10 Tips for Blog Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Whether your blog is political or light-hearted, article-focused or image led, every blog needs visitors, because without visitors, your blog is just a space for aimless musings. Attracting a reliable and regular readership can turn your blog into a place of thought-leadership, and of course, the more hits you get, the higher your advertising revenues will be.

But attracting visitors can often feel like a minefield. When you’re competing against an estimated 156 million blogs (according to BlogPulse), how can you pluck random followers out of thin air? Well, it’s not as hard as it first may seem.

A few simple SEO tweaks can be the passport to a whole family of new readers. The majority of blog visitors start out as ‘wandering traffic’, searchers that stumble upon a blog by accident, through keyword searches or via other social media sources. Fundamentally, these visitors are already interested in the topic you are talking about – they are blog-lovers up for grabs.

The key is to make sure itâ€™s your blog they wander onto, and getting your blog seen, let alone read, has become as important as the content it includes.

But don’t panic, we’re not talking about a strategic, multi-layered plan of attack. Just a little SEO awareness and good old-fashioned patience is the key to happy blogging. Here are 10 top SEO tips for all bloggers: [Read more…] about 10 Tips for Blog Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

How To Keep Readers Coming Back To Your Blog

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The success of a blog is linked to loyal readership. You could buy traffic, give away stuff, or run competitions to get traffic. But these tactics will not give you loyal readers. Readers become loyal when they love your writing, your blog and you as a blogger. It is better to have a few loyal readers than numerous one-time visitors.

The following are tips for creating loyal readers. [Read more…] about How To Keep Readers Coming Back To Your Blog

How to Prepare Content for RSS Feeds

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RSS feeds are becoming an increasingly common feature on the internet. Any site that does not use RSS is disadvantaged and will lose much traffic that would have been gained by using RSS. Besides learning how to utilize this great marketing tool, it is important to ask yourself if your content and articles are ready for RSS. You need to make a conscious effort to prepare your content for RSS. Each time you prepare content, you should always remember that you will be making use of RSS. There are several vital factors that you need to address to make sure your content is prepared for RSS. [Read more…] about How to Prepare Content for RSS Feeds

10 Ways To Connect Better with your Blogs Followers

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10 Secrets to Connecting to People through Blogging

Blogs can be fantastic vehicles to connect to others on both a personal and professional level. But with thousands of blogs out there, your blog has to compete with others to gain attention.

Here are 10 secrets any blogger can use to make their posts stand out. [Read more…] about 10 Ways To Connect Better with your Blogs Followers

Automated Blogging – Before Starting You Might Want To Know…

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Automated Blogging – Can You Really Earn Crazy Amounts Of Money?

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This is a topic that I wanted to open up to discussion mainly because I have messed around with automated blogging in a couple of different niches and really am wondering: If there are people out there getting filthy stinking rich from it?Â If you areÂ new to the concept the idea is that you get a plugin or two click a few buttons, pick a few choice keywords and presto instant niche filled blog ready to make money pouring out of the heavens. I am a firm believer that if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.

Granted automated blogging is rather easy to get started in. Effective? That entirely depends on what your ultimate goal is and how you use the software.Â If you are banking that the software is going to do all the work for you and you can go play golf, you have another thing coming to you. [Read more…] about Automated Blogging – Before Starting You Might Want To Know…

Cure For The Blog Commenting Blues

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Blog commenting – Get The Conversation Started

Blogs that are the most active tend to be the most thriving and lots of quality comments are a good indicator that your blog is on the right track. There could be many things holding people back from blog commenting on your space on the web. Some times blogs are just unfriendly, if you look at your blog and say to yourself that you wouldn’t comment here chances are neither will anyone else.

The most important thing you can do is write using your own unique perspective. While I cover topics that have been covered a million and 1 times I do it because I have a lot of first time readers visit my blog and I know a good percentage of my readers are just getting started in this whole online marketing thingy. So this post is really for them, if you have some helpful information on the subject matter, we would love to hear about it.

Don’t assume people will just start blog commenting for the sake of blog commenting. You need to give your readers a reason to stay and comment. Here are some ideas for you to use in your own blogging. Your not going to find anything here that is unique in fact you will see these tips all over the place the reason is, well because they work. [Read more…] about Cure For The Blog Commenting Blues