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Building a Brand for your Blog
Promote your blog Everything you do as a blogger can be duplicated by others on just about every level. The one thing you can do to help protect your blogs identity and separate it from the others is to build your brand. Having a strong brand is what makes products in the world successful. Its the thing about a product that really connects to people on a singular level. When you build your blog it is a good idea to create a brand for it as soon as you can. This ...
Continue readingThe easiest way to get links when your site is pretty new
Competitions First thing I should do is clarify the title. This is the easiest way to get links without spending a small fortune buying links from a link Broker. Ok now that I have you all excited, here is my big secret. Here it is . . . Hold a competition. That’s the big secret. Pretty easy right? Now before you just go throwing up a blog competition you need to define everything like it’s a marketing campaign. Because that is essentially exactly what ...
Continue readingReasons you should guest blog
Blogging Why in the world would anyone want to write content and give it to someone else to use on their blog? I mean our content is the life blood of our blogs, right? Well keep reading and I will share with you several reasons why you might want to write guest posts for other blogs. Exposure for your blog – Maybe you just started your blog and your looking to get word out about it. Guest blogging is a great way to tell a larger established group ...
Continue readingTips for increasing RSS Subscribers on your Blog
Blogging One of the metrics you will use to measure how well your blog is doing is the number of readers subscribed. But how do you get people to subscribe to your feed? Mark over at 45n5.com started a conversation about Your best Tip to Increase RSS Subscribers so I thought I would continue the conversation. So lets get on with the list of best tips to increase RSS Subscribers. Write really good posts – I know someone would post this in the ...
Continue readingImplementing Tags into your WordPress blog
WordPress Coding & Design A tag is a keyword used to describe a picture, video, blog entry, or anything else to help with classification and search information. In the release of WordPress 2.3 tagging was officially introduced into the core WordPress application. Prior to this implementation many of us used plug-ins like Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags and Bunny’s Technorati Tags. Since the release of WordPress 2.3 many if not all of these ...
Continue readingUsing Twitter to gain readers for your Blog
Blogging I don’t know how people really feel about Twitter, but I have been using Twitter for a few months now and the more I use it the more I like it. It can be quit addicting to post (tweet) things and read things that others are tweeting. But the real advantage I’ve found is finding and sharing things with others. It’s a great way to gain new readers of your blog. One question that comes up quit often is, how do I get people to follow me on ...
Continue readingThings I learned about Blogging in 2007
Blogging As my first post in 2008 on BloggingTips I thought I would share some of the things that I learned about blogging in 2007. So here are a few things reflecting back on 2007. You don’t have to be the best writer to blog – I’m speaking from experience here. Writing is something I enjoy doing, getting better at it is something I continue to do. If you have something to say then start blogging and your writing will improve over ...
Continue readingSetting your blogs goals for 2008
Personal Have you thought about your goals for 2008 yet? Better yet, have your written your goals down and defined them specifically? Its one thing to set goals, it quit another to achieve them. If done correctly you can achieve and possibly exceed any goal that you set for yourself be it Blogging or some other aspect of your life. Here are some effective ways to set, monitor and track your goals. Make your resolutions goals – Have you ever noticed ...
Continue readingAre your posts to broad? Consider writing a series of articles.
Writing If you write posts that are over a 1000 words chances are you could break the post down into a few different posts. And even better you could break it down into a “series” of posts all related to a certain idea. There are a few reasons you would want to break large posts into several smaller posts in a series. Attention Span – We all know that the attention span of a web surfer is non-existent so you have to grab the attention, get your ...
Continue readingCruise through the last 2 weeks of the year
Blogging We’re now heading into the last 2 weeks of the year and if life wasn’t busy enough we still have our blogging to do. These last 2 weeks are a great time to reflect back and think about the things that have happened during the year. Not to mention it is a great way to come up with a few great blog posts in the process. You’ve seen the TV shows that highlight the top 100 moments of 2007 or the top songs from the last year. Well why not use ...
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