How credible is your blog?

The first time a visitor arrives at your blog, he looks for signals of credibility. He wants to know whether he can trust you. With so much junk online, establishing trust in your visitors is vital, otherwise their first visit will be their last.

So how do you establish your credibility?

Here are five ways:

1. Know what you’re talking about - have personal experience in the subject of your blog

When you have personal experience in your blog’s subject matter, it shows. Your authority is soon obvious, when…

Competitions are always nice isn’t it? Especially on the blogosphere, there’s always a competition running.

Free ipods, iphones, free subscriptions and what not ? The prizes are always attractive, and that’s the fun about it. But, many a times, I’ve thought, had the prize been some cash in hand, I could’ve bought anything that I wanted.

You know bloggers always need money to spend. To spend on hosting accounts, buying tools, link purchases and contracts, getting reviews, designing a mascot. There are quite a number a things a blogger can do with his…

On my site, I recently found a way to make it possible to share Google Adsense revenue with my writers. I was pretty thrilled to be able to allow writers to post on my site and earn money. I am not a corporation and my site is young, so it would have been a long time before I could afford to front money to several writers.

But it did stir up a debate, particularly when one high-profile freelance writing job site refused to post my listing (and with quite a snotty,…

Are you blogging for money - or for some other reason?

Much seems to be made of the fact that it is possible to make money blogging. I make my living doing so, as do several people I know, but this was not the original idea behind blogging. It is also fair to say, despite the plethora of people telling you how easy it is to make money blogging – it is not that easy.

Blogs started out as online diary and there are many reasons to blog other than to…

DON’T GET DESPERATE
There are a lot of blog site owners who are willing to pay out any amount of cash they can find in their budgets to pay to shady promotion sites that are all too happy to take their cash and deliver a link to a big player in the internet world like YouTube or Problogger. These desperate site owners really have not a clue as to what damage they’re doing to their financial budgets. There are at least five other really good reasons you should never pay to link…