How I Managed To Get My Posts Featured On A-List Blogs

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Guest-Blogging

[dropcap color="red-vibrant" font="georgia" style="normal" size="scmgc-3em"]G[/dropcap]uest posting is one of the top methods to gain traffic, subscribers, popularity, your blog branding and friends. It is one of the most effective ways to reach people from different blogs, niches and interests.

Apart from helping you to build authority to your blog, guest posting also makes you a better writer, one of the top benefits I have experienced about guest posting.

I have had some wonderful guest posts published in A-List blogs including Problogger, Daily Blog Tips, ComLuv, FamousBloggers, YoungPrePro, Technshare, iBlogZone and others.

You can check out the complete list at this page: [Read more...]

Quality Blog Content: The Reason Why Quality Content is Important

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Content writing is one of the game changing aspects for websites and blogs nowadays. This has been because of the algorithm updates that Google has made recently.

Most of the updates have mainly affected on-page factors, which have been stressing on the need for blog content that is of high quality.

This has been done because Google wants to eliminate all of the websites that are known to have spam blog content and offers no value to people for the purpose of improving the overall experience for users in the search engine.

The recent updates that have been applied resulted in websites that have previously ranked high in the search engines using targeted keywords being devalued.

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4 More Ways To Increase Reader Engagement Of A Blog

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Following the number emails I received in relation to a recent post "8 ways to increase reader engagement of a blog" I thought it would be nice to share some more ideas.

As a result here are 4 more ways to increase your blog's reader engagement.

Pictures

A picture is worth 1000 words. When you have a picture or many pictures in your blog post you are most likely to engage the reader with your first impression.

The more relevant the picture is the more engaged the reader will feel.

In fact your picture will make the reader to decide in seconds whether to continue reading your blog post or not.

If you use images in your blog posts (and I don't know why you wouldn't) make sure you optimize them for image search: Optimize your … [Read more...]

8 Ways To Increase Reader Engagement Of A Blog

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Getting people to find your blog is one side of the story. Keeping them for a while is another side of it.

While making people to find your blog is a tedious and not an easy thing, the saddest part comes when such a hardly earned visitor just chooses to hit the back button.

Apart from clicking the back button (which is not useful to you) what else can a visitor do that could establish engagement on your blog? He/she can

  1. Stay on and explore more blog posts
  2. Choose to leave a comment to your blog … [Read more...]

Benefits of Camping for Bloggers

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Okay bloggers, time for some discussions about why the outdoors is brilliant if you go. The first thing that you will want to remember is; when was the last time you had really gone out? Not exactly on a normal holiday.

Or a visit to your parents’ place. Or even to a basement party which other fellow nerdy bloggers or friends of yours organized. I mean, really went out. In the wilderness, carefree and charmed with the blue skies of the out of town!

In case you are still wondering, the reference is being made to camping bloggers. For those of you who have never camped, they might not even be aware of how much fun camping out of doors can be. For those who have forgotten the charm, take a dip back in time my friends, because we are going camping!

The Charm of Camping

Since you are my fellow blogger, it is obvious to assume that you are an imaginative lot. … [Read more...]

Why Is Reader Engagement Important For A Blog?

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Reader engagement is one of the most important aspects that every blogger would love to achieve.

No matter how many times you appear on search results, no matter if you are on #1 position for the best keywords in your niche, if a reader chooses to click the back button upon landing on your site, that makes no sense.

So what does this mean ultimately? Your blog is not what the reader was looking for (even though your blog has appeared in the search result of what the reader was looking for).

Okay, you may say: "I don't care about reader who bounces back from my site. All I care is about those who want to stay and read on, how small the number can be!"

No you are wrong. You cannot have this thought and this is bad for your site because your … [Read more...]

SEO PowerSuite Review: Jump Ahead Of Your SEO Competition

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SEO involves improving the visibility of a website in search results. The process is completed through several means such as optimization of on-page elements or link building.

It is necessary to maintain a record of all actions performed both on and off the website.

The results need to be checked on a regular basis. It may be possible to achieve all this manually but using software speeds up and simplifies the process.

And if you're the one who thinks SEO is scary, you're not alone! I'm with you.

Read these two posts to console yourself (and pick up some useful tips) -

SEO is scary and networking takes time

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The Blog Bang Theory: The Blog Sweepstakes Formulation

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My fellow bloggers have definitely heard a few famous sayings in their own sweet time. Particularly, something along the lines of this; “the best things in life are always free.”

So what even if they’re just wholesale tote bags, just giving away free stuff will generate new traffic and also rattle your existing supporters. Moreover, you will also get a chance to give your blog a makeover of sorts. Read on for more.

Now many might think that why would somebody even refer to such a douche idea (no offence to the sensitive!). However, it is not just what the saying, well, says, but what exactly is the implication of the same.

Bloggers follow the implication and start giving away free stuff to your readers. The Price? Traffic, silly!

Decisions and interactions Even if you are fairly not interested or simply do not engage much in gossip, you have to … [Read more...]

Case Study: How To Improve By 50% Resulting In A Win-Win-Win Situation When Launching A Product

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Remember the term "it's a win-win situation - he gets what he wants and I get what I want"? This is the ideal situation to be in.

Some people like to give but even more people like to receive. We all like to receive.

Personally I do believe that the more you give the more you automatically receive but that's beyond the scope of this article.

The fact is that we all like to be in win-win situations in our online businesses, projects, or ventures. Relationships with influential people as you may know are probably your biggest assets as an online entrepreneur - that applies to all bloggers, freelance writers, self-published authors, internet marketers, social media experts, you name it.

What better way to build good and sound online business relationships than being in partnerships or joint ventures with … [Read more...]

SEO Is Scary And Networking Takes Time: What Should A Blogger Do?

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This post is the continuation of Part 1, where I opened up the discussion on how scaring SEO is and how tiring and tedious networking is.

I also shared some tips on how to do networking without getting tired.

Before you start to read this post, I strongly suggest you to read the part 1 of this post:

SEO Is Scaring And Networking Takes Time

In this post let me continue my talk on how to face SEO without fear.

On to search engine optimization

This is scary stuff for most newbie bloggers and even established ones, as I said already. But if you want to build an online business you cannot be ignorant about … [Read more...]