Archive for the ‘Blogging Tips’ Category
by BP Guest Blogger on October 24th, 2012
Congratulations, you’ve started a blog. So has everyone else in the neighborhood as well as their dogs. While you can’t lay claim to being the first blogger, you can build a blog that’s better than any other in your writing realm.
Here are seven ways to outshine your competition in any blogging niche:
1. Great Bloggers Have Authority
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That’s right. If you plan to outshine the competition, you must have a well-rounded understanding of your blog’s subject matter. Want to start a food blog? Learn how to effectively use ingredients and create new recipes rather than regurgitating overly-circulated online recipes.
If you aren’t an expert on a particular post topic, find experts in the field and interview them. This brings an authoritative voice to the blog and provides value for readers. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips, Blogging: How To
Tags: blog, Facebook, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Flickr, google, Great Comet, search engine optimization, Social Media
by BP Guest Blogger on October 23rd, 2012
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Lots of people engage themselves in creating their own Blogs with zest but their enthusiasm fades away with time. Just like how we experience extreme joy at times in life, blogging also has its own peak periods. Slowly as time passes by, we stop visiting our blogs. Very few have that energy in them to consistently maintain their blogs. I have my own blog and have been successfully maintaining it for a couple of years now. I can share a few tips with you on how to maintain a blog successfully. You can also motivate yourself for writing good quality content without losing interest. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips
Tags: Arts, blog, directories, FAQs Help and Tutorials, google, Social Media, writers resources, writing
by BP Guest Blogger on October 22nd, 2012
If you want to make your website into a huge success then you need to really focus on your content. The content is the reason that people will come to your website in the first place, and the content is what will keep them there if it’s good. At the same time, your content is crucial for SEO because this is what Google will search in order to connect their users to the right content.
So in other words then, if you can write quickly and if you can write well, then you’ll find you quickly gain a more loyal user base and that Google starts sending more traffic your way.
Now teaching someone how to write well who doesn’t have natural ability can be an uphill struggle. When it comes to writing quickly though there are many little tips that can be very helpful. Here we will look at some of them in order to help you pump out twice the content and promotional material in half the time. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: Arts, Attention, Content (media), google, search engine optimization, Searching, writers resources, writing
by BP Guest Blogger on October 22nd, 2012
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Social media is an excellent resource for every type of business—brick and mortar, online, or both. Twitter is one of the biggest social media networks out there, which means you’re missing out if you aren’t maximizing your tweeting potential. Here’s how to get more Twitter followers for your business, both the easy way and the hard way.
1. The Easy Way – Buying Your Followers
Social media can feel like a popularity contest—people judge the importance and prestige of their peers based on a single number: how many followers. The more followers you have, the easier it is to accrue even more followers. But how do you get people interested in the first place, when you’re just starting out? One shortcut that’s been gaining momentum recently is the practice of buying Twitter followers. If you want to buy some fake followers to raise your profile, all you need to do is visit one of the many third-party websites offering the service, enter your credit card number and Twitter handle, and you could gain thousands of “fans” over the course of a couple days. Prices vary, though it tends to be relatively inexpensive: some sites offer 1,000 followers for only $5. Though the practice is technically against Twitter’s terms of service, it’s incredibly widespread; high percentages of even the most famous tweeters’ followers are fake. Read More
Categories: Blogging Tips, General, Marketing
Tags: business, Constant Contact, DIY Themes, Online Communities, San Francisco, Social Media, social network, twitter
by Jonathan Bailey on October 17th, 2012
Shared hosting, at its most fundamental level, is when many different websites share the same physical server and its resources. It is easily the most common form of hosting on the planet and the one used by nearly all of the largest hosts including GoDaddy, Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc.
While this might sound like a bad approach to hosting, it’s actually a very good one for many, if not most sites.
Simply put, the majority of websites don’t require that much space, bandwidth or server resources and they can fit in a tiny fraction of a reasonably powerful server. It’s not until sites grow significantly in terms of traffic or size that they begin to need more resources than what a shared hosting account can provide.
However, as you might imagine, the format does come with more than a few drawbacks. In many ways, shared hosting is an ugly business and there are some universal truths about the practice that you just can’t avoid, not if you don’t want to spend more than $10 per month on hosting.
With that in mind, here are five of the darker truths about shared hosting and what you need to know about them.
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Categories: Blogging Tips
Tags: blog hosting, bluehost, dreamhost, godaddy, Hosting, shared hosting
by BP Guest Blogger on October 16th, 2012
Halloween will fall on a spooky Wednesday this year, so get your terrifyingly terrific costumes ready for some nonstop partying! For bloggers wanting to savor the Halloween experience, maybe a countdown plugin is in order, so why not put one of these Halloween widgets on your site and just count the days until fuzzy bats, ghouls and monsters will rule the night.
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Categories: Blogger Tools, Blogging Resources, Blogging Tips
Tags: blog widgets, Halloween blogs, Halloween countdown widget, halloween plugins, halloween widgets, WP plugins
by BP Guest Blogger on October 15th, 2012
There are as many reasons to get into blogging as there are people with blogs. Heck, some folks (myself included) try to maintain more than one blog for various niches and specializations.
Regardless of what inspired you to start blogging, chances are you’ve considered monetization and long-term earning potential as reasons to maintain active updates.
Earning money through blogging is a fantastic way to allow your hobby to pay for itself, perhaps even building into a lucrative income.
Before you hop on the monetization bandwagon,however, there are a few things you should know about the rules, regulations, and guidelines in place to protect consumers and bloggers alike. Essentially it all boils down to being completely transparent about any sources of income connected to your blog. Whether your opinion on a topic could result in commission to you if a sale is made, or if you’re just raving about something you’ve purchased because you love it and want the whole world to know, you must inform your audience. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips
Tags: blog, Bottom Line, directories, FAQs Help and Tutorials, ftc, google, IMail, twitter
by BP Guest Blogger on October 15th, 2012
If you’ve been beating your head against the wall trying to lower your bounce rate for your blog without any guidance or direction, don’t start to feel like you’re the only one. Most people that are struggling to keep their readers engaged, give up and move away from blogging. However, to truly figure out how to keep the attention of your readers, you must learn how to make your content “sing”; so to speak. Until you learn this, your fight for attention will be never ending. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips
Tags: blog, bounce rate, duplicate content, Facebook, LOL, search engine optimization, Social Media, writing
by BP Guest Blogger on October 11th, 2012
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Social media has made its impact on the world, and this includes Corporate America. Today, many companies are realizing just how important it is to have a social media presence, which means that social media jobs are on the rise.
Social media managers, community managers, social specialists—these are all a few of the titles that people are being given at the office. They spend their day perusing social media sites, posting status updates, sharing pictures and commenting and liking posts. What separates these people from those who already do this at work? These people are getting paid for it. Read More
Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips
Tags: business, CareerBuilder, Community manager, Company, Facebook, Monster, Social Media, twitter
by BP Guest Blogger on October 9th, 2012
When you build a website or write an article for that website, or even change the colour of the backgrounds it’s important to remember who you are doing it for – in other words the people. Sure you’ve heard it all before: ‘write for people not Google’ right? Well hear me out because that’s not really what I’m talking about here. You see the problem with writing ‘for people’ is that often those people are rather dehumanized by the whole process. It’s a step up if you’re writing to entertain and not just to please an algorithm or a ‘robot’ – but don’t you think ‘people’ is really a rather broad term? The question I want you to really ask yourself is what people?
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Categories: Blogging Sense, Blogging Tips
Tags: Behavioral targeting, Facebook, google, Link Wheeler, LinkWheel, Personalized search, search engine optimization, Website
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