7 Blogging Tips

Pay Atten­tion to these 7 Blog­ging Tips to increase traf­fic to your website.

 

Whether you just started blog­ging or have been blog­ging for awhile, it’s cru­cial to know what NOT to do or how to resolve these mis­takes in order to gain the most traf­fic to your web­site or blog. So, we’ll break it down for you and share the fol­low­ing blog­ging tips… because we care and we want YOU to be suc­cess­ful in your blog­ging endeav­ors. Ready for Blog­ging Tips 101?

 

#1 of 7 Blog­ging Tips-

If you are mar­ket­ing on the inter­net, you must link your busi­ness web­site to your blog. This should be a “given”, but if you’re new to the blog­ging world, you may not know. That’s ok. You know now.

Remem­ber to make sure you have all your con­tact info and link directly to your com­pany web­site at least once in your blog­ging posts. Here’s another one of those cool blog­ging tips: cre­ate a cus­tom sig­na­ture with the link in it. You can see a video tuto­r­ial on how to cre­ate a groovy cus­tom sig­na­ture by click­ing here.

#2 of 7 Blog­ging Tips -

 

Think about the con­tent you are shar­ing. Is it too focused on prod­ucts, full of hype or pitchy sound­ing or are you offer­ing value to help oth­ers either through edu­ca­tional data or real life tes­ti­monies? You don’t have to be a guru or know it all…just offer some­thing like tips on how to be suc­cess­ful in net­work mar­ket­ing, video mar­ket­ing tips, blog­ging tips, etc.

Is your blog too much about you and how great you are OR are you shar­ing per­sonal fail­ures as well as suc­cess sto­ries? Start doing research before you blog and use thought pro­vok­ing con­tent in order to attract qual­ity peo­ple to what­ever it is you’re offer­ing. It is good idea to ask your read­ers ques­tions to get them involved. You could ask for their input for instance, “What are some killer blog­ging tips that YOU can offer?”

Last, but not least-Always be your­self! Be authen­tic! We can’t stress this enough.

Are you enjoy­ing these blog­ging tips so far? Cool! Let’s move on, shall we?

#3 of 7 Blog­ging Tips-

Here’s one of those tricky blog­ging tips.….Pub­lish blog con­tent fre­quently or reg­u­larly. We are guilty of being lack­adaisi­cal in this depart­ment. We always talk about con­sis­tency in the net­work mar­ket­ing indus­try, and yet we don’t always walk the walk when talk­ing the talk. We do take action though, which is most impor­tant. We are works in progress just like the rest of you. We have no excuse. It’s proven that if you’re con­sis­tent, more peo­ple will fol­low you. This takes focus. You may have to shut every­thing out for a cer­tain amount of time in order to really focus on the tasks at hand. Turn off the t.v.,video games,  phones, etc. –NO dis­trac­tions! Go some­where quiet and get to work. Come up with a sched­ule and stick to it.

#4 of 7 Blog­ging Tips:

Opti­mize your blog with cer­tain key­words in order to rank high in the search engines. SEO stands for search engine opti­miza­tion and this can be dif­fi­cult to under­stand for new­bees, even we strug­gle with it at times.

Basi­cally you just want to make sure that what­ever sub­ject you are writ­ing about has the key­words in the title of the post and then as many times as pos­si­ble through­out the post as well. There are some other blog­ging tips and tricks like mak­ing the key­word bold, ital­i­cized and even under­lined. Hav­ing H2 and H3 head­lines are per­ti­nent to have as well.

Installing the Easy WP SEO plu­gin on your blog is essen­tial to you being able to track what works and what doesn’t.

#5 of 7 Blog­ging Tips-

 

Pro­mote your con­tent on social media. You can do this via social net­works and social media sites. You sim­ply brand your­self on such sites, cre­at­ing a pres­ence where oth­ers look to you for value, then share your newest blog post link like this one:  7 Blog­ging Tips in groups, forums, on your pro­file, etc. Also be sure oth­ers can share your con­tent by adding social but­tons onto your blog. How’s that for some cool blog­ging tips?

We rec­om­mend the fol­low­ing  plug-ins on WordPress:

• Tweet, Like, Google+1, and Share
• Com­mentluv
• Sexy Book­marks

You can find these by going to your WP dash­board, click on the plug ins tab and search the afore­men­tioned plu­g­ins and then click install.

 

#6 of 7 Blog­ging Tips-

Opti­mize lead gen­er­a­tion on your blog by mak­ing sure you have CTA’s every­where. CTA stands for Call to Action. You need to have CTA’s on the top and side­bars of your blog as well as on every sin­gle blog post you write.

Some exam­ples of CTA’s would be:

• Sign up NOW for our free newsletter
• Join NOW
• Click here for more info
• Click here to take action
• Down­load our free ebook NOW
• Sign up for our 5 week boot­camp series
• Etc, etc. you get the point!

 

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Uti­lize ana­lytic tools so that you’re aware of how your blog is per­form­ing. You can mea­sure your blog’s suc­cess by look­ing at monthly visitors, subscribers, traffic-driving keywords,page views, com­ments, social media shares, inbound links, and leads and con­ver­sion rates.

There are lots of cool ana­lytic plu­g­ins for your blog too you can find by just typ­ing it in the search tab.

In sum­mary, listed are some cool blog­ging tips to help max­i­mize traf­fic to your web­site. We hope you found these blog­ging tips use­ful and that you imple­ment them immediately.

Come back often for more blog­ging tips, how to’s, per­sonal devel­op­ment, online and offline mar­ket­ing strate­gies,  sto­ries of suc­cess and fail­ures and much, much more.

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