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How To Get Guests To Write Posts For Your Blog Building

Jorge_D — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:18:50 +0000

Building a successful blog in any niche is all about producing high quality content that your readers will be genuinely interested in, but writing all that content yourself can be time-consuming and tedious.

Of course, you can outsource most of the work and have other people write the articles for you, but this can be expensive if you don’t have a big budget (and most beginner marketers don’t have this kind of budget).

Writing the article yourself and paying other people to write the articles for you are not the only options available to you, however.

An excellent way to add high-quality content is to find guest writers who are willing to submit good articles to your blog in exchange for a link to their websites.

Not only will this make your job easier when it comes to producing fresh and interesting content for your readers, but it can also add to the overall quality and credibility of the blog by having multiple expert authors contributing their own insights and opinions.

Finding these guest writers can be as easy as contacting other bloggers who are already established in your niche and telling them that you will begin accepting their high-quality content in exchange for links.

If you have a good readership with lots of people subscribing to your RSS feeds or e-mail lists and participating in blog comments, then you can simply make an announcement on your blog and tell people that you will be accepting quality articles.

If you don’t know where to begin, start by looking at the blogs that show up in Google and in blog directories and begin contacting them one by one.

This is a much better option than simply publishing articles that you find in article directories because guest writers will be writing original content and the quality tends to be higher as well.

What are you doing to get guest blogs?

Why You Should Build An E-mail List From Your Blog

Jorge_D — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:15:22 +0000

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Building an e-mail list is one of the most important things you can do to help your online business succeed, and this certainly applies to blogging as well.

You can certainly make money without the e-mail list by simply having affiliate links on your blog posts or making money with Google Adsense, banner ads, and other forms of advertisements.

If you don’t have a subscriber list, however, you’re simply not making the most of your online business.

When someone visits your website, chances are they’re not going to immediately buy your e-book or make a purchase through your affiliate link.

People usually have to see your sales offers multiple times before they make a purchase, and it always helps to build trust and relationships on the Internet.

With this in mind, an e-mail list can give you an opportunity to present affiliate recommendations or other offers multiple times to your subscribers even if they don’t make you money the first day they land on the website.

Not only can an e-mail list give you additional opportunities to make sales, but it can also keep your subscribers coming back to your blog time and time again.

You can let your subscribers know when you have published a new high-quality article on your blog, then your followers will keep returning to your site to read your interesting and helpful articles and perhaps end up clicking on an ad that makes you money.

This strategy can help build a long-term authority site with the community of devoted followers who simply love to come to your blog on a regular basis (and perhaps tell their friends and families about your blog as well so it can continue to grow in popularity).

They key is to build relationships by not constantly sending sales offers, but instead providing plenty of helpful content along the way.

Are you building your list?

How to Write Good Blog Post Headlines

Jorge_D — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:30:40 +0000

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If you’re just starting out a blog, one of the biggest keys to your success is getting people to read your blog.

The only way you can do that is to capture their interest.

While you may have the world’s best blog post, if your headline doesn’t capture their interest it won’t matter.

In fact, it would be more beneficial to have an average blog post with a great headline than to have a a poor headline with an amazing blog post.

You need to get the potential reader engaged and the only way you can do it is by making them interested at first.

How to Write a Good Headline?

Some of the best headlines you can write deal with numbers and tips.

Example-

5 Tips to Losing Belly Fat and Getting 6-Pack Abs

People love to read tips. They know that most of the tips they’ll read will be short and concise and what theywant.

Also, writing about a specific number gives you an idea of how you can outline your blog post.

Instead of running into a wall, you’ll know that you need at least 5 tips to make your blog post complete.

Another great way to create an interesting headline is to use a benefit.

If you’re writing about weight loss, you want them to see the benefit of losing weight.

Such as looking great in a swimsuit.

However, one of the most powerful headlines you can use is the benefit+curiosity to create a headline that will guarantee to get read.

Example-

3 Unwritten Rules to Losing Weight and Looking Great in a Bikini.

This is a great example of a benefit+curiosity based headline.

They’ll want to find out what the “Unwritten Rules” are and they’ll be more likely to open your blog post and to read it.

It’s also important to have a sexy headline so people looking at RSS feeds will be able to see it.

If your headline isn’t interesting to them, there is no way they’re going to click on it.

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How To Make Your Blog Posts Go Viral

Jorge_D — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:00:32 +0000

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Some bloggers do it by accident when they make posts that suddenly go viral and popular in the Internet.

If you are looking for ways on how to make your blog posts go viral, however, then it is obvious that you do not want to make it accidental.

Yes, you can proactively make it happen.

1. Pick the Right Topic

Some subjects are just better built for blogosphere greatness
than others.

Viral topics are either those that are useful or controversial.

Issues where you can make a well-informed stand are good topics to initially work on.

Keep yourself updated with current events and trends and jump on the opportunity once you sense the opportunity to strike.

2. Do Your Research

A viral blog post needs content that is full of useful information.

Unless you are well-versed in the topic of your choice, you will need to research to provide this.

Before you even write your first few sentences, make sure that you have spent about 10 minutes or so researching.

This can also help you make a compelling headline and introduction about your topic.

3. Dedicate Time to Your Headline and Introduction

Your blog post’s title and introduction are the first things that a reader is going to see.

Your title and introduction should be catchy, informative, and concise.

Take a look at past blog posts that have left a mark in your chosen topic and observe how their titles are constructed.

Titles that shock but give appropriate justification later on often make it to the halls of fame.

4. Interact

Blogs are good avenues for interaction with people that you would normally not talk with in public.

The world is full people coming from different backgrounds and opinions.

Some of these opinions may contradict the position of your blog post, but take time to interact with them and grow your online home to a budding community.

It is by this time when you have really learned how to make your blog posts go viral.

As an added bonus, you may have also established online connections that could last for years.

Don’t forget your comments. Have a viral blog post? POst your comment a share it

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How To Stay Inspired To Write Your Blog

Jorge_D — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:00:55 +0000

Learning how to stay inspired to write your blog is an important skill to learn, which you should think about before you even begin blogging, if you are planning to earn a living online.

Successfully blogging for a living is something that doesn’t happen overnight, and it requires a substantial amount of dedication and hard work.

Because it can take so long to begin generating enough revenue to live on, many bloggers lose inspiration and may even stop blogging altogether.

Often this may happen because new bloggers weren’t prepared, having no idea how much effort was involved, or they may have thought they would see more income generated than what actually appeared.

To stay inspired to write your blog, you need to keep your eye on the prize and recognize that you are laying the foundation for the long term goal of earning passive income online.

There will come a day when all of your hard work begins to really pay off, and you can enjoy a vacation or slow down your pace while still receiving revenue from many income streams.

This is the most inspirational point to consider when blogging, so visualize that there will come a day when income is streaming in from all of the work you are doing right now.

To stay inspired, use visual imagery, such as the work involved in building a skyscraper – it begins with absolutely nothing and is a slow process, but the end result is a phenomenal structure.

This is how blogging grows, very slowly and one brick at a time, but knowing that in the end all of this work will change your life, and is well worth it.

That said, you may not have inspiration to work on your blog because you are not interested or engaged in the topic, finding it dull and a struggle to write about each day.

You don’t have to go for the “big ticket” topics to be a success in the blogging world so, to stay inspired, be sure to focus on a niche that you enjoy writing and talking about, or you’ll increase the likelihood of giving up on this amazing opportunity to create a substantial passive income online.

Don’t forget to post your comments below!

How To Create A Blogging Schedule

Jorge_D — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:31 +0000

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When you decide to blog for a living you are working for yourself and, to succeed, you need to know how to create a blogging schedule.

If you have always generated a salary by working for someone else, daily routines and tasks were already in place when you arrived, so you could just go along by fulfilling the duties in your job description each day.

When blogging, however, it is up to you as a sole proprietor to develop strategies and schedules on your own, and to see to it that they are carried out on a daily basis.

Some people, when beginning to blog, aren’t used to the freedom of working from home and they can quickly fail if they don’t recognize that they still need to work full time in order to generate an income.

Creating a blogging schedule helps you set goals and clearly lays out what must be done each day in order to achieve those goals.

A blogging schedule should reflect everything you need to initially do, from developing a new blog to researching a product or products for a blog post you intend to write.

Schedules should also include important marketing strategies, such as creating smaller articles that will be created as backlinks to your blog post or sending emails to blog
subscribers.

Social sharing should be a part of every blogger’s schedule, so be sure to include sharing your article on sites such as Facebook or Twitter each day.

Keyword research and identifying potential new topics is very important to keep a continual flow of new content being created, so be sure to set aside time in your schedule where you research keywords and visit forums in your niche, to identify problems and potential future topics (can be a great promotional tool, too).

You alone will determine just what needs to be included in your blogging schedule, which can be created to cater to your
individualized needs.

The importance of scheduling daily blog tasks is that you are growing your business every day, increasing your odds of success, in a timely and efficient matter without missing a step.

Do you have a plan for your blog? Share your thoughts below!

Use Social Media To Build Relationships and Trust With Subscribers

Jorge_D — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:00:01 +0000

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Companies are starting to dive cannon ball style into social media as a relationship building channel.

A smart business strategy that is being executed nowadays is to use social media to build relationships and trust with subscribers.

It is a proven fact that people like doing business with people that they are often in contact. So it makes sense that a strong connection can result to a recurring revenue to a business.

If social media are still not part of your marketing plan, then you are leaving a significant amount of money on the table. The marketing benefits that are generated by the popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Linkedin, etc. are simply hard to ignore.

Unlike with traditional marketing, your business exposure is extended globally at a very low cost when using the social media platform.

But first you must understand your target market and their social habits. Then, take the time to plan on how you can connect them to your business goals.

Remember that an important step in building a relationship is to be responsive. It can be in a form of a reply to a comment on your post or a simple Like on a Facebook page.

Another method of staying connected is by educating your network with tips and tricks on the field that your business is known to be an expert of.

You should see it as a genuine way to be more interactive with your target market.

With continuous engagement to your network or ‘fans’ by providing them with timely information and helpful responses, trust is not far behind.

Your loyal set of followers could then be converted to customers with whom you can build a profitable business relationship for years to come. This is the power of social media marketing at its best.

What are you doing? Share your thoughts below!

Ebay Has A Good Affiliate Program

Jorge_D — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:00:51 +0000

The headquarters of eBay in San Jose, California. Photographed on August 5, 2006 by user Coolcaesar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ebay is known for being the perfect place to buy some of your favorite stuff, but not too many people actually consider it as a nice way to make money as an affiliate.

The truth is that Ebay pays you as an affiliate every single time that you drive high quality traffic to their site.

You basically get paid for every click that is made to the site and on the official Ebay website.

So, it’s a pretty nifty way to make a good amount of cash.

This program is actually called their Quality Click Pricing affiliate program; however, there is another good way to make even more money through their website.

This is to simply be an affiliate for every sale made on the site.

In other words, for every time that you get somebody to click on to Ebay and actually get the winning bids or click the “Buy It Now” button, you get paid a commission.

This is truly a wonderful way to make money, as Ebay is very reputable so you can be sure to receive your payments on time.

Remember that it does take time to see a good amount of money come in, but it’s worth it once you make a ton of money and you have affiliate sites making you thousands every month.

How much do the top affiliates make?

On average, the top 25 affiliates make around $100,000 every month just by having several sites lead visitors to the Ebay website.

Every time that their visitors win a bid or click the “Buy It Now” button, they automatically get a commission.

So, it’s a pretty rewarding business that any affiliate marketer should consider doing.

This is a great affiliate program, simply because so much money can be made just by promoting other peoples’ Ebay items on your website.

If you want to make a lot of money from Ebay without selling your own items, their affiliate program is definitely worth doing.

Are you in? Please post your thoughts below!

Use Forums To Discover The Problems Of Your Market

Jorge_D — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:00:15 +0000

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Being an affiliate marketer is tough when you don’t even know the problem that you’re trying to solve.

Affiliate marketing is basically where you the affiliate leads a person to their solution; whether that would be a solution to their acne, singing, or weight.

But if you don’t necessarily know the exact problems that your market is dealing with, then how would you know how to solve their problem?

Let’s face it, the acne industry is easy to follow along with, but if you don’t get low enough into the market to discover their main problems, then nobody is going to buy that acne product from
you.

So, let’s take the singing niche into account.

Singers usually know how to sing right off the bat, but if you know how to target their inner most deepest needs, you can talk to them in a way that would cause them to buy your affiliate product.

In order to get down to what they are longing for most, try visiting local forums on singing to get into the minds of those singers.

On singing forums, most singers would express the problems that they are dealing with the most like breathing, hitting the whistle notes, or singing in their head voice.

These are all micro niches that will help you to find out exactly what most people in your niche are really having trouble with.

Of course, some singers may not have such a great voice, but it’s those small little niches in the singing niche that can cause them to buy the product you’re trying to sell.

Maybe you aren’t even selling a singing product?

Whatever it is that you are selling, before you actually create websites related to the topic, don’t go talking about general ideas and only going for those ordinary keywords.

If you want to make good affiliate sales, you need to hit those little trigger points where people are really in need of help with; and the only way to do that is to discover those mini niches through forums.

Any experience using forums? Post your comments below!

How To Generate Traffic Using Squidoo

Jorge_D — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:00:07 +0000

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Squidoo is an online, popular website, which allows users to create lenses that are actually pages to convey content on various topics.

Squidoo is used widely by website owners and online marketers for its ability to attract a large amount of viewers and direct traffic to accompanying webpages.

When using Squidoo to generate traffic to your webpage, it is important to match the Squidoo lens to the genre of your topic.

For example, if you have a site selling pet clothing, create a lens on Squidoo with pet clothing or photos of pets to make the lens more relevant to your site.

An attractive, user-friendly Squidoo page can garner more visitors than one that is bland and run-of-the-mill.

Create a hyperlink for your site on the Squidoo lens on the first and last paragraph of the page, this gives viewers the ability to visit your site after reading the Squidoo lens description.

With a hyperlink on your Squidoo lens, you ensure that people have access to the site you want to promote, generating even more organic traffic.

Statistics show that sites on the front page of Google have a 95% chance of being clicked, while sites on the second page of Google have only a 5% chance of being clicked.

Use exciting and informative content on your Squidoo lens to attract and maintain a constant slew of visitors, with all the content available on the Web, you want to stand out, be unique and give visitors something refreshing, which can only help generate more traffic to your site.

Use Squidoo marketing to place a sticky note on your lens or make use of a module to direct visitors to your site, always make it appear naturally and following text that describes the genre and niche of your site and why visitors should view it.

Don’t forget to post your comments or questions below!