8 Things to Avoid When Blogging

Alvin Phang


Tip #1 – Never Post Without First Proof Reading

You may say, “I was really gifted with great English”, but the least you can do after spending time to create post is to spend a little more time to check the grammar and spelling of your post content. A quick way is to use the Firefox browser to type your content as they have a built- in spell checker. You can also copy your content to Microsoft Words to check for grammatical error.

Tip #2 – Do Not Write If You Do Not Have Ideas What To Write

When posting, have a minimum word length about 250 words or more. And do not post on your blog for the sake of posting. You must remember that people spend their precious time reading your post so your job is to ensure you give them valuable information so that they would come back for more. A quick way to get more content for your blog would be to go to Google Videos and grab a 40-minute video clip on your topic. By doing so, you do not have to write at all, you just have to put a video on your blog.

Tip #3 – Do not Copy Content From Others

When posting content on your blog, please avoid using duplicate content or copyright content from others. You would be in for trouble when they find out you steals content from them. However, what you can do is you can take ideas from others and paraphrase them. You will be amazed that most top seller books you see today at bookshops have similar content.

Tip #4 – Do Not Post Offensive Post

Never post any form of writing that would offend anyone online. This is especially so if it is someone you know and dislike, online or offline. It is never civil to show your readers an offensive habit. More often than not, when people read your blog post, they will find hyperlinks on your post. You should never allow these links to external sites that are not yours to appear in your blog.

Tip #6 – Do Not Hard Sell In Your Blog Post

I see this happening many times on many blogs of others who try too hard to sell something on their blogs. They kept explaining why a product X should be bought and insisted it’s the best product out there.
Instead of doing hard selling on your blog, what you should do is to persuade. A soft- sell approach will be more effective and also gives your readers some solid content so that they can benefit from reading your blog.

Tip #7 – Do Not Go Off Topic On Your Blog
Writing in a blog can sometimes lead you into talking about almost anything that comes to your mind. It’s very important, that whatever content which comes out of your blog has to always be relevant to the topics on your blog. You do not want to read a stock trading blog talking about cooking, do you?

Tip #8 – Credibility Is Key In Blogging
Never lie to your readers especially when you are paid to write reviews, tell
your readers it’s a paid review.

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Alvin Phang is the creator of the blogging guide book Atomic Blogging 3.0
and blog owner of www.GatherSuccess.com where he generated $222,579
to date.


Need more tips and start making money from your blogs?  Grab your copy
today at www.AtomicBlogging.com
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The Right Strategy For Profiting with Blogging

By now, unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard about the power that blogs have as a tool for generating traffic and helping you make more money in your online business.

But "blogs" themselves aren't "strategies".  They are but "tools".  And just like a hammer wouldn't be an effective tool if you swung it at your finger instead of the nail, a blog isn't an effective tool unless you use it as part of a solid marketing strategy.

A guy I usually listen to when it comes to using blogs for making money online is Andrew Hansen. Andrew's claim to fame is his strategy for combining blogs with affiliate marketing, and various free traffic generation methods, to create passive income revenue streams that can remain profitable for a long time.

Part of this strategy is to use blogs NOT as an every day blogger who's focused on pulitzer prize winning content, generating of mouth and creating link bait... but instead to use blogs as a simple content management system that can assist in getting fast search rankings for highly profitable keywords in order to generate high conversion rates on affiliate offers.

As Andrew says, blogs are perfect for this purpose because they are easy for anyone to set up, don't require any coding knowledge, but come with features that most regular websites don't have that can be leveraged for extreme advantages in the search engines, like RSS Feeds, pinging and others.

Interestingly he also points out how blogs while traditionally aren't known for their ability to create high clickthrough or conversion rates on "offers" (including presells or direct sales offers) can in fact be tweaked to leverage some of the MOST powerful conversion boosters and can thus become high conversion selling machines.

Andrew's just  released a new "Institute" to teach people more about these strategies for profiting through "niche blogging" and he's put out some really interesting FREE videos that you can check out to learn some quality actionable steps to making money from your blogs, or STARTING to make some blogs that will generate passive income for you too.

If you want to watch those videos you can click here!

After you check them out, be sure to come back and let me know what you think.

8 Powerful Tips On Blogging

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

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.

Tip #8 – Always Moderate Your Post And Enable Spam Filter
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.

Adsense Alternatives

If you find Google's Adsense not suitable for you site or blog or, it just don't suit your taste,  the following can be your alternatives.

AdBrite (http://www.adbrite.com) allows you the unique possibility to set the pricing for your blog and allow or reject any link that appears on your site.

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Bidvertiser (http://www.bidvertiser.com) also displays texts ads in your page.  The difference is , advertisers bid over your advertising space, ensuring you earn as much revenue as you possibly can.  You also get a great way to customize your ads with a very easy to use tool.