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Become a better blogger by reading only the best blogs
Consistently trying to make your blog better is a great way to keep your readers interested. If you are looking for new ways to improve your blog, one of the easiest ways to do this is to read other blogs. As crazy as it sounds, you can learn a lot by simple checking out what other people are doing.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when reading other blogs:
The first thing you will want to notice with the best blogs is their overall appearance. What types of color schemes do they use? Chances are the first thing you will notice is that their color schemes are all easy to read. You probably will not find top quality blogs that have black backgrounds with red font!
Pay attention to the types of advertisements that they feature on their blogs. Where are their advertisements located? Does anything annoy you as a reader about the advertisements that you see? Do you have similarly placed advertisements on your blog?
Take a look at how frequently new information is posted on the best blogs. I would be willing to guess that most of these blogs have new articles posted daily. Some may even post new articles periodically throughout the day. How frequently are you posting new articles?
Try to navigate around the best blogs. Do you have any trouble finding your way around? Think about your own blog. Is it setup so that readers are able to navigate without having to think about what they are doing?
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What blog writing takes to become an efficient blogger
Blog writing is not quite the same as any other form of writing. It requires a certain touch which is a combination of finding a voice that does not remind the reader of being in school yet they can walk away having learned something. It is a combination of being formal to the point where your writing is written in good English and structured soundly but on the same note it does not have to be overboard with punctuation and perfect.
Blog writing is like writing in a diary except one read by any and everyone online. You want to be honest and revealing and personal but not to the extent where you lose any and all credibility in your authority. You need to chose keywords to write on but not focus on your keywords but your content.
You need to engage your readers who can span from six years old to sixty. From male to female. From any and all backgrounds. So your voice needs to be somewhere in the middle OR you can chose to go with one voice that may alienate everyone but your specific intended audience.
You need to be an expert on your topic to be a good at blog writing. People reading your blog are perhaps in the same field you are writing on and looking to learn more. They will know after your first article if you are full of it or not. If you use the right words and in the right way. Right on what you know, in your own words and in your own way. In my own that is what an efficient blogger does to be good at blog writing.
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How to increase website traffic by leaving comments
When people visit your blog do you notice? Of course, why? Well it means someone went out of their way and read your article (or not) and left a comment on your blog. Makes you feel good doesn’t it? Like someone out there is actually reading what you write? Well, return the favor. Go to the bloggers website and leave a comment on their website.
There are two great reasons to increase website traffic by leaving comments. The first reason is that you can post comments on very popular blogs. Blogs that get hundreds of readers each day and each of those readers will read the comments as well. If you are one of the first to leave a comment on a popular blog you can see a huge spike with increase website traffic on your blog. People will click your name and check out your website. If you have good content, you might turn the traffic into a reader.
The second great reason to increase website traffic by leaving comments is that you convert traffic to readers and establish relationships with fellow bloggers. No man is an island and one of the strongest parts to making money online is building relationships and networking with your peers. Comment on blogs and you will get a return comment. Both sites benefit by looking more active and alive and getting traffic exchanged between the two sites.
If you do leave comments especially to popular blogs you will see an increase website traffic overnight and after that night it may go back to normal. The key is to be a regular commenter on a few blogs and learn to use big blogs to attract traffic to your blog.
Three ways you can make money on the internet
I have been thinking a lot lately about blogging and the different methods a person can make money on the internet. To me it seems that there are some big No-no’s like popup advertisement. I HATE popup advertisements and think it is the most annoying form of marketing possible. It is a sure way to make me never visit a site again. So, with that rant over here are the best ways I think to make money on the internet where you maintain quality of a blog and create opportunities.
Context Links: I don’t mind seeing some words underlined. It does not impact my reading nor does it make the blog look less professional in my opinion. I think context links like the ones offered from Kontera are a great way to make money on the internet without losing any creditability.
Banner Ads: We all started with google I think when it comes to banner ads and eventually we mature into more specific or better affiliate options which pay a little better. These are harmless to have on a site I think depending on how much time you spend configuring your ad and making sure it blends into your theme for your blog.
Sell Something: Be it an ebook, Amazon Affiliate or Shopzilla. Your blog drives traffic to your site with the goal they will buy something from your site so can you make money on the internet. I think this is the hardest form of making money because people will hover over the words and see the ad. People will click on Ads and see where it goes. Those two options don’t cost them anything. Getting them to BUY something means the customer spending money and always a little harder to get that accomplished.
Two search engine optimization tips to live by
Everyone loves the idea of search engine optimization and everyone gives out tips like candy. You will read list and list of the best search engine optimization tips possible by some of the most popular bloggers in the business and you can read them over and over and try to follow every single tip you find but in the end you still could get no traffic. Why? Here are two search engine optimization tips you should always keep in mind when designing your blog and implementing SEO tips to improve your traffic.
If you try to do too much you will fail with your SEO. What works is picking a few SEO Tips you are comfortable with based on your time and dedication to the project you are working on and exploit the method as much as possible. If you want to get backlinks go and get dozens and dozens of them. Don’t get three backlinks and try something else. Master an SEO technique before you move on. Focus on a few different search engine optimization tips and implement them consistently in your blogging for a year then try something else.
Content is king. You will hear this over and over and over but the end of the day it is true. Content will get traffic and will get a readership built. If you focus too much on SEO tips you will not be focusing on providing good content. The biggest search engine optimization tip I can suggest is to NOT focus on SEO and focus on providing quality content.
Google gives the little guy a list boost with getting traffic
Today I was doing some searching on google and found in the bottom sections for News results and Blog Posts near the related topics section on page 1. I did a little searching on how that gets populated and found that basically if you have a blog that is well indexed (read, not brand spanking new) your new blog posts will show up there if your keyword was within the search criteria.
This does not mean your post will remain on page one for a long time at all but it could result in a nice little spike within your readership each time you put out a new post. This goes back to consistency I suppose. The more you post, the more potential and time you will spend on page one of a search result which could translate to increase readership. The whole point of SEO is to get on page one so that once you are found, the quality of your content can retain a reader. This new little feature gives you an edge in getting some traffic.
For the news part, if you have a blog that is posted on by many authors you can qualify for the news section of google. You just need to post at a certain pace and have more than one author on your blog. If you qualify for that you can submit your blog here to try and get it listed so that your blog posts can picked up as a news source. If you get that, there is a whole other world out there for getting traffic as then you might be able to make the most of google news alerts but more on that later.
Next time you post, go to google and search on the keywords of your blog. See if it is working for you. If not read up on what you are doing wrong. This is a pretty cool feature you should try to take advantage of especially if you have a blog that is not high ranked but has been around for a while.
