Tag Archives | Blogging

Ethical Backlinks with Social Bookmarking, Social Networks and Guest Posts

By on January 14, 2012 in Resources

If you made it this far in our 8 part series on systematic and strategic blogging, it has probably dawned on you that the overarching principle regarding the techniques, strategies and systems that we’ve described and advised you to follow all revolve around one core principle – quality. Quality is, admittedly, a subjective term. “Quality” [...]

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Using Forums, Blog Comments and 3-way Exchanges for Blog Backlinks

By on January 12, 2012 in Resources

Backlinks play a critical role in how your blog will rank at search engines. Search engines view your backlinks as “votes” showing your website’s credibility. Think of it this way. You have a room full of children and they are instructed to say a name and point to a child. The child that is pointed [...]

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Using Press Releases to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

By on January 9, 2012 in Resources

Believe it or not, there are quite a lot of similarities between blogging and press releases. Both generally involve periodic or episodic postings and blog posts can be oriented towards news or periodic items. Given this similarity, press releases are great companion pieces to blog posts. By their nature, press releases involve announcements and what [...]

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Turn Your keywords into News Rewrites that Help Boost Traffic and Revenue

By on January 8, 2012 in Resources

As we have discussed in a previous guide, you need to turn your keyword lists into blog posts for you to attract free targeted traffic from search engines. The more traffic that you get, the higher the chances you would make money from your blog. If money is not your primary motivation, more traffic means [...]

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How to Turn Search Keywords into High-Quality Content

By on January 6, 2012 in Resources

If you have been following our series so far, we have stepped you through the process of identifying topics that you are very passionate about, researching these topics’ keywords, filtering them based on commercial value and potential traffic, and using WordPress as a blogging platform. We are only halfway through. Even if you have found [...]

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Unleashing WordPress Content Handling and Traffic Generation Power

By on January 1, 2012 in Resources

Now that you have picked the content categories and niches that you are most passionate about and you have filtered these with an eye towards your level of interest, the amount of potential search traffic that they bring, their commercial value, and their level of competition, your focus should now turn to which platform to [...]

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How to Use Your Competition for Market Research

By on January 1, 2012 in Resources

Aikido is one of the most effective forms of martial arts currently available. Aikido uses your opponent’s motions against him. If somebody lunges towards you and their center of gravity shifts a certain way, you just manipulate and re-direct their center of gravity so that they fall. Interestingly enough, aikido’s principles also apply to blogging. [...]

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Self-Assessment Guide for Successful Blogging

By on December 28, 2011 in Resources

This is the first article in an eight-part series that applies systems and strategies to blogging for maximum success and effectiveness. Just like with any other project or other undertaking in life, your chances of success are higher if you pursue your goal with both a system and a strategy. If either of these elements [...]

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Guide Outlining Top 10 Blogging Tips for Beginners

By on November 27, 2011 in Internet, Resources

So you’ve decided to blog for fun and/or profit, make no mistake about it, blogging is serious business. If you plan to blog for fun, that’s one thing, but if you plan to blog professionally or blog for money, it’s totally quite another matter. If you are serious about blogging, follow these 10 crucial tips [...]

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6 WordPress Plugins To Make Your Blog Ready For Business

By on November 9, 2011 in Resources

WordPress has established itself as the defacto standard for independent blog installations on the Internet. When it comes to flexibility, versatility and capability, we can simply say that WordPress leaves all other blogging platforms, whether free or paid, hosted or not, in the dust. How does WordPress do it? First of all, it is very [...]

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