10 Quick Tips to Remember When Starting a Blog
Pick a Niche: Blogs that have the most success stick to a specific niche. Do not just write about anything that comes to mind, write about your area of expertise. Cater your content to a specific audience and industry. Find the Right Blog Solution: Self-hosting or 3rd...
Building Online Relationships: How Do We Do It?
One of the most important success factors for your blog is going to be how you go about building relationships. Getting people to check in with you regularly is crucial if your blog is going to thrive and flourish. It can seem daunting when you first consider how to...
Let the Power of Blogging Work for Your Business
You hear all the time why blogging is great for business. Well, practically speaking it is. Companies more than likely shy away from it because of the time it requires to formulate a well-meaning blog. Blogging has just about as much power than social media does to...
Interview with Ghost Bloggers Creator, Davy Kestens
Recently I connected with Davy Kestens, an Internet Entrepreneur who recently created a brand new service called Ghost Bloggers. Ghost Bloggers is essentially a marketplace where content publishers and content buyers can do business. This allows bloggers to create...
The Differences Between Offline and Online PR
Public Relations is all about creating buzz and/or exposure around a brand or company to a target audience, through various offline and online engagements. However an offline and online PR marketing campaign have many differences that are important to understand....
5 Quick Tips for Improving Your Blog Writing
Words have the potential to create magic. When appropriately woven, they can instantly create an emotional attachment with readers. Whether you want to start a blog or desire to become a freelance writer, you need to work upon your writing skills to make it better and...
The Future of Video Blogging
Video blogging or “vlogging” is becoming a very popular online trend and most internet users will agree that video blogs are popping up in every niche and industry. According to recent statistics from internet giant YouTube, more than 65% of U.S. based internet users...
Using Multiple Blog Monetization Strategies to Increase Your Income
There are many bloggers out there who make a full-time living off of their blog. Of course, like anything, it doesn’t come without a lot of hard work and dedication. How much money you make from your blog is determined by most importantly…traffic! If...
21 Key Benefits of Blogging
Different people blog for different reasons. For some, blogging is an excellent means of satisfying their personal ego. Many people blog because they earn a full-time income out of it. There are others who blog for academic benefits. Once you have stepped into the...
How to Make Your Blog Immensely Popular
Changes are taking place in the blogosphere constantly. Bloggers are becoming more active than ever. They are posting more often. That clearly indicates that competition is getting tougher as well. Whether you are a corporate blogger, an entrepreneur blogger or a...
Where to Find Inspiration and Passion for Blogging
Sometimes it can be hard to sit on the computer and force yourself to write a high-quality blog post. I’m sure the bloggers out there can relate to this and know exactly what I’m talking about. You are sitting there, spinning your wheels, trying to...
Every Comment Matters
I’ve been following quite a number of blogs for several years now, some more popular than others. They all vary in nature, as do the bloggers behind them – some are personal while others are formal and professional much like the SEM Blog I’ve been managing...
How To Write Content Your Readers Will Actually Read
Blogs have become the lifeblood of many businesses. The articles we generate are a way to educate and/or train clients and customers, while crafting our image and building credibility. The key to any successful blog is, of course, its content. The popular quote states...
4 Reasons to Continue Blogging (Other than Making Money)
Most of us begin blogging because we have a specific knowledge or passion to share with others. Perhaps you love to write, or love you to discuss topics and issues with others whom you may not know. After a few years, however, I’ve found that many bloggers have...
Key Tips You Can Use to Design Your Blog
In order to build something upon it, you should lay a firm foundation. Apart from what kind of content you offer your audience, you should also pay careful attention to what we call ‘visual branding’ of a blog. A well thought-out blog design can instantly create a...
A List of Useful Twitter Stats and Analytics Tools – Just for You!
Without measuring your progress, you can never ensure whether your marketing efforts are headed in the right direction, right? A wonderful micro-blogging service, Twitter happens to be a powerful tool to promote your brand, products or services on the internet. And...
Blog Post SEO: How to Search Engine Optimize Content
The opening keynote at Blog World Expo was Scott Stratten of UnMarketing, who wanted to convey the fact that “people spread awesome” in terms of content, and that there are five things that “stop the spread.” Number three in this list was...
What Was Your Biggest Traffic Day and How Did You Achieve It?
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger asked the question on his blog, “What was your biggest traffic day and how did you achieve it?” I thought it would be fun for everyone to share their story about their biggest traffic day on their website or blog and how you...
What WP Plugins is StayOnSearch Using?
First of all, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. This is the first post of 2011 and I am really looking forward to another outstanding year of high-quality content, new guest bloggers and feedback from our readers on how we can continue to deliver...
5 Steps For Maximizing Content For Massive Backlinks
Are you leveraging your content to the fullest extent? Are you maximizing your contents visibility and backlink opportunity? So many people who create/publish content don’t realize that even one piece of content can equate to hundreds/thousands of backlinks and...
Must Have Firefox Plugin for Blog Commenting
If you are like me, you have multiple identities when it comes to blog commenting. I comment with several identities for my own blog, my work, blogs I guest post on, and also my article marketing profiles. As you can imagine, this gets somewhat confusing and...
How Blog Comments Attract Traffic
How Blog Comments Attract Traffic As a blogger, you have something to say, whether it’s about business, baking or birds. With regularity, you post insights, photos and tips in an effort to share your interest with readers. You believe you’re doing your best, yet your...
10 SEO Bloggers To Watch in 2010
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger recently wrote a blog post encouraging people to write a ‘Bloggers To Watch’ post, to promote bloggers in your prospective industry. I thought I would do my due diligence and make a list of 10 SEO bloggers I feel you should...
Using Web 2.0 & Social Media To Improve Customer Service
With all of the new communication tools and technology being introduced, the way that companies handle customer service has been transformed into a more effective and efficient manner. Users want to be able to receive real-time support and have multiple options to...
How to Optimize an E-mail Generating Newsletter
Newsletters can make an accidental or first time visitor, who has come to your site because they saw something of interest to come back again as an interested reader. So long as they keep their subscription to your newsletter, you will have a consistent reader who will return to your site.
Writing Under a Pen Name – Risks and Profits
Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer did it. Samuel Langhorne Clemens did it. Theodor Geisel did it. Why shouldn’t you? These mere mortals were able to brand themselves as Ann Landers, Mark Twain, and Dr. Seuss. They chose to keep their identities anonymous and apparently...
5 Ways to Improve Your Guest Blogging Strategy
As mentioned several times before on this site and others, guest posting is a wonderful way to engage in a genuine and effective link-building strategy. Still, not many who first embark on the guest blogging process completely understand how it works. Here are a few...
How Safe is Your Blog from Fatigue?
Working from home has become so glamorized that most keen entrepreneurs entering into it don’t really quite understand the realities of running a blog. I remember the dangling carrots that initially caught my attention. They went something like this: “… become...
8 Proven Tips to Reduce Bounce Rate of Your Website or Blog Successfully
SO here it is: my definitive guide to getting the bounce rate of your blog or your website down to manageable (i.e. significantly reduced) levels: Terminology First! Before we begin, let’s be sure we know what we are talking about. Bounce rate is a single page visit,...
How to Blog Even When You Are Sick
As a blogger you know you cannot afford to have sick days. You have to keep up with your blog at all times or your audience will scatter like leaves in the wind. However there are times where you are just under the weather and can’t seem to keep it all together. What...
Lowering Your Bounce Rate: What to Analyze
Clients always seem to ask what bounce rate is. I wanted to explain what bounce rate is, the factors that determine bounce rate, how you should analyze it, and in what cases you should take action to lower your bounce rate. Defining Bounce Rate A Bounce is simply a...
The 3 Things You Need to Learn About Blogging
There are hundreds and thousands of blog-related articles on the Web. A lot them teach how to blog differently and uniquely among others, and some even offer crazy Web tricks to get clicks and readers. They always reiterate that we should think outside the box, with a...
Emailing Templates, Pen Names, and Link Building
Guest posting has flooded the blogosphere faster than anyone thought it would in the last two years. The sudden rise of the use of the tactic of guest posting raises a lot of questions and concerns. How Should You Treat Guest Posts? The Panda wave sent a lot of...
Attention! Before You Guest Blog, Know Their Audience
If you have been following a lot of the popular Internet Marketing and Blogging blogs out there, you have probably seen an increase in people talking about how guest posting is a great way to build an audience. But before you start writing for other blogs, make sure...
Why Outsourcing Content Development Can Hurt Your Company
It is true that having unique content on your site is a big part of search engine optimization and continuing to build quality traffic. However your content development strategy can have a big impact on how fast and how much traffic you can gain. There are a number...
The Right Way to Create Branded Content
Content marketing is growing by leaps and bounds. More and more reputed companies like Red Bull are using branded content to create more awareness about their products, without actually “selling” directly to their target audience. However, creating the right mix of...
5 Blogging Tips You May Not Have Tried Yet
Every blogger is fighting a constant battle to gain ground in the blogosphere. Though there are more than one hundred million blogs (in the English language) on the internet, not each of them will leave their mark. Just because you have excellent writing skills...
5 Blogging Habits That Makes You Popular And Rich
I have learned so much from blogging. Although, as a young blogger, there are several hassles I encountered especially in the area of driving free traffic. Every blogger and internet marketer must pass through their own time of dryness. I call this “the...
Is Blog Commenting an Effective Marketing Strategy?
There are different views on whether effective blog commenting can bring some real value to a blog or website. Some say posting comments on blogs is an excellent way of attracting visitors’ attention. There are others who believe blog commenting as a marketing...
Inside Look into 31 Days to Build a Better Blog
I recently just finished reading the book, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. I want to start off by saying I wouldn’t write a review on something that I didn’t truly believe in. But there are so many great ideas in this book...
Without Analytics, You Might As Well Be Working In The Dark
Have you ever tried running in the dark? I know you can’t – I have tried. It is the same with running a website. If you don’t know what is happening inside your site, you won’t be able to steer it towards success. Unfortunately, very few of us tend to pay attention to...
Using Your Front Line Employees to Fuel Your Content Marketing
In my 12+ years in the Internet marketing industry, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a company (in any industry) that couldn’t benefit from launching a business blog. SEO thrives on the consistent production of quality, engaging content. You’ve probably heard the...
Will Niche Blogging Work for You?
Blog experts say that niche blogging is the excellent way to engage a specific audience. The concept of niching is nothing new to marketing: when applied to blogging, it simply means that blog writers can focus on subjects that are targeted toward a specific audience....
5 Mistakes That Will Crush Your Blog’s Growth
A blog’s growth depends on how well you rope in new visitors while keeping the existing readers satisfied. If you take blogging simply as a hobby, you may not be really worried about whether its popularity grows or not. But if you are planning to turn your blog into a...
3 Ways to Enhance Your Blog’s Success
Blogging success isn’t going to come overnight, and it most likely won’t happen in a couple of months either. Successful blogs are backed by several months, if not a couple of years, of hard work and dedication. Profitable blogs with strong readerships and...
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these...
The Power Of Stories (To Engage With Your Audience)
People love stories. We humans are curious in nature, and by using stories in your marketing messages you can engage with your audience a lot better. Take the 2 scenarios below for example: Scenario 1 Susan exclaimed: “Yes! I’ve finally made it!” After a continuous...
What Google Analytics can Tell You About your Site’s Rankings
For most internet marketers, SEO is a fairly cut-and-dry process: keyword research, SEO content creation and building backlinks. This is how it’s been ever since we “figured out” Google’s algorithm. By using these basic steps, websites have achieved first page...