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- Make Money Writing Sponsored Blog Reviews - 2012-04-23 13:10:24-04
In the never ending journey to find the best ways to monetize blog traffic and make money with your content without selling out to massive banners and Google Adsense all over your site, many people are finding not only value, but compensation in the world of sponsored reviews. Social Spark is one of the top networks in the sponsored blog posts market, and they have been working with some very high quality and well known brands looking to expand on their exposure to new customers and web sites. It’s not rare to find companies like Disney, KMart, AT&T, GoDaddy, Hershey and many others on their network. Why this matters is simple… if you have a blog topic that any of these brands fit into, it would be a great opportunity for you to write about their web sites, brands or recent promotions, while also earning a compensation for your time ...
- Connecting Your Blog With RSS, Social Media and Email - 2012-04-24 10:00:35-04
Before you start creating a ton of content for your blog, just hoping for random people to start stumbling upon your site, it’s important to put the right tools in place to get it noticed. A big part of this is working to connect your blog to the major social networks, as well as a better way to connect with your readers through e-mail and RSS. Don’t know how to do this? Don’t know the deal with RSS and why it matters? Don’t worry: we’re here to help you out with that too. RSS and E-Mail Subscriptions What is RSS and what is with all this talk of feed readers? RSS, most commonly understood as Really Simple Syndication, is a family of web formats that are used to publish frequently updated work, as would be the case with blog entries. By offering an RSS feed, readers are notified when there ...
- 6 Tips to Improve Blogs Off-Page SEO - 2012-04-24 15:00:03-04
Off-Page SEO On-page and off-page SEO are indispensable to search engine rankings. On-page SEO is what you do to customize a blog post with header tags, keywords and images. Off-page SEO is what you need to do outside the blog to help rank the blog higher. Here are some useful tips for off-page SEO. (1) Do a lot of social bookmarking is platforms like StumbleUpon and Digg. The social bookmarking sites are crawled by search engines more often and they do have a very active user base. Bookmarking your blog on these sites will lead to traffic spikes often. Make sure that you don't share the blog homepage all the time. Whenever there is a new blog post, bookmark them and every 2-3 days, revisit the pages and share again. (2) Spend time to create forum profiles. Almost all forums are free to register. To get back link from forums, ...
- 2 Twitter Tools to Get More Retweets and Followers - 2012-04-24 16:10:36-04
Twitter is most powerful social networking site to drive traffic to your blog and connect with authorities in your niche / industry. Who doesn't want to drive traffic to their blogs and with the recent Google changes, it's very important that you shouldn't rely on search engines purely to drive traffic. I've been able to build connection with some big people in my niche, just with the help of Twitter. Today I'm going to share two fantastic tools that will help you to get more retweets and followers. Both tools are fantastic. Justretweet It is created by my friend Valentine. JustRetweet is a simple twitter app that helps you get more tweets and provide you an easy way to find stuff you want to share and retweet it with a click and at the same time allows you to earn credits. JustRetweet is credits based system and works by earning ...
- Why Type of Blog Do I Need? - 2012-04-25 10:00:36-04
There is no such thing as the perfect car. Some people prefer smaller vehicles that are more fuel efficient and easier to maneuver. Other people need something that is capable of going off-road. Others still need the extra cargo space that a pickup truck or SUV is able to provide. At the end of the day, everyone’s needs are different and that’s why there are so many different types of cars. You just need to find the one that best suits your preferences and needs. The exact same philosophy easily applies to the world of blogging as well. When it comes to themes for blogs, once again, there is no such thing as the one size fits all model. Some people desire certain features while other people desire a completely different set of features. As such, it’s important to think about what you want to get out of a WordPress ...
- The Importance of Using High Quality Web Site Monitoring Services - 2012-04-25 14:04:40-04
There is nothing worse then going to your web site or blog to see the latest updates and to check on your site, then to find that it is down! It’s happened to the best of us… even the best web hosting solutions occasionally go down, or maybe your wordpress is overloaded with plugins and features that are slowing the site down. No matter the situation, it’s important to have some form of website monitoring in place. There are many different types of website and server monitoring services out there. Whether you run a whole network of sites or just one blog, a monitoring system is important to have. With such an important system, also comes costs. Fortunately Monitor Scount offers a free website & server monitoring package for their customers. Below you will find more information about why web site monitoring is important, and some of the features available ...
- 3 Ways to Get More Subscribers from Your Blog - 2012-04-25 17:56:20-04
You’ve probably heard the saying more than once, that…the money is in the list. That is easier said than done, and, from a marketer’s perspective, one of the common questions that is asked regularly is the question of how to get more subscribers; either via RSS or email. If you take a look at the title of this article, though, you will notice a huge difference; it says how to get more subscribers from your blog, not to. The reason for this is simple; I believe most of us are too focused on gaining subscribers outside of our blog that we’re wasting a lot of blog real estate. This article will be giving you a few proven, time-tested tips on how to get more subscribers from your blog. 1. Offer an Incentive to Subscribe The number of people who want to build a strong list that don’t have an incentive ...
- Premium WordPress Themes vs. Free Themes - 2012-04-26 10:00:39-04
So, you’ve decided that you want to start blogging. You’ve registered a domain name, signed up for hosting, and picked out your niche. You may have also narrowed down the kind of blog theme that you would like to use, thanks to the previous article. Now, you are faced with another decision point. When it comes to WordPress themes, they come in one of three types: free, premium, and custom. Which type of blog theme you ultimately use for your site will largely be dependent on your goals and on your budget. How much money are you willing to invest in your blog in its early days? Your ultimate goal should be to use a custom blog theme, but this may not be financially viable for many people who are new to blogging. Starting Out with Free Themes The appeal of free themes is obvious enough: they’re free. Any designer ...
- 3 Deadly Mistakes You're Making On Your Blog – Fix Them Today! - 2012-04-27 08:14:07-04
“Blogging can be fun and profitable when the right buttons are pushed!” I've been blogging for a while, and without realizing it, I've been making several mistakes which kept me stuck to complaints, murmuring and failure. No comments on my posts, no matter how informative it was. I couldn't drive targeted readers either, and there was no way I could make money blogging – I was stuck, and maybe you're too. I don't know where you're in your blogging journey (yes, it's a journey), but I'm here to reveal 3 deadly mistakes you might be making with your blog. Not just that, between the lines, I'll share quick tips on how to achieve real-time success with your virtual estate. 1. No Landing Page If there is anything worth giving attention to, it's a landing page for blogs. If you don't have it, or think it's irrelevant, you're making a ...
- Examples of Custom WordPress Themes - 2012-04-27 10:19:25-04
To give you a sense of all the different kinds of blog themes that are possible, we have hand-selected five of the top blogs from the Internet and are now showcasing their respective themes. As far as we can tell, all five of these sites make use of custom themes and while they may or may not all be powered by WordPress, such layouts and styles are achievable using a WordPress framework. MEGATechNews: Focused on Reviews As a technology site, MEGATechNews is inherently catering to people who are perhaps more tech-savvy than the average consumer. These are people who want to know about all the latest news and happenings in the technology world, but they also want comprehensive reviews of these products to help with their purchasing decisions. For this site, the design allows for a series of featured articles to scroll near the top of the content area, but ...
- What are WordPress Plugins and How Do They Work? - 2012-04-28 10:19:27-04
The concept of WordPress plugins was briefly discussed in an earlier article in this series, but they are definitely worth revisiting. Plugins serve as a critical part of your WordPress blog and so it is important that you recognize what they are, how you can get them, and what they can do for you. Expanding and Customizing WordPress The official definition coming from WordPress is that plugins “can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.” In short, these are smaller software components that can add specific capabilities to a larger software application (like WordPress). They are not programs themselves, but they act as an add-on or expansion pack, so to speak. WordPress plugins can affect just about every aspect of your WordPress blog. There are plugins to change how you interact with the administration control panel. There are plugins that help integrate your blog with your social networking ...
- Four Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog Faster - 2012-04-28 13:28:51-04
WordPress is an excellent blogging platform. Because of the number of features it offers, it is used by millions of bloggers across the world. WordPress today powers some of the most popular blogs and websites. Many Internet marketing professionals recommend using WordPress for creating niche blogs and websites. Your WordPress blog can become slow for a number of reasons. You should take measures to make it faster because it can have a negative effect on the popularity of your blog. If your blog times out often, it can affect search engine ranking positions and also make it difficult for your visitors to access your content. This can increase your bounce rate. You can make your WordPress blog load much faster by following the four tips mentioned below: Use a caching plug-in such as WP cache WordPress creates webpages on-the-fly which puts a strain on the Web server. If your blog ...
- Top 10 Free WordPress Plugins - 2012-04-29 10:19:29-04
With literally thousands of different WordPress plugins out there to consider, it can be easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of choice. You now recognize the value that these plugins can add to your blog, but which ones should you use? Just looking at the tip of the iceberg, we have narrowed down the list to ten of the best free WordPress plugins. They’re quite varied in what they have to offer, really demonstrating what is possible with just a simple installation or two. 1. Akismet One thing that you’ll quickly discover about running a blog is that the comment section can become very prone to spam. One of the most popular and most powerful tools to combat blog comment spam is Akismet. They maintain a database of spammers and keep those non-comments off your blog. 2. All in One SEO Pack If you value search engine optimization but ...
- Two Ways People Really Make Money with a Blog - 2012-04-29 14:10:11-04
Blogging need not be a leisure activity you undertake. Even if you do not associate stress of conducting business with blogging, your blog can turn into a steady source of income for you. It is important for any blogger to build a loyal reader base even if the purpose is solely to engage with the readers and to share your knowledge. Once you have a loyal reader base there is no harm in capitalizing on the gains you have made. Your blogs can turn into real money spinners. You can gain monetarily from the results you have achieved through your perseverance. Some strategies have proved themselves as the ones that happen to click for most people and have a higher success ratio. Here are two such strategies that you can use. 1. Advertising There are different methods through which you can earn revenue by placing advertisements on your blog. Use ...
- Flipping the news into newsworthy content - 2012-04-29 14:31:37-04
It's no surprise the Internet is constantly looking for more content. It's never satisfied and part of the job of any content writer is to think on your feet to satisfy the need . One of the logical places for you to look are the news release distribution sites around, but you need to know how to leverage the news and flip it into great content. Stay aware of what's going on. Being able to spin news articles around what your clients need is all about being aware of the information that's out there. The more recent a news story the more relevancy it has and you need to be able to pick these apples off the tree while they are still ripe. It's good to have these coming into your inbox on a regular basis or be able to know where to go to get the current headlines. Research ...
- 4 Things Bloggers Should Not Write Without Experience - 2012-04-29 15:00:51-04
I am in a very antsy mood today. I am seriously frustrated with bloggers writing about things they don't have an iota of knowledge. Bear with me! With the dagger of publishing fresh and useful content hanging over our heads daily, I believe that often new, intermediate and experienced bloggers make the mistake of writing about something which they haven't yet experienced but they do so just for the sake of publishing something on their blog. In my opinion, here are few things bloggers should think thrice before writing on: 1. Its Easy to Make Money from Blogging If you haven't earned even a penny from blogging, you have no right to say it is easy to make money from blogging. It is unethical and by saying so, you are seriously misguiding readers who come to your blog hoping for realistic information. Moreover, when you accept guest posts on the ...
- Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media Exposure - 2012-04-30 10:19:30-04
In the previous article, we touched on the importance of social media and how the “Share and Follow” WordPress plugin is very useful in this regard. Not surprisingly, it is far from being the only option when it comes to integrating your blog with the various social networking channels that are out there on the Internet. The world wide web, as it were, is more connected and more social than ever. That’s why it is positively essential that you make good use of the right WordPress plugins to drive social media traffic toward your blog. More and more people are spending large amounts of time on sites like Twitter and Facebook, so it’s important that you reach out these audiences in whatever way you can. This can help the growth of your blog greatly, as well as develop an increasingly large group of loyal readers. So, what plugins should you ...
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