Blogging
Replying To Blog Comments – Do You Do It?
When somebody comments on your blog, do you make a point to reply to it?
There are two sides to this coin, and my thoughts on the matter have adjusted somewhat. In fact, long-time readers of this blog may recall a video I made where I jumped into a debate started on somebody else’s blog complaining that many pro bloggers don’t reply to their own comments. At the time, I argued that replying to every comment could actually hurt your blogging.
Today, I’m going to modify my position. Because, it has changed.
How to Outsource Your Online Content Creation, But STILL Keep Control of It!
Blogging, writing and creating content can be a great way to get your point across, help people, promote yourself, build a business and lots of other things.
I don’t know about you guys, but when I was at college I used to write a lot. I was always working on some short story, or the odd essay for school. I was, and still am a big reader – averaging at least one book (normally business focused) a week. (I’ve recently gone back to purchasing ‘real’ books, and not downloading them on Kindle. I just miss the feeling of holding and smelling a ‘real’ book – does anyone resonate with me on that?).
Anyway, I digress…
Why Do You Blog? [Reader Poll]
Simple question: Why do you blog? To help people? To make money? Promote a business? For your own personal enjoyment? To vent? What was it that originally inspired you to start blogging? And, I have a followup… IF making money from it is a goal of your’s, did that goal come later? Has that goal [...]
How To Unleash the True Power of Blog Commenting
This is a guest post by David Murton.
Blog posts are rapidly becoming more like forum threads, in which an original poster offers an idea or a question and interested readers respond. As a blog or website owner, you can take advantage of this paradigm shift by actively commenting on blogs within your niche. As more individuals obtain broadband connections, the audience for blogs (and their potential traffic levels) increases. A successful blog commenting campaign can increase traffic levels for your site and cause other site owners to view your site as an authoritative source.
Is Blogging Broken? Is The Future of Blogging Paid Access?
Something is going on. It might be happening slowly, but I think it might be happening nonetheless.
… And I’m aware that this topic might potentially be upsetting to some people who love to see everything be free, or who believe in the power of giving and community (as I do).
It needs to be addressed, however. I like to think I’m smart enough to be looking forward on things and think outside the box. And, with today’s post, I’m going to go outside the box for a bit. In reality, I’m not alone in this line of thought.
Is Blogging Right For You?
Most of the people who read my blog and blogs like it are interested in making money from blogging.
Actually, if we just cut to the chase, they’re just interested in making money online. If blogging happens to be the way to do it, then so be it. Right?
The problem is that I think too many people are following this gig with the wrong expectations.
What The Blog Statistics You Track Say About You…
It has been said before in other circles:
You can’t control what you don’t measure.
This statement is true. It means that if you don’t track something and keep tabs on it, you are not in control of it.
Many people tend to think a statement like this is primarily relevant to executives and people who run a company. However, that is limited thinking. The truth is that this statement is relevant to everybody. To you.
And I’ll take it a step further…
5 Tips to Avoid “Blogging Burnout” and Take Care of Business
This is a guest post by Chris Ducker.
I always say I am a businessman first, and a blogger second. Even though I take my blogging seriously, focusing on putting out the best content I absolutely can on my chosen niche of virtual and mobile entrepreneurship, it is not my focus in my day-to-day routine.
However, I am smart enough to know that by blogging I can definitely attribute a certain amount of new business that has come to my offline companies, from my online activities from last year, as I worked my way up from complete blogging virgin to attending BlogWorld and interviewing tons of great bloggers (including our Blogging-God-of-a-Host, David!) and building a pretty popular blog of my own.
This year, with the small amount of success that I experienced blogging last year, I decided that I was going to ramp it up a little and announced that I was going to attempt to post daily, Monday-Friday.
That plan lasted all of 12 days.
7 Colossal Mistakes Bloggers Make – And It Is KILLING Them
I just recently finished recording about 20 video blog evaluations for people (a bonus offer I had put out there that I was following through on). All in all, it took me probably close to 5 hours to record all of these videos. And, after doing so, I noticed something.
I’m seeing a LOT of the same mistakes being made over and over again.
This isn’t to say that there is only a single way to do things. Surely, there are probably people who would look at this very blog and disagree with some things (and that’s fine). But, my experience in this business speaks for something. Simply put, if you want to build traffic, keep traffic, and make money with a blog – there are certain things you want to not do.
So, after all of these reviews, I want to lay out what I believe are the most common mistakes – in no particular order.
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