I am trying to find a good blogging site where I can actually get viewers or readers to view my blog. I have tried blogspot and live journal with no real success. Does anyone know of any good sites where I can actually blog and get readers? Another thing is any tips to get readers to your blogs? Should you follow a theme or how do you need to advertise or if you keep posting will they come to you?
You can use wordpress. It is search engine friendly. Blogspot is brilliant for getting easy traffic but in the long run wordpress is better. To get more visitors keep adding backlinks and keep writing good posts. It is only then that you can gain real followers.
Weebly is a good blog platform. You should focus on your content. You should blog about something that you like doing and is passionate about. It really makes a difference.
for the free option wordpress is not even close to blogspot. Blogspot is crawled way better now too. It used to be wordpress.com blogs until they added nofollow tags to all tag and category links from the wordpress.com blog search pages. Even then, you couldn't monetize your wordpress.com blog like you can a blogspot blog. i'm posting this because i recently did alot of comparisons when i just set up my workout blog project on blogspot. If you look at it, you can see that blogspot allows for perfectly simple blogs which you can monetize. You can do alot more than i have with it, but im just now getting around to trying to post more to see what kind of search engine traffic will come. you can also get viewers and subscribers, but i have not implemented a site button to do so. most people who use firefox just use the feed button in the nav bar. The subscribe buttons in my mind are a waste of real estate.
Wordpress and some SEO plugins (All in one SEO Pack, Adsense All in One, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.. etc) is the best way to go.
Which platform you blog on has little to do with how many readers you get. Once you set up your blog, whether or not it is popular is up to you and your SEO, promotion and marketing skills. It doesn't matter what we suggest, if you don't do those things, you will still have no readers.
[No offense] If you can't get traffic to a Blogspot/Blogger blog, then Wordpress, or any other site won't change anything. Traffic has nothing to do with the blog platform (anything can be tweaked for SEO). A good way to get traffic to your blog is to: 1) Find the most active forum on the net for your niche. 2) Add your blogs URL to your forum Sig. 3) Be an active (& legit) member in that forum, know what your talking about in your niche forum, & blog readers/subscribers will follow.
According to me you must try word press or blogger blogger and word press have large no. of user so if you provide interesting content then you must get a good amount of traffic
using wordpress it's really help for seo and get index from google my experience : after 1 day i buy a domain and setup for wordpress blog and then 2nd day my blog already index by google...without install any of plugin..just wordpress default theme
Why don't you start wordpress. Its the best and the only blogging technique I've ever used. Lol!! I never wanted to try anything else once i used Wordpress.
wordpress is recomended - SEO friendly, always updated ur blog, leave comment in do follow site (backlink) to get advantage google index