But it won't hurt I promise. I feel like I'm confusing the hell out of people. They sign up to get a free report about how to Squidoo then they end up getting a lot of information about blogging ~ which isn't what they were looking for. I get it. It doesn't make sense. Here's what I've done to solve the problem. Today I put together a free report called Create a Successful Blog in 2 Hours a Day. It's a step by step action plan for creating a profitable blog in... well you guessed it, … [Read more...]
How to Format Your Blog Posts
A couple days ago I was reading a great post over at Smart Passive Income. Pat was talking about how to not look like a newbie blogger when you're a newbie blogger. He had some great ideas. One of which was to make sure you format your blog posts, and I realized I haven't talked about it at all, but it's really important. Why format blog posts? Most internet readers SCAN. It is a fact. So you want to create your blog posts so they are easy for the scanners to take in your content, but … [Read more...]
Choosing Blogs To Follow
This week the goal is to find 10 blogs in your niche or related to your niche to follow. This can be really easy right? Just go out there and pick some blogs. Yes, it can be that easy, but today I'm going to give you some tips about how you can choose blogs to follow so you can best leverage your time and effort. 1. Regularly and Consistently Updated You want to choose blogs that are active. This means the person (like you) is updating their content 3 to 5 times a week. You want/need … [Read more...]
Your Purpose as a Blogger
You may at first think your purpose as a blogger is to make money. It's not. That's just a byproduct of your purpose. Your real purpose as an authority blogger is to create relationships with your readers and other bloggers. This is sometimes where people realize they are not cut out to be bloggers. And that's ok. If you find this to be the case you may want to think about creating niche sites or product based squidoo sites. Blogging is at is very base a social endeavor. You need to … [Read more...]
How to Monetize Blog Posts Without Scaring Away Your Readers
I hope you've been publishing articles to your blog this week. You have right? How many? 1? 3? 5? Remember in the beginning the more you can publish the better. The more you publish to your blog the more you let the search engine spiders know you are going to be a consistent and frequent source of information on your topic. If you show them that, they will come by more often. The more often they come by the faster your posts get indexed ~ the more traffic you get. So post, post, post!!! I … [Read more...]
Twitter Action Plan
But I don't want to talk about what I ate for breakfast!! We are NOT going to talk about what we ate for breakfast. (Unless you have a food blog lol). We as marketers are going to use twitter to build a connection, a relationship with our target market. We're going to build trust, we're going to build friendships, we're going to build traffic baby. So get over whatever preconceived notions you have about twitter and rest assured you do not have to tweet about what you had for breakfast or … [Read more...]
Title Keywords: Finding the Best Keywords for Your Blog Posts
While I don't think keywords are the most important thing for a blog like this I do think it's always smart to add another possible traffic stream for you blog. With some quick and easy keyword research you can include Google and the other search engines to the possible ways you can get traffic to your site. We are not going to start our work with keywords. We're going to start our work, our writing, in our imaginations, in forums ~ where people who talk about your topic hang out, at twitter, … [Read more...]
How to Write a Blog Post ~ My Top 5 Tips
Next week the challenge is going to be around publishing content on your blog, so I thought I'd give you a few of my favorite tips around how to write a blog post. 1. Use keywords in your post titles. Yeah I know I said we weren't going to do all this keyword research stuff for this, but the point is search traffic is awesome, so you might as well do a little. With that said ~ I'm NOT saying go out and build a list of keywords to write your posts about. I am saying go to the editorial … [Read more...]
Must Have Pages for Your Blog
For your blog to be in compliance with advertisers (and the FTC) there are a couple pages your site must have. These 2 must have pages are your privacy policy and the disclosure policy. Privacy Policy While this is a mandatory element for any site using Adsense (per terms and services of Google), it is also good policy for any site to let their readers know what the site policy is on gathering their information. The privacy policy is very easy to put together. In fact, there is a … [Read more...]
Upload Activate Configure WordPress Plugins
Plugins are awesome. I love them. Anything you want your blog to do you can probably find a plugin to help you do it. While it's fun to play with lots of plugins, right now it's important to get started with the basics. I've already covered the basic plugins I add to a new site, and how to configure them. On this post you can find the basic plugins, how to upload and install them. (just scroll down past the theme part) Plugins, uploading them and activating them are going to be the same no … [Read more...]