Blog Marketing

How To Be An Un-Annoying Blogger (You Don’t Have To Please Everyone)

There's this thing about cooking for the family. It's one of the most confusing tasks that I handle every day.

Whenever I cast this question, "What shall I make for dinner (or breakfast or lunch)?" I always get different answers from the members of my family.

No, don't think that my family is too big. Its just the four of us - Me, my hubby, my son and my hubby's cousin.

Between the four of us, it is really so hard (and its getting harder every day) to fix a dish for dinner.

And there you go - think about your blog! You have hundreds or thousands of readers.

You think you can please all of them? No, don't even think about it!

You can never please all of your readers. The more you try, the more time you waste - it is that simple. And I am totally against that … [Read more...]

3 Sneaky Ways To Convert Casual Readers To Loyal Readers

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Driving traffic to your blog and making those people to read your content is one side of the story. That is a BIG side of the story, indeed!

Traffic generation is one of the all-time challenging tasks to any blogger/internet marketer – just like losing weight lol.

Anyway, even if you manage to drive traffic (I mean lots of traffic) to your website/blog, it is not an easy thing to retain that traffic.

You not only need new visitors for your blog, but repeat visitors or loyal visitors.

Both new visitors and loyal visitors are equally important.

And if you manage to convert every new visitor into a loyal visitor (and hence a potential lead and then a customer) how would you feel?

In my honest opinion, one of the most vital keys to building a successful business through your … [Read more...]

How Can You Find Blog Readers Without A Huge List Of Subscribers

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What you write got its purpose served only if there is someone read it

I am pretty sure most of you want to have a flock of visitors to come to your blog and read, comment, share posts or even buy something from your blog. In short, we all need traffic.

At the initial stages of blogging (whatever your blog niche is) I believe optimism, motivation and enthusiasm will be on top of everything in your mind.

Frankly speaking, as time goes by, those spirits can gradually fade out. One of the main reasons to get demotivated is that you don't get the … [Read more...]

Local SEO: Google Places More Important Than Ever

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With the world going more and more global, over the last two years we have also witnessed web searches getting more and more local. And its not an exaggeration to say that Google Places has dramatically changed the way that local businesses deal with search engine marketing. Local SEO has become the latest 'hot niche' for location based businesses.

According to Google’s statistics, 20% of all searches contain local terms and keywords with 97% of consumers searching for local products and services online. And that figure is continuously growing, especially with the increasing number of smartphone owners.

Despite being a free service and being around since 2010, many businesses either find Google Places too complicated and do not quite get it, therefore do not really use it; which is a shame, as these companies could be missing out on 20% of their potential customers, according to … [Read more...]

Is Writing Sabotaging Your Social Media?

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You're on Facebook, Twitter, and now you're on Pinterest, too.

You tweet, share, like, +1, and more, until your clicking finger starts to feel numb.

Why?

Because you want to connect. You want to engage. You want to interact. You want people to come back to your blog, and actually read your stuff!

Except that usually, they aren't. And when they do, they don't stay, or come back.

Does this sound familiar?

If it does, it might just be a problem with your … [Read more...]

How to Perform Easy YouTube Video Optimization

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YouTube, the most popular video sharing website, is by far the 2nd largest search engine right after Google. Well, some might know about this fact, although others just don't. Statistics have it that YouTube receives around 2 billion pageviews a day coming from people all over the world.

Talking about this popular search engine for videos, the concept of video marketing may just come into your mind. Since a lot of people search for some helpful information by way of watching videos and clips, it is a good thing to take into account video marketing as well as the means to promote it to the highest possible way.

But wait! Before you create your video and submit it to YouTube, it is best to find out first what are the most essential YouTube video optimization practices you should … [Read more...]

8 Simple Ways To Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic

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Do you care about building audience? Of course.. Yes !! No one ever starts a blog thinking “I don’t care if anyone ever reads it; I am going to write it anyway”.

Blogging isn’t just about traffic or making few hundred dollars (at least not for me). It is all about networking, building relationship and trust with your blog readers.

In this post I will 8 marketing strategies that you can use to drive traffic to your blog.

1. Guest posting

Do you know how Danny Iny, Onibalusi Bamidele, Kristi Hines and other A List bloggers got where they are today? They all did a lot of guest posting, guest posting and guest posting. It is not just about getting traffic or links. It is about building relationship/ connections with the other bloggers.

Onibalusi is a great example of what guest blogging can do for you. I think he won’t be able to get where he is today … [Read more...]

Come On! Think Beyond Facebook and Twitter to Promote Your Articles

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We are living in the world of marketing. Any product or service can be sold easily, if marketed properly. This concept is applicable in the blogosphere as well.

Gone are the days when a blog with great content gets huge traffic. The competition is huge now-a-days as each and every day new bloggers are coming up with something new and catchy. Thus bloggers must concentrate on writing unique and interesting content as well as on promoting their articles.

It is not that bloggers do not promote their articles. However most of them concentrate on just Facebook and Twitter. It’s not a bad idea as these are the two most active social networks in the world. Bloggers have been successful in marketing their articles on these sites. Facebook has almost 800 million users while Twitter has 300 million … [Read more...]