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So You Want to be a Problogger?
2007-02-24 10:50:00
Do you consider yourself a problogger? Do you have any tips to share in this matter? Daniel at Daily Blog Tips has put up ten points that every problogger should have. This includes:TimeExpertise on a topicPassion for the topicWriting skillsTechnical KnowledgeBlogg ing KnowledgeWeb Design SkillsBusiness/Marketing KnowledgeCreativity and Innovative IdeasNetwork of contactsTo the above list however, I believe time is one of the main issue specially for people (like me) that get into blogging while still having a full time job. It is really a tough job trying to make a fulltime income from blogging part time. Basically, you cannot really quit the job to blog full time if you are not making enough.But who say’s we are here for an easy life? If we want to be a successful problogger then go work hard and smart. Remember, problogging takes time, time for you and for me to learn, perfect our skills, experience and enjoy.If you enjoy this post Subscribe to This Blog's Feed.
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Blogging or Niche Blogging: What's the Difference?
2007-02-22 08:18:00
What is better - to have one blog covering several topics or divide it and have a portfolio of blogs and focus each blog on one topic (niche blogging)?As I surf the net, I found the common trend is on one subject per blog. At first I did not appreciate this idea. I did not see the difference in having one blog with several categories or several blogs covering each subject. But as I look closely on the issue I found some strong arguments for niche blogging strategy.Running one blog with several categories is simpler in many ways. You will have to manage one design, one set of statistics, one set of readers and etc. But having separate statistics is definitely better and easier to track and analyze.You can also ask yourself about your usual preference in surfing the net? Is your favorite blog having several subjects? If you are like me, my favorites are mostly focused niche blogs. I also noticed that the more topics cover the particular site the less likely I will put it in my favorit...
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Problogging Success Guide Express in Images
2007-02-20 07:44:00
Someone say picture speak a thousand words. This post content consist maily of images. I found them very informative and helpful to any blogger who wish to be successful.Sources: http://blog-player.blogspot.com/If you enjoy this post Subscribe to This Blog 's Feed.
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Increase Your Traffic by Sending Your Traffic to Other Blogs
2007-02-20 03:08:00
Am I kidding? Definitely no, in fact I am on my very right mind telling you this: If you want to have more traffic to your blog then sends your visitors to visit other blogs, websites and even to your competitor blogs.You may be thinking that the above is the foolish thing to do but I am here telling you that this is at par with other effective blog traffic strategies. If you blog about what your competitors are saying and if you place their links within your post then you are doing brilliant service to your readers. Readers will lover your blog more. It appears to them that your blog has more authority in the industry your blog belong. The more you send people away to more valuable resources, the more valuable you become to your target audience and the more your readers will stick with you. Also, blogging about other bloggers position yourself to get your blog cited by them at some point. Thus, will increase your traffic coming from them.If you enjoy this post Subscribe to This Blo...
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Great Bloggers Block Advice from a Prolific Blogger
2007-02-19 23:32:00
Do you suffer bloggers block? Have you developed techniques on your own on how to battle against bloggers block? I am but found a great relief knowing that one of the most prolific writers on the web suffers the same. What is good about Darren Rowse is that, he developed his own way of battling bloggers block. Best of all, he even care to share it with others.His twenty-five tips on battling bloggers block:Change your Blog ging EnvironmentKeep an idea JournalFree Writing – Just WriteRead what other Blogger s are SayingCombine Two Disconnected IdeasStart with a NeedTake QuestionsFlip an IdeaCollaborate with other Bloggers Set a deadlineTake a BreakStimulate your MindFind your Golden HourComment on others BlogsRead your ArchivesMacro and Micro PostsWrite in a different voiceChange up your posting form – 20 Types of Blog PostsStart writing the Middle of your PostShort PostsSide step Blogging BlockagesMine your other CommunicationsReward YourselfSay it Out LoudMind MapsHe made a longer...
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Target .edu and .gov Sites for Backlinks
2007-02-19 22:34:00
Dailyblogtips came up with nice tips on how to gather .edu and .gov backlinks. Their tips however, can be use to gather backlinks targeting any specific keywords not just for .edu and .gov sites. Whether your blog has relevant content or not with the site you wanted to have a backlink, their tips will work.One thing I learned new from their post is that...It is widely accepted that .edu and .gov backlinks carry a larger weight for search engine algorithms. Despite the fact that Google has never admitted it (sometimes it even neglected) most SEO and online marketing experts would confirm that .edu and .gov links outperform other extensions in terms of search ranking juice.So, why don’t you try gathering .edu and .gov backlinks?If you enjoy this post Subscribe to This Blog's Feed.
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Target Popular Bloggers to Link to Your Blog
2007-02-18 02:30:00
Do you love fishing? Do you love to catch bigger fish? These questions are almost the same as asking: Do you love catching inbound links or do you love popular bloggers to link with you. If you do, then why don’t you go target the bloggers well-known in your industry to link to your Blog ?Wall Street Journal made mention on how to target bloggers well-known in your industry to link to your Web site.Here's a new catchphrase in search-engine optimization these days: Link baiting. The term may sound shady, but link baiting is an aboveboard tactic that calls for generating new or particularly interesting content on a Web site in hopes that a popular Web site links to it. Having well-ranked Web sites link to yours boosts your site's search-engine results, because most major search engines -- including Google and Yahoo -- consider the number and "quality" of links when generating their rankings. And, having your site linked to a popular site likely will prompt other sites to link to yo...
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Considering Blogging as a Full Time Job? Read This First
2007-02-13 03:28:00
You may be reading successful stories over the net about successful bloggers earning high income from blogging revenues. Has this stories prompted you to leave your current job? Will you go for full-time blogging?I asked this question to myself and I answered it in one of my post saying - if blogging will give me 3 times my full time job income, I will consider going full-time blogger. But for some people, perhaps they see fullfillment in their present job, blogging for them is just a part-time job regardless of the revenue they will derive from it. But if you consider doing it full time, my advise is that - do not leave your present job just because you know someone making a good living by blogging. Test the water first. Try to make your blog successful first, that's the beauty about blogging. You can make a successful blog doing it part-time. Second, see if blogging work is really for you. Blog ging like other jobs requires some set of personality.At this point, I'd like to brin...
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Attract Traffic With Great Headlines
2007-02-13 02:05:00
Did you know that headlines are the most important part of your post? Sometimes it's the only thing a person will read. If it interests them, they'll read more. If not, then your post is as good as a scratch paper to them.A headline is one or two lines that telegraph the most important points of your post. The question now, is, what makes a good headline?Try to think about the first words you'd say to someone when they pick up the phone and you have a really great story to tell. It should read and sound like a headline you read in a newspaper. Ask yourself this question: If you could write the headline in the newspaper, what would it say? Head lines matter especially with blogs. Surveys show that people only scan what they read on the net and you have to grab their attention quickly. But that's not all. If the person is using an RSS reader they may only see that headline. Similarly if your page comes up in a search engine, the first thing people are going to see is the headline....
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Blog Income: A Function of Both Quality and Quantity Content
2007-02-12 08:41:00
Do you work very hard on writing great articles? Do you optimize your adsense placement and affiliate ads? Do you optimized pages well for Google? If yes, then there is supposed to be no problem, your blog is going to succeed but not. You will still have a problem like why you generate only a handful of daily visitors and few cents of revenue.If you spent so much time writing quality content that you can post one per day and after over three months of blogging the blog has only 90 posts/pages then you got problem with quantity. They were good pages but there just wasn’t very many of them. I am not here saying that you could not earn revenue for those 90 posts but at that rate I doubt you can earn more than a dollar a week for at least a year or two. You just don’t have enough pages.Having more pages is like having more entry points to your blog. The more posts you do the higher the chance someone will upon your blog through a search engine. There is also a higher change of gett...
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Why Some High Quality Content Fails To Attract Links and Traffic
2007-02-12 03:10:00
Ok, you're blogging for something and you've made quite a number of high quality post. But have you ever wonder why, despite of your high quality posts, your blog seems to go no where near to success?You often encountered successful bloggers advising you to go for high quality content. They say it’s their secret of success. But why this approach seems not working to you?Let's take one of your high quality post and ask yourself a couple questions. Did this post manage to attract significant volume of readers? Did this post manage to attract inbound link? If your answer to both questions in NOT, then you failed to execute the missing piece – call to action.It's not enough to say "here is it – my high quality post". You must sell the reader on the benefits - what your content is about and most of all why they should read it. Then when they have read it why they should tell all their friends, family, enemies, and readers if they do have a blog.A good call to action will pay d...
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3 Great Reasons Why Success Comes Easy Blogging on Niche Topic
2007-02-10 09:28:00
Did you know that it is more difficult to write a profitable blog on broad than niche topic? Here is why.1. You have a better change of ranking higher in search engine if all your posts are on related topics that are interlinked. Your blog will most likely be considered highly authority by search engine if you blog on closely topics. The higher ranking your blog is in the eyes of the search engine, the more search engine traffic your blog likely to receive.2. You have a better change of finding an advertising income stream for your blog. As in the case of Adsense, if you write on many topics the ads may or may not related to your content and people will not likely to click non related ads. The ideal situation is that you write on topic and your readers see ads for that same topic – if you get this happening you increase the chance of them clicki9ng and therefore of you earning an income. Likewise with private sponsorship deals you’re unlikely to find a company willing to pay you...
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7 Tactics to Make Your Blog Your Driving Sales Force
2007-02-09 01:52:00
Marketing Sherpa posted an article entitled 7 Practical Tactics to Turn Your Blog Into a Sale s Machine. His ideas might be useful if you want to position their blogs into a driving sales force.The tactics involve:Seed your blog posts with keywordsReport exclusive news and insightYou don’t need to blog dailyAdd easy contact links to every single postJump on incoming leads super-swiftlyMeasure by qualified prospects, not total trafficBlog elsewhereThey said..‘Call us cynics. Blogs may be hip and trendy, but they don’t do diddly-squat for most people’s businesses. After four years of research, MarketingSherpa reporters estimate only .03% of the 34.5 million existing blogs are driving sales or prospective customers to their bloggers. (That’s less than 1,000 that we’ve been able to find.) Want your blog to be the one that works? Discover seven practical secrets from a real estate blog that gets prospects to raise their hands and beg to be contacted.’Read more details of thi...
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How to Make Your Blog Readers Read Your Entire Post
2007-02-08 15:52:00
8 out of 10 people will read title post, but only 2 out of 10 will read the entire post. You may have a lot of visitors coming but what’s the value of those if you will lose most of them in a matter of seconds? How can you make visitors read your entire post?Is there a technique on making your visitors read your entire post? How about asking yourself what is the most important part of your post aside from the title? If your answer is the opening paragraph, then you are absolutely right.But how do we make an opening paragraph that will compile the visitors to read the entire post? I am not a good speaker but I believe that when it comes to grabbing the attention of your audience, blogging and speaking share the same techniques.So, here is the 5 ways to have an opening paragraph that will capture the reader’s imagination and pull them deeper into reading the entire content.1. Ask Engaging QuestionOpening a question is an effective way to create curiosity and gets the reader thinki...
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5 Steps Video Series on How to Making Money From Keyword Research
2007-02-08 09:56:00
Keyword is one fundamental key to successful blogging. You can come to blogging without minding about keywords, but if you are blogging for money then keyword research is not only essential but a must.To gain substantial traffic from search engine, you need to discover the keywords used by consumers in searching. This fuel the popularity of keywords research and keyword software search tools.And today, I found a great series made by Brad Callen about using Keyword Elite software tool to quickly and easily locate profitable opportunities base on what consumers are saying they want by searching, and also by what your competition is doing as well.Here are the 5 steps served up in 5 videos:How to Generate Huge Lists of High Paying AdSense KeywordsUncover Hidden Niches and Keywords by Analyzing Your CompetitionAutomatically Create Laser Targeted Adsense WebpagesInstantly Learn How Competitive a Market is by Analyzing Top Ranked WebsitesDiscover Exactly Which of Your Competitors Keywords ...
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Frequently Asked Question about Links
2007-02-08 08:08:00
We seem to know well the importance of links but we may still have some questions about them. Good that Wayne of SEO Chat made a good article on Link s - Links: Frequently Asked Quest ion s. It started with the basic questions then it gets deeper than that. Some of the questions I found worth sharing here are:Why are links important?Links are important because they help Internet users find interesting, informative, and useful content, either on the site itself or at other Internet locations. Inbound links have special value to the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves, as the number, duration of linking time, and quality are part of the search engine algorithms. As a general rule, the more incoming links that a Web page and website receive, the better the site will rank in the search engines.Do all links have equal value to the search engines?While quantity of links is important, quality is even more important. Some inbound links are simply given more valu...
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How to Convert Your First Time Visitor into Regular Reader – Part 2 of 2
2007-02-07 09:45:00
This is the second and final post in this series on how to convert your first time visitors into regular reader. You might also like to read the part 1 of this series. Here are a few of the things that I believed will help those one off first time visitors to stay around and interact with your blog a little longer that a one off visit.6. Make Things Easy for Your VisitorsMaking things usable and easier on the visitor can drastically increase your conversion rate. If your content is hard to read, it is very unlikely that visitors will come back to read your blog. If they want to subscribe to your RSS feed then make it easy for them. 7. Pay Attention to Individual Page DesignEvery page is a potential doorway into the rest of your blog. Given this information, you have to make your pages engaging and easy to navigate. It is worth asking a non blogging friend to test your blog’s usability and navigability to see just how easy it is to use.8. Make an Easy Way for Your Read er s to go De...
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How to Get Yahoo Traffic for Your Blog?
2007-02-07 09:15:00
This blog on its’ three months of existence has been quiet successful getting traffic from Google. Although I received a number of traffic coming from unknown source, as far as my sitemeter statistic is concerned, I don’t remember getting a single traffic from Yahoo . I begin to wonder. Is there something wrong with my blog? Are you experiencing the same thing? How do you manage to get some traffic from Yahoo?I try to surf for the solution and this is what I got so far. It involves signing up for a MyYahoo page and using the RSS Headlines feature. This feature allows you to track a variety of blogs via RSS. Simply add your own RSS feeds and it seems that Yahoo adds them to its own tracking system which must be linked to their indexing system.I will try the above approach and let’s see if I will have some success getting traffic from yahoo.If you have any other ideas, techniques or strategies, please do share it with me and to my readers. The comment area is wide open for your v...
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How to Convert Your First Time Visitor into Regular Reader – Part 1 of 2
2007-02-06 18:45:00
Are you a blogger? If yes, this post is for your, keep on reading. When you visit someone’s blog, have you ask yourself- what the blogger(s) could do to make you their regular reader? If not, then why not? Is it this you want on your blog to happen – to convert your visitors into regular readers? Check this out because you maybe missing something too valuable for your successful blogging.What a blogger could do to make you his regular reader is a million dollar question. It is very important that stand a secret on how to increasing readership and on how you can convert your first time visitors into regular readers.I know many of you have probably opened up your web stats and found out that you are getting bombarded with visitors. It could have been caused by a link from a large site, by a tons of blogs linking to you, by an increase in search engine rankings, or by getting to digg's homepage. So with all these first time visitors coming into your blog, how can you convert them ...
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8 Steps to Place a Live Digg Button on Your Beta Blogger
2007-02-06 07:48:00
The easiest way to get your articles on digg is to encourage your visitors to submit their favorite stories directly to digg. Up until this point many sites have linked directly to the URL submission page. While this works, it is now possible to take it one step further by pre-populating the submission form with a title, description, and topic.Once your story has been successfully submitted you can now display the number of diggs and allow users to digg your content directly. How to do this depend upon the blogging software you are using. This post is all about how to put a live Digg button on your Beta Blog ger . 1. Login to your beta blogger account. Once you are on your Blogger Dashboard window, select the blog you want the dig button to appear. Go to the Layout, click Edit HTML and check the Expand Widget Templates checkbox.2. Download your current template to make a back-up.3. Locate the following markup:<h3>4. Replace the code below <h3> <b:if cond='data:post.li...
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Big Winners in Blogging Money Making Game Worked Differently
2007-02-03 10:22:00
Have you read my post entitled Big Winners in Blog ging Money Making Game Are Not Lone Bloggers? If not, please do so because I don’t want you to miss a thing especially if you are blogging for money. The message from that post is vital: You can make a living by lone blogging approach. However, it is certainly not scalable, your growth is limited. If you want to be a big winner to blogging money making game then build a business – collaborate.How do big winners of the blogging money making game work exactly?I was trying to make research to give you specific examples on how the big winners in blogging money making game really work. But thanks to Darren, he made it for me in his post entitled What ProBloggers Can Learn from TechCrunch 20.Yes, two big winners in blogging money making game, Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington launched their new business venture name TechCrunch 20. Obviously, they are using their high profile and blog readership as leverage to fuel success in building ...
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Let Your Readers Fill the Content of Your Blog Post
2007-02-02 23:53:00
I found another clever way to create quality post. I’ve seen this working fantastic in problogger.net. It’s all about asking tips from your readers. Yes, Darren asked tips from his readers like how they find readers for their blog and where do you find stories for your blog.He said the results were pretty good. It’s done pretty well on Digg and he hope some of those featured got some flow on traffic.I think the idea is perfect as it is a win-win situation. Darren satisfies his readers by giving them a change to share tips and readers feel they are valuable to Darren and to problogger.net. Reader s also get additional exposure from Darren’s high traffic blog. And there is more. When Darren or somebody will post these collaborative tips to Digg and to similar sites, they will all reap the digg power. What if all who contributed will make a digg? Getting front page is much even easier by this approach. (That is, if Digg will still have a popularity page).So, what are you thinkin...
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Big Winners in Blogging Money Making Game Are Not Lone Bloggers!
2007-02-02 07:53:00
Are you blogging for money? If you are, please do yourself a favor. Read the entire post because you may not be on the right track into making money online.In the pursuit of making money online, you often follow the techniques and strategies used by people you consider successful in blogging. You follow their foot prints, you dream of becoming big and quest to succeed online. However, you don't realize the same people you considered successful in blogging are distancing themselves from lone blogging. Yes and this is the truth. Let us take the case of problogger.net of Darren Rowse. Some post of Darren tells us that problogger.net is earning five figures a month. In another post, Darren admitted that if he will not make a post for a month, his income will gradually decrease. By these words, we can figure out that problogger.net afford him to making a living. It is basically a job, not a business yet. In order to make it big, Darren is not just building more blogs but building more b...
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January 2007 Roundup
2007-02-01 21:46:00
8 Secrets on How to Keep Yourself Posting Into Your BlogLearn how to master yourself well enough that you can inspire your ownself to get motivated to make a post at all time. How to Select Blog Theme That Will Bring You Passive IncomeUncovered the secret of knowing the kind of blog that gives you a lifetime passive income.10 Excellent Tools to Help You Generate Blog Post IdeasAre you having problem of what to write for your blog? Have you force yourself to find meaningful content? Here are ten great tools that will help you out when you’re out of ideas to write.18 Super Tips to Make Your Users and Search Engines Love Your BlogHere is an advice on how you can optimize your blog for both users and search engines without alienating one or the other.How to Have a Large Readership Online: The Secret RevealedIt is not the search engine but your regular readers are the ultimate source of sustainable traffic. How to have a large readership is one very important question and this post has...
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What Do You Think the Greatest Value You Receive From Blogging?
2007-02-01 08:43:00
I surfed a lot and today I was trying to juice the net about the great values we receive from blogging. And here is what I found so far.receiving feedback. By blogging you can get instantaneous feedback of your work. You can see if your ideas resonate with your readers or not. Several of these feedbacks will also lead you to fruitful post ideas.acquiring knowledge. Blog ging offers a medium of interaction. You can interact to people that are smarter than you and learn from them.gaining readership. Keeping on blogging afford you to maintain readership. You can also gain new readers who stumble onto your blog.finding solutions. With so much discussions and opinions, blogging allows you to see solutions you may never have come to.keep you inform. Blogging help you continue to keep up-to-date on the latest happening of the industry where your blog belonggaining relationships. Blogging can lead to new friends, many of whom you may never meet face-to-face but with whom conversation is both...
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