Posts Tagged ‘Blog’
Make Mistales and Your Blog Useless
Too often bloggers complain that after a great start, a year later their blog is as dead as can be. This is a common problem that almost always revolves around a small list of common mistakes made by the blogger. A blogger can sit back and expect the blog to do all of the work for him or her, which is a terrible way to approach blogging. A successful blogger would tell you that great blogging takes a certain amount of dedication and hard effort to make it work. You have to put effort into a blog to sustain it, especially after the first month or so of completing the design. Many people work so hard during the initial design phase that they get lazy after it is complete. To avoid this happening to your blog, check out these five common mistakes that can bury a blog.
Infrequent Updates
One of the biggest mistakes a blogger can make is to “forget” about posting. The most successful blogs are updated with new posts at least once a day. Some larger blogs are constantly being updated. You should try to create new posts as often as possible. If you miss a day here and there, it will be no big deal. However, if you miss a week or more without posting, you might as well consider the blog dead already. You have to take a few moments, even as few as five, a day to create interesting posts or content. If you are writing short and concise posts like you should be, this should not be that challenging. It is easy to keep your blog updated, if you make it a priority.
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Tags: Blog, make traffic
5 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site
1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine. Almost everyone is publishing a e-zine nowadays so it’s important to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or advertising when people subscribe.
2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it’s up-to-date or original. You could also offer Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: attract, Blog, Ezine, online directory, Web Traffic
Build Your Portable Content Network
When people talk about social networks, it has now emerged a new way to build a network for bloggers, such as the Portable Content Network.
Portable content network is a system established by the small team of catalysts, based in Lausanne / Switzerland and located on the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL campus.
This network is beneficial to Blog has the same subject, many people get more source of information who have similar interests on a particular topic.
One of the service providers I recommend this is smallrivers. All you have to do here is go to the smallrivers.com and click connect button. After open the sidebar, click on “connect your content” and grad the unique code. And then paste this sticker on your post.
Tags: Blog, blogging tools, network, portable content network
10 Essential Blogging Tools
So, you finally decided to take the blog leap. You’ve heard all about the marketing and search benefits so you stepped up to the plate and signed up for a TypePad, MovableType or WordPress blog software package and now you’re a blogger.
Okay, now what? Add the ten essential blogging tools listed below and you will also be well on your way to creating and promoting a blog that is a powerful marketing tool. I’ll explain the use of the tool and offer some suggestions, including the tools I use on my own blogs including the DuctTapeMarketing blog.
Feed reader
The best way to learn about blogs and blogging is to read, or at least scan, lots of blogs. One of the wonders of blogs is that you can have every new post from every blog you want to read delivered to your desktop or to online location via RSS, so you can easily read and scan the posts of many blogs in a very short time. Newsgator is a good online choice for feed reading and also has a version that integrates with Outlook. I use a free online service know as Bloglines. http://www.bloglines.com
Subscriber center
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Tags: Blog, blog optimization, blogging tools
Benefits Of Building Niche Blogs
In this article, I will describe 7 benefits of building niche blogs.
A “niche” refers to a targeted market with profit potential that is not saturated with competitors. The whole idea is to realize the benefits of building niche blogs and then find the niche markets out there and start building.
Benefit #1
Niche Blogs are essentially niche websites that are alive!
That’s because your blog will grow as you continue to publish posts or pages regularly to your blog. In contrast, many niche websites are seldom modified or updated after they are created.
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Tags: benefit, Blog, niche blog