8 Simple Rules For - Successful Blogging!

Written By M. Jones

They are in order of importance, 1 being the most important.

1. - - –Create good content to act as what everyone has been calling ‘linkbait’. This can be done a number of ways:

a) By saying something controversial. This can only be ‘used’ a few times as it gets old after a while. This is a way of grabbing the attention you deserve and is especially effective if it is the Title of the post. Of course the main content must stand up to the expectations that the controversial title brings.

b) Say something Useful. Your readers are human beings and they want to experience pleasure, be it through reading an entertaining/controversial article, or by learning a valuable lesson. You can think of learning is an investment in future pleasure. I.E. preparation. If your content is so useful that they cannot stop themselves using it then you have succeeded. They may reciprocate with an encouraging comment, a digg/vote or maybe even a link back if they refer to your article.

Top 10 Blog Writing Tips

Most of the “rules” about writing for ezines and newsletters apply to writing posts for your blog, but there are some important differences. Keep these 10 tips in mind and you’ll be publishing great blog content that attracts prospects and clients in your niche market.

1. Write with the reader in mind. Remember WIIFM? It’s marketing jargon for What’s In It For Me? That’s what you should be keeping in mind. Your reader will read your post looking for what’s in it for them.

2. Make it valuable and worthwhile. Don’t waste people’s time. If you don’t have anything to say, no problem, plenty other people do. So share their articles, do an interview, review a book.

3. Proof-read for typos and glaring grammatical errors. You wouldn’t go out of the house with dirty hair or missing a sock, so why would you publish spelling mistakes? Respect your readers by polishing up your stuff.

4. Keep it short and simple, sweetie. (KISS). Most people are scanners. You may have a lot to say and think it interesting, and it may be. But people are reading online and out of time. Get to the point quickly. Publishing short posts more frequently is a better format than publishing lengthy articles every few weeks.

Do not Make Your Website / Blog stuffy

Blogs have now become one to communicate and exchange ideas most effectively, and also one of the tools of the most effective online business. God knows how many online businesses are using blogs as a powerful weapon to start and grow their business.

But did you know that a lot of blogs that do not produce the optimal profit because of the design. And one reason is because too many widgets you can add to your blog.

Yes, the widget, it's one of the causes of the problem! Of course you know what that widget, right?

If you do not know, widgets are complementary accessories blog. Starting from the clock (the clock), animated funny, affiliate banners and many others.

10 Ways to Increase Your Blog Visitors

If you want to succeed in business on the internet, one of the conditions is to have a website or blog that has a lot of visitors (high traffic). With the number of visitor traffic, your chances for success even greater.

By having an abundant visitor, you can get more sales. By having an abundance of visitors, you can offer a more expensive ad spots than the sites or blogs that had low traffic.

5 Ways to Make Blog "Money Machine"

Blogs are now widely used by various people including me, usually those who use it have some reason, maybe for promotion, vent, or just have fun.
But besides that it might have occurred to a question at the head of all my friends about whether the blog could make money? And if you can, how to make money from blogs?
And the answer is: the blog is very able to be used as a "money machine". For myself, the blog is one of the most important online business tools I have.