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Choosing a Domain Name

BlogSavvy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:37:28 +0000

When it comes to choosing a domain name there are 100’s of different things to think about. Getting the right domain for you depends on your situation. For instance if it is a business you will most likely want a domain name with your business in it.

For those that are looking to develop some kind of service that does snot have a set name then often times you should find a domain that is brand able and easy to remember.

If you are an affiliate marketer like me then I have far more advice to offer. First I stay away from any domain with a number unless that number is part of your keyword you are targeting. I never purchase any domains with a dash in it. While you can get away with just having one I still would not go this route. The only extensions I consider are .com, .org, and .net. All others can work but from a marketing point of view other extensions are not as trusted or known to visitors.

Once you know the niche you are entering I like to build a list of keywords that I will be targeting, Use the free https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Tool. Build up a list of names and be sure to check to broad search volume. Identify a set of keywords that have a common keyword phrase. A keyword pharse is normally 2 – 3 keywords. For instance I just did a search on the following terms, data transfer, file transfer, transfer files. These are some great keyword phrases for me to promote Laplink software. So now I will use one of my favorite domain tools at http://www.domainsbot.com/. This is a 100% free to use tool and great to find domains that are not registered. I plugged in the above keyword phrases one at a time and found out that transferfiles.org is not taken. Now I can drill down on the transfer files keyword phrase and see if there are longer tail keyword phrases I can target. I just did this and there are 100’s of great phrases I can target that have the keyword transfer files in it. The domain is a keeper.

You will notice this is not hard at all and 100% free to do. I always use a domain name that has the main target keyword in it. This will give me a foot up over other domains and help me to rank higher a whole lot easier.

Post your questions and comments. If you use any other free tools or paid tools post them. If you have questions ask them.

Popular Affiliate Networks

BlogSavvy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:50:12 +0000

While many niche bloggers can go out and find their own affiliate programs from smaller companies often times many brand names are affiliated with an Affiliate Network. Here is a listing of some of the prominent affiliate networks out there.

When searching for a good product or service to promote, be sure to check all the networks. You may find that same company on a different network offering a slightly hire commission rate. This is often times because different networks have different fee structures. Also many affiliate network programs out there offer a bonus like OneNetworkDirect from Digital River.

Onto the list of Affiliate Networks:

Google Adsense/Double Click: Google is on of the main sources of income for many bloggers and affiliates. With the acquisition of Double Click you can find plenty of products and services to promote. The is one of the best and easiest ways to monetize your blog and to supplement your income.

Commission Junction (www.cj.com): This company is one of the oldest out there and you are sure to find many top brand names. I have had my differences with this company and in some situations felt treated un fare but in no means am I going to stop working with them. With many top Brand names programs you are sure to find a few products to promote.

Click Bank (www.clickbank.com): I do not promote too many CB products. These are all 100% digital products. Many e-book and software companies. They often have very generous payout structures because it is in a digital format. As many people know this is a great way to sell your own digital product and gain affiliates with out trying too hard. As stated earlier I do not promote many of their products. Most to seem to be junk programs and I can’t bring my self to recommend them. That’s not to say you can’t find some real GEMS.

Share A Sale: (www.shareasale.com) This is a network that everyone needs to be apart of. Like CJ you will find thousands of products and service that can fit your niche and needs.

Link Share: (www.linkshare.com): Many of the world’s top products are offered on this ad network. Just like many of the above you need to be apart of it.

One Network Direct: (www.onenetworkdirect.com) This is another software site. This is a Digital River company. You can check out Digital River over at www.digitalriver.com. I use One Network Direct for the vast majority of all my software sales. I have many reasons like the fact that they offer only top name products and are very willing to work with me. Another is the bonus structure. While 1-3% extra in bonus may not sound like a whole lot at the end of the quarter it’s another grand in my pocket.

I know we have not covered all affiliate programs out there. If you have a favorite you use all the time and love be sure to post it for others. I only listed some of the main ones.

Reporter vs Expert – Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting

BlogSavvy — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:33:45 +0000

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something – experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts – there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry – the Internet marketing industry – not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche – Internet marketing – and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things – email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it – making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) – your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion – your stories – and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

10 Blog Traffic Tips

BlogSavvy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:33:30 +0000

In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else”s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that”s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that”s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger”s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it”s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it”s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it”s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it”s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it”s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

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Yes. Jesus failed.

BlogSavvy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:33:37 +0000

Even Jesus was a Failure too!

Jesus was a Failure too! I don’t want to get into a pissing match with you about the fact that you think that Jesus was perfect, but in fact he was not, now don’t get me wrong, i don’t believe he ever committed a sin, but I have to believe he made mistakes.

This should make you at least feel better about your own life, if you are emulating Jesus. This might come to you as a surprise but I will allow you to process the information below.

Think for a minute, Jesus was a carpenter, now I am willing to stake my entire existence on the fact that while Jesus was perfect in the site of God, he still failed as a carpenter.

You are a Failure too!

Have you ever experimented with power tools? I have and the old adage of “measure twice, cut once” has yet to be a fool proof way for me to make a perfect cut. Typically I have to take multiple cuts to get the board the right length, and I have a Bosch 18” radial arm miter saw with a Laser line to make sure that you cut it in the right spot. Home Depot loves me for this, not only did I buy the saw there, but typically when I’m doing a project I make at least 3- 5 trips that day, all because i either forgot something or i failed and doing it right and need more materials.

Now to my point, when Jesus lived they didn’t have power tools, everything was made by hand. Therefore it leads me to believe, while I can’t prove it, that Jesus cut a few boards the wrong length, they were either too short or too long from time to time and so while you look at Him as a perfect being, He was in fact a failure at his profession.

However the thing that made him a perfect teacher was that He knew that Failure was part of the learning process, so He happily Failed, He would say to himself (I’m totally making this up) “So what if I cut the board the wrong length, or so what if I chiseled it down too far, I’ll get it right the next time, because there will be a next time. I’m not going to let a little mistake from allowing me to get it right.”

“What the hell does this have to do with making your BlogSavvy?”

The main difference between people who are successful and YOU, is they didn’t give up when they made a few or a ton of mistakes. If Your like 90% of the people in this world, you simply have a bad habit of giving up after a few times of Failure, but that’s the secret, here it is, you are supposed to fail, SO now you know it do something about it, if you publish a post with spelling errors make a point not to do that again, if you aren’t very good at affiliate marketing, then learn how to do it better, learn how to get a better conversion rate. My point is blogging is hard, and while there are those that succeed, we have faild over and over, and it only looks like we don’t fail as much, simply because we already have done what you are now starting to do.

Is Twitter the next BIG thing?

BlogSavvy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:22:09 +0000

Is it the next big thing?

Yesterday a friend introduced me to twitter , and while I thoroughly enjoyed myself, It was nice to get out the randomness of life, and while no one is following me yet, I wondered just how important Twitter is going to become. I have my twitter account linked with BlogSavvy and haven’t decided if i want it to appear on the blog yet. I would also like to see just how many followers I can get in the next 3 days. Out of all the followers I will randomly pick one and send them $10 via PayPal. Obviously the lower the number the better your chances, but it’s not going to count if i don’t get at least 20.

How big is Twitter going to get?

Wikipedia, reports that as of July 2008, there are 2,200,000 registered Twitter users. Wow that shows the grow to be fart faster than even viral, in little over 2 years the company has grown to 2M users. Twitter will likely be acquired in the near future by, yep you guessed it, Google or someone trying to be like Google. The key here is how does someone monetize the service, i don’t want to get a bunch of SMS ads, I can see the potential for bloggers to implement it into their blogs, as i have. Which i think is a good way to make the blog more “followable”, which in turn would drive up the traffic to the blog site, which in return would generate more money from advertising on the blog.

So far I’m a Twitter fan! I always have random thoughts and Twitter allows me to get those out!

Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogsavvy

Drive By Commenting

BlogSavvy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:31:30 +0000

Nice Shot?

Really Nice Shot, If you were trying to NOT hit the target then you are the best I’ve ever seen. If you were trying to hit the target then. YOU SUCK!. The problem is if I asked Blogger’s what their Target is most won’t be able to come up with anything specific other than: “lot’s of traffic”. But what exactly does that mean.

Traffic

There are 3 types of blog traffic Direct, Referral and Search Engine Traffic.

Direct Traffic

Direct traffic is from someone, anyone typing in your web address into their browser and coming directly to your site, this also counts for those who have your site stored in the Bookmarks part of their browser. This traffic is specific to you, these are you everyday readers, they come to your site “often” to check out what’s new and to catchup on what has been happening.

Referral Traffic

Referral Traffic, comes from many sources, but the most common is any link on another site to your site. There are multiple ways of getting referral traffic and that will be discussed in length in a follow up post, but for now, know that it could come from a comment you left that intrigued a reader, they liked it they clicked on your name in the comments, if you remembered to add the URL to your name so they could jump directly to your site. They could have come from a link, such as a blogger mentioned you, and but a link to your site within a post, simply put, Referral Traffic comes from other bloggers or websites.

Search Engine Traffic

This ones a little more difficult to explain, let’s use an example: you go to Google and type in “Blog consultant” you then choose a site based upon the information given, most of the time the user is going to select out of the top 4-6 links, depending upon relevance. Then the user comes to your site, they are looking for the specific search term they entered into the search engine. If they find it right away they check it out, if they don’t they “bounce”.

What kind of traffic are you aiming for?

That is the problem,most bloggers are simply aiming for one type of traffic, referral, and while this is a good source for the short term if you don’t convert them into regular readers all of the work and effort has been wasted.

Check out this post if you liked this one

Blog for Bloggings sake.

BlogSavvy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:05:34 +0000

Why do you blog?

It’s a simple question yet for so many the answer is simple, MONEY, the problem is two fold, who in the hell are YOU and Who in the hell are you? While the two questions might look the same they are in fact very different, I’ll explain.

Who in the hell are YOU?

The fact remains that if you are trying to teach someone to swim, you yourself in fact had better know how to swim. This is the main reason why those who are blogging about making money and yet have very little experience fail at it. It also contributes to the fact that there are multiple blogs set up almost every second, and within a short period of time, possibly today even, they will all be DEAD. Why the simply fact is that with anything, if you aren’t in it for the LONG haul you aren’t really in it.

Case in point,

if you had read a book about swimming and found out that people in your town were willing to pay $25 buck to learn how to swim, you would run right out there and set up a “Learn to Swim” site and try and direct the local towns people to it, you could have a ton of pictures, a ton of useful information, even a diagram of what you should do to swim, where you should put your hands, and how to kick etc, etc.

The main problem

YOU HAVE NEVER SWAM BEFORE.

I didn’t really want to shout it at you, but some of you really don’t listen that well. The fact is that if your website is about making money online and you have never made more than $5000 online who the HELL are YOU to be telling me or your readers how to do it! That’s why most blogs don’t make much money, they are not a creditable source for information, they are simply wondering who you are.

WHO in the Hell are you?

You asking yourself what is the main difference between the two questions? Is transparency. If you are someone who never has made more than $5000 online, then tell people that, make it apparent, let them know that you are only 5 days ahead of them and that you can at least guide them through the first 5 days, and if you stick within you might always be 5 days ahead. This kind of attitude exudes the fact that while you are new, you still have something to offer, it might not be the neatest and greatest, but it is of value.

No how do you keep them, tell the truth, let your readers know who you are, the fact is that every Make Money Online blogger started out with a little more or less than you did as to knowledge about making money online, the key is that some started years ago. They make money from other avenues online and simply blog about it to let you know that they have been there and done that, the same as you would to those beginning.

Create a Brand

This is the content for another post I’m writing, but wanted to share it here.

If you look at developing a BRAND, you will in essence create inherent value within that brand, and therby anyone associated within gains a sense of this value, they reap the rewards of it. There is only selfishness in wanting your blog to make money before you truely have something to offer the advertisiers. Get Real.

So Who in the HELL are You?

Multi user blog tools – overall ratings and reviews

BlogSavvy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:00:50 +0000

These are the final ratings of a broader review of the multi-user blogging solutions Drupal, Elgg, Manila, Movable Type, WordPress MultiUser and pLog. These particular applications were selected for review due to the authors familiarity with them, their php / MySQL configuration and… time limitations. If you would like to suggest another particular product and offer a comparison between it and these here, please do so in the comments.

Drupal is an excellent content management system or focussed community management application that doesn’t really cut the mustard when it comes to providing multiple blogs. Technically perfect but is limited by a focus on the group rather than the individual. Worth a look as this might be what you’re after. Read the complete review.

Elgg is perhaps the most promising open source social networking application out there. Founded on a blogging principle and incorporating many more community and networking tools, it’s well worth a look and will be even more so by the time it hits 1.0. Read the complete review.

Manila has been ahead of the crowd for a long long time now. Problem is that it hasn’t moved much itself in that time and while the concept is brilliant, the execution is less so. Everyone should experience it, am not sure how much you’ll gain through using it though. Read the complete review.

Movable Type has a well deserved reputation as one of the best blogging tools available. Add to this corporate support and you’ll probably be happy you went down this route. However, with less momentum than it’s competitors, significant costs in starting up and a famously tricky technical composition it might pay off to take the small risk on an open source solution. Read the complete review.

WordPress Multi User (WPMU) is beginning to establish itself as the standard in multi user blogging. While many projects might prefer a more stable or community based solution for pure blogging with strong open source credentials and an exciting future ahead this may be the answer you’re looking for. Read the complete Review.

LifeType (formally pLog) is a clear, simple and effective open source multi user blogging tool. With an established community and stable build this should be in consideration whatever application of blogs you are considering. Read the complete review.

7 ways to avoid Blogging Failure

BlogSavvy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:06:41 +0000

Really you don’t have to be a Blogging Failure

1. Use spell checker

While this sounds like child’s play, many fail to use it and therefore there posts look unprofessional. Use it and even if you get a few words wrong if the content is great the readers will forgive you, as most likely they will learn more about you, so don’t be shy letting them know English is not your first language. Give it some time, and read up on some grammar books and within no time you won’t have a problem.

2. Become Regular

Whether it’s once a month or once an hour, you simply need to develop a schedule for posting or adding new content to your blog. While many have shown that it doesn’t need to be everyday, you can rest assured that the more frequent the updating the better you readers will enjoy you blog. With that said, if you take the time to develop a once a week post, and you do it regularly your reader will become accustom to it and you could develop a successful blog that way.

3. Develop a Name for yourself?

The biggest single most important factor for breaking out of the crowd is to develop a name for your self, and by Branding yourself and your site you will create not only a recognizable logo but you could become famous as well. Take Carl Ocab, he is famous for what??? He is the original make money with a 13 year old blogger. He has developed a brand as a great place to learn how to make money, and you get the feeling that if this 13 year old kid can do it: you can too. BlogSavvy used UniqueBlogDesigns to design the new site, and it does accomplish the brand!

4. Write for Readers

While you are trying to get as many hits as possible you are really trying to get as many readers as possible. The readers are what truly matters, search engine traffic is limited at best, as most just “Bounce”. If you write for your readers they will become more loyal and will return more often, and readers like to share who they read and like, that will drive more quality traffic, anyway.

5. Always give Link Love

If you hope to play in the global internet sandbox you will need to learn that links are like Golden Tickets, while they might seem like they are insignificant they have intrinsic value. Not only is a mention valuable it is also appreciated. This helps your ranking with search engines, Alexa, Technorati etc, etc. Plus if you do happen to read someone else’s work and want to expound on it, you Always give credit to the original author, by mentioning them in your post and giving them a link back. You would want the same if you wrote a great article and then the entire web took it as their own and didn’t give you credit for it,

6. “DO” marketing

Create a Budget for marketing, if you have no money then create a budget for your time, go out post on others sites, comment, submit to directories’, the simple fact is to DO something, every day, or every week, but to have a plan. It can be simple at first, and as the site grows and as you generate money you can pump that back into the site to create even more.

7. Commit

Obviously… its easier said than done, but the fact remains, if you want to do something you have to be committed to it or at the first sign of trouble you will give up. Being committed to blogging simply means that you will do it whether or not you make any money at it or not. It is a sense of why, more then When, if you are asking your self why do I blog instead of when am I going to be rich, you aren’t committed, on the other hand if you are committed to making $5000 per month from blogging wouldn’t you keep blogging until you have hit your goal? Stay committed.

Check out the 7 Reasons you are going to fail at Blogging over at CarlOcab.com.