adding content to your blog
Blogging is a Conversation
Your blog should be a “conversation” with your audience. Keep it fairly short and valuable to the reader and convey a sincere “personality.” People want a real connection with the blogger. This is especially important with a business blog. If you truly connect with your audience, you develop new customers quickly. Check out the video [...]
WordPress SEO Advantages
I found a great video on blogging tech guru, Stephan Spencer who talks about the advantages of using a blog in place of a static or basic website, which he calls CMS in the video. CMS, stands for “content management system. This form of website is the basic format of a site in which a [...]
What Search Engines Want From Your Blog
Want an awesome tip that is going to make you a very effective blogger right now? Get your blog, social media sites, comments, articles, videos, pictures and other forms of your content out there in the internet! It’s very hard to keep up with the technological advances in computers, internet and search engines. About a month ago search [...]
Blog Tips – How to Make Your Blog Wildly Successful
After interviewing a new blogging client, I was asked what made a successful blog. Whether it is for personal or business, I am convinced that you have to be passionate about the niche or topic of your blog. If you own a business, it should be a “labor of love” to operate so it is [...]
Blogging Tips – Making Comments on Other Blogs
Making comments of other blogs is one of the most successful ways to drive traffic to your own blog. You are beginning to realize the responsibility you have once you start a blog. If you train your mindset to tend to your blog at least once a day like you check your email, you will [...]
Guest Blog on Other Blogs For More Exposure
Did you know that one of the easiest ways to promote your blog is by “guest blogging” on other industry related blogs? There are many advantages of doing this. First of all, you get to spread your expertise to a who new following. This immediately increases your visitor traffic because they are looking to you [...]
When to Outsource Blog Duties
Blogs are definitely work and it takes dedication and persistence to keep it up. I liken blogs to “old school” newspapers. Every single day, subscribers are counting on daily delivery of the newspaper to consume their news every day. What goes on behind the scenes is that the publisher has full time reporters, editors, sales [...]
Article Writing Tips
I found a great video interview that covers the topic of article writing. Remember that article writing practices also applies to writing a blog post. Note that the video talks about planning ahead and outlining the content and reduce it to around 500 words and read it aloud before publishing. Enjoy:
What to Write About in a Blog Post
Are you at a loss for words when composing your next blog post? It’s easy when you just get started on your blog and have your mind full of what to say. But as you know, when you start a blog, you become a publisher. And publishers are responsible for inserting daily news. Just like receiving [...]
Time Management and Your Blog
I’ve been getting so many requests from bloggers on how to best manage their time when maintaining their blog. After looking back at what I do, it never dawned on me that your really have to keep a consistent schedule to keep up with your blog in order to keep in the “good graces” with the [...]
