7 Days to Better Blogging

By: Madeline Crogan

Blogging has become a popular way to make a bit of money and make yourself known as an authority in your particular niche. But too many bloggers think they can just put up any old site, write a couple of posts, and watch the money come rolling in. This is hardly the case for most people.

If you want to really make money with your blog, it needs to be organized and well-written. Do you need a few tips on how to make your blog better? Read on to find out how you can have a better blog in just 7 days.

Day 1: Get Organized. Buy a notebook that you can keep handy to jot down possible topic ideas as they come to you. Start a folder on your computer that’s dedicated to your blog writing. You may even want to create special bookmark folders in your internet browser for various websites that can help you (e.g. one for sites about blogging, one for other blogs in your topic, one for research related to your topic, etc.)

Day 2: Think about your readers. Who is reading your blog? Men or women? What age? Where are they from? These factors should all affect the style of your blog and your writing. For example, certain people may be put off by an informal writing style, while others may be put off by a professional style. If you know your audience you can cater to them. Also, think about what types of things these people need and what type of information they don’t have. Knowing this can help you come up with topics to write about or affiliate programs that you should think about promoting. Make sure you’re writing all of this down either in a notebook or in a file on your computer. You don’t want to lose your notes.

Day 3: Find similar bloggers. Spend about an hour looking for other blogs that are in the same niche as yours. Pay attention to what sort of style they use. What are you going to do to make your blog stand out? Can you create a niche-within-a-niche? Bookmark all of these blogs in a special folder so that you can visit them frequently. It’s good to keep tabs on what other same-topic bloggers are writing about. You wouldn’t want to miss a time-sensitive piece such as a news story. You also can use these blogs to study what affiliate programs others in your niche are promoting.

Day 4: Keyword research. Today you should research keywords. Do this using a keyword research tool. Your job is to find keywords within your niche that are broad enough that people are searching for them, but small enough that there isn’t too much competition already. Make sure that you write down all of these keywords, even if you may not use them for awhile. You never know when inspiration might strike.

Day 5: Brainstorming. Get out that notebook (or open that Word file) and start dumping your ideas out onto the paper. Don’t censor yourself. Everything is OK here. Nobody but you is going to see this. Once you’ve got your main ideas down, see if you can break them down any further. For example, with this article, I thought “How can I make my blog better?” then I jotted down each of the ideas. This made it much easier to actually sit down and write the article.

Day 6: Do your research. Do your blog posts need additional research? Today’s the day to focus on that. Take a look at your brainstorming lists from yesterday. See where there are holes and fill them in with a bit of research. It’s going to make tomorrow much easier.

Day 7: Get writing! Today, write several blog posts and store them on your computer. These should be very easy to write because you have followed the steps in the previous days. If you write a couple of articles in one day, you can post them throughout the week without spending much time each day. This streamlines the process and makes it much easier.

Some of these steps may seem unnecessary to some people, but I assure you that doing each of them will only make things easier for you. In just 7 days you can get organized and start writing the blog masterpiece that I know is inside you.

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Track Your Comments Easily

Today I found something new for me – great tool to track my comments easy!What is coComment?

coComment is a new service which allows you to enjoy the full potential of comment-based conversation on the web. Before coComment, comments made across different sites (such as blogs, photosharing services, news sites, and others providing the ability for readers to leave comments) did not come together into a clear conversation, but were fragmented, hard to follow, and untrackable discussions.

Using coComment, you can now keep track of all the comments and discussions your are participating in or observing on the web. When someone adds something to the comment stream or discussion, you’ll be notified. And, if you’re a blogger, you can display the comments you make elsewhere back on your own blog.

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SEO Advice For Your Site

By: Halstat Pirres

It can be hard to see the forest for the trees when pursuing a search engine optimization campaign. The following are useful tidbits I have found over the years that will help you achieve results.
1. Optimize All Pages – To the extent possible, try to optimize all pages of your site, not just the home page. Your goal is to push all the pages up in the rankings to draw traffic, not just the home page.

2. Daily Fresh Content – If you want to make the search engines sit up and notice you, add a daily tip to your site. Use automated software to preload the tips.

3. Mellow November – The online holiday shopping season is huge for most sites. Being wicked, Google and Yahoo usually do a big ranking update in early November. Don’t mess with your site during this period or you could regret it.

4. How Long Till Rankings – Depends on the phrases you are going for. In general, you can count on a year in Google and less for Yahoo and MSN with a new site. MSN always produces high rankings first.

5. Avoid Rash Actions – Most forms of internet marketing take time to play themselves out. Don’t act rashly and make changes every few days. You will never find success.

6. Finding Freelance Writers – if you are hunting for freelance writers, try using Elance or RentaCoder. Alternatively, you can try posting on the article directories that have forums.

7. Keyword Research Common Sense – When doing keyword research, don’t leave your common sense at the door. Think about what phrases you would use to search for something and make sure to incorporate them in your site.

8. Black Hat Optimization – Black hat optimization refers to finding some trick to get rankings. Sounds good until the ranking process changes and you lose all your rankings. Be patient and go for long term, stable rankings.

9. The Keyword Box – When developing keyword lists for your optimization efforts, try to think beyond the subject matter of the site. Throw in catch all phrases such as “problems”, “gifts” and so on as appropriate.

10. Most Important Search Engines – The most important search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN in that order. Why? The control the most searches on the web. Search engines like Alta Vista are irrelevant.

When playing with your optimization efforts, remember to factor in time. Simply put, you need to give the changes time to be digested by the search engines. Making weekly changes isn’t going to tell you anything.

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Interview With Jason DeVelvis About Web 2.0

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Jason DeVelvis is a well-known and respected Internet Marketer, responsible for products like FlurryPop, a script that allows you to put your product over other people’s websites, and SaleFlurry – one of the premier Affiliate Networks. He also does Internet Marketing coaching.

Q: Jason, what is Web 2.0 all about?

JASON: Well, most people think it’s about AJAX, DHTML, Dynamic websites, Social Networking, things like that. But those are all byproducts of Web 2.0, not what it really is.

Web 2.0 is more of a paradigm shift – a change from “pushing” websites and content to visitors into “pulling” the content from them. Internet surfers don’t necessarily want to be just given information, but instead are looking for sites that allow them to participate. They want to get information from other people like themselves while making friends, forming relationships, and building a community. That’s Web 2.0 – and so many people are missing the boat.

Q: So static content sites are on the way out?

JASON: Nope, I don’t mean that, because content sites will always have a place on the web. Not all visitors are going to want to contribute, many will still just be looking for an answer to their question, or information on their topic. But why not let another one of your visitors give them that information?

Q: Ok, so how can Internet Marketers and webmasters take advantage of this on their websites?

JASON: In a number of ways, actually. But the easiest way is to give your users the opportunity to contribute to your site somehow. Put up a forum, or give them the ability to blog on your site, or throw up a blog and encourage them to comment, etc etc etc. Honestly, people like to tell people their opinions, and they’re generally willing to put those opinions out there for people to read.

Q: Is it really that easy? “Put up a forum”?

JASON: Haha, no. If you don’t have traffic to your site, you won’t be successful in getting your visitors to post and spend time there.

Q: So no “If you build it, they will come?”

JASON: Nope – that hasn’t worked since the mid 90s. Actually, I created my first affiliate site in 2001, and I thought that all I had to do was put up a site and people would just come to it. After about a month of work to get the site up (it was a sweet site, or so I thought) it took me about a week to realize that it was a bomb – big time – because I didn’t have any traffic. Then, I launched another site, and concentrated on getting people to it through any means that I could, and that’s when I started to see success with it. When I got people to 1) come to my site, and 2) keep coming back to it. Coincidentally, that site went down within a few months because my hosting company at the time had a bandwidth limit and no way to upgrade the account, so they shut my site down when I hit that threshold. My lesson: make sure your hosting company will grow with your site

Q: Ok, then how do you recommend getting people to come to your site?

JASON: That’s an entire course in and of itself, and there are plenty of courses out there on it, but I’m a BIG fan of article marketing. But there are tons of ways to drive traffic – SEO, articles, AdWords, email lists, forum marketing, email signatures, JVs, and on and on and on…

But the REAL biggie is how to keep your visitors coming back! You don’t want to do all that work to get tons of traffic to your site just to have them give it a once over and then leave, never to return, do you? Nah, that’s leaving money on the table! So how do you keep people coming back? Give them a reason to. Plain and simple. If your site is an affiliate site, or a content site, or a plain old blog, you NEED to give them something to make them want to one, be there, and two, come back for more. My suggestion on doing it? Turn your site into a user-driven ratings/review site.

Q: Great advice. Any chance a ratings site will help with bringing new people in, too?

JASON: Well, I can’t say this 100% for sure, because I haven’t thoroughly tested it, but I’ve been noticing a HUGE upswing of reviews and review sites in the top 10 pages of Google. Any time I search for any kind of product, I almost immediately see a review listed in the top 10, frequently in the top 5! Now, that may just be coincidence, so take it with a grain of salt, but if other people’s review sites are making the top 10, can’t yours?

Q: Haha, well said. If I’m right, you just launched a script that allows you to easily create user-generated review sites, didn’t you?

JASON: Why else would I be raving about them? Just kidding – Yes, I did just release a Wordpress plugin that turns your blog into a Web 2.0 review machine. But this isn’t one of those “Hey, maybe this will sell well… I’ll create it and sell it to all these suckers” (actually, none of my products are) – I created it to run my own review sites and drive more profits. I created it as an income source, and it turned out very well.

As I was creating it, I wondered if anyone else could make use of it. And I kid you not, the first 10 people I talked to about it thought it was AWESOME and they wanted to get their hands on it ASAP! I almost flipped – I only mentioned in in passing most of the time, and it quickly became the topic of conversation. I actually had to push up the launch because people were emailing me and almost begging me to release it. So I did

Q: What’s so good about this product? Why should I use it?

JASON: Well, first of all, it’s easy to use – it runs on Wordpress, so it’s VERY easy to get set up. For those who aren’t very technological, or experienced with Wordpress, there are full, step-by-step help videos.

Second, with the intrinsic Wordpress spam filtering, you don’t have to worry about getting your ratings site spammed like crazy from random spam bots.

But the most important thing is that it enables your visitors to give their opinion on products, ideas, blog posts, or whatever you want them to rate! You can use it for affiliate products, your own products, your rants and ramblings, ideas, blog posts, anything – so you’re not limited on how you can use it. And we all know how much people like to give their opinions, so you shouldn’t be short on user generated content for the search engines to eat up and keep the traffic coming.

Q: You haven’t given a URL yet, Jason…

JASON: Haha, that I haven’t. You can get your copy of Rating Dominator at http://www.RatingDominator.com/?download=1372

Q: Alright, that’s all the time we have, thanks a lot Jason!

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