1. Posting regularly
You need to post to your blog regularly. This is what attracts the search engines to visit your blog for more content.
If they visit and index your blog every day, your new blog posts will appear in the search engines on the very same day you made your post. No need to wait for the standard one week to get content indexed in the search engines.
With regular updated content, visitors are more likely to bookmark your blog and return to see what new information you have.
Note that if a visitor reads your blog for the first time and sees that the last update was made several months ago, they wouldn’t want to read your content.
Readers like to see blogs which are regularly updated. They want to read new information.
Try to blog once a day for the first 2 weeks to get the search engines regularly visiting your blog.
2. Know Your Objective
With every post you create, there must be an objective behind it. So before you begin to write, ask yourself what do you want the readers to do or know about.
For example, if you’re reviewing a product you’re an affiliate of, make sure that at the end of the review you tell the readers what they should do.
Normally it is to purchase the product using your affiliate link or visit the merchant’s page for more details.
If you want your readers to sign up to your newsletter, then make sure that your whole post focuses on getting them to opt in to your newsletter.
3. Be entertaining
With all your posts, you need to be entertaining. This is what people are looking for. To learn and to be entertained.
You need to post to your blog regularly. This is what attracts the search engines to visit your blog for more content.
If they visit and index your blog every day, your new blog posts will appear in the search engines on the very same day you made your post. No need to wait for the standard one week to get content indexed in the search engines.
With regular updated content, visitors are more likely to bookmark your blog and return to see what new information you have.
Note that if a visitor reads your blog for the first time and sees that the last update was made several months ago, they wouldn’t want to read your content.
Readers like to see blogs which are regularly updated. They want to read new information.
Try to blog once a day for the first 2 weeks to get the search engines regularly visiting your blog.
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2. Know Your Objective
With every post you create, there must be an objective behind it. So before you begin to write, ask yourself what do you want the readers to do or know about.
For example, if you’re reviewing a product you’re an affiliate of, make sure that at the end of the review you tell the readers what they should do.
Normally it is to purchase the product using your affiliate link or visit the merchant’s page for more details.
If you want your readers to sign up to your newsletter, then make sure that your whole post focuses on getting them to opt in to your newsletter.
3. Be entertaining
With all your posts, you need to be entertaining. This is what people are looking for. To learn and to be entertained.
Always try to make your posts interesting. Put YouTube videos on them and write in a conversational way. You do this by writing as if you are writing to one person.
Use words that you would use when you talk to a friend. Tell them a joke and about your views. Always have entertainment in mind. Being boring is a sure way to kill traffic no matter how often you post.
4. Replying to Comments
When you have readers commenting on your posts, DO NOT ignore them. Give a polite and detailed reply if possible. This will motivate your readers to comment more.
It makes them feel you’re actively monitoring the blog and care about what they have to say. The more you interact with them, the more they will comment on your blog and tell others about it.
Use words that you would use when you talk to a friend. Tell them a joke and about your views. Always have entertainment in mind. Being boring is a sure way to kill traffic no matter how often you post.
4. Replying to Comments
When you have readers commenting on your posts, DO NOT ignore them. Give a polite and detailed reply if possible. This will motivate your readers to comment more.
It makes them feel you’re actively monitoring the blog and care about what they have to say. The more you interact with them, the more they will comment on your blog and tell others about it.
How To Make Money
After several weeks of blogging you should be receiving steady traffic from regular visitors.
Make sure that you tell the world about your blog such as in forums, in your email signature and in blog communities such as http://www.mybloglog.com
Once you have the traffic, you then can start to make money. Here are 7 ways on how you can make money with your blog.
1. Placing Adsense
Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways to make money with a blog. You can sign up for a Google Adsense account at https://www.google.com/adsense
Adsense are advertisements which Google will automatically show on your blog based on the content.
So if your blog is about cell phones, Google will then display cell phone ads on your blog.
You can change the appearance of the Adsense to fit with your blog’s design. For example if your blog has a red background with black text, you can make the borders of the Adsense red and the text black.
The key is to blend the Adsense to your blog so that it doesn’t look too much like an advertisement.
Adsense is easy to make money with because you get paid when your readers click on the ads. You get paid per click.
However the amount you receive is not significant. You will only get a few cents or a dollar depending on what keywords you focused on.
The more traffic you get, the more money you will have. Some people have played this Adsense game very well and are making several thousands per week. This is well above average though.
To get that amount of pay, you need to have a lot of traffic.
After several weeks of blogging you should be receiving steady traffic from regular visitors.
Make sure that you tell the world about your blog such as in forums, in your email signature and in blog communities such as http://www.mybloglog.com
Once you have the traffic, you then can start to make money. Here are 7 ways on how you can make money with your blog.
1. Placing Adsense
Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways to make money with a blog. You can sign up for a Google Adsense account at https://www.google.com/adsense
Adsense are advertisements which Google will automatically show on your blog based on the content.
So if your blog is about cell phones, Google will then display cell phone ads on your blog.
You can change the appearance of the Adsense to fit with your blog’s design. For example if your blog has a red background with black text, you can make the borders of the Adsense red and the text black.
The key is to blend the Adsense to your blog so that it doesn’t look too much like an advertisement.
Adsense is easy to make money with because you get paid when your readers click on the ads. You get paid per click.
However the amount you receive is not significant. You will only get a few cents or a dollar depending on what keywords you focused on.
The more traffic you get, the more money you will have. Some people have played this Adsense game very well and are making several thousands per week. This is well above average though.
To get that amount of pay, you need to have a lot of traffic.
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