Deciding what to blog about

Posted by Cyrus Jackson | Posted in All about blogging, Beginner Bloggers | Posted on 30-09-2009-05-2008

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If you are like most of the people who start a blog, you at first have a little bit of writer’s block. Good news- it’ll likely leave, and you will find yourself thinking about new things to blog about often. Actually blogging becomes quite addictive.

This was definitely true of me. When I began blogging, I might frequently fight with things to blog about. Now, I have the issue of not having sufficient time to post on all the stuff I need to talk about! Here are some pointers to get you thru that 1st dry spell till you find your blogging voice.

1 - Subscribe to other blog feeds for your industry / target audience. If you’ve got a blog about babies and children, you will need to have other similar ( preferably serious traffic ) blogs on your RSS reader. It’s a good way to keep abreast of what’s happening in the collective consciousness of folks. Just do a Google search for blog + subjects of choice, and you will come up with lots. Keeping up with other blogs in your niche implies you can link to their posts ( and you should generally link to a blog that electrifies your own post ) and add your own “spin” on the topic.

2 – Look at trade mags and papers in your niche Again, returning to the baby / child theme, read parenting mags. Mags are an excellent spot to look for inspiration…the articles are often short, pithy, “quick fix” and solution orientated ( like blog posts ). They also change to mirror what’s occurring in the world and with your target audience. Keeping up with the reports is also a good idea…you can find stories feeds to add to your RSS reader too. When something is occurring in the world that impacts your target audience, blog it.

3 - Keep a notebook ( or file on your desktop ) of blog fodder When a concept or sentence hits you, get it down instantly. These sentences can be lengthened into blog content ( and later lengthened into articles…that’s another ecourse ). The more that you do this, the more aware you may become of the unlimited topics you can blog about, even in your niche.

4 - Milk Your Content if you are publishing a newsletter and write articles, then blog a short introduction paragraph with a link to the remainder of the content on your internet site.

5 - Product Reviews Review products that you have tried and books you have read that apply to your niche. Anything that would help your blog readers decide ( and we need that help in a world with too many decisions ) is a great thing.

6 – Involve Your Visitors your ezine customers and blog readers can be selling partners and content generators for you! How? When they e-mail you with a query, ask their authorization to post it ( with the answer ) on your blog. May you shortly end up in the trouble of so many blog content, so very little time!

The best way to get content for your blog

Posted by Cyrus Jackson | Posted in Blogging tips | Posted on 30-09-2009-05-2008

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Blogs and web sites that have rich content are always about to do better than those that do not. I’m sure you puzzled where these blogs get their ideas, views and viewpoints. It is simple to put down some thoughts about something that you are obsessed about- but to do that most days of the week is incredibly tough, since you would potentially run out of things to chat about or you simply don’t have the wherewithal. So how will they do it? Where do they get their ideas? Do they get aid from tools and alternative sources available on the Internet? The only way would be to supply the content yourself, and this is of greatest significance if your goal is to try and create traffic to an associated link. You may definitely wish to sell the concept about the services and products previously. What that may do is set the scene or the mood and give your recommendations validity.

Expounding on the usages of a specific product or service, with your own likes, achieves this naturally. With an affiliate marketing programme, it’s a smart idea to have an individual tale that goes together with the product. Using in house brand articles is a viable alternative. PL articles abound in the Net and you can always buy some that are attached to your central subject and then put them in your blog. One method of maximizing an acquired PLA is to chop it down into many pieces, thus maximizing its content.

Utilizing RSS feeds to post on blogs is becoming highly regarded, though not many are familiar or prepared to study RSS feeds. The benefit to an RSS feed is that your blog is immediately updated with fresh reports and content. The drawback is that it’s not original text and that anyone curious about the feed will likely click out on a story that appeals to them. Putting in your own content is the only way to go. A technique to find fresh concepts is to search for an appealing reports article and then do an outline write-up based primarily on it. It is not as straightforward as it sounds, but you and your readers will find it the best way.

If you are feeling that you don’t cut it as a writer or you truly don’t have time, then hire somebody else to do it for you. There are numerous services out there who supply a blog service which includes daily posts of unique, engaging content and you can indoctrinate these content writers as to where you need the links in your blog pointing to- so that any burden of cost apropos hiring them should be counterbalanced by the gains in your increased visitor base, the promoting of your other internet sites and revenues from your affiliate marketing programs. These are the best paths to generate content for your blog. It is a good idea not to be going with the automated trail.

If you do make a decision to do that, you may doubtless have lots of content- but the substance of the text is doubtful to extend traffic for you. Putting in some good, old skool content work will yield better results for you. As the expression goes- you get out what you put in.!!

10 ways to increase your blogs pageviews

Posted by Cyrus Jackson | Posted in Blogging tips, Optimising your blog | Posted on 30-09-2009-05-2008

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With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having folks click onto more pages helps your income enormously, but how does one make them read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are some tips:

1 - Create pages inside the blog that contain reference material you refer to frequently in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your subjects you can refer folks to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.

2 - Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any subject for free by going to one of many article directories like http://www.articlecontentprovider.com / articlesubmit / Then refer folks to read the articles that apply to the post you are making. You might even add one article as a new page each time you’re making a post.

3 – Refer to other posts you made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to prior posts. You may even decide your posts by reading prior posts and selecting which one to follow up on. Those archives aren’t to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, ( you wrote it right? ), so use it.

4 - Make a page that links to your favourite posts that are unending. You read your old posts, find posts that you need readers to find simply, then build a links page with those posts immediately linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favourite posts or whatever and you may benefit by those that click thru and follow those links.

5 – I have posted here before about the “more” tag. You write your post as standard, then decide where you wish to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the remainder of the tale.

6 – Write once per week special projects. These are a chain of articles on a selected subject. You’ll be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Everytime add links to prior posts in that series.

7 - Using your content from your other web sites or blogs is also a good way to get more pageviews for every one of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and internet sites. It’ll open a new window leaving this blog open while they visit your other site or blog. You can swiftly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other web sites and blogs.

8 – Make a catalogue of ten prior posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you need your readers to grasp and read in case they have not done so before. At your idea they can at least go see whether they have read those posts before, inflating your pageviews once more and bringing old material to new readers. That also allows them to know they should skim the archives for things they have missed.

9 - Using that very same list of ten posts or a newer one, visit other blogs on your subject. Find posts that talk about something like one of those ten posts, then rather than adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that’s similar and that contains useful info to that blogger and their readers. You also will be enlarging your link recognition while doing this. Don’t spam the link. Make sure it basically contains helpful info. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will finish up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10 – Don’t stop being creative, ever!

Use the tips in this piece, and invent some of your own methods to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don’t simply post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Don’t make folk search your blog. They’re lazy and busy. Bring it to them.

That’s just good shopper service. I’m hoping this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or maybe daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I assure you will boost your pageviews which in turn will raise your income if using an advert program in your blog.