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10 Simple Video Blog Ideas
Video Blogging Whether you want to take a stab at being the next big video blogger or just want to supplement your current content with some video, you don’t need fancy hardware or software. What you do need, though, are some ideas. Well, here are ten easy-to-shoot and easy-to-edit video blogging ideas to help inspire you to realize your video blogging dreams, no matter how grand or modest they are. The Video Rant Just because the rant is the easiest and ...
Continue readingFree Images to Bolster Your Blog
Blogging, Making Money A few weeks ago, I blogged about a survey from MarketingSherpa that showed that adding certain things to an ad increases user responsiveness. At the time, I was focused on video; specifically how bloggers can use it to better engage their reader and even increase conversions if they happen to be an affiliate blogger. But video wasn’t the only item on MarketingSherpa’s list. In fact, the top item was images. Images are a great way to ...
Continue readingViral Blogging
Blogging As a term, “viral marketing” is something that gets thrown around so much that it’s easy to dismiss it as a mere buzz word. You still can’t ignore, however, that content does go viral, and it’s not only just Mentos and Diet Coke. Companies do intentionally make viral content that, in turn, makes them money. Just consider the subservient chicken. The lesson, here, for bloggers is that viral content can be ...
Continue readingSEO & Security for Bloggers
Blogging Whether you just want to get your personal brand out there or make money as an affiliate blogger, you’re going to want to attract organic traffic. After all, new visitors means a wider audience and/or more potential buyers. If you’re using WordPress on your own domain, however, there’s a very good reason to make sure that you have the most up-to-date version. One of the things that Google takes into consideration when ...
Continue readingUsing Video to Increase Engagement
Blogging, Making Money Whether or not you’re an affiliate blogger, engaging your audience is paramount. After all, blogging is about building communities, and one of the ways you do that is by contributing to the experience of your members. Well, when it comes to advertising, a survey from MarketingSherpa showed that adding certain things to an ad increases user responsiveness. One of the things that the survey covered was video, and it showed that featuring a ...
Continue readingSEO Tips for Affiliate Bloggers: Link Titles
Blogging, Making Money When you link to a page, Google will follow that link, index the keywords on it, and determine what keywords that page is relevant for. But it will also index the anchor text used in the link. This is why links that are descriptive are better then just using “click here.” This is why when I blogged about the importance of internal linking last week, I touched upon the trade-off between linking to an affiliate page and linking to a ...
Continue readingSEO for Affiliate Bloggers: Deep Linking
Blogging, Making Money A huge part of blogging is generating traffic. Otherwise, you don’t have any readers, and then it’s kind of like you’re writing emails to yourself, and that just makes you kind of creepy One the interesting things about generating traffic as a blogger, though, is that blogs are very SEO friendly. This means that long after you publish a post, it’ll generate organic traffic. As an affiliate blogger, then, you have an ...
Continue readingSEO for Affiliate Bloggers: Categorizing Your Promotions
Blogging, Making Money There are a quite a few tricks to finding real success as an affiliate blogger. In addition to choosing the right affiliate program and properly using the different affiliate marketing tools that it offers, you also have to consider what products to promote and then make sure you do so in an ethical way. But what about SEO? Now, despite all the SEO myths out there, blogs have a number of SEO advantages. But how do you leverage them to actually ...
Continue readingGenerating Seasonal Traffic
Promote your blog Of course, a huge part of what makes a blog successful is its traffic. Without traffic, you have no readers. When you have no readers, it’s like you’re talking to yourself, and only crazy people do that, right? Building readership requires generating some random organic traffic. Granted, many of your hits might not ever come back, but some will, and others still might link to you. Links equal better ranking, equals more organic ...
Continue readingBlogging: Markets vs Communities
Blogging, Making Money If you’re going to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, then it follows that your audience is your target market. But something you have to remember is that your audience is more than just a target market. They are also a community of readers. Magazine readers are simply a target market because they’re just that: readers. They might all share a common interest (the content), but they’re completely disassociated from ...
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