Playing nicely when it comes to building relationships and establishing a name for yourself in the blogging world is all well and good, but to get ahead of the game the gloves sometimes need to come off. Now I’m not saying that any black hat methods are the right route to go down, but there are a few ways you can utilise the 7 deadly sins to keep your blog alive. Pride Being proud of the blog you have created is incredibly important when it comes to getting it out into the blogosphere successfully; after all, if you don’t believe your blog is the best thing since sliced bread then why should anybody else? Let pride shine through in each and every piece of content you add...
Whether you blog professionally or just for a bit of fun everyone would love to have more attention for their blog. And by harnessing the power of live blogging secrets you can tap into a growing trend while cementing your status in the blogging community. What is Live Blogging? Live blogging does exactly what it says on the tin: blogging about up to the minute news and events as they happen. In its simplest form this may...
Social media marketing should be a part of your blogging activities, if you plan to see success in the long run. It doesn't take one arm of marketing to earn a living, but multiple arms can yield greater results. Majority of blogger are into social media marketing, but only a few are seeing the results. We often wonder what's going on around the blogosphere, when all efforts we put in proves abortive. I've been there before;...
Whether you’re a pro or amateur blogger, everyone wants traffic to their sites. And building links to your website is a great way to do this. Not only can it improve the visibility of your website in the search engines, but also if you pick your sites wisely you can benefit from referral traffic. Socialise: Build Relationships Not Links As a blogger what makes you happy? Finding a thoughtful comment on a post, when you see a tweet...
Commenting on blogs is a great way to network and promote your own site. However, many blog commenters use this great means for personal gains such as spamming to endorse their non-niche related products and gain traffic from other blog commenters. Today, blog owners are becoming wiser and stricter when it comes to moderating their blogs. Some dispatch these spammers by simply kicking and blocking them on their blog, and some resolve this by reporting the...
Every start-up tries to create a blog in hopes that it will be their gateway to becoming the next thought leader of their particular vertical. Writers spend hours writing posts to only become discouraged that their blog is receiving trivial amounts of page views. In spite of low page views, continually writing on the blog without extended defunct periods can pay off in the long run for search engine optimization....
A good SEO is proactive, we’ll plan our days and campaigns in advance and know exactly what we’re doing from one day to the next. Whether we’re a freelance and have several different clients or we’re in house and only have to focus on one or two websites we’re usually pretty organised. So what happens when you suddenly find yourself with a spare half an hour? Maybe a meeting has cancelled at the last minute or...
Wordpress is a great content management system. Each Wordpress blog is already optimized to be Google-friendly. That is why many business owners use Wordpress blogs to promote their products and services. Social media sites like Facebook make it very easy to connect with customers. Therefore, combining the two sites is a very wise idea. However, not every business owner knows how to integrate Facebook with Wordpress. Even if they do know how to combine the sites,...
Blogging has been a trend for quite a while and it continues to be one of the best ways for people to communicate. It is also rather easy, as long as you have something to write about and for many people, it is a rather unexpected source of income. WordPress is technically a blogging site. It can be used by anyone but it has the advantage of having some advanced settings that people who are...
Blogging success cannot be achieved overnight. Popularity on the Web isn’t an easy thing to gain. We all know that fame, popularity, and respect are all time-driven aspects we gain from experience. Being a newbie is a phase that all bloggers go through. You can’t rush fame. Even bloggers know how difficult it is to have few posts and few friends, when no one but spammers spend time commenting on your posts. The problem with amateur bloggers...
