Blogging Tips

5 Reasons Why Part Time Blogging Rocks

Everyday people start new blogs. Also, everyday a new blogger enters the blogosphere. Not all of them earn enough money to quit their day jobs. In fact 99% people don’t earn enough money from blogging. As a result of this, few of them quit blogging. The remaining bloggers stay as part time bloggers. Though part time blogging can be tough, it has so many advantages, and also helps in you in many ways.

I’m a part time blogger and freelance writer. Though, I find it difficult at times to blog part time, it has helped me in ways. It isn’t that full time blogging doesn’t rock. In fact it is completely awesome. But part time blogging, unlike how others see it, it does rock. Let me tell you how you are benefited and what advantages you have as a part time blogger.

1. Time management
Blogging needs hard work at the beginning, especially …

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune
Posted on March 8th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Link Building Matters – Really!!!

We already know that inbound links from other blogs and Web sites are critical for boosting your visibility with search engines, but what can be done to encourage those links?

Obviously, the more interesting your writing is, and the more you work to engage the blogosphere, the more people will link in. You should focus the majority of your efforts on these practices. That said, there are a few other tactics that can improve your chances of getting inbound links.

While most pro bloggers dislike receiving emails asking, “Hey, will you link to me?” a personal email simply notifying another blogger about a recent post that might be of interest can result in an inbound link.

One key to this strategy is to focus on quality, not quantity, of links. A few links from …

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK
Posted on March 7th, 2008 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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Who’s for real and who’s out to steal

When you’re flipping through ads in search of someone who will pay you to blog (and believe me, those clients are out there), it’s sometimes tough to tell who is genuinely looking for good bloggers and who’s trying to scam you out of a few free posts. So how can you tell the difference? There are no hard and fast rules, unfortunately. Still, there are a few indicators to tell you whether someone’s on the up-and-up.

Samples
A good ad should ask for published work. They might allow unpublished samples (posts you’ve written “on spec”), but primarily they should want to see content you’ve written posted online. They’re looking for this to find out whether you are an experienced writer, as well as to judge your style and skill level. If they’re asking you to create something new for the application process, they may be trying to scam free content out of …

Written by Kris Larson from Carthage
Posted on March 6th, 2008 and filed under Making Money
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Saying Thank You

One of the best things you can do is show your readers you appreciation.

So the first thing I’d like to do is thank everyone that takes the time out of their busy day to stop by and read my articles here on BloggingTips. But I’d like to go a step further and go through all my past posts and subscribe to everyones blog (provided they have one) that has left a comment.

As you have probably already guessed this is a prelude into my next blogging tip. Which is to show your appreciation to your readers.

There are several ways you can do this so let me cover some that I use. If you have some of your own favorite feel free to leave a comment and share with us all. At the very least you’ll get a Thank You in return …

Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog
Posted on March 6th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Do You Blog Out of Fear?

I think many blog out of fear. What do I mean?

Like all other online fads, many jump on the bandwagon because it’s what everybody else is doing. Take social bookmarking. There are so many sites dedicated to it that it would be impossible to use every one of them continuously and effectively.

I started my blog just over three years ago (February 2005). I did it out of a bit of pressure, I admit. I felt left behind. While I agree that particularly as a freelance writer I must stay on top of certain trends, there comes a time when each of us should ask, “Is this something I need to do right now?”

Following are a few guidelines for deciding, “Is this a trend I need to hop on right now?”

How to Decide if a New Trend is Right for Your Business

1. Industry Relevance: You must first decide if it is …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on March 5th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Blogging Tips Competition: The Winners…

After receiving only four reviews and view-points on my blog, Swift Media UK, it’s time to announce the winners of the prizes available.If you missed the competitions introduction, you can read it here and view the review comments directly. There were 5 prizes available, but since there were only four actual reviews, the final prize will go to the best review submitted below. All you have to do is go to my blog, and submit a review on its Design, Content, Promotion, SEO & Readership by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post.

Thanks to everyone who participated. Here’s the winners. As stated in my last post, the 1st best reviewer gets to choose the prize they prefer, and so on, down to 5th place.

1st place winner: Gerad T
2nd place winner: Zhu
3rd place winner: Devi Girsang
4th place winner: Jacky

You will all receive an email from me …

Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK
Posted on March 5th, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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Three Easy Ways to Market your Blog and Get Good Traffic

Want more traffic for your blog? I’m sure you do. However, you also want results from that traffic. You want “good” traffic, traffic that does something for you when it gets to your blog. What you want your traffic to do varies – perhaps you want your visitors to buy a product, visit your online store, or click on a link.

So although the Web 2.0 social-networking traffic generating methods can be effective, they usually fail the “good traffic” test. Your visitors from Digg zoom through your blog, and vanish, like ghosts. They give you a boost in traffic, but it’s a useless boost.

This means that before you start promoting your blog, you must decide what you want your traffic to do when it arrives at your blog.

Make a list of what you want your traffic to do.

Once you have your list, give these three traffic-generating methods a try. These …

Written by angela from Blogging For Dollars
Posted on March 5th, 2008 and filed under Promote your blog
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