How to Be Successful in IndiBlogger?
Friends as you all know that I am an active member of some blogging communities like IndiBlogger and BlogAdda, though I am not that much active on BlogAdda, but then I truly love spending time on IndiBlogger. You all know how much we (me and my wife as well) enjoys the IndiBlogger meets, and as I mentioned in many posts of mine that it truly gives a pleasure to be the part of such a nice blogging community.
Those who are active on IndiBlogger must have seen some of my blog posts on the home page of the site. Many newbie bloggers who joins IndiBlogger has a desire of getting that famous badge of Top Post on IndiBlogger. Even when I joined IndiBlogger, for some good time I was not sure about how people are getting this badge.
Then when I came through the concept of IndiVine, then I realized how important it is to have friends or network on that site to reach to the top.
How can I get success in blogging communities like IndiBlogger?
I guess, many bloggers has this question whenever they join any blogging communities like IndiBlogger, Blog Adda, etc.
Basically I am an active member at IndiBlogger, and many other bloggers says me that I am a powerful blogger over there (OMG I am feeling a bit proud of myself, but please don’t call me proudy), and hence decided to write a blog post to guide others so that they can also become successful there.
It is a fact that all these blogging communities runs on a principle of sharing, and voting. You can share your own blog post with other bloggers and you can also vote for other blogger’s contribution. The basic concept behind all these blogging communities’ sites is to build a community of bloggers who can check your blogs and support them.
Today only I went through one blog of one of my IndiBlogger friends Roohi Bhatnagar, Thank You IndiBlogger, and I found that she has exactly the same thoughts as of mine about IB. Although by the grace of God, my blog’s traffic was quite good before I start participating in IndiVine, but then true satisfaction of blogging can only be felt when like minded people will read your blog and share their opinion with you. And these feelings came only after I started participating in IndiVine of IB.
So first let me guide you how IndiVine program of IndiBlogger works:
IndiBlogger is a place basically for Indian bloggers, who can have a blog. It is not a place through which you can blog like sites like wordpress and blogger but it is a place where you can share your blog and encourage others.
IndiVine is a program of IndiBlogger through which any blogger can submit their blog posts (mind it only their own blog posts) under proper category and can participate in the blogging community there, can vote other bloggers post and can also report irrelevant blog posts and thus can also participate in some of the drives being run by IB team.
Saying all this is quite simple. But in fact doing this is also quite simple than saying. You can yourself experience this quite easily.
But then it is not like that simple to reach to the home page of the IndiBlogger. You simply need to get so many votes that your post can reach to the top 9 posts of the day. Please mind the time frame associated with it, you only have 24 hours after submitting your posts to reach to the top 9. Although you can reach to the top 10 slot and you can reach to the home page too, but then you won’t get the badge for it.
You all know that nothing is impossible in this world. To get the badge you must need to reach to the top 9 posts over there, and here are the ways to do the same:
Before you start thinking about getting the desired success over there, first thing which you need is to target to get the IndiRank of around 40+ over there, this way your blog will get some star value on IndiVine.
Now you might ask me what are the differences of having a star value or not?
To be very frank, there are chances that people with 40+ stars or IndiRank over there will get 2 votes count of one vote, while the same is not true for those who have either fewer stars or having no star.
So in case of my blog having no star or fewer stars will have to get around 30 votes from 30 bloggers to ever reach to the top 9. On the other hand if my blog is having 75 star value, then I will have to get the same 30 votes but I can get those from only around 16-18 bloggers voting for my post.
Is not that sounds good? Yes it is that simple.
But to get IndiRank is not that much easier. You need to be regular on your own blog, you need to get good Alexa Rank on your blog, you need to get good MozRank of your blog and then with some other criteria’s like your blogs feed, etc. IndiBlogger will assign a rank to your site.
So you had the star now and you are now ready to share your blog posts there, but then it simply does not means that you should start sharing all your blog posts daily. I have seen many people out there who use to share more than 2-3 posts and that too without taking much time.
My suggestions to every bloggers are that you should share only one blog posts from your blog on daily basis at IB. If you want to share more than one blog posts then my suggestions will be either you should share your second blog posts when your post reach to the top 10 or give some gap in between the two posts.
It is like you can maintain a gap of around 12 hours if you want to post two blog posts.
The reason why I am saying this to you all is that if you share more than one blog posts of yours; other bloggers will prefer to check only one out of them. It will be rare that your second or third post will get some attention.
IndiBlogger is a community website, and these websites are simply successful only because users over there get a fair chance to develop network of friends and interact with them.
If you really want to be successful over here with your blog posts, you must need to develop a network of powerful and good people from there. Just telling you how you can do so?
Go through the posts which are coming on top, and check the profile of the person who is the owner of those blog, there are high chances that when you add them in your network you will get the positive response from them also.
Do interact with them with the help of IndiMail or through twitter and personalize your relationship with that blogger. This is one of the basic needs of developing a good network over there.
Once you have a network of some good and active people over there, the second most important thing is to help people from your network to reach to the top.
You might say me that these ways are not we increase the votes of our own competitors?
Believe me to get something you will have to give a lot to others. And this is the principle of nature in our real life as well.
One thing which you can clearly understand after seeing the top posts of IB, those who are continuously reaching there on top are those who are one of the top voters over there. They won’t ever miss any blog posts to check from their network. Did you ever found any bloggers blog on home page who never votes for any other bloggers post?
I don’t found any of that type. With the help of some good followers they might be able to get some votes, but those votes will not be that much which can even bring them to the top of the IndiBlogger.
So ideally if you want to get 1 votes for your post, you should vote for around 5-8 bloggers post. Try to check all the posts of your friends, I mean those who are into your network.
Be sure of the quality of the people whom you are adding into your network. Don’t add those who use to post crappy posts over there.
You already had a good network over there, and you start getting so many votes for your posts, but it simply doesn’t means that you should sit idle now. You need to go through new posts as well and try to get some quality posts from there. Do vote for them and try to include those bloggers into your network.
This way your network will start increasing day by day. And good quality bloggers are coming on your networks, which will then boost your own posts.
The last but not the least tips of mine are related to timing. As you know how important the role of timing in any sports is, be it cricket or football or badminton as well.
Similarly timing of your submission plays a crucial role over here. You cannot get success if you are not getting around 15-20 votes within 10 hours of your submission. It simply means that you need to be sure while submitting your posts that around 20 bloggers will either active that time, or will be active within next few hours.
This you can judge by seeing the trends of the submissions of your friends (I mean people from your network). You can be sure within a few days that this particular time slot is the one in which most of my friends remain online.
Second thing you can realize this that there are some times of the day when a submission can even reach to the home page with only 20 votes, while there are times when it will not even reach there with 40 votes too. It all depends on competition.
So you just need to identify that particular time when competition is less and your post can reach to the top.
I guess these many tips are quite fair enough for your blog post to reach to the top of the IndiVine and IndiBlogger. Though it might be possible that I might be missing some points or something important, if you know any of them same, you can share them in the form of comments and this way my readers will be able to know those too.
And yes, there is one more very basic and most important things which many people miss, is of not having a profile picture over there. Mind it that they take it from your gravatar.com account, so please don’t let it be blank or irrelevant. Submit your own pictures on gravatar.com accounts of yours and see the magic.
Please don’t hesitate in sharing your thoughts on this blog post of mine. I will waiting for your comments.
A very useful article. I am a member at indiblogger since more than 6 months but I did not know all these things and many other bloggers also may not be knowing all these things. Thanks to Alokji for bringing such an important information in the knowledge of the blogging community.
Thank you Sampat Jee, I was thinking about writing this blog post since many months, but really did not get the time to finish it. Even after finishing the write up I am coming up with some points which I will include in the post soon.
Thanks
without disagreeing with you as a blogger since 2004
I believe if you are good you will be read recognized.
Post original content , use a mobile phone shoot
your own pictures ,,, read other peoples posts
encourage newbies and you will become a
good blogger
Stay Blessed
Thank you Firoze Shakir 🙂 It is a real pleasure that you liked the post and shared your thought with us. I am really delighted. Yes you are absolutely correct 🙂
Sir, Thanks for sharing this information. Very nice post. I still remember my first Top post badge. Everytime whenever I get that badge…. feel amzing to see top post badge and blog post on Indiblogger home page.
Thank you Deepa for sharing your comment over here. Yes you said it right that it feel truly amazing to get that badge. 🙂
Thats a nice one Alok, Even I have indiblogger indispensable for my site. Of late it is providing me close to 30% of my traffic. I did try with BlogAdda, but I am not able to get great results for my time there. Any suggestions on how to improve the presence in BlogAdda would be really helpful :).
About indiblogger, youve put it out spot on. I did make a lot of experiments with Indiblogger to come to a certain stage now which makes me feel very good to be posting articles up there. The one post per day has a great possibility of getting your post to the top of the page. Please do lemme know how you can add that badge of “Top Post on Indiblogger” to the particular articles on our page. I was thinking if that could help increase credibility. I have also sometimes tried with 2 posts per day, well spaced out which can give a lot of traffic sometimes.. I think its a beautiful platform for us 🙂
Yes Vinay, truly speaking I too analyzed that BlogAdda is not an easy place to do simple things and get results. On the other hand IndiBlogger is the most simplest place to do simple thing, i.e. blogging and to get the limelight.
Thanks a lot for sharing such a valuable comment with us. 🙂
A very detailed post.
Thank you Lancelot Quadras for your visit and comments over here. 🙂
Thanks for sharing !!
You are most welcome Veena, thanks for your comment 🙂
Thank you for the helpful tip. No wonder you are rated a powerful blogger.
Thanks a lot Abhijit, I am really thankful that you consider me as a powerful blogger 🙂
must say…they were useful tips…:-)
Thank you Issac. I am really delighted that you found them useful. 🙂
You have shared all the points so nicely, Alok.
Very helpful for a newbie 🙂
Even I took a long time to figure out how to get the Top Post Badge! 🙂
Thanks a lot Anita for your comment. You know what the days when I was trying to reach to the top you too were with me and truly you reached to the top very soon than any other person, simply because you did everything right over there and I noticed all those things and hence this blog post is there with all those points. 🙂 So the credit of this blog post somehow goes to you too.
Finally, I read your post 🙂 Thanks a lot Alok for being so generous to share your secrets 😛 The rank point is an important info for me and rest also will be helpful.. I shall now focus with a renew energy to become top indiblogger as I really feel happy to be in the bloggers community.. thanx again dear friend 😀
The pleasure is entirely mines Roohi. Best of luck to you. 🙂
Dear Alok, You have been the friend, philosopher and guide for so many people. Well documented all the points a aspiring blogger need to keep in mind. Timing does matter. Thanks for being there with your support.
Thanks a lot Jayanta 🙂 I am really thankful to you for all these generous words.
Thanks Alok this is a must read for all INDIBLOGGERs 🙂
Thank you Ananya 🙂
Good post. I am new to indiblogger and network is an important asset.
Thank you Shiva 🙂
Really Great Post Alok Keep it up!
Thanks a lot Payal 🙂
Right Alok..I agree with you on almost all the points 🙂 Besides that we need to be original and write some quality posts. This post of yours should really prove helpful to all new bloggers…. 🙂 superbly written . IB do provide us that platform which is very much needed .
Thanks a lot Maniparna. 🙂 You said it absolutely right that beside all these points we need to be original and write some quality blog posts to get success over there on IndiBlogger.
Dear Alok, I am a new blogger, this article was very helpful for me. Thank you for writing it. I also like the way you write, its simple clean, easy to follow.
One of my reasons of having my blog is to connect to more people, I don’t want the badge or anything, so I can be fully generous in giving votes 🙂
Hey Jyoti, first of all thanks and welcome on I News India, I did checked your blog and I must say it is an awesome blog. It is a concept on which I too wanted to work, but unfortunately did not get the chance to work. My idea was to provide the platform for those NRI brides who has some issues with their marriages, and were looking for help while they are abroad.
Though I must say you are also doing fabulous job, and I really love making friendship with such people. I would be going to add you on IndiBlogger.
I am also fully generous in giving votes on IndiBlogger 🙂 The only thing is that I must like the post.
A very informative post with good detailing.
Thanks a lot qwnaqvi, I am really delighted that you found it as an informative post. 🙂
Hmmm interesting facts and I second you on the tips shared …since you are a techie can you please tell me how do you configure indistar with a particular post on blogger ?
Hi Alka, thanks a lot for your comment over here. I am feeling glad that you liked it. Hope you had your response about the IndiStar?
Hello Sir,
There are only a few authors who write about IndiBlogger. But I guess, IndiBlogger has given the newbies (like me) the perfect platform to promote the blog, to share the views. Thanks to IndiBlogger and thanks to you for sharing such a mind blowing article.
Thank you Niladri, I am glad that you liked this post of mine. It is true that I in fact did not found any blog or article on such things and this is the reason why I started preparing this blog. Though I started writing it a few months back only, but unfortunately unable to collect the points which I was thinking everyday. During those one and half months time my tablet was in service center and whenever I was thinking about points, I always failed to note it down. And hence became a bit late in publishing it. But anyways, I am excited with the feedback which I received for this blog post. Thanks once again for considering this blog post as a good one. 🙂
Truly awesome post. I am really a new person in the field of blogging and joined IndiBlogger recently. I was just wondering about how can blogs got so many votes that it reaches to the home page of IndiBlogger. It is a nice post to get the ideas about how indiblogger works and how to get success over there. Will try to implement them..
Thanks a lot Sandeep, I am really glad that you liked it so much and will also implement them. I am really too excited to know that many bloggers liked this blog post of mine. 🙂
Wonderful & much needed gyan for me as I noticed few things already here & for me the time difference also is crucial as I have to follow IST not EST. I like flow of your thoughts,feels like I am sitting in front of you & listening to your tips as a student 😀
I have to share few of your blog posts to my blog, I have tried to assemble my blog to my best capabilities but don’t know the concept of Blogroll, Meta & back-links yet 🙁 plz share with me your post link if any to read & refer to my technical snags. Thanks. good wishes.
Ah that is so sweet of you Ruchi. I am really delighted that you liked them.
As I mentioned about timing, it is not about time zone which you are following, but it is about the time when most of your friends are online and you can get their votes quickly. There was a time when we were active on Digg (way back around in 2007-08) and our target was to get maximum votes within one hour of the submission of the news over there.
Hope I will be able to guide you for Blogroll, Meta & back links etc. in my blogs in coming days. Meanwhile I will suggest you to check these blogs of mine:
https://www.inewsindia.com/2014/02/26/10-common-blogging-mistakes-to-avoid-by-bloggers/
https://www.inewsindia.com/2014/04/22/top-10-reasons-to-start-blogging/
https://www.inewsindia.com/2014/06/09/basic-tips-for-newbie-bloggers/
Hope you will find them informative and useful 🙂
Very useful for me.. I mean I have wanted to be at the Top forever but never been there…
Maybe time crunch is there but many things I didnot think over as mentioned above.
Great one.. I mean I have always wanted to be on that NUmber One position but my post has never been Number One..
Maybe time crunch is there but many useful points above will help me to be there.
Thanks!
Thank you so much Manjulika, I am glad that you liked this post of mine. I guess it is one of my best blog during recent time. 🙂
Aha! I have seen your posts so often among the top posts and I was wondering how you regularly get there. I must say it is very generous of you to share these tips. Am not sure I have the patience to do all it takes to get to ‘pole position’. Have realized though that one needs to spend much more time networking as our aim is to reach out to people and IB helps with just that. So, it was good to discover one more good connection – you!
Thank you so much Vibha, I am glad to get connected with you. It is a pleasure of mine that you liked my blog post. You actually said the truth that it actually require times and patience to do all these, and IB is one of the finest medium to connect us with like minded people.
I am really thankful to you for your appreciation 🙂 Thank you so much Vibha.
A Very useful article. Thanks a Lot 🙂
Thank you so much Ranjini 🙂
As usual useful post ..”Believe me to get something you will have to give a lot to others. And this is the principle of nature in our real life as well”. LOve this statement..:)It is true..
Thank you so much Remya. 🙂 I am extremely delighted that you liked it.
Alok, what an article!!! maza aa gaya padhkar….. thank u for writing such a useful article…
Am really glad that you liked it Bindu 🙂 Thank you so much for appreciating 🙂
I have been using Indiblogger from last year, I didnt know many important tips of using it, which you shared here. Thanks a lot for sharing these tips.
Thank you so much Sapana. I am really delighted that you liked it so much.
Good Information for IndiBlogger Users. These tips really help the blogger to work on IndiBlogger.
Every beginner should follow these tips, Thanks for Sharing!
Wow, a nice document for Indivine success. I was always wondering why some posts earn double votes, and others single. Now I know. No wonder people call you powerful blogger in IB 🙂
Powerful Blogger 🙂 It is a nice complement Maheshwaran, thank you so much. Although, it was past, but will soon be active on IB too.