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Invest 1 Hour Extra Into Your Blog – What Will It Do

March 16, 2012 By 9 Comments

Invest 1 Hour Extra Into Your Blog - What Will It Do

How many hours per day do you put into your blog? Do you spend a full 8 hours a day blogging and creating backlinks or do you spend 2 hours a day at the most? The amount of work that you can get done in 1 hour is amazing and as a blogger, the more time I can put into my blog, the bigger it will become.

With that said, what will 1 extra hour of work do to my blog.

First of all, in order to add 1 extra hour of work into your blog you would need to figure out where that 1 hour is coming from. Will it come from your relaxation time, your sleep, or possible your time with family. For most people, taking time away from relaxing is the best way, however, I propose something slightly different.

Take 1 hour away from sleeping.

I understand this might not be the best thing for you, but here me out. When I recently spend 1 hour awake after my fiancée fell asleep, I was able to get twice as much work done. Then, two days later I woke up 1 hour earlier (before my fiancée woke up) and was able to get twice as much done again. What I came to realize is that this new time would give me double the production in the same amount of time and because of that, I could now take a nap during the middle of the day.

Do I recommend that you take a nap, if you are tired and you can’t get much done, then go for it. Just think, if I was to wake up 1 hour earlier every morning and then go to bed 1 hour later, I would get 4 hours of work in as opposed to just 2.

Benefit Of Investing 1 Extra Hour

More Production

As I just said, you will get more production. Even if you add 1 extra hour to the middle of your day as opposed to taking a couple hours off, you can get more done which will mean more traffic to your site and hopefully money as well.

Less Distractions

Distractions are one of the biggest problems that people who work online have. Whether you are distracted by Facebook, Twitter, cell phones or even your friends and family talking to you while you try to work, all distractions need to be limited. The best part about investing 1 extra hour of work is that your distractions won’t prevent you from getting your tasks done for the day.

Short Term Growth

Nobody wants to wait around for a year while their blog slowly reaches 100 visitors per day, but if you put in an extra hour per day it could happen in less than a few months. Most people don’t realize how much can be accomplished in one full hour of uninterrupted work and that is what I want to address right now. If you can add one extra hour of work each day, your blog will have short term growth that will help you out as a blogger. For example, if I started a new blog that only got 100 visitors after 6 months of blogging, then I would most likely end that project and move on. On other hand, if I put in one extra hour per day towards my blog and it started getting 100 visitors per day in only 2 months, then I would be more willing to keep it going and build on it.

If you have time, try to do something for your blog in 1 hour today and see how much you can do. Once you do that, then come back here and let us know what you got accomplished and whether you plan on adding 1 extra hour of work towards your blog from now on.

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How to Write Comments that Attract Readers

March 13, 2012 By 8 Comments

How to Write Comments that Attract Readers
You’ve probably heard about all the different plugins you can download to help generate more traffic to your site, how to best maximize on SEO, and why you should be writing guest posts for other people. However an often over-looked way to increase traffic to your blog is through comments. And not the comments that other people leave on your website, but the comment that you leave on other blogger’s sites. You can comment on other people’s sites just to leave a comment, or you can use it as an opportunity to help catapult your blog traffic. You just need to do a few things:

1. Actually say something

When you leave a comment on someone else’s blog make sure that it actually says something with a little more depth than just complimenting their writing or topic of choice. If you stick to basic comments that say that you loved a particular post then you’re going to get lost in the sea of commenters that are all saying the exact same thing. Tell a blogger why a particular post resonated with you and you’ll be much more likely to get a response from the blogger, other readers, or both.

2. Argue your points with finesse

Don’t be the person that is rude in the comments section, no matter how much you may disagree with what someone said. All you will accomplish by being offensive is angering the blogger and their loyal readers and having bloggers and readers turn against you. You can even end up losing your own readers that way if they happen to read an inflammatory comment and become incensed. Disagree with tact, however, and you’ll likely gain respect from others for diplomatically voicing your opinion.

3. Read the whole post

There’s nothing more annoying to a blogger than reading a comment that clearly indicates that someone missed the main point of a post and is just commenting to get a comment on the page. If you’re going to comment on someone’s post then make it a well-crafted, genuine comment, not one that blatantly shows you’re just hoping to get traffic targeted back to your site by leaving a comment.

4. Comment regularly

When you frequently comment on someone’s site they’ll eventually head over to your blog to check it out and may even become a regular reader of your site. Commenting regularly helps get you noticed and allows you to form a relationship with the blogger. Networking with other bloggers in this way allows you to link to and promote one another’s blogs so that both of you can benefit from the other’s traffic sources.

5. Keep it classy

When you’re writing a comment think about the type of comments you’d want to receive from others. Stay away from using profanity or linking excessively within a comment section; doing those types of things just make you an annoying and spam-like commenter that most bloggers try to avoid.
Regularly commenting on other’s blogs can be a great way to network within your blog niche when it’s done the right way. Be the type of commenter that you would want to read, comment often, and maintain a high level of respect for other bloggers, and you should be driving new traffic to your site in no time.

Author Bio
This Guest post is by Christine Kane from internet providers, she is a graduate of Communication and Journalism. She enjoys writing about a wide-variety of subjects for different blogs. She can be reached via email at: Christi.Kane00 @ gmail.com.

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Traffic Generation Day Five – Paid Traffic

March 9, 2012 By 4 Comments

Traffic Generation Day Five - Paid Traffic

We made it, day 5 already!

Just to give you a quick recap of what went on in this traffic series – I taught you how to rank higher in the search engines, I showed you why you need guest posts and the benefit of using email marketing, We discussed social networking and bookmarking and the last post talked about YouTube and Podcasts.

All of the previous posts had 1 thing in common – it was free.

Today I am going to talk about something that doesn’t require much work at all, all it requires is money. If you are about to say, “Paid Traffic”, then you are right. The final traffic generation method that I want to give you a little advice on is paid traffic and the reason is because it is still an untapped market. Most people try and get free traffic so if you have the ability to pay for your traffic, then you will be way ahead of your competition.

Tips On Using Paid Traffic

Use Different Sources

The first thing that I would recommend is that you don’t just use 1 source for paid traffic. The biggest sources would be Google AdWords and Facebook Advertising but there are many others. I am not going to get into detail about which ones to use because that will be up to you. When you are trying to get paid traffic you will first have to put some money into an account and all the different traffic networks have different minimums so that is why I leave this part up to you. The benefit of using different sources is that you will not only get more traffic but you will get a different type of traffic.

Test Your Methods

When getting paid traffic one of the things that you will have to do is determine which keywords you want to target. Whether you are using AdWords, Facebook or somewhere else doesn’t matter, every place will want you to figure out whom you want to market to and how much you are willing to spend. My advice would be to put some money towards certain people and different keywords while taking other money and trying a totally different method. The reason you want to test your methods is to see which one works the best and then stick with that one.

Now that you have a couple tips on using paid traffic, I want to explain something to you. With paid traffic you need to make sure that you will get your money back and that is why you either need to sell something on your website or send the traffic to an opt-in page. My recommendation would be to send all the paid traffic to an opt-in page where you can capture their email addresses so that you can use them later. Most people don’t do this and that is why most people that try to get more traffic to their website fail.

I am not saying that you have to buy traffic for your website but if you need traffic right now and you just can’t wait, then this is one way to go about it.

Being that this is part 5 of the 5 part traffic generation technique series I want to congratulate you for making it this far and hope that you continue on with what you just learned. If you want to get the most traffic possible to your website, then I would suggest going back to the first post and starting over again. Trust me on this one; if you keep up what you have already done then you will have loads of traffic in a very short amount of time.

Here are some shortcuts to the posts

Traffic Generation Day One – SEO
Traffic Generation Day Two – Guest Posting
Traffic Generation Day Three – Social Networks
Traffic Generation Day Four – YouTube
Traffic Generation Day Five – Paid Traffic

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Focus On Success

March 8, 2012 By 2 Comments

Focus On Success

In any area of business or personal life it’s important to focus our attention on success rather than failure, or even the potential for failure. There will always be the potential for failure, and the faster we get through each of those outcomes the sooner we’ll see our successes.

Whatever in life we focus on ends up being the result. If we focus on debt, we tend to create more debt. If we focus on successfully paying down a debt, then that’s where we focus our efforts and attention and in turn that is what ends up happening for us.

What is success?

If I asked this question twenty different times to twenty different people I’d likely get as many different answers. Some people might equate success with financial reward, others in terms of time spent with family, and still others may view it merely as still being alive each day!

I apologize in advance if you thought I was going to tell YOU what success was, because I really can’t and nor would I want to. I can tell you what success is to me, but I’ll also point out that it’s only my viewpoint and may even change throughout my own lifetime.

Success for me equates to being able to determine what is important in my life, and then determining what it is I think I need to do in order to achieve it and following through with taking those steps on a consistent basis.

As you can imagine there are many areas I feel are important such as financial security, friendship, community, my relationships, business, and so on.  Achieving each step along the way is a success for me; therefor I’m always being successful.

What is failure?

Again we’ve all got a different opinion on what we think failure is. For me it’s quite simple really. Failure is the act of giving up on something I deem important within my life. If I never give up, and instead continue to look for alternate means of achieving the goals I set for myself, I can never truly fail.

As you can see there is a lot more to focus on in the success category than in the failure category so I’ve made things as easy as I could for myself.

How do we succeed?

Well the first step toward succeeding at anything is first determining what IT is, and if I truly want it! It’s also a good idea to choose goals that are possible. I can say I want to be the youngest millionaire ever, but at my age that might not be a realistic goal! :)

Saying I want something doesn’t make it true. Setting it as a goal, determining what I need to do in order to get there, and then taking consistent action toward achieving it does make it true however.

What if you still don’t succeed?

So what happens if I set a goal, write out all the steps needed to get me there, take action on those steps consistently and still don’t achieve success?

Achieving goals usually involves work, and part of that work is taking the time to monitor your progress towards a particular goal and evaluating whether or not you’re moving closer to, or farther away from your goal.

Obviously if you’re moving towards the goal it’s a simple matter of either continuing on, or perhaps even redoubling your efforts in order to arrive even faster, but if you’re moving away from your goal you need to recognize it, and change tactics and continue to monitor your progress.

Achieving goals is never easy, but then again if it was we’d likely never choose them for our goals in the first place!

Podcast version

 

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Traffic Generation Day Four – YouTube

March 8, 2012 By 2 Comments

Traffic Geration Day Four - YouTube

Can you believe it, we are already on part 4 of the traffic generation techniques. So far I have shown you how to get traffic via search engine optimization, guest posts, email marketing, Facebook, Twitter and social bookmarks. Today I am going to change things up a little bit and show you how you can get traffic from YouTube and Podcasts.

YouTube

YouTube has been around for a while now and if you are not familiar with it, it is the second largest search engine behind Google. YouTube is not only the second largest search engine, it is also owned by Google which in part gives YouTube videos better rankings on Google’s search engine. What you need to understand is that you don’t need thousands of YouTube videos in order to get traffic, as long as you keep adding new content and get new subscribers to your YouTube channel, then you should do just fine.

What most people don’t realize is that you may not get a lot of traffic from your YouTube channel directly but you might get a decent amount of traffic from other bloggers who use your YouTube video. Think about it, all you have to do is make the video and wait for people to use it on their sites. Doesn’t this sound easy? That is because it really is.

Ok, so maybe there is more to it than that but in reality that is all it takes to get started. A lot of people will make YouTube videos of whatever they think people want to see and soon they are receiving a little bit of traffic from every video. Just know that YouTube is a learning experience and because of that you need to get started with it in order to see any traffic from it.

Podcasts

If you have an IPod, IPhone, IPad or even an Apple computer, then you probably know about Podcasts. A podcast is simply a radio session that gets distributed by ITunes and it is a great way to increase your traffic. Being that a podcast is a radio session the only way to get traffic directly to your site is through a link on ITunes or by actually saying the website address in the podcast session. Both methods will work.

One tip that you need to be aware of if you are going to create podcasts is that you need to make sure that people listen to them and rate them. The reason I say this is because the more positive ratings you get, the higher your Podcast channel will go in ITunes, which means more people will be exposed to it. As you probably already know, exposure is money and that is where podcasts will help you out.

Being that we are on part 4 of the 5 part series you are probably wondering why I am talking about all of these traffic generation methods, right? I understand that all of these methods are not all similar and that is why I am doing this. What you need to understand is that the more tools that you can use to get traffic, the better. Most people try and get all search engine traffic or just traffic from email marketing but that never works out like it should. If you have traffic from a multitude of sources, then your traffic will continue to grow as opposed to having huge upswings and dips.

Ok, so that is it for part 4 but get ready for part 5 that is coming tomorrow.  I want you to use today and tomorrow to create 1 YouTube video. If you don’t have a camera, then simply put up a picture and talk into a microphone. Trust me on this one, 1 YouTube video will make a difference in both the traffic and exposure that your site has.

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How to Increase Your PageRank Quickly

March 7, 2012 By 10 Comments

PageRank

How many times a week do you read a blog post where somebody is referring to PageRank? For myself, I will read a blog post at least once a day where somebody is talking about increasing their Page Rank, where to find high PageRank links, what PageRank is and a bunch of other stuff.

Do I get tired of hearing about PageRank?

Yes and No. The reason I say this is because some stuff is very informative, however, most stuff doesn’t help me one bit. That is why today I want to talk to you about how you can increase your Page Rank quickly. The reason I want to address this here and now is because PageRank can do a lot for your blog. For example, increasing your PageRank will increase your ability to sell text link ads. It will also increase your traffic through Google and it will tell other bloggers that you are an authority online, which will help you get more comments and more guest post (less time you have to spend writing).

How Do I Increase My PageRank?

Before I get into that, I just want you to know that PageRank updates only happen every 2-3 months, so you will need to be patient. Not only will Page Rank updates happy only a handful of times throughout the year, not all links will get indexed, which means that you will need many more links to help you get to the next level.

As I recently stated – My goal is to get a PageRank of 5. With that said, I am going to show you everything that I will be doing to increase my PageRank as much as humanly possible.

Below, you will see what I am going to do as well as the software that I will be using. Here is the list of software that I will be using to increase my PageRank, which will ultimately help increase my traffic.

Increase You’re Page Rank Quickly

The very first thing I will be doing is creating 1 new direct link to my site each day. I will be doing this by writing a unique article and publishing it on Hubpages, Squidoo, WordPress or Weebly. When I do this, I will be using the anchor text I want to rank for and link it to www.PLRInternetMarketing.com. Once I have this done I will then write another unique article and spin it. The reason I do this is so that I can use it for an article on BuildMyRank, Unique Article Wizard and MyArticleNetwork.

For the BuildMyRank link, I will be directly linking that to my site, using the keywords that I would like to rank for on Google. As far as Unique Article Wizard and MyArticleNetwork, I will be linking them to the 1 high PageRank articles that I just published. The reason behind doing this is to ensure that I don’t build too many links to my site too quickly and so that I have more high PageRank Links pointing to my site.

Note: Having 100 PR0 links pointing to your site doesn’t do you much good; however, one PR2 link will do more than 100 times better.

To see how this looks, take a peek at the photo below. I tried to draw it out as well as I can with Microsoft Paint, so that is why it is not of professional quality. I hope you don’t mind.

Link Building Method

Now, once Unique Article Wizard and MyArticleNetwork are done running, I will then mass ping the links so that they all have a chance to get indexed. The more links that you can get indexed, the better off you will be. Google misses a lot of links because they can’t possibly crawl every single site, especially those that are hard to find. This is why doing a mass ping will be so beneficial.

Also, every article that I write (including this one) will be submitted to Onlywire for social bookmarking. My goal is to get to a PR5 so I need to build as many links as I can, that is why I can’t afford to spend an hour submitting each article to all the social bookmarking sites out there. This is something that you should do as well if you want to increase your traffic and PageRank quickly.

The key to getting this strategy to work is to stick with it. You can’t expect your site to get a higher Page Rank if you are only writing doing 1 article per week, you need to try and hit 1 article per day. One of my newest goals is to write 1 new article per day for this link building method that I just described. I think that I can increase my Page Rank to a PR5 by the next update as long as I can keep this up, but we will see how it goes with everything else that I have going on this month.

Anyway, I hope you understand why I want a higher PageRank and that it will take some time and effort, but as long as I do what I have set out for, it should not be a problem.

If you have anything to add to my link building technique, please comment below. I would love to hear what others have to say about what I am doing and how I can improve my PageRank.

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Traffic Generation Day Two – Guest Posting

March 6, 2012 By 3 Comments

Traffic Generation Day Two – Guest Posting

I hope you had a very productive last couple of days and are now ready to move on. What you must understand is that you can’t completely neglect link building, you need to keep doing it but do is sparingly. Trust me, if you continue with the link building techniques that I showed you in the first email your site will rank really high rather fast and that is what you want.

Today I am going to show you a couple methods to get traffic that most people are aware of but just don’t do – email marketing and guest posting. Both of these methods are fairly easy to do and almost guarantee you more traffic.

Let’s get right to it!

Email Marketing

If you have an email list, then you need to be using it as much as possible. I am not saying that you need to send an email to your list every day or so but you need to keep in touch so that they know who you are and that you are not just spamming them.

One tip that I have for anybody with an email list is that they should send out an email at least once a week. Even if the email is only there to say “Hi” or check in. Trust me, if you email somebody just to see how they are doing, then you will get a much better response than if you try and sell them something.

Another tip that I have for you is to give advice directly through your emails. Most people think that they have to write a post or page on their website and then get people to it but that is not always the case. If you send out a couple of emails every day, then 1 email that doesn’t link directly to your website will be just fine.

Guest Posts

A guest post is very easy to do, all you need to do is find a blog that will allow guest posting and then provide them with a post. Just like on PLRinternetmarketing.com, I love it when people send me guest posts that provide great tips and tricks for my readers and if you have something that relates to the site, and then feel free to email me.

What I highly recommend is that you bookmark all of the websites that you read related to your website because at some point those will be your bread and butter guest posting sites. I know you might not think they will be but trust me; sites that you are already reading will be easier to guest post for.

My Secret: Something that I suggest more than anything is guest posting on a site that gives recognition to their top commentators. The reason for this is because you will write the guest post and then reply to every single comment that is made. If you write just 1 article for every blog that does this, then you will have 1 life-long link on the guest post and 1 site wide link each month. This is a lot of links and that is what you need to get the most traffic from guest posts.

Ok, that is all for the second part of this 5 part series. Make sure you spend today and tomorrow sending an email to your email list and also write 1 decent guest post. Again, if you have time go back and do some more link building and then watch for part 3 of the 5 part traffic generation series.

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How I Plan On Increasing Blog Traffic

March 4, 2012 By 4 Comments

How I Plan On Increasing Blog Traffic

We all know that the amount of traffic you get to your blog has a lot to do with how well you promote and optimize it. That is why I am going to spend some time using something I strongly believe in called Buildmyrank.

If you have not heard about this before, then I am glad you are hearing about it now. With the recent guest post I got from Adam Snyder, I thought I would elaborate on that a little bit and show you what I would do to build more backlinks to my website.

If you didn’t read the article make sure you do that now so that you understand what I am talking about. Here is the article – Low Hanging Keywords Should Be Your Friend

In the article he states that you need to build backlinks to long tail keywords that you are already ranking for and that is exactly what I plan on doing. Although he gave some great ways to get backlinks, I just don’t have that kind of time with everything that I have going on right now. This is why I plan on using Buildmyrank to increase my link count and ultimately increase my blog traffic.

Now, there are a lot of ways I could go about creating articles and building links but I have a method to my madness. The first thing that I did was found out what long tail keywords I am ranking for. Once I did that I then wrote all the keywords in a spreadsheet so that I didn’t forget any of them. This is important because every keyword should get a backlink if you want to really take advantage of your long tail traffic.

Important – The next thing that I did was to input the keywords into the Google Keyword Tool so that I could see how many people search for each keyword per month. This is very important because you want to start off by targeting the keywords that get more traffic. The reason I say this is because this will increase your traffic much faster and also your income.

That brings me to where I am at now. What I will be doing is writing 10 150 word articles each day until I have 50 articles. The reason I doing this is so that I don’t waste any time with the monthly membership. Although this is only $59 a month I wanted to make sure I got as many links as I possibly can and that is why I am writing the articles prior to even getting the membership. Although I do plan on using this for more than one month, I wanted to get off to a great start.

As you can see, I am not going to build backlinks to my websites inner pages using web 2.0 properties or guest posts like Adam stated in his guest post,  I am going to use the much faster and higher ranking Buildmyrank to do this.

So if you were thinking about targeting your long tail keywords, then I strongly suggest that you use Buildmyrank to do so. Although guest posts and web 2.0 links are great, they do take a little longer and that is why I am going to do things this way.

One other thing that I want to make sure you understand is that it is never a good idea to build too many links too fast. What I highly recommend is that you don’t submit more than 20 links per day because too many high page ranked links can raise a red flag in Google’s eyes.

Starting tomorrow I’m going to be doing a mini-series on traffic generation techniques so that you can increase the quantity of visitors you’re currently receiving on your site.

See you tomorrow!

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Get Your Readers To Comment On Your Posts

March 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Get Your Readers To Comment On Your Posts

Do you know the difference between a successful blog and an unsuccessful one? The main difference is that successful blogs get a lot of comments and that is why you should be after that more so than traffic.

The toughest thing that you can do as a blogger is to get your readers to do something and if it were easy, then you would probably spend more time getting your readers to buy things through an affiliate link, right? Even though getting comment is a little harder than most people think, it still needs to worked on because in the end the comments will help you rank higher on the search engines.

There are a lot of things that you can do to get your readers to comment on your posts such as ask your readers to, provide a gift to the top commentator throughout each month and even give revenue sharing to the top commentator as well. Even though these are things that I have been seeing more of lately, there are other methods that work just as well and some even better.

Ways To Get More Comments

Make Commenting Easy

The first thing that you can do to get more comments on your blog post is to simply make commenting easier. A lot of people think that their comment platform is pretty easy but a lot of the times they are not. What I would highly recommend is that you leave a comment on your blog every once in a while to see how easy it is to do and if you are having trouble with it, then just know that your readers are probably having the same problems.

Email Your Subscribers

Do you ever send emails to your subscribers telling them that you have posted a new article? This is what a lot of bloggers do and the benefit of doing this is that your readers will start to thank you for sending them the email with a blog comment.

Another great thing about sending out an email to your subscribers is that they will be more likely to write a blog comment. Just because you write a great blog post doesn’t mean you will get a lot of new comments but as long as you are promoting your post to the people you know then the chances of you getting more comments will be higher.

Link To Commentators Blog

Do you use plugins like Commentluv or Keywordluv? These are two plugins that many people with websites love and the reason is because they will link back to the commentators blog. The nice thing about these plugins is that they will get you more comments really fast but they will also get you a lot more spam. Just be prepared for this because when bloggers see a new place to get a link, they will jump on it.

Utilize Guest Posts

This is by far my favorite way to get more comments on by blog post. The best part about a guest post in my opinion is the last paragraph where you can leave some links back to your blog and what I highly recommend is that you place a link to your homepage and another link to the last blog post you write. If you can do this with every post that you do, then you should have no problem getting your site ranked as well as every article that you write. Trust me, guest posts are great when it comes to getting more comments on your blog and the reason is because somebody who clicks on through to your blog has a higher likelihood of leaving a comment.

Give Thanks For Comments

If you have ever seen the Smartpassiveincome.com blog or Nichepursuits.com, then you know that Pat and Spencer are always thanking people for leaving a comment on their blog. I am not saying that you need to thank people who are just there to say, “Good job”, but you need to recognize your readers who leave you worthwhile comments. This is something that more and more bloggers do (I even do this) and it is because the blog owner should be thankful that somebody read their article and liked it enough to actually spend the time leaving a comment.

Getting more comments on your blog posts may seem like a tough task but as long as you do the things above, you should have no problem getting more comments time and time again. Just make sure that you don’t focus only on comments and not the content because the best way to get more comments is to write the best content possible.

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Techniques To Get New Blog Post Ideas

March 2, 2012 By 13 Comments

Techniques To Get New Blog Post Ideas

If you are like most bloggers, then you need ways to come up with new blog post ideas, right? This is a normal thing that happens to bloggers but the best bloggers find ways to come up with new ideas and take their blog to the next level. One of the things that you need to understand is that you don’t have to write a huge post every time, you could simply write about something small.

Something that you will see many bloggers do, like Darren Rowse and John Chow is they will write articles that are high quality and filled with tons of good information and then they will write articles that are only 250 words that have very little to them but pack a punch. What I would suggest is that you mix things up a bit in order to give your blog a different feel to it.

So, where to get new blog post ideas? This is a question that every blogger will eventually ask themselves and that is what I want to address today. Although, there are many blogs out there and a bunch of ideas that you can write about, there is a better way to come up with ideas than to sit there and rack your brain over and over again.

Techniques To Get New Blog Post Ideas

Ask Your Audience

The best way to come up with new blog post ideas is to just ask your audience. If you want to know exactly what your audience wants to read, then asking them will tell you that. Don’t underestimate your audience either; they are there to learn so anything that you can teach them will make them come back. What I do recommend is that you don’t just take people suggestions and write one article hitting on all the topics. Write a very detailed article about what each person wants to read. Yes, this will be more work but in the end you will have more blog posts and you will give each reader what they want to hear.

Scan Your Favorite Blogs

One thing that even I have to do sometimes is scan other blogs for ideas. Although, I never take the ideas directly, they at least give me some ideas to work with. What most people do wrong is they tend to take the exact title, rewrite it and then create a new post. Don’t do this; all you need is the idea, not the actual content.

Watch Popular Celebrities

When it comes to writing about a celebrity, you can never go wrong. There are bloggers out there that have written about Will Smith, Warren Buffet, Beyoncé, George Clooney and many other celebrities and it really pays off. Being that celebrities are always being searched for, you could find a golden nugget as far as long tail search traffic is concerned. What I would do is wait until there is a celebrity in the news and then figure out what they have to offer somebody in your industry. For example, Will Smith is big on putting his name on everything, similar to that of Pat Flynn and his “Be Everywhere” Strategy.

Facebook Poll

I am sure you have a Facebook page by now, right? With that Facebook page you should ask the followers you have what they want to see you write. This is similar to asking your audience except you might get new people from your Facebook followers. That is why I highly recommend it.

Hire A Writer

Now, one thing that you can do is to hire a writer to write your blog posts for you. This is something that a lot of bloggers do when they don’t know what else to write. The great thing about doing this is that you can point the writer to your blog and have them write on a subject that you have not addressed in a while. Although, this will cost you some money, it is a great way to get a different perspective on you blog.

As you can see, there is not a lot that you need to do in order to come up with new blog post ideas. If I were you I would keep a notebook of all the blog post ideas and when you have time, write one. This is what many professional bloggers do and if they are doing it, then you know that you should be doing it as well. Trust me on this one; it works better than you would think.

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