Branding Your Blog For Success – Part 1

Whether you want it to or not, your blog will develop a specific brand.  The question remains as to whether you want to effect how that brand develops or let it happen by itself. If becoming successful online is your goal, then you're going to want to help guide that brand in the direction you want it to become. Some bloggers don't work at developing their brand and in return they are left with a brand they don't want, and often one that i...

In the article I wrote 2 days ago for our series "Building A More Successful Blog in 30 Days," I gave you some tips on how to increase your RSS subscribers. Increasing your subscribers is great, especially to give people reason to advertise on your blog, but RSS feeds are limited on how you can monetize them. And while most of your successful monetization comes from within the post itself, there is usually some good money to be made with th...

We're officially over half-way now in our series "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days."  And day 16 brings you some tips on strengthening the community you're building around your blog. Strengthening your blog community builds both trust and a relationship with your readers that will keep them coming back over and over again. The most important part of successfully building a strong community is to show your readers that you care. ...

One of the biggest goals for any blogger interested in being successful is to increase their RSS subscribers.  When blogging it looks better when you can say "I have 1,000 RSS subscribers," rather than saying, "I have 1,000 daily visitors to my blog." This is because RSS subscribers show others that your content is good enough to keep coming back.  Just because you may have 1,000 daily visitors, it doesn't mean your blog is worth much. Ma...

In yesterday's post for the series "Building A Better Blog In 30 Days", I showed you how hosting a giveaway or contest on your blog would increase your traffic.  So it's only fitting that today I explain in more detail on how to effectively run a blog giveaway. There is actually more to running a successful giveaway than sticking a great product on your blog and telling others to comment. At least until you're very well established among the ...

For those of you following my blog, you'll know that before I took a break from this blog due to being laid off, I was in the middle of a series called, "Building A More Sucessful Blog In 30 Days."  We have completed 12 days, and now on day 13, I'd like to share with you some results of an experiment I did while not posting. For today's series we focus on building traffic with giveaways & contests. Results Revealed During my absence I w...

Landing pages are a great way to help convert visitors to customers because they focus on one particular product and really go into detail about how that product can help the customer, rather than spreading the visitor's attention amongst several different offers, ultimately causing them to not purchase anything at all. Let's say you've created a landing page and now you’re getting good click-through rates on your PPC (pay per click) advert...

Everybody’s been talking about Twitter.  You can’t get through a newscast these days without someone mentioning Twitter or Tweets.  Barack Obama tweets.  But what exactly is this new social marketing tool, and how can you use it to grow your business? Twitter is like a blog on a microscopic scale; instead of writing whole posts and your mailing list being notified when a new post goes up, a tweet (what a Twitter post is called) ca...

When you're writing blog posts, you obviously aren't writing in search for negative comments.  At least most people aren't.  But on occasion you will get them.  The bigger you get, the more you'll see.  But negative comments don't have to be negative. Negative comments can actually be great for you blog. Remember: You can't please all of the people all the time. Here's how to handle all of those negative comments: Negative Comments ...

If you ever sit down to talk with successful bloggers, you'll find that they all have pretty close to the same schedule, the same method of writing, the same habits, and so much more. You could almost view successful bloggers as twins, or clones, of each other.  I'm not saying they copy each other, but there are many similarities.  It's not intentional for them to be like each other.  They simply know what it takes to be successful and do i...

Have you ever read a blog that was updated every single day, if not more than once each day, and thought, "How in the world do they always have something to write about?" The secret?  You have to be a good writer and always have a resource list of ideas. The ideas are the easy part.  You can get those from watching television, reading other blogs in your niche, and so many other places. But being a good writer isn't always so easy.  M...

There are many ways to build traffic to your blog, but none better than commenting on other blogs in your niche.  By commenting on other blogs, you are showing them that they are important enough for you to take precious time out of your day to stop by and read what they've got to say. Not only does this get the blog owner's attention, but it gets the attention of the blog's readers as well. By commenting, you are helping to build a commun...