If you are new to writing a blog, let me first explain the types of blogs available on the Internet. In general there are only two types of blogs, commercial and non commercial blogs.
Commercials blogs are like Trump University blog where it professional writers post regularly with tons of advertisements or products and services of their own, mostly created by companies not individuals. The most common type of blogs are the non commercial blogs, where people like me and you normally write on.
In non commercial blogs it can further break down into 2 different types of blogs. The first one is blogging for leisure, which means you only blog for the purpose like a personnel online diary. The second type of blog would be business blogs. Business blogs are like blogs like mine where I write this blog and update it regularly to make a living out of it.
If you are wondering can people take blogging as a profession, yes you can. And I have search on the internet there are many others just like us making money from blogging. The reason before I go into some tips to blog right, you need to understand the main role of your blog and what type of blog do you have. Different blogs have different functions to them.
Some people use blogs as a tool to get attention to their main page, some people use blogs just to talk about their personnel lifestyle and there will be some who are serious, lan and structure their post when they write in their blogs which create dollars.
Like in any business, you need to first map out what you want out of your blog before you even start posting your first post. This is very important especially at the start point of your blog when it is very new. You need to give the best impression as you can within the 1st 10 seconds of your visitors to allow them to stay longer.
A great tool that I use that is in build in almost all web hosting package is the Awstats in your cpanel.
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The longer you can keep a reader on your site, you know that your site is of some use for them. During your process when you blog, it is always good to search around for ways to get traffic and publish your blog URL.
Ways get traffic to your blog:
- Offline Marketing (Give out namecards at events)
- Forum Marketing
- PPC Marketing
- Article Marketing
- SEO Marketing
and so much more
From my experience, the best types of traffic you want to get is exchange links from other people who are in the same trade of business as you. Example, my niche is about blogging so what I would do is a Google search blogging and search for the top blogs on the Internet.
When searching a potential link exchange or Joint venture with the bloggers you would want to find two types of blogger. Let say your blog has about 500 hits a day, you can find a blog whose traffic is about the same as yours and you write an email to him to ask for a link exchange. Most likely he will be happy to help as all you need to do is post an article about his website.
The other method would be you can find those popular bloggers who know nuts about traffic and you know they have a lot so what you do you ask them for an exclusive interview with them. Remember this rule in Joint Venture, always think in the way “What is it in for him, not for you”. When you write your email make sure when the person reads it, it has to benefit him all the time! The reason why, because people don’t care how much you care unless you show them how much you care for them trust me this works.
Once you have managed to build a relationship via email, you would want to try to get other ways to communicate like Skype, MSN or Yahoo. To tell you the truth, many websites in fact get tons and tons of traffic FAST not from using Internet Marketing methods but from Viral Marketing or Joint Ventures!
Some great examples would be
- Do a press release (cost US$80 one time) and get published on newspaper to and create a story that is so unique it will viral itself. Have you wonder how those Gurus always get interview out of no where, it because of press release.
- Joint venture with someone very famous or has tons of traffic, if he or she likes you and your website is on the main page of his site. Expect to see a growth of traffic to your website the next day!
- Another great tip would be, buy your way to get traffic. You can go to my review me site here and what ReviewMe does is you can pay me a fix amount and I will do a review about your blog. If you really understood what I am trying to say, this is the cheapest and most effective way of getting traffic if you want to pay for it.
Why I say this is because, imagine the owner of the website itself has already build so much creditability for his own readers on this website. Would an article post review drive more traffic to your website or a banner advertisement? Think about that for a moment. I personally have tried it and on top of the traffic I get I also get tons of emails for joint ventures because the blog I advertise in was about Internet Marketing too. Even until today although it cost US$250 , there is still traffic coming in until today because the website has a PR 5 which people searching for some phrases actually still goes to that review page.
There are many steps to creating a successful travel blog, and some steps are more difficult than others. Personality is key in becoming a successful travel blogger, and your personality needs to come out through your online blog. So, the first step to creating a successful travel blog is to establish your unique persona. There are some ways to give your blog some life, the first way being using your real name on posts, throughout your website, and on social networking sites. This way, your readers are more likely to connect with you and your blog.
After establishing your blog persona, you should make sure it’s easy for readers to contact you by making your contact information easily available throughout your site. It is also helpful to give people different ways to contact you, whether it be through e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter, social networking sites keep people involved in your day. If you plan on being unable to access your computer or the internet for a period of time, let your readers know! You can use the Wordpress plugin WP-ContactForm or an out of office reply on your travel email account… Continue reading
Hitting the actual top of the blogs world involves lots of commitment from you which includes posting consistently, getting your market engaged in your blog, understanding when to express your opinion and being able to market yourself on line.These will be four of the “must do things” in order to obtain acknowledgement in the blogosphere but there are other elements of blogging which any time utilized, should really elevate your on-line brand and enable you to create those much sought after qualified prospects for your main business.We have posted five Multi level markeing blog site strategies which are often not addressed and just simply make sense when you analyze them. It really is about your voice and understand it properly, the belief aspect you’re after with your audience will follow rapidly which indicates prospects and income in your pocket.MLM Web Log Secrets1. Chat directly to your target market. What we indicate by this is your core target audience. Of course you’ll certainly have passing website visitors visiting your weblog however the “bread and butter” would be your mainstay audience. Help make them feel exclusive and while they will… Continue reading
So, how much traffic are you driving to your blog?… Now, in order to have a blog that produces a massive amount of traffic for your business and then turning that traffic into a massive amount of traffic, you need to promote it.
1. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
In order for the major search engines to know that your blog exists, you need to get it indexed by adding your RSS feed to your search engine accounts.
Install the All in One SEO Pack plugin and use it to add title, description and keywords for your blog, posts and pages.
In your back office, change the permalink settings for your blog posts from the url that includes the number to the one that includes the blog post title.
Where relevant, link your posts to your other blog posts as well as the other sites in your niche.
2. Blog Communities
Submit your blog to good blog communities. Google will index your blog as these communities have good search engine rankings. And you will start getting followers.
3. Blog Directories
Submit your blog to blog directories in the relevant category(ies). This is very powerful, it’s like being listed in the yellow… Continue reading
