extra effort from the blog owner.

About Google+ Comments

Google+ Comments is another to the default commenting system on Blogger, out there to blog authors who have upgraded their Blogger profile to Google+. Google+ Comments allows you to bring the following conversations together in one place, right under your blog post:

Comments created on your Blogger blog post
Comments on the blog post that you've shared to Google+
Shared content on Google+ that links to your blog post
Readers will need a Google+ page or profile to comment on your blog.