Blogging

4 Ultra Simple Ways To Get More Comments On Your Blog Post

Blogging is all about creating a loyal community of readers and fans, but in order to create that community there needs to be some type of interaction.

The good thing is that, as bloggers, we can create the proper environment that encourages reader engagement. You see.. engaged readers are more likely to become loyal readers, and loyal readers are more likely to subscribe.

So, it’s very important that we get our readers to comment on our blog posts. Another reason is that Comments = Social Proof. Think about it… Keep Read­ing →

How To Increase Your Incoming Guest Posts

What do you do when you need a guest post for your blog and no one’s responding to your invitations?

Have you ever been in dire need of fresh content for your blog, but there’s no time to write and no matter how many times you post an announcement that you are “Now Accepting Guest Posts!” – your in-box remains empty? Now you’ve got to skip a day and leave your blog stagnant, yet another day. Keep Read­ing →

Blog Traffic: 5 Straightforward Ways to Get More of It

The other day, my blogger-friend James from TheAverageGenius asked me about the spike in traffic going to my blog.

Blog Traffic… say what?

It hadn’t occurred to me that I’d had one (a spike); I had been too busy blogging! I never feel comfortable talking about traffic or popularity, because it’s not my area of expertise. You wanna talk content strategy and relevancy? I’m your girl. Traffic plays a part in content strategy, but traffic generation is a whole different ball game. Keep Read­ing →

Networking as a Blogger

The lone blogger won’t be a blogger for long. This is one of my favorite sayings and it is very true. Having a blog is just like having your own virtual business and you must do as much networking, if not more, than the brick and mortars or else down the road you will go out of business. For the blogger, this means closing the virtual doors to your blog.

Networking as a blogger has many benefits and if done correctly will allow you to:

Will You Be Forgotten?

For the last week or two, I’ve been asking myself the same question – Will I be forgotten?

I’m not talking about tomorrow, next week, or even next month. But in 10, 20, or 30 years, will I be forgotten? Will I be viewed as just an ordinary guy who did nothing great?

If you haven’t asked yourself this question yet, I really recommend you do, whether you are a webmaster, a weather man, or working the 9 to 5. Keep Read­ing →

How And Where to get blog Post Ideas?

One of the most critical things of blogging is no ideas to post. People start blogging on a topic in which they have good knowledge to share. But after some time they realize that they have shared everything that they know. And now they have no more knowledge to post articles on that topic. A lot of bloggers have this problem. So, today i want o share 4 Great websites to find blog post ideas.

Before getting into the discussion, here are few tips that you should read

4 great websites to Find Blog Post Ideas

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Say goodbye to your boring, isolated, blah blog and say hello to Insights.

Insights is a WordPress plugin that allows to you

  • Find and insert flickr images
  • Find and insert youtube videos
  • Find and insert related links doing a Google search
  • Find and insert related links to other blogs
  • Find and insert related links to Wikipedia
  • Find and insert related links elsewhere on your own blog
  • Insert a Google map
  • Find and insert links to related news Keep Read­ing →
How to Develop Relationships with Fellow Bloggers

Developing relationships with fellow bloggers is the same as developing friendships/relationships in real life. Relationships are not a one way street.

It takes two to make a relationship work. Online relationships must not be one way, where one person benefits while the other person doesn’t.

Today, you will learn a few ways you can develop awesome relationships with fellow bloggers. Keep Read­ing →

bloggers call to action - make them stand up!

The all important ‘call to action’

If you are reading this then chances are you are somehow involved in internet marketing,  and therefore have heard the term ‘call to action’ thrown around. In case you are either not a marketer, or you are one but enjoy the view from the underside of a rock then allow me to enlighten you. A call to action is simply a statement or image that gives your visitor somewhere to go. The call to action refers to the simple idea of making someone take action, whether that be signing up to your newsletter, subscribing to a feed, or clicking an affiliate link.  I agree that it is important that you have a defined call to action in place, especially on the end of each blog post for example – but more important than this, and crucial to the overall success of your CTA (call to action) is your Unique Selling Proposition or USP. Keep Read­ing →

5 Ways to Position Yourself as an Expert in Your Niche

If you are very familiar with how things work in the blogging and make money online niche then you will know that being recognized as an expert has its own benefits.

It doesn’t matter which niche it is, being an expert adds to you, it does not remove from you. Keep Read­ing →