Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
How to Get Other Bloggers to Link to You
Links are the online representations of relationships between two bloggers. Those relationships can span from being peers or readers to close partners and friends. But sometimes it takes a spark to get a fire going. Which of these sparks could get you into a relationship with another blogger? Write interesting content The best bloggers always create interesting, high quality content to share with their audience and only want to link …
How to Optimize Your Blog’s On-Page SEO
When total strangers are coming to your site merely on the recommendation of a search engine, you can feel pretty famous. But to really build a successful blog, you need to keep those readers coming back for more, and you need to keep getting new visitors – and the SERPs (search engine results pages) are great places to get those visitors! Search engines love fresh content first and foremost. Your …
How Linkbait Attracts Traffic to Your Blog
The word “linkbait” is pretty logical: it’s anything on your site that encourages others to link to you, like bait encourages fish to swallow the fishhook. The best linkbait is worth its weight in gold and followed links. So how do you figure out the perfect linkbait for you? Start with these tips. Your Audience’s Interests and Needs You need to know whom you want to attract to your …
The Top 10 Bloggers You Should Learn From
Creating a single-author blog is not a task for the faint of heart. Even just regularly contributing to a blog can be a huge undertaking. Thankfully, others have blazed a path before you, including the 10 bloggers profiled below. These bloggers include those who still write every post on their site themselves, and others who now accept guest posts or staff bloggers. However, each one started out the same way: …
How to Get Guest Bloggers
Guest blogging is a great win-win: you get more original content for your blog, and the blogger gets exposure to a new audience and a couple high-quality, targeted backlinks. It’s not too hard to start posting guest posts – you just need to send proposals or written posts to other blogs. But what about when you want to start accepting guest posts on your own site? Here are some techniques …
Why You Should Build Loyal Readers Before You Sell Stuff Online
Some people go into blogging with the intention of making money immediately, and others start blogging because they already have a business and want it to grow. Of course, there are those people who just love what they’re writing about, and all of us have a lot to learn from them. Why? Because you need to build a loyal group of readers before you will be able to profit from …
How to Set Up a Facebook “Like” Button on Your Blog Posts
Allowing people to interact with social media without leaving your website is one great way to encourage users to share blog posts with their friends. Showing how many other people also have shared your post gives it social proof even without someone logging onto Facebook to check it, and clicking Like takes less time than adding a comment. Plus, adding a Like button is easy! Check out the steps below. …
3 Pitfalls of Blogging You Should Be Aware Of
Blogging isn’t all fun and games. If you’re just starting to blog, there are good times ahead, but there are also hard times that could take you by surprise. But this post can help you prepare for the rough parts that will come, and hopefully you’ll be able to move past the bad quickly to enjoy the good. If you’ve been blogging for a while, see if you recognize these …
How to Generate Fresh Blog Post Ideas Every Day
When you started your blog, you probably picked a subject you were excited about, and post ideas seemed endless. Then it gradually started to seem repetitive, or the ideas suddenly stopped coming. Now what? How can you come up with ideas for more blog posts? Here are a few categories with dozens of idea-finding techniques to get you started. And remember – you don’t need to write about something completely …
How to Write a “Sticky” Blog Post
Blog posts are short, but they can be powerful. And the most powerful posts that you read are the ones that stick with you, that you remember later or end up retelling to someone over dinner. What is it about those posts that makes them so “sticky”? And how can you harness that power for yourself? Much of the answer is found in Chip and Dan Heath’s book Made to …