How to blog
I have a confession to make; I was a former shy blogging guy.
I felt ashamed to share my blog with friends and family. Some friends teased me. Some family members suggested I get a job to pay the bills since my blogging career had not taken off yet.
Feeling shy, ashamed and flat out embarrassed to share that I was a blogger created a horrible sensation in my being. I wanted to hide and I also wanted to hide the fact that I was a blogger.
Guest posting is hands down one of the best ways to grow your online business.
Bonding with top pros in your niche and leveraging your presence are 2 guest posting related chief business builders not to be ignored.
But you need to guest post intelligently to actually increase your profits through this medium.
Most bloggers never capitalize on guest posting, get frustrated, throw in the towel, and quit on this powerful strategy because they don’t know how to grow their venture through this channel.
If you do it right you will become a highly successful and prospering blogger by guest posting on the right blogs in your niche.
If you want to build a profitable website that actually makes money, you need one thing: lots of search traffic. There’s no way around it.
The more you attract search engine traffic to your sites, the better and easier it is for you to make more money. It’s as simple as that. But here’s the thing: increasing your search traffic isn’t easy as it sounds.
There are Google updates like Panda, Penguin. Then there are so many other challenges like what type of content to create, how to optimize your content, how to satisfy both readers and search engines.
Protecting your new WordPress blog should be a top priority especially if your copy is self-hosted.
A common deadly mistake I see around is a hurry to start pulling traffic and publishing articles on a newly installed self hosted blog without taking some necessary security steps. That’s foundation for disaster.
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This is part 6 in the series to build a money making blog. If you missed the other 5 parts, here is the front page for a list of contents.
In part 5, we saw how easy it is to install WordPress. As a matter of fact, it takes less than 3 minutes to get a copy installed.
NB: I recommend WPX Hosting,Siteground orBluehost to host your WordPress site.
WPX Hosting does daily automatic backup of your site (For free) and keeps copies for 2 months. Backup is the foundation of every safety major you are ever going to implement on your blog.
In part 7, we are looking at setting up the right theme to monetize your blog.
NB: 9 ideas to create your new business on WordPress
The copy we installed in part 5 is still virgin and vulnerable to attacks and damages. In this part, we are going to implement basic and solid security to our fresh copy. While it is not common to have a 100% secured blog, it’s going to keep you very safe from your end.
Discussed! Unique blog post idea that generates income!
To make real money blogging, you have to be able to create money making blog posts. However, it’s often not easy to come up with money making blog post ideas.
Plastering banners on your blog to generate income is good approach but generally will not generate enough earnings.
Affiliate product review post is an excellent blog post idea to generate consistent earnings from your blog. I think that’s where the real power to make money blogging lies. For better results, focus on reviewing affiliate products that pay recurring earnings.
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The best keyword research technique in SEO?
There isn’t one.
But there’s the best approach to keyword research even if you are a newbie in the SEO industry
Technique combining.
So, if you can:
Then you’re set.
And when you throw in good ol’ Google Suggest and Keyword Planner, then you’re rocking a near perfect keyword research strategy.