In this post you will learn Alvin Phang's (creator of Atomic Blogging) 8 powerful tips on blogging to start generating more revenue and traffic for your blogs.
Tip #1 - Do A Survey On What Your Readers Like To Read About
It is always very important to know what your customers or readers like to know more about. You can find out easily by just asking your audience. An example of this is what Alvin did in his own blog http://www.gathersuccess.com/announcments/worlds-first-paid-per-comment where he posed the question of asking them what the top 3 problems that people face online are.
With that information, you can gather the information and create a product or service around it or write content on what your readers love to read about. In that way, your readers will love to find out more about what you want to write about and help to solve their problems.
Tip #2 - Open Your Creative Mindset
There is no right or wrong in blogging. However, what you need to do after you find out what your readers want is to start to think of ideas or articles you can write to cater to their needs. Do not worry if you feel the information is really simple because trust me, there are still hundreds of people online who will not know what you know. Keep your articles short, sweet and straight to the point. But, remember always be honest and speak from your heart as readers will be able to tell if you are trying to lie.
Tip #3 - Promote Your Blog Post
Many people who blog online always fail to do this important step and expect traffic to automatically just appear out of thin air. To be honest, you often hear this at marketing events only but the truth is you WILL NEVER get traffic if you do not promote your blog post. So what you should do is start telling your friends about your blog post or go to forums which you will learn more about that in the later chapters and post your content in there.
Tip #4 – Start Collecting And Building Leads
Building a strong readership on a blog is important but what is more important is to collect leads from your blog too. Leads are basically information people give you about themselves when they fill in a form to get
a free gift from you. The important thing to note is that without collecting people’s contact details, there will be no way you can communicate with them later if you like to do so. How much you would like to make from your blog or business will most likely be determined by the number of leads and readership you have to your blog. So start building leads today if you have not done so. You can actually get a free auto- responder account at http://www.shoutresponse.com
a free gift from you. The important thing to note is that without collecting people’s contact details, there will be no way you can communicate with them later if you like to do so. How much you would like to make from your blog or business will most likely be determined by the number of leads and readership you have to your blog. So start building leads today if you have not done so. You can actually get a free auto- responder account at http://www.shoutresponse.com
Tip #5 – Get Yourself A Set of Golden Keywords
When you are thinking of posting a post on your blog, the first thing you would need first is not the article but a bunch of golden keywords with high demand. With those keywords, you would want to optimize your blog post title, body, meta tags and url with the right keywords in your blog post so that search engine will be able to give you better ranking on searches.
Tip #6 – Post Frequently on Your Blog
What do most successful bloggers have in common? Well, it’s very simple, they post very often on their blogs. I know it would not be easy for most of you, but try to post as frequently as possible on your blogs. A suggestion if possible, is to post once a day, or at least once every 3 days. There are two reasons for this: to keep search engine updated that there are regular fresh contents in your blog, and hence, more for your readers to read.
Tip #7 – Fill Up Your Categories with Keywords
To ensure you get the maximum exposure on search engines, you want to ensure your categories in your blog are optimized with the right sets of keywords.
To ensure top quality information and readers on your blog, you must always remember to moderate your comments on your blog and enable the built- in spam filter to , as the name suggests, filter off spam. A popular plug-in used to filter spam is Akismet, which you will learn later in the chapter how to implement Akismet.
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