How to get Popular and Monitore it.

We all like being popular, right? And if not, I'm sure positive attention is always well received.

Well, how about making your blog popular? Would that interest you? You're probably thinking, "Geez, what kind of advice can YOU give me??". True. My blog is not Paul Krugman's (he has a very good blog on economics which he writes for the NY Times). But if I wanted to I could make it just as good as Krugman's.

Here are the basic tools for popularity:

• Use Twitter to promote your blog
  
• Use Facebook to promote your blog
  
• Use every social media you can think of to promote your blog
  
• Leave your blog link everywhere you possibly can
  
• Comment on other blogs and tweets and leave a link back to your blog (the more you do this the better)

But now comes the tricky part. How do you know you are getting popular? Checck your Google Analytics, duh!

Marshall Kirkpatric wrote an article on the stats of how Monica Rankin achieved popularity. From what I understood from the article the best time to post a blog piece is 12pm and the worst is 4pm. Of course if you are already established as a hot blogger time doesn't matter.

So? Are you ready to get popular? Good luck!