If you want to have a successful blog you need to know what others in your niche are doing. Not only will this show you what the “competition” is up to, but you can also learn quite a bit at the same time.
Here are three things that you can learn from other bloggers. Each time that you read a blog you should keep these tips in mind. If you do, you will find out soon enough that they are translating into success for your blog.
1. By visiting other blogs…
During my initial days of blogging, my thoughts were always along the lines of - What’s so special with the A-list guys? They seem to write the same stuff all the time, nothing special. Why do people prefer an A-lister’s blog after all ? I have better ideas, better content - but why doesn’t people read my blog? And a million more similar questions.
I’m sure you would’ve asked the same questions to yourself many times prior to reading this. Although during my earlier days of blogging, all these questions sounded like from a quiz master armory, I managed( with much difficulty) to convince myself that…
I spoke in June about the importance of having keywords in your domain name. Google has certainly been updating a lot of it’s search results lately and I have seen BloggingTips.com jump higher in the SERP’s for several keywords, most notably the search term I spoke about in my previous article ie. the term ‘Blogging Tips’.
There are still some search engines which I am not top of the results for this search term and a top position is in no way guaranteed however this is a term I should always…
The Google Sandbox is a highly debated issue amongst the SEO community. Whether it’s urban legend or reality, any new blog should be aware of one basic lesson from the tales of the Sandbox Effect: it takes time for SEO to work.
What is the Google Sandbox?
Real or imagined, the Google Sandbox is supposedly a penalty for new Web sites that was created to prevent new, spammy junk sites from getting high page view rank.
Wikipedia describes the Sandbox:
The Sandbox Effect is the theory that websites with newly-registered domains or domains with…
First off, I want to welcome Patric from Top Secret Blogger, Donna from SEO Scoop and Josh Mullineaux to the Blogging Tips writing team 
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