How to create a popular blog?

Three points for a successful blog:

 Technology Edge, Original Fluency, and Social Connection

(Photo credit: Vin Crosbie)

I am a successful blogger with a well-read blog ahsannabi.com . I enjoy 80 - 100 visitors per day on good days of blog reading. I even have rare blog nomination for WordAds, hundreds of subscribers and forefront Google Ranking. How did I achieve all this. Three points: Technology, Fluency and Connection

Technology

First of all choose a blog application as a Content Management System (CMS). Some of the more popular blog creating applications are Blogger from Google, Joomla and Wordpress . A mature blog creating CMS contains customized themes for displaying the contents and design in a wide variety of ways with flavours and colours suited to the blog purpose. Some good examples of themes are Socialia for Social Welfare Organizations, Minimatica for company main product line, Colorful for displaying a company profile, and many available as free and purchaseable versions.

The quality of a theme or a component used in a blog depends upon its reusability. The more popular a component, the more its rating in stars. If frequent users of a component in a blog do not feel satisfied with that component, they will simply uninstall it hence decreasing its popularity scale and rating.

A blog has many popular components or plugins listed in CMS like

Calendar, RSS Feeds
News Feeds, Subscribers List
Share Buttons, Social Networking Plugins, Games, Tag Cloud, Search Engine Optimization Plugins

Fluency

A 'Two Way' Whiteboard at Newhouse III (Photo credit: Vin Crosbie)

A good blog is a easy-to-read blog. A better blog is an attractive blog. The best blog is as captivating as it can be. Based on the topic, the blog should cover all the main points required for the justification to the topic in a simple, lucid style. On the internet, people do not have much time to read as in a book. Writing-a-blog style is often personal, funny, appealing to the senses, in a small shell, BEAUTIFUL!

Main points of the blog should stand out, possibly in bullets, or subheadings, with some hanging indented extractions of text and occasional quotations. Any images or illustrations should often be mentioned in detail. A picture is worth a thousand words. Make your words speak with an illustration and make your illustration prove your words.

There are ways how to achieve fluency.

1. Increase your typing speed.
2. Follow your instincts
3. Write from your experience and knowledge
4. Write different and interesting
5. Get the knack of explaining away complex issues simply
6. First look at a picture and describe
7. First read a story and narrate
8. First make a decision and show pros and cons
9. First make an opinion and then quote
10. Always be yourself

Connection

As you grow your blogplant, you get encouraged by more and more visits. Just dont shy away. Open up. Follow comments, respond, off course to non-spams. After you reach a maturity and volume in your writing and originality, advertise your blog. Go to facebook, twitter, and other social networking sites. Join different groups. Post something relevant about your blog. For this join relevant groups and social networking pages.

Identify the main keywords of your blog and highlight them, link them to wikipedia definitions and other google cross references. This is linking strategy for better blog visiting. A rule of thumb: For every hundred backlinks on your blog, you earn one backlink of your blog by someone else without asking him! Thats my experience. Dont worry if your backlinks are not that effective. Let the tools help you out. Wordpress has its own backlink and tagging engine. If you want to add the same into any blog content management system that does not support autolinking, just copy-paste the html from Wordpress into that blog. Simple. Make both ends meet.

Wordpress, Technorati, GBC stickers (Photo credit: Titanas) 

Always keep copies of your blogs. Copying is allowed in blogs. You may quote from other blogs. Just mention references. That's it.

Finally, once your blog is really popular, with towering statistics, own a domain. Get some advertisements and make money on its own!

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Among the trendy Cloud Computing Platforms, Amazon Web Services is going as the best. We will see today how much have these platforms performed in the cloud competition.

Amazon offers PHP Applications, Windows Azure, and its own flavored additions of Hadoop and other Web Services for shared distributed computation costs across operating systems and cross language with enormous documentation. Amazon has presence in Mobile, Web and Social Applications. Major and minor brands have had successes and topping up profits through Cloud Based Applications in Amazon. For example, Samsung  introduced its Smart Hub Application and within a short span made profits of US $ 24 million or more. Washington Post increased its reader base by more than half through its WaPo Labs presence on Amazon clouds. They introduced Social Reader App on Facebook which coordinated with other social apps with Amazon as Data Engine as base. The smaller to larger enterprises could scale up or down by the press key of a command line. Among the many products and services of Amazon.com, the most popular in Cloud Platforms are EC2,   MapReduce, and LoadBalancing for Computation Flexibity; Amazon Relational Database Service, SimpleDB and DynamoDB for Database cost-cutting-edge, and other Search, Storage and Networking Services.

Google is fast becoming the ubiquitous freeware of bigdata associated with the largest email and search engine group. The App Engine of Google is enhancing business consumer experience. It allows programmer and data customization for user friendly Web Applications over the Google Platform.Currently the most popular Google Web Apps employing cloud's big data are GMail, Google Search for general and specific types of documents and App Engine with their Advanced Programmer Interfaces, Google Docs, which has recently shifted to Google Drive, a desktop application to synchronize online Google Docs files. Google aims to reorganize the untapped world of books, scholarly articles, newsgroups, images, business and industrial documentation, etc. It has this philosophy of being an informal user friendly interface for all the informational needs.

Salesforce.com is another advanced business-purpose suite employing cloud technology to enhance the business presence over the new web of cloud environments. It has its own robust servers and a lot of customization facilities for business based applications.The Cloud capabilities of salesforce.com spread to Sales, Marketing, Chat Support, Human Resource Management, Help Desk Services, and other customized Web Applications based on single or multiple user platform. Major giants like Cisco and Symantec have employed Salesforce for its services. In a recent survey, Salesforce confirms its commitment to increased user satisfaction, speedy case resolution, and efficient information access. Hence popularity among new leads and retention in customers relation creates more revenue and sales productivity. Salesforce is ideal for well-established businesses that want a comeback into the market competition to get the major market share.

Google App Engine has some of its sister open source ventures, one is AppScale. It also has coding and debugging independence of customization. AppScale also supports MapReduce, Hadoop, and any cloud API that can support Ubuntu Lucid Image. The brains behind AppScale are from IBM Research, National Science Foundation and other state bodies.