5 Hard and Fast Blogging Tips
If making money is your goal, here are 5 vital blogging tips to insure your blog has a solid foundation from which it can grow.
1) Have knowledge or a Passion to Learn
If you don’t have some knowledge of or at least a passion to learn more about the material you’re blogging about it will be difficult to add content to your blog. Your knowledge or passion will be the motivation needed to continually post content that is both interesting and useful to your readers. It will also make your posting routine more enjoyable and less like work.
2) Establish a domain name
It is recommended that you purchase your ‘own’ domain name. The cost is minimal and and it will look more legitimate to your visitors. Also your domain will be more highly regarded by the online advertising networks, many of which will not accept sites without their own domain names.
You’ll also want to have your site hosted as opposed to a free site since this gives you total control of the site. A site hosted by for instance Google or wordpress can be shut down at any time due to any activity they view as a violation of their policies.
3) Keep Your Content Current
The more frequent you post to your blog the better. Your posts should remain fresh to encourage visitors to return while attracting new readers as well. Think of it as breathing air into the life lungs of the blog.
4) Identify with Your Readers
Be sure to cater to the interests of your readers by responding to and acting upon their comments. With the ability to interact with your visitors thru the comments they leave comes the opportunity for you to know them better. What is it they want to read about? What problems may they have that you can assist them with? Don’t ignore your readers; speak TO them not AT them. Their appreciation of this will be reflected by them continually returning to your blog.
5) Setting up a Money Making Blog
If you’re interested in making money by blogging, there are ways to optimize your blog to accomplish this. The use of banner ads that reflect products you may want to sell is a very popular and passive way to earn an income. Please note that by representing or promoting multiple products or services will diversify your income opportunities. Expecting to make a living with just one product is unrealistic. Google adsense, affiliate products, and other online advertisers looking for viable ad space are some of the more popular ways to monetize a blog, but by no means do the opportunities stop there.
I hope these basic yet vital blogging tips have given you a definitive direction in which to take your blog. Also remember to blog about something your interested in. The point is to make this experience enjoyable not only for your readers, but also for you!
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How does a fashion blog become popular? Any tips on blogging?I'm really into fashion and blogging etc. & I'd like to make a blog of my own. I read alot of people's blogs who have thousands of readers. They must have started somewhere, right?
Not that I'm aiming to have thousands of readers (although it would be nice), how does it start to get noticed? I've noticed among the popular ones that they're all friends with models, children of models/designers or have enough money to have new shoes/outfit every day. etc. Does a high-school student even have a chance? Any tips on how to start my blog?
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Thanks Darren – love this!
Great!
This may sound really silly, but it works for a lot of people. Take a paper plate and cut a hole out of the middle. This is where you will attach your video camera lens. On the paper plate draw a face. Now when you talk to the camera it will feel like you are talking to a person. You could name your new plate-person-friend something silly. That way you will smile when you look at the camera. Also, you could just put a real person's photo there – it works just as well. Good luck.
To get traffic you can do following:
1. Article Writing
2. Forum Posting
3. Blog Posting (Check for Do follow blog)
4. Social Networking ( Use OnlyWire firefox plugin to bookmark to 29 sites at a single click. But don't do only yours. Bookmark others also. Otherwise you will get banned). Its also known as Web2.0
5. Try to get backlinks. Also known as Offpage optimization
6. If you are using wordpress blog use all-in-seo pluggin
Only commenting on others blog is not enough to get traffic.
Hello Fledgling Blogger. Getting a blog started can be an intimidating thing, especially if your intention is to become highly publicized. You want to be the expert, informed and knowledgeable, and interesting to read, but don't let it intimidate you.
You've already stated that you'd like to blog about art, movies, and music, so you've got your theme. Now hit some directory sites and look at their listings for each category. You'll find some pretty informative and interesting sites that people are actually keeping current. Go to your favorite search engine and type in something like "online art directory," or "online indie movie production" and it will bring up a plethora of options. Vary your wording, do a lot of reading, and then have a blast writing your blog!
I've written a brief article for beginning bloggers here if you've any interest in furthering your education: http://webguides4u.com/blogging4beginners.html
I Have Experience Blogging On WordPress Here Are A Few Quick Topics I Just Thought Of:
Economy
Enivorment
Amercian Idol
Celbrities
Tv Shows
New Websites ( Twitter )
Ace Of Cakes
Hotels
Magic Tricks
Aniamls
Cultures
War
Weather
Hurricane Katrina ( Slowly Recovering )
Brand Names
Kids
Jobs
Apple Brand ( Ipods )
Home Decor
Pool Vortex Drains
Swine Flu
Regular Flu
Killer Bees
Laptops
Cell Phones
Tv's
Jesus
Cancer
Bands
Music
Teenage Pregnacy
Kids Braces
Cloths
Fashion
Trendy Hair Styles
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Well layouts nice and simple. Colors are OK. Maybe you could use some animated GIFs to spice up a few of the posts. You have a poll. Thats as far as a blog goes.
Well what can I say its a blog, theres not much one can do to make it cool. If your aiming for something like myspace I don't think your going to do it with a blog.
Great video, Darren!
I wish you’d do more of these!
Almost all bloggers will agree that 'Links' are very important for a blog to be ranked high on Google's search result. The more links you have the better your page rank is. As a result, a lot of bloggers end up doing all possible ways and means to get links from ANY blog even if the blog they're getting links from are not directly related to theirs.
Here are some of the common practices that bloggers employ to be able to create a link to their blogs.
1. Comment on blog posts of other blogs.
2. Exchange links to other blogs.
3. Submit Blog to Directories
4. Submit Articles to Article Directories
5. And the list goes on and on…
I will not deny the importance or the value of links for every blog's performance in the search engines' ranking. The value of links however diminishes once it is not properly optimized. Moreover, the trend nowadays is no longer about the quantity of links but the quality of links that are directed to your website or blog.
In today's article I will be blogging about the 7 Blogging Mistakes that Bloggers do When Building Links for their blog. I will explain each mistake and briefly point out what should be done to fully benefit from these links. Be reminded that the links mentioned in this article are external links (i.e. links to your blog from other blogs or websites). Internal link is another topic that will be discussed in details in the coming posts.
7 Bloging Mistakes that Bloggers do When Creating Links
# 1 Blogging Mistake: Bloggers leave comments to any blog or website where they have the opportunity to do so.