How Often Should You Update Your Blog

One question that is being asked often in the blogosphere is the question of how often a blog should be updated. We all want working formulas and at the same time we also want to please our audience. Even though there is no set formula for updating a blog there are some factors you can consider that will help you get the best from your blog in terms of updating it. This post will be giving you some tips on how often you should be updating your blog. Know Your Audience There is no fixed formula or rule on updating a blog and how often you update a blog depends majorly on your audience. Some blog types require you to be updating your blog several times a day while other blogs will do well with you updating your blog once a week. Some audience...

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8 Fast Ways to Generate Great Content for your Company Blog

Content creation can be a timely process especially when you add on the stress of delivering fresh content to your business blog on consistent basis. Many business owners will jump right into writing content for their blog but soon feel the burn from the time they must invest nearly each day to develop something new for their community. This post will share eight different ways you can generate great content for your business within a very limited time-frame. 1.   Record a Video and Transcribe It Consider recording a video of yourself if writing isn’t your strong point. Once you have a video recorded you can transcribe the audio into a written post. Additionally, you can then post the video online to have another medium to engage...

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What is Relationship Marketing?

Some of the newest buzz words around the internet are relationship marketing and attraction marketing. What is relationship marketing and how does it work? In the simplest terms it just means that you put people first; before the money, before the traffic stats, before the fancy website. People don’t care how elaborate your website is or how many products you offer. People are your business, not your website or your products. Your website and products are mainly a way to help people solve their problems. You can have a dozen great products but without people you don’t have a business. One key point to remember and the reason for relationship marketing is that people buy from people they like and trust. If you aren’t taking...

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5 Things That Can Keep You From Making Money

We all want to make money, that’s the main reason that many of us are online. We read everything we can, take courses, watch others, but sometimes we just don’t see the success we want. What can be keeping us from making money? HERE’S 5 THINGS THAT CAN KEEP YOU FROM MAKING MONEY: - ·        WRONG BUSINESS MODEL: - Having the wrong business model or not treating your work like a business can lead to frustration and low income. Find a better business model and start using it. ·        TRYING TO BE PERFECT: - No one can be perfect and no one expects you to be perfect. Perfectionists often wait to promote anything, or write a blog post, or get social with people. They...

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Most Bloggers Forget This Simple Rule. Do You?

When I wrote “most bloggers” in the title, I was including myself. In fact I forget this rule 80% of the time probably. Want to know what rule I am talking about? It is this one: - Include one image on each blog post you publish. This rule is important for a couple of reasons. First of all adding images to your blog posts will help you capture the attention of distracted readers and encourage them to read your post. Second, having images around will improve the design of your blog and make it more appealing. Third, images can be a good source of search engine traffic, especially every post you publish has one (i.e., over time the combined traffic you’ll get for your images will add up). So why do most bloggers forget this simple rule? Probably...

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How Planning Helps Your Blogging

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Do you plan? How important is planning in regards to blogging? You probably know that having a plan is crucial to your success in everything in life including blogging. When it comes to blogging, you have to know what you are doing and where you are going. Anyone nowadays can make a blog, put on some posts and starts to work on getting more traffic and make the blog popular. However, if you goal is to have your own e-business online then it is very imperative to have a plan and a vision to where you are going. ·        Plan your posts: -Planning your posts is crucial. You should try to have posts that are ready for publishing for a minimum of one week. You never...

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How To Track Visitors And Optimize Your Website

Tracking your visitor’s activity on your blog is an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). So, if you haven't yet accessed the "Stats" section of your Blogger Account - then do it right now. Blogger Stats is relatively new and limited in terms of the information these tools provide, so even now I advise everyone to sign up at the below mentioned websites/services, start tracking to give your visitors what they want (that's what SEO is all about)... You would have seen many fancy and flashy visitor counters in hundreds or rather thousands of blogs, but simply counting the number of visitors or page views is totally of no use to any blogger or webmaster. Visitor-Tracking is a much more advanced and useful method as compared to those...

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7 On Page SEO Tips for Bloggers

When you are thinking of search engine optimization, there are two aspects of search engine optimization techniques: they are on-page and off-page search engine optimization. On-Page is nothing but what you do in your webpage and Off-page is what you do outside of your page. Here we will discuss on some of the on-page search engine optimization techniques which will help you to rank high in search engines. ·        Use relevant keywords for the Domian Name: - Despite the presence of many websites performing well without keywords in their domain name, having the keywords is better to get noticed by the crawlers and also when you use social media like Facebook and Twitter for promoting...

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Important Things In Which Blogging Helps

Blogging is becoming too much popular with the passage of time. Today is the boost of blogging in the world of internet. The effect of blogging on the brain health is the hot topic now. People are worried that what effects blogging can put on the brain. The surveys have showed that people between the age of 13 to 29 consists of 90% of bloggers. Blog has become too much famous in past years. They have taken high importance in socializing and marketing. Our mental ability depends upon our thinking what do we think and how do we think matters a lot. As hundreds of people started thinking in the different direction in a different way, the effect of this thinking trend on the structure and functionality of brain is of great concern. Blogging...

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Understand Your Site’s Traffic

When people arrive at your blog, they’ve all come from somewhere on the World Wide Web. They could have found you on a search engine, they could have known about your site already, or they could have come from any one of a million other places. But all of these different types of visitors have a certain frame of mind when they visit your site. Almost always, they will have a different reason for coming to your site. In this post, I’m going to explore those reasons from a psychological perspective so that we can understand the actions people generally tend to perform when they come to your site from a certain traffic source. Search engine traffic: - When people find a site through the search engines, they’re generally looking for answers...

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