Do Your Blog Make New Visitors Feel Welcome?

If you’ve been running your blog for a while, especially if you have a loyal following of long-term readers, it’s easy not to think much about new visitors.

But of course, if you want your blog to grow, you need to cater for newcomers. They need to feel welcome – not excluded by loads of in-jokes, or confused about what’s happening on your blog.

These four tips should help you strike a good balance, so that visitors are able to find their way around quickly, but long-term readers don’t feel like you’re constantly re-explaining the basics.

#1: Have an Up-to-Date About Page

Regular readers aren’t likely to visit your About page (unless, perhaps, they’re blogging about you and want some extra information). Newcomers, though, will often head there on their first visit.

Use Google’s Keyword Planner to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

There are a number of reasons why people start writing a blog. Some want to simply get their thoughts out to the world while others use blogs to earn money from things like referrals and Google AdWords.

No matter why someone writes a blog, they always want their work to be seen by as many people as possible. Increasing traffic to a blog is both an art and a science, and there are a number of tools like attractive web design that can help bloggers achieve this goal.

The most straightforward of these is to utilize Google’s Keyword Planner to target things that people are searching for and write in a way that optimizes specific words and phrases.

Every Business Owner Must Understand and Know SEO Myths

The larger part of SEO still remains a mystery among most people who venture online. In effort to shed some light to the SEO mysteries, a lot of myths have been brought about. Most of the myths aim at educating people on making the best use of SEO strategies. However, the information contained in the myths is not only untrue but misleading as well. This is because people tend to develop profound beliefs and take unnecessary caution even when there is no need for alarm.

It is important to be very cautions before believing in anything that people tell you with regard to SEO. It does not matter on how many people convince you on the existence of a certain SEO theory. A through scrutiny must be done before implementing any strategy instigated by people out there. 

You should understand that myths are developed so easily and have the capacity to spread in a remarkably short time. In fact, myths are very persuasive and can be believed easily. However, listening to myths and following them can bring forth very serious implications to your site and business. In this regard, you must understand and avoid SEO myths at all costs if positive achievements must be registered in your business.

Let’s have a crackdown on the five common myths that tend to dominate the minds of many online businesspersons: 

1.The More the Keywords the Higher the Ranking
The use of keywords for SEO has for long been abused. Majority of people who venture online have

Realistically Build A Popular Blog

It’s frustrating, isn’t it?

Knowing all of the things that you know and still not being able to take your blog to the next level. The level that’ll catapult you into “popular blogger” status.

I mean, isn’t that the goal that we all have – aside from making money?

Sure you know the things you thought you needed to know. Things like traffic tips. Both on and off page SEO. An enticing “bribe” to capture more readers. Sharing you content on social media platforms.

But regardless of doing these things for months … even years … you’re still not at that point you want to be. And you’re getting frustrated, aren’t you?

I’ll even bet that you’re probably thinking that those popular bloggers just want to keep the “secrets to become a popular blogger” all to themselves. That they don’t even want to share it. That if you’re lucky enough to become a popular blogger someday, you’re lucky enough to have stumbled across the secret.

But you know what?

Shame on you for thinking that way because the actual answer has been in front of you for your whole blogging life.

Listen, I’m no popular blogger but I do have and use common sense. But besides that, the one thing

How To Start A Blog, Optimize and Promote It ?

I always find interesting posts while browsing the web, and on this post I’ll share four quite useful pieces I found recently.

1. How to Start a Blog
If you are still planning your blog or website, this guide is for you. It goes into quite detail about the steps you need to take. For instance, they talk about choosing your topic, finding a domain name, getting web hosting and so on. Here’s a quotation:

Once you pick a topic and start to write posts, your job is not done. In order for your blog to be successful you need to have people reading your posts. You are going to need to spend some time becoming an authority and promoting your blog so that other people can find it.
You’ll want to begin building authority early on. Presenting yourself as an authority in your niche is essential to good SEO and traffic in general. When people consider you an authority, they’re more likely to keep coming back, to bookmark your site or subscribe to

Tools to Build A Website With No Technical Skills

A couple of years ago I run a survey to know more about my readers, and I was surprised to find that around 15% of them didn’t have a blog or website yet. They said they wanted to build one, but didn’t have any technical skills, so they were afraid to get web hosting, install WordPress and so on.

If you are in this situation, or if you know someone who is (e.g., a parent or a friend), there are tools one can use to build a website today that require no technical skill whatsoever. Below you’ll find 3 of them.

1. IM Creator

If you are looking for a complete website, with several pages and what not, then you can try IM Creator. It features a Drag & Drop editor you can use to build the elements of your web pages, and it also comes with templates ready to be used and customized. The basic plan is free, and you can use your own domain name, so visitors won’t even know what tool you used to create the website.

2. About.me

If you just need a website to showcase yourself (i.e., as a consultant or professional in some area),

Maximize the Advertising Earnings of Your Website

Advertising is by far the most popular monetization methods for blogs and websites. That is because running some ads on a site is both easy and efficient. It’s easy because you just need to copy and paste some code and you are set. It’s efficient because if you stick to the major advertising networks your earnings will be pretty decent.

Despite these advantages, I often hear bloggers and webmasters complaining that they are not making as much money as they would like with the ads on their sites. Sometimes this is a problem with the site itself. For instance, if the the number of monthly visiors is too low there is nothing one could do to boost the earnings. Many times, however, the site gets a decent amount of traffic, so the earnings are low because the advertising setup is not optimized.

If you are in this situation, below you’ll find 3 tips that will help to maximize your advertising earnings:

1. Experiment with in-text advertising

Most bloggers and website owners rely exclusively on AdSense or banner ads when it comes to advertising. One type of advertising that complements those quite well is in-text advertising. In-text

Steps for Securing the Evergreen Content for Your Blog

When trying to create a successful blog, and be a renowned blogger, you should work towards the goal of building a certain online image for yourself. The best approach is to find a topic you can blog about – something interesting, useful, omnipresent etc. in other words, evergreen content. Picking a topic, however, is only scratching the surface, and in order to ensure your achievements, you need to provide readers with sound advice, good content, proper grammar and sentence structure. Think about what you love and what can be useful to others at the same time, for example, keeping up with new software for certain devices, upcoming games of specific genre, fashion etc. Your goal should be to stick to your topic and do in-depth research for the sake of providing the readers with really informative content. Let us go over some of the techniques you can implement for securing the evergreen content for your blog.

Pick a Good Topic

If you are to find a topic that is truly evergreen, it needs to fulfill certain criteria, but once you manage to select the right one, it will become a solid basis of your blog. First of all, if the content is

Online Tools to Create Great Content

To boost your business brand and to draw more visitors to visit your site, you need to come up with effective marketing strategies. With almost all people today relying on the Internet to search for certain products or services and with almost everyone using searching engines to get the necessary information that they need, you need to come up with a solid content marketing campaign and there are essential tools that you can use to achieve your business objectives and goals.

Idea generating tools

1. Google Trends
To attract more readers to read your content, it has to be up to date and follows the trend. One of the best tools to use for this purpose is Google Trends. You can just type in the keywords in their search tool and from there; you can see the analytics like for instance you get to see the interest of online users over time, regional interests and even related searchers. What is nice with this tool is you can

SEO Secrets for Bloggers

High search engine rankings are something that every blogger craves for. Even in this world of social media, nothing can beat the quality of organic traffic. It is much targeted and the visitors have a definite requirement in mind, which makes it easy to convert such traffic.

That is why it is so important to optimize your blogs from a search engine perspective.

But wait!

There are around 200 factors controlling the search engine rankings in Google. Are you paying full attention to them?

I am sure that know about basic on-page SEO and linkbuilding. There are plenty of tools to help you in linkbuilding (I use Ahrefs regularly).

But is that all? Aren?t you missing out on a lot of other factors?

I think so.

In fact, there are plenty of factors that we overlook. While it is not possible to control all 200 factors, there are some that we are simply unaware of. As a result of this lack of knowledge, we

Trick to Grab Readers at the Start of Your Post and Engage Them at the End

Do you ever feel like you’re writing good posts but no-one’s reading them?

Maybe you’re coming up with powerful headlines. You’re making sure your posts are easy to follow. You’re writing in a friendly, conversational way.

But it just doesn’t seem to be working.

Even when you can see from Google Analytics that your posts are getting read, no-one’s sticking around to comment.

Some bloggers give up at this stage – which is a real shame. They might have a great topic, or a great writing style: they just need to pay more attention to the two most important parts of their posts.

The introduction and conclusion of a post are vital.

The introduction should grab readers’ attention and get them engaged from the very first sentence.

The conclusion should prompt them to do something – don’t just leave it to chance that they’ll do what you want after reading.

Where Bloggers Often Go Wrong (Are You Making These

Basic Content Types Your Blog Absolutely Needs

Research from Hubspot has shown that businesses that blog get 67% more leads, and are 13x more likely to enjoy positive ROI, than businesses that don’t blog.

It’s 2015, and it’s been established beyond disputation that blogging, effectively, will always yield positive ROI for businesses.

However, does that mean starting a blog will automatically fix your content strategy and yield a positive ROI? No.

Without the right strategy, your blogging efforts is just a time sink and another waste of time and/or money.

The type of content you publish on your blog is a core part of your blogging strategy, and a solid blogging strategy can’t do without the following three content types; each content type is accompanies with personal examples to demonstrate their effectiveness.

1. The “Resource” Article

The resource article is perhaps the best type of content for driving traffic and boosting your

Alternative Domain Extensions for Startups and Businesses

Domain .com is one of the most popular domains today. The name of this domain is derived from the word “commercial”, since its original purpose was for it to be used by commercial organizations. Eventually, its purpose has been changed and today also used by schools and private individuals as well. There are also many other domains that are quite popular today and are used instead of .com. Here are some of the mostly used alternative domains for bloggers and startups.

.co

.co domain is one of the most frequently used alternatives to .com. It is assigned to Colombia. This domain is recognized by Google as a global domain extension. The very popular and memorable name is an advantage of this domain. It is especially popular among tech startups, for example Vine

How Much Length for a Best Blog Post is Required

There is no arguing the point that the Internet runs on content and that quality copy is essential to success. There is, however, some debate over the perfect length of a blog post and how its word count influences its overall performance.

There will always be valid points to both sides, as the art of content marketing has more in common with consumer psychology than any exact science. That said, the purpose of this article is to address the ideal length of a blog post as relevant to the needs of professional bloggers.

Fortunately, solid research has been done to shed light on the topic and provide a deeper insight from which we’re now able to draw data-backed conclusions. First, let’s discuss the two extremes.

The Content Arms Race: Short vs. Long

For the sake of argument and for the remainder of this article, we’ll maintain that a short blog post refers to content with around 1,000 words or less and a long-form blog post refers to a piece

Tricks For Content Marketing Success

Everyone knows content marketing is where it’s at. Sure it takes a LOT more time and effort than other forms of traditional digital advertising, but it works! Its no secret that people tend to tune out the old school forms of advertising. So what makes content marketing work so well, and what tools and tips are needed to make it even more effective?

After spending a lot of time combing through many articles on content marketing—where new info is released daily—we decided to officially launch our own newsletter, Content Weekly. Take a minute to subscribe now and let us know what you think!

Here’s a few key tidbits we’ve picked up from mashing up several articles in our heads:

1. Document Your Strategy – Seems pretty basic, right? It’s hard to know what’s working well if you’re constantly shooting from the hip. Make sure your efforts support your business goals, which can vary based on your industry, otherwise it’s all just a waste of time.

2. Measure and Track ROI – Of course this is not always cut and dry. Content marketing is not

Tips for Blogging Growth

Blogging is competitive and if you are new to it, you might face a tough challenge. In order to create a fan base and gather an audience around your blog, you need to do something extra. An important fact is that blogging is not limited to writing only, but you have to be good at relationship building, content distribution, social account management and more.

This may be overwhelming, especially if you are a one man show, but like it or not this is the only way you are going to sustain a position in the market and with time you will obtain a great amount of traffic on your blog.

In this post today, I am going to discuss a few ideas that are important for new bloggers to consider as important. Number 1 is important, but it is not the only thing bloggers should focus on. All of these ideas should be marked in your to-do list as “High Priority.”

1. Relationship Building
Building relationships is as important as writing a quality piece on your blog and this is because without it you might not be able to promote your content and get the word out from others.

When I started a blog three years back, the first thing I did was build relationships within in the

Become More Productive While Blogging

Things are moving pretty fast these days. The Red Queen of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass nailed it: “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
If you want to move faster and get more things done on your work, here are 3 tips that might help you:
1. Consider Get a Virtual Assistant
Learning to delegate stuff is one of the best things you can do as an entrepreneur or business man. A virtual assistant can handle most of your trivial and daily tasks, such as answering to emails, scheduling meetings, and even more shopisticated stuff such as doing keyword research and tracking. If you are not sure where to get one, simply post the job description on Elance.com and I am sure you’ll get dozens of qualified applications.
2. Do Online Meetings When Possible
When you are signing or negotiating a big contract, meeting face to face with the other party might be

Why Your Blog Still Makes No Money?

Many Bloggers starts their blogging carrier with a hope that they will make an impressive money one day but after making much effort they are unable to make money from blog. If you fall into this category then the points described below may be useful to make money from your blog. So if you follow these steps then surely you will make money from your blog soon.

Your Content Sucks

It is the first and major point that are surely responsible to make money from blog. You can't make impressive money without having a genuine or quality articles that are strictly related to your blog keywords. The visitors reached on a blog mostly comes from a search engines that's why you have to make your content as such that it also like by search engines.

So before going thinking about money first concentrate the quality of your blog content.

How to Backup Blogger Blog and Templates

In this post, we will see how to backup Blogger blog and templates. The blog includes all your blog posts and the images. In the process of editing your blogger template, errors could occur, and with a backed up copy of your template, you can be rest assured of replacing it to its former state. Google with its strict rules has full control and also the right to delete your blog at any time without warning. Also, your account could get hacked in future by hackers who might decide to delete all your blog post or you when you mistakenly delete your post. The listed above are some of the reasons why you have to backup your Blogger blog and template for the unforeseen and by doing this, you can have the copy of your blog without all the efforts you've put in for months/years going down the drain.

 

How to Backup Blogger Template

•  From your blogger dashboard, navigate to 'template'.

How To Add Title Or Alt Tag In Images Easily

Optimize Images Easily In Blogger To Get Higher Rank

To get higher rank in Google search result the images withing your blog post should be properly customized that's why we had shared a article about this but some reader find difficulty in this article because you have to do it manually.

But recently blogger provides an option to easily optimize images by adding title or alt tag easily without going to HTML programming.

You can also make your link to index faster in Google by learning the autonomy of nofollow or dofollow attribute.

How To Add Title Or Alt Tag In Images Easily

All the steps are very simple just add an image in your blog post and then click on it, an option bar will shown.