A great piece of advice for blogging.

Great advice. It's unfortunate that people focus more on gimmicks than on building solid business models and foundations. The smooth sales letters filled with promises are partly responsible.

Bottom line: There is no magic solutions other than inspiration, imagination and hard work.

I dont know much about Wordpress, but if i could offer any initial blogging advice to beginners... i would say use Blogger.com. It's a plug and play application, and you can setup a blog and customize it within 10 minutes. Plus incorporating adsense on the site is easy too. Plus they rank well in the search engines.

Creation of blog is one of the best way .I am agree with your advice.

content is king, good content that is

This really helps me! Now I know that I have to work harder with my blog to gain more traffic and finally make some converts in sales. I hope to get farther by the end of this month.

It is quite an effective advice. Thanks for sharing it. Then again you might have the formula downpat but if no one reads it, then it is pointless. Aside from customizing my wordpress blog, I make sure that it is also optimized accordingly.

Now THAT is a balanced equation!

Great advice, thanks for sharing. It's so true though, most people end up compromising on at least one of quality, quantity or promotion (normally quality unfortunately) and then they wonder why they are not seeing good results.

Thanks For Sharing Such great Advice.

The main part I feel with blogging is let people feel like keep connecting to our blog and thats why I really agree with your equation. Building Strong Foundations is Really Important these days.

The best way to promote your website or blog , is just write good high quality articles and google will take care of the rest !

Agreed. Proposes an allround popularity formula .

In response to the posts which mention my custom domain claims:

1. Like OP and many others, I would like to believe that quality posts matter. I really would. But 1) I have seen and continue to see awful, non-quality blogs do well, sometimes better than blogs that try to be original 2) some topics are written about and repeated so often there really isn't anything new to say, so the best one can hope for is the same old same old written in new words. IOW there are some topics about which the word 'quality' is irrelevant.

2. The claim that custom domains have been shut down do not impress me and are insufficient to disprove my point (that custom domains are treated different from blogspot domains). If the webmaster puts up either a blogspot or a custom domain using Blogger's standard template they expose the domain to deletion. In the standard template there is a navbar. In the navbar there is a 'report abuse' button. Anyone, be it a business rival or a prankster, can click the 'report abuse' button. Google will then be alerted and might delete the blog as a result of the report. IOW the blog could be deleted because of an abuse report, not because of independent action or policy of the Google/Blogger administration.

3. If Google/Blogger deletes a blog the general rule these days is that all the blog's contents disappear. This becomes a problem for an unprepared webmaster, but not for a prepared webmaster. Blogger has a simple, easily available method to back up blogs. A prudent webmaster backs up her/his blogs regularly so that even if Blogger bans the blog nothing is lost. The webmaster can easily transport the blogs contents to another Blogger blog or to a new WP blog. This operation takes only about 5 minutes.

4. On top of that, I concede that Blogger has the right to set terms and conditions for the use of its services. Fine. But it does not have the right to make your property (the contents of your blog) unavailable to you. Some day some clever class action lawyer will make a lot of money suing Google for its present practice. An analogy: an airline can refuse service to an unruly passenger, but that does not give the airline the right to confiscate the passenger's luggage. Google does not have the right to keep your content IMHO.

5. There is a lot of misinformation out there about Blogger. I find Blogger quite user-friendly and instructive. I have tested the limits of some of Blogger's policies and have found them to be a very useful tool despite their occasional lapses. In my experience their bark is far, far worse than their bite. The misinformation out there in the world about Blogger's bite makes a lot of people avoid something which could be very good for them.

I'll add to the OP's equation.

As popularity increases, the figure for promotion can be reduced. Momentum will take care of it to a larger and larger degree. The quality is a critical factor. Again, the more time spent in a niche, the better the quality without more effort.

The point: stick with a viable niche, build authority and it gets easier. You can spend less time on promotion, and your growing knowledge of the niche makes generating quality content easier.