How to get more productive as a blogger

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Promoting your blog to the media

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Three blogging secrets that I bet you didn’t know

Blogging is a systematic process and most of the new bloggers don’t get it. They simply buy a domain, get hosting account, put in content with a few makeshift graphics and then expect the money to start pouring in. It doesn’t work that way.  Here are a few blogging tips that I’d like to share with you guys –

Give your blog a professional start and do not monetize for the first six months – Do not monetize the blog with things like ad sense scripts. If are a tossing a banner or two, it is fine but I won’t advise you to look for money at the initial stages. In fact, it is recommended that you don’t go commercial for at least one year. Or else your readers might think that you are in the business just for making money. Also, affiliate marketing and ad sense ads can take the readers away from your blog even before they get to know your blog fully. You’d want your readers to be loyal and stay with your through thick and thin right?

Auto schedule the posts – Most bloggers write on the blog on the day that they want them to be published. If you write like this, then you will be under pressure to meet the blog schedule or else the blog might not get updated. I would recommend you to create some buffer by writing 2-3 months in advance and then scheduling the articles to come up on the designated date. This will give you ample time to think about the new posts that you want to write.

Targeted traffic means a lot – They say that the key to online success is traffic. But just any kind of traffic doesn’t work. For instance, for betterbloggingforbloggers.com, I target both new and veteran bloggers who want to learn blogging basics and those who are already experts and just want to sharpen their skills. People who are looking for tips on buying clothes won’t be my targeted audience. I would advise you to focus on generating the targeted traffic. Spending your effort and time on it makes more sense.

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Blogging for Your Business

Business owners don’t have time for trial and error approach. You’d need help from people who have been there and done that to show you a path of successful blogging to grow your business. Browsing through the Internet, I stumbled across Blogging For Your Business by Mark Hayward and would recommend it to you. It is a ebook containing 143 pages and here the author teaches you how to create successful online presence for your growing business.

• It takes the guess work out.
• This book will save you from guessing and I would heavily recommend this book if you–
• Are short on time and don’t want to waste it on guessing
• Are not looking for ‘quick-money’ gimmicks
• Have the burning desire to succeed
• Are the kind of person who wants things to be done and don’t just want to read
• Don’t want to feel frustrated or overwhelmed while blogging
• Are someone who acknowledges the fact that it takes some time to build a business blog takes some time

Blogging for Your Business will help you

• To set up WordPress blog even if you don’t have any technical knowledge
• Make research on keywords even if you haven’t done it before
• Understand the online competition that you are facing whether they are close to you or far away
• Build strong footprint of social media even if do not know anything about it.
• Set successful strategies of business blogging no matter what product you have

Blogging for your business by Mark Hayward contains 12 chapters and it will certain distil some confidence in you and I would recommend it to people who have been in blogging business for a long time.

Money back guarantee!

They are even offering a money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with the ebook, then you will get your money back, not questions asked. This shows that the makers of the book are quite confident about what they are teaching.

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Keep visitors coming to your blog – 4 simple steps

Blogging is great way to share your experience with people. Blogs are more like online diary or journal now. Companies blog to increase their business and for communicating with the people. A lot of bloggers don’t just blog for getting more traffic on their blogs, they want more visitors and also want them to keep coming back.

Intrinsically speaking, blogging is relatively new concept. There are blog writers who don’t share content with others and keep blogs personal. They are like online diaries. But most people do share their thoughts with others on the blogs. Blogging business is pretty big and it is used by companies as an inexpensive way for advertising. I am jotting down four ways to keep people visiting your blog –

Update the blog regularly – It is really important to update the blog regularly because readers then stay loyal to your blogs. There are some writers who update blog 2-3 times a day. If the readers need to wait a lot of days for the new material, they will lose interest in your blog. Be loyal to the readers and the readers too will reciprocate by staying loyal to you. There are tons of blogs available on Internet; if you don’t updated your blog regularly then readers will turn to other blog site.

Participate in the Web communities – Participate in the Web communities or some discussion forums where in you can mention your blog where ever you can for getting new readers. Be very loyal to other blogs and then tell them about your blog. Put good comments on their site and then invite those guys to your blog. If there are people having mutual interests then you can share links on the site.

Understand what kind of people read your blogs – A cool way to keep readers coming back to your blog is by understanding what kinda people visit you and what they are looking for. I am not saying that you should write only on one subject but you can weave most of the articles around that particular theme. If you have been writing more on humour, don’t suddenly start blogging about your woes or sorrowful tales. People will be more interested in reading about kinda content that attracted them to your blog in first place. You can get to know your readers better by including boxes for comments.

Put keywords – You will get new readers and also keep current readers by putting keywords in the blog. It will also bring more traffic on your blog.

Blog is now a new way of maintaining online journals. Companies use it for getting more popular on the Internet. There are thousands of blogs out there; if you want to keep your readers interested and keep them coming back for more, you should update regularly, participate in online communities, include keywords and understand your readers.

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Be interesting and attract readers to your blog

You’ve probably heard about this and might not seem new to you at all. It is really important to interest your readers in order to grow your blog. No one will stick around if your blog is boring. So how can you get interesting? Here are my few bits on how to do it.

Surprise people – A great way to make yourself stand out from the rest is to break the ‘guessing machine’ of your readers. You can take surprising position and made outlandish kinda analogy or simply do the opposite of what you do normally. People will certainly pay attention if you are getting unexpected.

Get funny, make people laugh – Bloggers can get really serious at times. They are so busy with teaching people that they forget to entertain. Hence a lot of readers can fall asleep half way through the post. The best way to avoid this is to use humour according to your audience.

Tell them more about you – A lot of readers are always curious to know more about you. You can write about your experiences or about how you came out with your blog. I just read a blog where in the author had jot down his daily schedule. I have been following that guy for sometime and hence was interested to know how he spent his time.

Get startling by being honest – Tell them truth once in a while. Get so honest that you will be scared to hit the post button. I occasionally get so honest that my lawyer starts to feel the heat. Do this once in a while; people will certainly get attracted to it.

Tell an interesting piece of news – A lot of bloggers are writing about latest things that Google is doing. This is great for Google but bloggers aren’t getting any real benefit. Only the first person who breaks the story matters the most. He gets all the links, traffic and authority and rest all is relegated as echoes.

Predict the future – This too is sure to attract attention. Use your intuitive powers and predict something haphazard about the future. Claim something bizarre that is going to happen soon. People will certainly start talking about you.

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