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Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Article marketing doesn't have to be a mystery to you nor do you have to twist your mind around and around, trying to figure it out. The process can be quite simple, whether you use a service provider to offer you high quality articles or create the articles yourself. Make your decisions with these tips in mind, so you are able to utilize a highly effective marketing practice today.

article marketing tips

Keep your keywords current. Researching in the beginning is very important, but do not let it end there. Keep researching on a consistent basis to find what keywords are still of good use to you. If one of your keywords is no longer popular, but a different relevant one is trending, switch them out!

Article marketing is a good way to get your website noticed. With the push for useful content on the internet, sites that offer nothing to visitors quickly fail. Write good articles to increase your visibility on search engine result pages. The better the site, the higher the ranking will become.

Keep your copy simple and short. Don't forget, writing for the internet is different than writing for other mediums. Don't skimp on information, but if you keep your article concise and under 2,000 words, you will be able to make the reading experience more enjoyable for your readers.

Find a unique and clever way to make your article promotional. Readers love it when a writer tries something new and interesting. They are used to seeing the product description/review/buy it here format. If you can figure out a different way to promote your product, readers will flock in, and usually buy.

Be a seamless streamer. Every article should have a call to action at the end of it, but many times they are far too obvious. Your article should flow directly into the call to action without your readers ever realizing it is happening. Practice doing this until it becomes natural for you.

For better article marketing, always treat your readers' time as precious when you sit down to compose your articles. Online readers appreciate short articles. They also appreciate direct ones. Never waste readers' time for the sake of inflating an article's word count. If you cannot justify a particular bit of your article as immediately interesting to the reader, it needs to come out.

To make income on your written articles, you need to make sure that you have your own website. It's okay to have a 1000 word article, as long as you keep the articles that you submit to article directories around 500 or 700 words. You can also have offers and affiliate links on your own site to grab your reader's attention so as to make your site more valuable to your customers.

Marketing online comes in many forms and article marketing is one of these forms that offers great results to businesses of all types and sizes. If you are interested in putting this form of marketing to use for your business, you can read use this article for great tips and information to get started and understand better the process you will complete.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

On 8:28 PM by Maniko Heart in , , ,    1 comment
There are many benefits to blogging, but a lot of folks wanting to start it are unsure of how to proceed. It is one thing to start up a page and start posting content, but another to make the blog something followed and interesting to others. Read the following paragraphs for ideas you can use towards running a successful blog.

Ensure that you are posting very often in the blogs that you operate. At the minimum, you should aim to post one time on each blog every single day during the weekdays. Of course, posting more is always welcome. This shows your visitors that you are a very active blogger, which will make them more prone to keep visiting your blogs.

Avoid writing blogs about subjects you have no interest in or know nothing about. It will reflect in your writing and you could possibly come across as uninformed in you are unsure of what you are writing about. This can turn readers off and they will avoid revisiting your site.

Since blogs are written on a more personal level, you should avoid writing in formal tones. This will make it easier for the reader to relate to you on a personal level. This will keep your readers coming back later on to read more of the blogs you write.

Create an email update list for your blog. On your site, offer a place for people to sign up for these updates and send them out every time you post a new blog. Those who are truly interested in following your blog will like the idea of being notified when new content is posted.

Everything you do can end up being the subject of a blog. Take notes when you are away from the computer, if you stumble across an idea that may translate into a post. You want to always keep your eyes open for subject ideas. Writing is the easy part, it's coming up with the initial concept that usually leads to writer's block.

Try asking readers for feedback. Be sure to interact with them. Don't assume that you know exactly what it is that your readers want from the blog, try asking them outright. This can be done in your comments, by creating a specific post for feedback by email, or social networks like Twitter. You could even use online communities.

Pay attention to your grammar. This is especially important if you are trying to be an International blogger. If your grammar is not up to par, a lot of people will get annoyed with reading your blog, and think that you are not creditable. There are many programs that you can use to run a grammar check, and you should do this with every entry.

Running a blog can provide benefits ranging from professional prestige to business branding, to personal gratification. However, bridging the gap from a basic blog to a successful one is not hard. Now that you have read this article, you should plan to apply the knowledge presented here for success in your blogging adventure.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Blogging has become a great way for people to make money today. There are a lot of people that blog and thus build a great presence online. They actually make a living either blogging for themselves or other people. If you wish to learn more about this, and blogging in general, then keep reading.


Use tags correctly. Tags let you categorize your posts into different categories, which can then be searched by readers. Each of your posts should have two or three tags. Make sure you use the same words for similar posts (don't have a "bikes" and "biking" tag, for example), and don't give posts too many tags, as this tends to clutter up categories.

If you are planning to start up your own blog, think carefully about what you want to write about. Don't just write about what you think others will want to hear. You must write about what you like and what interests you most. By writing what you love, your blog posts will jump out with exciting, interesting information!

Update your blog frequently. Infrequent updates will never benefit your blog in any way. Any readers who are initially interested will lose interest if they have to wait a long time between posts or updates to articles. A good rule to follow is to compose new blogs each week, and send emails about the updates.

Avoid talking to yourself in your blog post.
Don't treat it like a diary, instead only tell stories your readers will be interested in. You should also be wary of using first person writing unless you are writing about a relevant topic that will interest your viewers and keep them coming back for more.

Everything you do can end up being the subject of a blog. Take notes when you are away from the computer, if you stumble across an idea that may translate into a post. You want to always keep your eyes open for subject ideas. Writing is the easy part, it's coming up with the initial concept that usually leads to writer's block.

Don't make long, meandering posts or posts that meander and don't get to the point. While it is important to provide the depth of detail that your readers are looking for, blogs that are too long and verbose will simply put your readers to sleep. Most of the time, blog readers are not interested in flowery descriptions or clever wordplay. Readers want to get essential information from blogs; they are not concerned with fancy extras like long words or poetic descriptions.

If you want to be a good writer, it is important that you are a good reader.
Take the time to actually read what you write about, and enjoy it. When you can read it from a visitor's point of view, you will be able to get a better understanding of any changes that you need to make to your writing style.

Hopefully as you have now read through this article you should start to have a better understanding of what it takes to blog and how to be successful at it. The one thing that you're going to have to remember though is that patience is key when you first start out blogging, but keep at it and you'll achieve the level of success you hope to one day.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

On 8:46 PM by Maniko Heart in , ,    2 comments
Many people wonder why blogging has grown in popularity recently. If you're curious about blogging and how it can help you, here are the tips that will help you understand and build an enjoyable blog.

smart blogging tips image courtesy of empowernetwork.com

Blog about what you are most passionate about. If you are passionate about your blog topics, you will ultimately draw your readers in and your interest in the subject will show through. Readers will want to hear what you have to say about the topic because you will be knowledgeable and passionate.

Making use of Twitter is crucial for spreading the word about your blog. These days, you must put yourself out there on social networks if you want to have a chance at making an impact. You can't simply rely on SEO to do all the work for you. Get yourself involved socially, and you'll notice a difference.

Since blogging is on a personal level you should avoid writing formally. You should still write in a professional manner and use proper grammar. Your readers will be able to relate to you more when you are writing to them in a casual way and will continue reading your blogs.

Your blog should be unique, so it stands out in the crowd. Readership will be higher for a blog with unique content. Hard to locate information will do the same. Talk about something that is unique to you, like a hobby. Share your own expertise into a process or job that most people know less about. You need to let the reader have a good reason to visit your blog.

Add content to your blog several times each week. Strive to maintain a regular posting schedule, and dedicate yourself to adhere to it. Doing so will give your visitors ample content to read. Consistent posts will keep people returning to your site, if you keep it interesting and informative.

Make sure that you are blogging for the right reasons. If you are looking for some quick money, this is not the way to go. Blogging should be more of a hobby. If it becomes something that you start to dread, your writing will not be very good, and you will have less readers.

Use the first sentence in each paragraph to make the main point of that paragraph. This is an old trick in journalism, a trick from back in time when the point of an article was to actually provide information. Using this approach in your blog will facilitate the needs of those that like to skim a page for the most important content.

It is very important to maintain consistent with your blog, so you will want to keep a regular posting schedule. Competition in blogging is fierce, and if you do not provide your readers with consistent and fresh content, some other blogger will. Holidays are one exception, but you should be consistently posting to your blog.

I hope you will find all the tips helpful in your blogging world. Use it as often as necessary.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Been busy for these past few days because of work so haven't updated my blog recently. Though I'm contemplating something on what to blog about and how it will be helpful to my readers.

So to my readers I would like to share to you my email signature. hehehe :D Fyi, a signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file, .sig, dot sig, siggy, or just sig) is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message (source: wikipedia). My email signature is not so nice and creative than others out there who really have amazing email signatures. I used wisestamp, a Mozilla Firefox add on.

How to Setup Your Email Signature Using Wisestamp

1. You need to install wisestamp in your browser.

2. Create your own account on wisestamp or you can login using your facebook.

3. Then a wisestamp editor will appear in which you can edit on what to add on your email signature. It looks like this.

wisestamp

By the way, I got my signature from mylivesignature.com. You can create there your own free signature in which you can add in your email signature same as mine.

Here's my signature:

my live signature
And this is a preview of my email signature that I've been using lately for my emails.

I know it looks like not so nice :) but I'm satisfied with it. So simple.

When I'm composing a message here's what it looks like in my gmail.



So get your own email signature now and append it on your emails. Be creative :)

Friday, March 29, 2013

On 9:58 AM by Maniko Heart in , ,    No comments
Last week I applied for offline SEO Manager position and I really find it so-so. That was my first time answering questions about SEO. You wanna know why is it offline? It's because I really want to work in an office. I want to be an office-based employee. I'm fond of working at home too but for me there are a lot of disadvantages. One of the non-benefits of working at home is feeling unproductive (in my own opinion). I find myself became more lazy and always procrastinate. Furthermore, my mom really want me to work in an office because for her working at home has no assurance and loyalty of work. I guess that's true. So next week will try on applying for local jobs on any IT companies.

 Anyway, let me share to you my answers to the test I took.

What is Google Panda Algorithm?
Google Panda algorithm is designed to decrease PR for low-quality sites having low-value add for users and duplicate content from other websites Concurrently, it will provide better PR for high-quality sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.



What is Google Penguin Algorithm?
Google Penguin Algorithm targeted at webspam. The change will reduce PR for sites that violates Google’s existing quality guidelines by using typical black-hat SEO techniques such as keyword stuffing in internal/outbound links, low-quality article marketing & blog spam, cloaking and others.

Is the ‘nofollow’ attribute good for SEO?
Yes, it is still good since we can use it for low quality links such as untrusted content and paid links and really important to stop comment on spam blogs.

What are the first 3 things you check when doing an SEO audit?
1. Title tags, meta tags
2. quality of content
3. quantity/quality of link to the website

List five things that impact a site’s authority

1. Original/quality content or content optimization
2. Quality of links from authoritative sites
3. Quantity of links coming from that domain to your website.
4. site architecture (site speed, file naming structure, server error, canonicalization)
5. social media metrics

A client is panicked. They’ve just fallen out of the rankings for the phrase “foo bar”. That was their top traffic generator. They want to shut down all onsite content and technical SEO and focus 100% on links. What do you tell them?
I'll try to tell them to have a new SEO campaign to be able to make up for the decrease of rankings. But will tell them that focusing 100% on links might get worse instead for the rankings. We must observe the Panda and Penguin algorithms on these.

Tell me what you think PageRank is
PageRank is a popularity ranking tool . This is what Google uses to measure the amount of links that are pointing to your site, but it also checks what kind of sites are pointing to your site, how powerful those websites are (Domain Authority, Page Authority, etc), and how much actual PR those websites have.

That's all! I hope I answered it correctly :)

Maybe you'll comment here on some of the questions you might know the answers. Thanks! Have a great weekend everyone :D

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

On 11:29 AM by Maniko Heart in ,    No comments
Really it's been awhile since I haven't updated this blog. I was a bit busy with my online works that I haven't been able to update a single post here. Anyways, I'm back for good and would like to share to my readers my past experiences lately with works, family, friendship and events that happened in my life. I hope you will be excited on what I want to share with you.

Just yesterday while browsing the net and read more about SEO I have found out some of the ways to build back links. These are not the old ways but really kind of different, unique and new. One of its ways is the infographics. According to wikipedia "Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends. The process of creating infographics can be referred to as data visualization, information design, or information architecture." Here are some examples of infographics from the Kissmetrics website.



infographics

infographics


So informative and unique right? I hope I can do this also.. But I'm kind of poor when it comes to graphic design because I find it so complicated and it's really not my forte.

Anyway, will be updating my blog often for you to read other exciting and interesting post.
 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

On 4:56 AM by Maniko Heart in , , ,    2 comments
The Internet offers vast opportunities for users who wish to connect with other individuals and businesses all over the world. If you wish to do so through a website, however, you must first have a reliable web hosting provider. Because there are so many options and considerations involved, choosing the best provider can be quite confusing. Fortunately, this article is packed with practical tips for getting the most from your web hosting service.

web hosting tips

 Keep track of how many often outages occur and how long they last. If they are too long and too frequent, you should think about choosing a different service. Most services encounter issues once in a while but if they are not fixed quickly, you are not getting your money's worth. 

 If you have a number of websites, consider hosting them all with the same company. Many companies offer significant discounts for multiple domains. In addition, starting a new website with a company you already know gives you the comfort of knowing you are working with a company you can trust. 

 Unfortunate to say, but there isn't an "unlimited" amount of room on the Internet for everyone to jump around on your webpage, download media, and upload games of their own. This is known as "bandwidth" and most interactions between yourself, consumers, or surfers and your hosting server will eat away at your bandwidth cap. Always keep a close eye on where it stands, and be careful with what you upload.

Make sure that your web host provides regular software updates for the services they are providing you with. For example, if your website relies on WordPress, you should verify that WordPress updates are provided efficiently. This includes updates for plug-ins and themes as well. Many of these updates include new features and security fixes that are essential for your website. 

 If you are not familiar with the principles behind web hosting service, how can you expect to choose the best one? How can you get the most from your provider? Hopefully, the article you have just read helped to clarify these things and others. Regardless of your needs, these tips will surely serve you well!