How to Make Your Blog Stand Out?

There are some blogs that are so strongly branded that all you have to do is check out the logo on their Facebook page, and you’ll know exactly what website it represents. When you’re able to create that type of brand synchronicity in your blog niche, readers will automatically check out your blog whenever they have any questions related to your industry.

To begin branding your blog, start with the basics. Make sure that your blog has consistent design on each page, including all of your social media profiles. Even though using the same colors, font, and images may seem subtle, your readers will automatically recognize your style no matter where you post a link to your content.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that your logo needs to be elaborate and expensively designed. But you do need to choose a logo that will best represent the niche of your blog, using the same fonts and colors from your blog theme. When you use this logo on your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles, people will soon begin to recognize your blog based on this icon alone.

One of the biggest problems I see for bloggers who are trying to monetize or business trying to start blogs to promote their products/services is the lack of a mission or goal.  It will be difficult to grow your blog and reach out to more followers if you don’t have a consistent vision or mission statement. You will likely try to put too many irons into the fire at once and will confuse your identity.

If you have an interior design blog to promote your company, then perhaps readers visit your blog to find insider design tips and do-it-yourself posts that they can’t find anywhere else. If your mission is to give readers easy tutorials in design that are hard to find online, stick with it. Readers will soon begin to recognize that you are living up to your claims and will become loyal visitors of your blog.

“Branding” doesn’t have to lead to goals outside of your blog either. If you brand yourself well, it’s easier to find “your people” – the readers who really connect to you and your ideas. A well-branded blogger typically has more loyal fans who will, in turn, comment, subscribe, make purchases, share content, and more.

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How to Enable Author Profile Snippet.........

I am not asking you to get into the number game, but there are fewer options left. However, if you do not like my casual and carefree approach, here is something diplomatic for them. Take it this way – you are writing great content and that means, large number of people will find it good and will give link back it and some even become your follower in Google + because of your creative prowess.

So, this will lead to more followers and the increase in followers can easily be equated in increase in visibility in SERP when searchers are logging in. If some of the posts of your website manages to get some Google +, it will do more good to your website and a visible difference in SERP is likely to be seen soon. So, produce great things, resources, info-graphics, images, videos and Google + users will start loving you.

Google’s latest authorship markup is making its search page look super hot with the images, names and followers of respective author incorporated. If you have a blog, you can claim your position in SERP with all the niceties added.
All you need to do is to create a profile in Google and once you are done with profile creation process, you can stage ahead with adding the link reference of your Author Page profile in your blog in the Contributor To section of your Google + page.
Now, it is time to do some work with your blog. Lets say, your blog page is: http: //www.example.com/blog/my-first-post/ and the author page is: http: //www.example.com/blog/author/My-author-page/
And from the author profile page, you need to add a link back to Google + profile page of yours. You need to use the below code for hyper-linking:
Google+
When you are done with it, make sure you have checked it against Google Rich Snippet Testing tool.
Google obsession with Google + is not anything unknown and that means, you need to have an impressive presence in Google + to see your website securing top ranking in Google. To make your Google Plus presence prominent, you need to place a small piece of code in the source code of your website that will form a cool Google + badge for your website.

This will make it easier for followers to follow your website in Google + and the more the number of followers, the greater the chances of securing top ranking in Search Plus Your World. Moreover, having a prominent position in Google + will certainly have positive impacts on your brand’s social presence.

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