driving traffic to your blog
Blog Posting Schedule
For a blog to be most effective, make sure you put yourself on a strict blog posting schedule. Quite often there are too many excuses to not post on one day and then it leads to the next day and so on. Before you know it, you have a full week gone by and nothing [...]
Blog Content About Your Business
When adding content about your business in your blog, make sure it is timely and valuable to your readers. Believe it or not, you can’t run out of things to say about your business if it is still open! There are customer testimonials, customer feedback, your own business experiences and “adventures,” new product releases, product [...]
Blogging With Social Media
Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter seem to the be “triad” of communicating with the most people online. Remember that, with these three social media sources at your disposal, your business is in front of as many of your targeted audience as it can get. But it takes a lot of work. Facebook currently has over 500 [...]
New SEO Seminar – August 28 – in Scottsdale
For those of you who reside in the Phoenix, Arizona area, we are continuing to hold our popular LIVE seminar series. Our next very informative live seminar will be held on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Scottsdale. For Details CLICK HERE.
Video Blogging is Very Popular
Video blogging has become one of the main ways to get the most traffic in the least amount of time. People online are very visual in nature. Video is the preferred way to get content now days. Video is cheap to make, easy to upload to a video site like YouTube, and is able to reach [...]
Using Article Directories to Attract Traffic to Your Blog
I found an interesting video from Katie Dubois that talks about submitting articles to online article directories to get visitors to your blog site. If you can see past the inferior audio quality of this video, you will get great value from what is revealed here to submit an article. This procedure also applies to any [...]
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 [...]
Comments On Other Unrelated Blogs
There seems to be a controversy about the process of commenting on other blogs, if it needs to be made to blogs related in the same industry or niche. The answer is yes and no. Yes, it is advisable to make comments on other blogs that are related in the same industry or niche. That [...]
Blogging Tips – What Makes a Good Blog?
I am a big fan of blogger Jim Kukral. He has been blogging since 2000. I have a great video interview with him revealing his take on what are good qualities of a blog. This would apply to a business blog as well as personal blogs. Pay attention to what he talks about regarding search [...]
How to Raise Your Blog Ranking With Backlinks
I am an avid follower of blogger David Risley. He made a great video on the topic of backlinking, which I will be soon releasing my own online program on this. In order to help make your blog get more visitor traffic and also raise your blog in the search engine rankings, this video will [...]
What Really Makes Your Blog Rank High With Search Engines?
As you may or may not know, search engines often change their direction regarding what to count heavily for high search engine ranking. With the explosion of social media, most of the search engines are paying attention to this trend and have now gone to give these sites more weight in ranking. One of the [...]
Where Do Blog Visitors Come From?
I’ve often been asked, “where do blog visitors come from?” After taking a look at my webhost statistics and making sure that I know my “metrics” of the quantity and quality of my “hits,” “visitors,” and “page views,” I got to thinking about really, where are my visitors coming from. I don’t think any blog [...]
Developing a Focus On Your Blog
One of the most important ways to make your blog successful is to have a laser sharp focus regarding the topic of your blog. Since I concern myself with helping “brick and mortar” businesses get online presence in order to get more customers, my main topic is about using blogs to achieve this. If you [...]
The Future of Blogs
Although I don’t claim to be the “Nostrodamus” of blogs, I do have confidence that blogs will surely outlast most of the internet “fads” out there for at least 10 years. Blogs started off with just being a “diary system” for personal use and to communicate with friends and family. Back in 2006, it started to evolve as a [...]
Search Engine Optimization and Blogs
After going through my mailbag today, I find many questions are asked about how blogs and SEO work together. First of all, what is SEO? For the “newbies,” it stands for “search engine optimization.” What is search engine optimization? It is the science of doing all you can to maximize favor of your website/blog with [...]
