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Use blogging as a tool to be kept updated and in the latest developments and products of your field.
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Blogging helps in adding fresh relevant content to website which search engines like.
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You can build up your business creditability with the help of blogging.
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A blog is a great tool to help increase your customer base.
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Get free and fresh content with the help of comments that are made in blogs. This can be like User-generated content or UGC.
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Create and establish a brand and brand awareness with blogs.
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Help build trust between you and your readers and customers through blogs.
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Enhance your website effectively and cheaply with the help of a blog.
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Blogs are an easy way to establish two way communication and social interaction.
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There is a higher and better chance of getting viral over social media sites with the help of a blog.
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People generally consider reading a blog much better because of their non promotional tone and informative nature.
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Blogs give you an easy way of approving comments before posting as against to social media sites where you have very little or no control at all.
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Create more targeted traffic to your websites through search engines using blogs.
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Blogs help to save time as visitors find many answers to their questions there.
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Rumors about a business can be clarified through a blog.
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With a blog, you not only become famous, but also gain power which you had never experienced.
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Blogs have a huge part in SEO. Blogs are loved by Google and other Search Engines.
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With the help of a blog, the Google PR of your site is enhanced.
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Blogs are a great means of increasing potential traffic to your site.
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Develop free PR for your business with a blog.
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Blogs are great for creating returning targeted traffic.
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The interactive nature of blogs makes people choose blogs over websites for links.
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Remember that blogs consist mainly of text; and in SEO, text is king.
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The comments posted on your blogs can give you better business ideas and tricks for your business.
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Use blogs to express your thoughts. You can also use the blog to exercise your freedom of speech.
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You can share whatever knowledge you have using a blog.
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You will be considered an expert in your field because of a blog.
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Use the help of RSS and links in getting targeted traffic to your blog.
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Maintain public relations and relations with the media through your blog.
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When compared to normal website pages, spiders tend to crawl blog posts more frequently.
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Blog is a great means of creating a buzz or voice of mouth advertising.
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Use the blog as a foundation for the content of a book.
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Develop your business with the help of your blog.
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Remain connected with people 24/7 with a blog.
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You get new visitors and potential clients with the help of blogs.
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Blogs are helpful and beneficial to the community.
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Blogs are used to share company news.
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Blogs are used as a communication link between employers and employees.
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Blogs indicate that you are an easily approachable entity.
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Keep in touch with industry leaders through blogs.
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Use blogs in educational marketing, where you show how your services and products can be used to solve customers’ problems.
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Blogs maintain convenient internal communication to share information in a company.
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Find out more about your customers and clients’ needs through blogs.
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Use blogs to create an online community.
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Blogs provide easy communication with clients.
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Talent is easily found with the help of blogs.
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Blogs are used for getting back links.
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Use blogs for getting internal links.
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Blogs are regularly indexed by Google.
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Use blogs to get free links from blog directories.
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Develop easy and efficient deep linking with blogs.
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Share any ideas you have on a blog.
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Use blogs to solve problems.
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Blogs are used for marketing because of its low overheads.
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The navigation on blogs is text based, and search engine friendly.
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The non promotion tone of blogs makes them very easy to link. This makes blogs highly linkable.
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Use blogs to generate quick feedbacks.
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A blog is a really great promotional tool.
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Use blogs to convey authority.
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You can easily target variety of keywords using blog.
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Search engines find blogs easy to crawl.
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Use a blog to let people and clients to get to know you better.
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The RSS feeds of blogs help in efficient link building.
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Blogs indicate that you are open, and don’t hide from anyone.
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Use a blog to increase membership and opt-in lists.
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Blogs are great for educating and informing people about specific topics
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You can learn time management and discipline through a blog.
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Find new partners and experience better networking through blogs
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Use a blog as a platform for announcing new products and services.
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Use blogs to reply to queries.
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Both cultural and geographical borders are overcome through blogging.
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The long tail keywords in blogs help you get top rankings as blog are mostly hosted on very reliable domains. Blogging give you an excellent platform to target long tail keywords and get top ranking.
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Generate a niche appeal using a blog.
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Blogs bring about a more personal connection between yourself and your clients.
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A blog helps you find jobs and clients quickly.
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A blog can be easily integrated into a market plan.
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Get to meet new visitors and buyers through guest blogging.
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A blog offers increased lead generation opportunities.
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Learn current trends through blogging.
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A blog means low cost, better communication.
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With a blog, you experience reduced emails, calls and inquiries.
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You can also boost your social life with a blog.
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Flexibility is an important feature of blogs.
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The easy web publishing solutions make blogs much easier to set up and maintain than websites.
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Blogs provide a punctual and important means of sharing information with an audience.
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With the help of a blog, you can increase your writing, debating and analytical skills.
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Use a blog to generate money with Adsense and Affiliate marketing.
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A blog is a great and easy publishing tool.
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With a blog, you can introduce a human voice or element in a company.
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Blogs provide a great medium for opportunities and to use as a research tool.
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You can increase the number of your loyal customers with blogs as it helps you get close with customers.
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With a blog, you become different from your competition. This is because the medium tends to approach you if you have a blog and not the competitor who does not have a blog.
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Blogs offer different and varies means of spreading ideas.
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Blogs are considered a great means of relational marketing. This is because once you post honest and heart felt blogs, you instill trust and respect in prospective customers.
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Manage your online reputation by using a blog to answer any negative remarks made about you by a competitor. In other words, blogs help you stop rumors from spreading.
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With a blog, you can easily create more pages which is great for search engines that rank pages and not sites. With a blog, you need not bother about the fitting in of the new pages with design.
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You can use a blog for recording all your past experiences and thus, start a sort of history about yourself.
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Blogging is fun. Blogging is something everyone enjoys doing.
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It has been proven that blogging offers some medical and psychological benefits like better memory and sleep and fast healing after a surgery.
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After creating quality posts like this one, you develop a feeling of satisfaction.
Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
100 Advantages of Blogging - Why You Should Blog?
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Top 100 Reasons Why Blogs Fail – Blogging Mistakes
Friday, December 12th, 2008-
Lack in patience and confidence.
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Trying to write on a subject you don’t understand, or that you don’t enjoy.
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Not knowing that there is a difference between a blog and a website.
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Trying to use blogs to sell something instead of using them for credibility and trust!
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Spending too much time thinking about the design and Search Engine Optimization, SEO.
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Having too much clutter on the sidebar. This causes too much distraction.
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Putting too much money towards the advertising of the blog and not the writing of the blog.
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Thinking that you are going to start off with a ton of traffic.
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Assuming you know everything about blogs and stop learning about them.
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Anticipating that people will visit your blog without promoting it.
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Not thinking about your long-term goals of the blog, and focusing too much on the short-term ones.
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Not analyzing the traffic to your blog to find out what is working and what isn’t.
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Forcing people to comment on the blog or to link to it.
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Not including a top ten posts, archives, and recent posts.
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Lacking in organization of the content of the blog by context.
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Having no plan to go by.
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Not having the need to learn.
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Not learning from previously done mistakes.
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Thinking that you will make passive money from blogging.
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Not having enough social interaction and making your blog run solo.
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Trying to target a very small market niche.
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Not using English to target an international market.
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Underestimating blogging by not giving it enough credit.
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Failing to maintain the quality of your blog by controlling spasms.
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Having too much irrelevant traffic to your blog.
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The inability to handle incoming traffic.
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Having links that do not work- broken links.
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Not including a blogroll.
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Having a lack of originality.
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Lacking in regularity.
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Writing on irregular posting.
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Having a lack of dedication to your blog.
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Fearing to go against others.
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Not choosing the right blogging platform.
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Blogs that are made for advertising only.
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Having annoying ads.
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Trying to blog to get rich.
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Lacking in defined keywords to target in your post.
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Not understanding the news and RSS readers.
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Having too many blogs to keep up with.
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Wanting to get everything with less than 100 posts.
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Having too many keywords in your post.
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Content writing with no research behind it.
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Writing for search engines and not in a natural way.
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Duplicating the contents from other blogs or within your blog.
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Not using titles effectively.
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Failure to use keywords at important places like subheadings, text links, headings, and bullets.
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Using generic headings & subheadings. Not getting to the point.
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Having a lack of facts and evidence.
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Textual content is lacking or not there.
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Trying to turn one post into several subjects. Showing people that you are uncategorized and can not stay on topic.
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Writing about topics that are not helping the reader.
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Having to posts and not mentioning them.
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You have a blog with a lot of plug-ins.
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Posts that come across as boring and not informative.
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Having no links to other blogs with relevant information.
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Prompting with poor or bad content.
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Including a lot of duplicated content.
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Lacking in useful content that people want.
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Not having the ability to stay on topic.
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When you do not proofread or spell check your post.
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Having too many words in your URL.
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Forgetting to add an ‘about page’ to tell people who you are.
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Trying too hard to impress people with big words.
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Having paragraphs that are not formatted properly so that they are easy to scan.
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Being a very annoying blogger by spamming people.
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Using blog posts that are too long.
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Having no niche to market to.
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Choosing a niche that has a big drop in the market place.
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Other blogs that are competing for your niche, that you can not keep up with.
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Using a niche that there is no demand for.
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Skipping the basics of good SEO.
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Opting to go with SEO methods that search engines recommend not using (called black hat SEO).
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Trying to promote your blog before it’s done.
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Using a different domain name for a blog that’s already up and running.
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Running a blog that costs too much.
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Wanting it all in just a few months.
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Not including RSS feeds.
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Failure to give an easy way to subscribe to your feed.
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The ill use of animations and images.
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Choosing a bad looking template for your blog.
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Aimless writing with no attention to promotion or to design.
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Colors that make your text hard to read, or making your text too small.
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Not allowing people to use social bookmarking or to subscribe by email.
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Having no option to leave comments or a way to get in touch with you.
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Choosing to not be linkable.
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Not having next, previous pagination.
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Trying to buy visits or traffic to your site.
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Not using offline promotions.
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Ignoring comments and emails about your blog.
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Leaving no meaningful comments on other blogs.
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Having no link back from your comments to your blog.
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Not commenting on other blogs in your same niche.
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Having no network of friends. Lacking in a network of bloggers.
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Not being indexed in the search engines.
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The lack of links from other blogs and relevant sites.
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Your blog does not have enough links from variety of sources leading to it.
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Not using blog directories like pingomatic and technorati.
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Having links to bad neighborhoods and blogs.
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Forgetting to follow the tips we just talked about!
Top 100 Blogging Tips for Bloggers - Bloggers Guide
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
The scope of the business is international and I currently deal mostlywith the international clients, but many people from Pakistan ask about the SEO and the blogs by various means, such as social networking sites, emails, web enquiries and telephone calls. It just becomes difficult for me to explain them everything. For this purpose I have complied my blogging tips over here. Contrary to my previous blogs, I have tried to keep it general and have tried to avoid the jargon this time.
Keywords and Writing
- Unlike other web content, a blog is more social, personal and informal. Use a casual tone while writing. You can earn money by blogging with the help of adsense and affiliate marketing.
- Don’t write blogs on just about anything. Choose your niche carefully; preferably something that really interests you.
- Before writing, do some research and find the right keywords to use in the blog. This can be done by thinking of words people are most likely to use while looking for your blog and by using some keyword research tool.
- Choose keywords that are less competitive and target the long tail keywords.
- Create attractive blogs by customizing the look of the blog while feeling templates.
- Make sure that the content of the blog is of great quality; it is the quality of the blog content that makes a successful blog.
- Don’t just write content; do some research to find the right content for the blog.
- Write your blog in such a way that it will become the main source of information you are writing about.
- Don’t place all your blog posts on a single post; just a few.
- Make sure you spell check your post and proofread it before submission.
- Titles play an important part in the blog post so create catchy titles while using keywords over there.
- If you have long posts, use sub headings – use keywords in subheadings.
- Wherever possible, add some italic and bulleted text containing your keywords.
- Stem your keywords. Use singular, plural, past forms, etc.
- Make use of synonyms and don’t spam your blog with one and the same keyword.
- Your URL also has to be keyword rich.
- The more posts you have on the blog, the higher is the chance of getting found on search engines through targeted traffic.
- When writing blogs, make it a point to add sources and references for matter.
- Blogs become user friendly and easy to navigate by building an index on the blog.
- Link to other similar blog posts on the internet.
- Use and add tags carefully in the blog post.
- Moderate all the comments you get.
- Promote the writing of comments, and answer all comments you receive instantaneously.
- It is better to have a long blog divided into divisions.
- Include an ‘about us’ page on the blog for newcomers to learn more about you and what your blog boasts of.
- Write for the readers not for the search engines i.e. Do not do keyword stuffing.
- Interlink the blogs within the contents.
- Make your top posts prominent.
- Write blogs with a positive note, and not how negative something may be.
- Give a first hand narration of what you know or have experienced.
- Instead of repeating points, find and add new angles to a discussion.
- Be the first person to write on the topic you have chosen.
- Never duplicate content; you can be jailed for this.
- Write about one subject per post.
- It is better to write on evergreen topics which will remain fresh and in demand even after a few years’ time.
- When writing for a blog, write on topics that people will want to read and share.
- Make it a point to add keywords to the start, middle and end of each page.
- Make sure you cover topics and FAQs thoroughly in your niche.
- The blog design is important; so make it easily readable with the right background colors and placement of text.
- Color for the blog should be chosen carefully.
- Avoid using fancy and small fonts on the blog as they are difficult to read.
- All white spaces or spacing between elements of the blog have to be removed.
- Place some emphasis on the blog design not for SEO purposes but to attract the attention of visitors and have them returning for more.
- This does not mean you need an elaborate blog design; something simple is sufficient.
- Blogs have to be updated regularly, with a minimum of 5 blogs per week, if not 7. This content helps generate traffic and thus income for you.
- Your blog should be easy to subscribe perhaps through RSS, mobile subscription and emails. People should also be able to digg your posts.
- Your blog should make it easy for people to contact you when required.
- All the categories of your blog should be well organized.
- Don’t place too many ads on the blog.
- Use the help of research, surveys and polls to make your blog more interesting. It also improves the quality of your blog.
- All important contents of the blog should be placed ‘above the fold’.
- Make it a point to add images to the blog, and to optimize them.
- Ad visuals in the form of blockquotes, videos, charts, graphs and photos are important for a blog.
- Work at integrating these ad visuals into the blog and not at bombarding visitors with the ads.
- Speed in downloading is important in blogs, so maintain a low page size.
- Choose and create a decent logo for your blog, and display it with your posts.
- This logo should link to the home page.
- The functionality of the blog is enhanced with plugins. In the process, it also saves time.
- When archiving a blog, you have to archive it according to topic and not go by date.
Promotion / SEO
- Make sure you optimize and distribute a press release announcing the start of your blog.
- Use the help of blog directories to promote your blog.
- Forums and other similar blogs can be used to promote your blog by participating, and by commenting in them.
- Online communities are effective in promoting a blog.
- Participating in social networking sites like facebook, orkut and myspace are effective in promoting your blog.
- Simultaneously, your blog URL has to be included in social media profiles.
- Work at researching and commenting on various industries related to your blog.
- Article marketing is a great tool for promotion of the blog.
- Use www.pingomatic.com to send out notices and pings.
- Online blog communities are great for blog promotion. You could also create your own community to promote the blog.
- Dig and stumble upon are feasible options for promoting the blog.
- Let others know about the updates on your blog by using Twitter and Jaiku micro-blogging.
- Make your own videos and post them on youtube, podcast and Vlog directories.
- Every time you post a new blog, remember to post and thus make a network
- You can attract new visitors to your site by participating and getting involved in a community.
- Inform others about your blog; and don’t feel shy to say you have a blog.
- Include you blog URL in all your email signatures.
- Never attempt Black Hat SEO techniques as these are unethical SEO techniques.
- Like all businesses, you have to work at first building your visitor base to your blog, and then at earning money online.
- Keywords have to be used in linking texts.
- This keyword linking text can also be used to get and exchange links from relevant sites with high PR.
- Your signature should have a link to your blog so that the posts you make to forums, outgoing mails, etc work at promoting your blog.
- Blogs should run with a good link building campaign.
- Work to give links to other blogs from your blog. People tend to find out who links to them and in exchange, will also link back to your blog.
- With all this linking, it is important that you check your statistics and analytics on a regular basis and make the required changes in your blog.
- Look at other blogs for ideas- www.bloglines.com and www.technorati.com are great sites to visit to get ideas from other blogs.
- Meet and interview famous and interesting bloggers.
- Though SEO may be time consuming, it gives long lasting effects and is better than the quick social bookmarking where results are not long lasting.
- Blogs have to be submitted to major search engines.
- Blogs have to be submitted to blogging directories using keywords for links.
- Work at becoming an expert in your trade and also a specialist in your topic.
- Make an account in stumble upon where you have to stumble good stuff and make new accomplices.
- Work at growing, and sustaining your audience.
- Be careful of ongoing discussions on your blog.
- Make it a point to keep track of visitors, with the help of some analytic software.
- Don’t concentrate on short term benefits of your blog- work at increasing your readership base.
- Be as helpful as possible, whenever possible.
- Keep some time solely for your blog.
- Be patient as blogging is more like running a marathon, and not a 100m sprint.
- Learn and make improvements from previous mistakes.
- Though the going may be tough, perseverance succeeds.
