Blogging Tips

Listening to the Voice of the Audience

I was just reading Patti Stafford’s post on Staying Motivated when you are not seeing results and I had to chuckle to myself because I’ve just recently changed things up big time on my own blog. For seven years I’ve written about myself and my life through my blog. I started doing a photograph a day in 2005 and would post the photo and write something about it or about my family. I began to wonder why I wasn’t getting many comments. I figured that I’ve been doing all the talking. So I stopped.

I didn’t stop posting my photo however. I continued to take my daily photo and instead of doing all the talking I just posted my photo to see how the conversation would go. Would

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Written by BenSpark from BenSpark.com
Posted on August 31st, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Staying Motivated When You Aren’t Seeing Results

Do you feel like you’ve been working your backside off getting your blog or website in front of the public and just not seeing the results you thought you would? Is it time to give up and throw in the towel?

I wouldn’t go that far but it may be time to pull some new tricks out of an old hat. Take a look at what you’ve been doing. Is there anything you can improve? Do you post quality content? Is your blog or website one big ad campaign? Do you have a newsletter that’s updated on a regular basis? Are people signing up or ignoring it?

How much information have you read about building your blog and growing your readership? Have you just been reading small reports here and there hoping for the answers? Some of the small reports …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on August 29th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Win a Hotel for a Weekend with Hampton

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hampton Hotels. All opinions are 100% mine.

You need a vacation. Whether you work from home as a professional blogger or you make the daily commute to a more conventional office, it pays to have some time away from the world of work. At the same time, you want to save as much money as possible in doing so.

Well, getting something for free is one way to save a few bucks. The kind folks at Hampton Chain of Friends Sweepstakes are currently hosting a contest that they call the Chain of Friends Sweepstakes. In short, they want to give you an entire hotel for a weekend. We’re not talking about a just room; we’re talking about the whole hotel!

The Grand Prize at Hampton

Hampton’s current contest has the one massive grand prize of offering you 100 …

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on August 29th, 2010 and filed under Reviews
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A Few Facts About SEO

The other day someone I know approached me about taking a look at a business website because they’d spent a fair amount of money with a search engine optimization company toward getting the kind of traffic they thought they deserved. The mission failed miserably.

I’ve been working with SEO as a content writer for several years now but I’m no expert. If I was though, one of the first things I would do when writing a top ten list about the things you need to know about it is let everyone know there are no experts.

Of course there are people who know more about search engine optimization than others, but if they start telling you things like you can get a number one page ranking in Google in a very short amount of time, you should take your money and run for the …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on August 29th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Reach Targeted Customers with Rent-A-List

So, you’ve started your own business and everything seems to be going reasonably well. Unfortunately, you’ve tried your hand at a few traditional marketing channels and they’re not exactly performing as expected. They don’t have the kind of targeting that you need.

Helping you “find your ideal customers fast” is Rent-A-List. They have been helping online advertisers for nearly a decade, offering “a network of high traffic incentive and non-incentive publishers.” The net result is that you get targeted leads and enthusiastic customers. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Hitting the Bullseye

The problem with most traditional forms of advertising is that they lack targeting. They take more of the approach of throwing the message out there and hoping that it sticks. Rent-A-List doesn’t believe in that philosophy.

They say that they are able to plug into established …

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on August 28th, 2010 and filed under Promote your blog, Reviews
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Simplenote Makes Staying Organized Painless

Simplenote is an easy way to stay organized on the web, your desktop and mobile device. It’s free and easy to use. Your notes are also seamlessly synced across devices. You can use Simplenote to create things such as to do lists, grocery lists, class notes, drafts for blog posts, keeping a journal, and more; the possibilities are endless.

You can view the various apps they offer from their downloads page; their selection is quite impressive. They have apps for the iPhone/iPad, iPod Touch, Palm, Android, Windows and Mac OS X. There is even a Chrome extension as well as various scripts.

To add a new note you simply click the + (plus) button at the top of the left column. Then you can …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on August 28th, 2010 and filed under Reviews
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When Failure is Not an Option

What makes a successful blogger successful? Is it the time they put into it? Or who they know and associate with? Or maybe they just have a lucky charm and the world falls into their lap? All of these may contribute to their success, but for this post let’s say they’ve taken failure out of the equation; it’s not an option for them.

Does that sound strange or even hokey? It’s not as weird as you might think. Go back to childhood for a minute. Did you learn to ride or bike or play an instrument or anything else that took practice and determination? Of course you did. How did you succeed at it? Well you had the determination to get it right. You didn’t want to be the only kid on the block with training wheels, so you …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on August 27th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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