Tips on How to Get your Blog Noticed…and Read!

Blogging is a brilliant idea to get your business or services noticed on the World Wide Web. But there are millions of blogs on the internet and still you feel an urge to create a blog for yourself as you know that this is a good step for you and your business. Blogs, if created perfectly, can drive a lot of traffic towards your website and in no time you will be regarded as an expert in your field. Blogging is also a great tool to interact with your customers and potential clients. The real challenge is to get your blog noticed by the readers in the swarm of millions of similar blogs. If you follow the following tips meticulously then we are sure that in a very short time you can get your blog noticed and read.

Unconfidence: The Essential Ingredient to Crazy Stupid Success

Confidence is over-rated.

At least, it’s over-rated in the homogenized, misused, self-help industry clap-trap kinds of ways.

In today’s world it’s both easy and tempting to start putting a confident veneer over things, because it seems as though the world expects that.  In relationships, friendships, career, blogging and business, there’s an expectation that you have to know what you’re doing, otherwise you just don’t stack up.

Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

There have been several great link building posts so far this year on ProBlogger, including 10 No-Nonsense Ways to Build Links, How to Systematically Build a Mountain of Links, and A New Linking Strategy. And of course, Darren wrote earlier today advocating a more level-headed approach to backlinks.

So you might be asking what more can be written about link building for bloggers? The answer is, a lot. Bloggers have an advantage that static and retail websites don’t. There are tons of great link-building strategies that can be utilized to increase e backlinks.

Link building post-Panda and Penguin

The Walmart Guide to Increasing the Average Time Spent on Site

I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart (Sorry to disappoint – I’m still a classy gal, but I never pay more than I have to for everyday household items) – I love getting a decent price on consumables, but I hate the fact that I can never just run in and out of that store.

I’ve even tried to time myself, but if I ever have to go towards the back of the store, I can never get out of that store in a decent amount of time – even when it’s supposed to be an in and out job.

It’s as if I step in to a time-warp where I lose all sense of time.  An hour of browsing can feel as if it were only 10 minutes.  Even waiting in line is fun with all the cool gadgets, lotions, lipglosses, goodies and celebrity magazines to keep you entertained.

How A Smartphone Addiction Becomes Blogging Insight

I’m Joe, and I’m a smartphone addict. The signs are all there. I check my phone constantly. I write about phones every day. And oh yeah, I own four of them.

Before this addiction got the best of me. But now I’ve channeled the lessons from that addiction into blogging. It has yielded many insights.

Picking the right tool

Top 10 Time-Saving Blogging Tips for Busy Business Owners

Facebook expert Mari Smith recently reported on the results of her social media survey. It was no surprise to read that an overwhelming number of responders reported that time is their biggest marketing challenge.

In order to effectively attract clients with your business blog, you must publish new content consistently. For some, that may mean starting out with a monthly post and then gradually increasing. Others might be ready for a weekly blogging routine.

The Power of Personal

This week, we’ve got a couple of intriguing blog posts coming up that deal with bloggers’ personal stories.

Obviously, personal stories tend to do well with blog readers. But look around, and you’ll see that personal stories have become a mainstay of the media more generally.

We have reality t.v.—real stories about real people (admittedly in some pretty outlandish situations!). We have the social media explosion, where anyone and everyone has the opportunity to “go viral” and enjoy their fifteen minutes of fame. We even have a whole generation of people who are reputedly more self-assured—and self—promoting—than ever before.

Traffic Technique 4: Subscriptions

From the marketers’ point of view, subscriptions are a loyalty mechanism—they’re the first technique we’ve looked at that’s most often used to build repeat traffic from people who have already visited your blog, and like it.

If they like it so much, why do they need to be reminded to come back? Well, we’re all forgetful—and we know it! By subscribing, we can make sure we never miss a post from our favorite blogs. We stay up to date on all the news, perhaps even becoming part of a community, making friends, and connecting with people.

Unique Visitors vs Total Pageviews: Understanding Metrics

Social Media ROI and understanding blog metrics are hot topics – today I’m going to tell you the tale of two blogs in an attempt to explain why there’s more to understanding a blogger’s influence than numbers alone…

Before we get started let’s outline two key terms:

Total Pageviews: A pageview is the number of times a page on your blog is loaded within a certain timeframe.
Unique Visitors: This is number of individual visitors who come to your site in a certain timeframe.

How Effective is Social Bookmarking For Blogs?

Social Bookmarking sites provide a flexible way for your readers to bookmark your articles and organize them. I’ve seen everyone mention about social bookmarking in post-panda link building. So how effective is

Social Bookmarking actually, to your blog?

There are many sites which users use to bookmark the best of content from web like Delicious, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and many others. These sites are not only useful for users, but for site owners such bookmarking sites are very effective. Though, there are pros and cons of social bookmarking for example, traffic from stumbleupon triggers your bounce rate where as social bookmarking links are considered very valuable after recent Google algo updates.
Benefits of social Bookmarking

The 10 Step Blog Plan

So, you're ready to start a blog for your organization (or wondering why people aren't reading your current one)? It helps to have a plan.

Will you make me a promise before you read this? Don't make blog planning a six-month process. A little planning will go a long way towards making your blog more successful. A lot of planning will just slow you down. Use these steps as a guideline. Jot down some notes, have a couple meetings, and start blogging!

Promise?

OK. Here we go.

The Top 12 Features To Add To Your Blogging Email Newsletter

Far too many bloggers’ email newsletters turn out to be only thinly veiled promotional pieces intended to drive traffic to the blog site itself. Although that is definitely a valuable function of email marketing for bloggers, your subscribers won’t appreciate being used as nothing more than odometer clicks and will react positively to your provision of real value in your email newsletters.

Here are the top twelve concepts you can incorporate into your email newsletter to not only promote your blog but also give your subscribers some really powerful reasons to stick around!

How to Turn Your Blog Into An Online Shop

If you’ve put in all the work required to create a successful blog you might as well make some money out of it! One monetisation option is to offer things for sale which are related to your niche. Indeed, many large community sites such as NCT and BabyCentre incorporate an online shop to generate additional revenue.

Before You Start

Three reasons you need blogs for successful internet marketing

Content is King.  That statement was as true five years ago as it is today, the difference being there are many more ways to get that content today than there were just five years ago. With the advent of mobile and video advertising, there are marketers that are wondering if the old school ways to get the message out like blogs are still relevant.

Get to Know Your Sub-niches Through Targeted Events

This weekend, I’ll be spending some time getting ready for the Melbourne Food and Wine Blogging Event I’m hosting on Tuesday. I’m really looking forward to this event—and not just because of the great food and wine we’ll get to enjoy!

This event targets a sub-niche of my main target audience—it’s aimed at food bloggers who are located in or around Melbourne, or are near enough to participate in the event.

Four Quick Ways to Improve Any Blog Post

Do your blog posts lack something? Perhaps you’re trying hard, but you never seem to get more than a couple of comments – and you only have a handful of subscribers. The problem is, you don’t have hours to spend on perfecting every post – you’ve got a busy life.

Here are four simple, quick ways to improve any blog post:

Best Social Media Marketing tips to increase your blog readers

Social media marketing helps to increase your blog readers because social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, etc… are used as the common tool for communication,it is the platform for internet users who can share various types of data and can communicate with each other. Getting website traffic through social media sites is known as social media marketing. This type of marketing helps in building links and is considered to be one of the key seo strategies. The more blog readers you get the more web traffic you receive.

5 Reasons Why Your Blog May Be Struggling to Increase Traffic

There are so many blogs on the internet, we’ve literally lost count. Moreover, everyone believes that their blog is above average, but the sad truth is that your blog–and (gulp) maybe even the one this post is appearing on–probably isn’t in the top half of that list.

Here are five reasons why that might be the case. Knowing there’s a problem is half the battle anyway.

Because You Don’t Post Very Often
There is a direct correlation between blog traffic and post frequency. The more often you post, the more readers you will have. There are several reasons for this.

How to Grow Your Blog When the Money Starts Trickling in

For most bloggers out there, making even a few dollars seems like an elusive dream. But nothing really beats the feeling of seeing that first cheque from Adsense or getting your first commission payment from Amazon, not matter how small. And small is how most blogs will start, unless you’ve invested heavily in full time staff and a huge marketing campaign from the start then you are going to need to build your audience slowly and surely by delivering a regular flow of high quality and engaging content.

But what do you do when your blog, whether you started it with aspirations to quit your day job or simply as a hobby or passion project, does start to pay you a few pence here and there? It could be paying its own way by covering your hosting costs, or bringing in a bit more pocket money.

The Importance of Your Essence in Blogging Success

So you got your blog started up. It’s time to put everything in place.

You start to study the market and conduct all the research needed. You read up on other blogs, scout forums, and buy an ebook that’s supposed to help you succeed.

Having bought into the hype, you actually force yourself to apply all the tactics you learnt, even though you don’t have a good feeling about them.

You’re basically basing your work on others’ success!