Blogging is not Rocket Science

Anybody can launch a blog, get it going and possibly make a few pennies doing it. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps and repeat them frequently.

Repetition is the key to learning…repetition and persistence, I think, are the keys to unlocking your blogs potential.

There are three things that every blogger should do as often as possible to get a blog going. By going, I mean getting at least 100 visitors a day.

These three things are:

Writing
Optimizing
Promoting

With the tons of advice about writing, and the countless options to optimize and promote it is sometimes difficult for someone to decide what to use and where to focus their efforts.

This is a just a simple list of simple tips that I follow.

Writing

Writing often is usually advised by most bloggers out there. The reason why it is popular advice is because it is based on the idea that daily posting shows that you are committed to what you do and could increase traffic by making people want to come back and read what you’re up to. Personally, I think it could have the opposite effect. When I visit a blog for the second time, I usually do it to re-read something or find something relevant to what I read. Having to dig through a bunch of new posts, 1, 2 sometimes 3 a day is a big turn off. In these cases I will just use a search engine to find what I am looking for. Furthermore, the 2^nd and 3^rd posts of the day are usually of lesser quality due to writers fatigue and therefore less interesting.

Instead of posting 3 times a day just post once a day or once every two days or even better whenever you think you have something interesting or useful to write about. Put some though in your posts, give your readers a reason to come back and always avoid bombarding them with clutter.
How many times have you heard or read the phrase…content is key? Well it is! Don’t waste your time writing about 15 different things a week, focus your effort on a few good topics. OO

Optimizing

SEO

Don’t rely on social networks for your traffic. Although it is an easy way to generate traffic you should always spend some time to make sure your blog and posts are properly optimized to rank well in search engine result pages. It only takes a few minutes. Make sure your titles are relevant to your topic, make sure you refer to your topic keywords throughout your posts, and make sure you tag your posts properly. Also make sure to interlink your posts with older relevant posts.

Write and publish articles

Don’t only rely on other bloggers to link to you. Create backlinks to your blog by submitting articles in databases. Take that post you just published, cut it up, make it a bit more focused, delete all the unnecessary links and only keep one in the end linking back to your blog with the desired keywords. Do the same thing for every post. You can easily create 10 one way links to every post in less than half an hour. With every post try to fit in a link back to your main page. In my case, I will re-write this post a couple of times incorporate the link Blogging Tips at the end and make sure I throw in the link Make Money Blogging in the writer’s id section.

Once a week or once every two weeks, use Google Webmaster Tools and see which posts of yours showed up in search engine result pages. Go back to them and optimize them. Add more keywords, make the title catchier, tag them better or even elaborate on certain things you wrote and think will help them rank better in searches.

Promoting

Participate in Social Networks

Make blogging friends, join blogging communities and do some bookmarking as well. Stick to what works best for you!

Entrecard
Blogcatalog
StumbleUpon

Entrecard Tips

Entrecard is excellent for promoting your new blog and getting targeted traffic. The best thing you can do is be active. Drop the maximum amount of cards per day, if not every day do it often. Spend the credits you earn and buy advertisements on other blogs. The simplest way to drop many cards fast is to add your favourite Entrecard sites to your Firefox bookmarks. Categorize them in 10 batches of 30 and open them all at once. Then drop your card on one after the other. Make sure you pick ones that drop back so you can maximize your credit-earning-potential.

Blogcatalog

Use Blogcatalog to make a lot of friends. Spend 5-10 minutes a day and add 50 new friends every day. Then every time you post use the broadcast function to broadcast to all of them.

StumbleUpon

Start stumbling different sites and blogs. Make sure you write reviews for the ones you like and try to bookmark sites, blogs, photos and videos that haven’t been included in StumbleUpon. Do the same thing for your blog and posts when there is a new one. The more sites you stumble the better the traffic results as your StumbleUpon clout will increase. Making a lot of friends also helps.

All the above can be achieved with 10 hours of work a week.

3.5 hours writing

3.5 hours optimizing

3 hours networking

More Blogging Tips?

Write all your posts at once, optimize them before you post, and do a bit of networking and bookmarking every day.

One More thing:

When you monetize your blog make sure you use your own products. In other words, if you are new to all this and you want to make money fast make sure you find products you can work and sell as your own. Develop a product if you are a software developer or write a report about something you know or something like that. Or just go buy PLR products. Acquire the license for products and sell them as your own. You can have access to hundreds of products for only $100. Then take those products and sell them. A good place to start is by learning more about PLR products.

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