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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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March 2012 Business Goals

March 1, 2012 By 2 Comments

March 2012 Business Goals

As many of you are aware March 1st signifies the beginning of my third year online and in business for myself. I recently finished an interview that can be found here for those who are interested in reading it. (Would love to hear your comments)

I did a post February 1st outlining the goals I hoped to achieve with my blog and business and posted it for all to see, and many of you have held me accountable to the goals I listed. It certainly makes it seem more “real” when the entire world can see not only the goals you set out for yourself, but also the progress you made with it the following month.

I thought I might try and make it a monthly event both to keep you in the loop as to what is going on in my life, as well as to show you what at least one other blogger is doing on a monthly basis.

So here are my March goals in the second of my monthly series of goal posts.

March 2012 Goals

  1. Increase sales by 10%
  2. Increase traffic by 10%
  3. Finish my new eBook
  4. Issue 3 press releases
  5. Try to drive my Alexa rank down to 66,250
  6. Finish Client’s website (Daya)
  7. Build 300-500 manual links
  8. Read one marketing book (The Marketing Plan)
  9. Update my KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
  10. Grow fan page to 34,500 fans
  11. Record 30 podcasts
  12. Publish 30+ posts
  13. Increase RSS subscribers to 1850
  14. Create an action plan to generate sales increase
  15. Create an action plan to generate traffic increase
  16. Write and publish 2 guest posts
  17. Add ten members to my new comment tribe
  18. Write 4 affiliate posts
  19. Spend time in Forum posting
  20. Go through Anthony Robbins 30 day course “Personal Power II”

As before I’d like to thank all of you who hold me accountable are a large part of why I continue to try to improve both my blog and my business. I’m a big believer is setting goals, and listing out the steps needed to get us to each goal, and I think that by making my goals public, I’ll increase the likelihood of achieving the vast majority of them.

Here is to an amazing year in business for each of us!

 

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Grow Your Blog’s Comments Using A Comment Tribe

February 29, 2012 By 3 Comments

Grow Your Blog’s Comments Using A Comment Tribe

Comments are a great indication of how a blog is doing within the blogosphere. Generally speaking (not always) the more comments a blog gets the more active and more engaged the readers are, and the more likely they’ll return to respond to something they’ve already posted, or perhaps to defend a comment they made.

Comment tribes are a terrific way to get out and meet other bloggers and also participate in a comment exchange with them. Not only do you get some quality comments, but you also open yourself up to people with their own pool of knowledge and you can’t help but to learn something by visiting, reading, and commenting on their posts as well.

A short while back I integrated a blogging and internet marketing forum into my website where online marketers, bloggers, and entrepreneurs can meet and discuss those topics that are near, and dear to their hearts – their websites and businesses.

I’ve also just added a comment tribe into the forum, and will be accepting members who are looking to grow their community and generate more comments to their blogs.

The way each campaign works is a comment tribe member starts a campaign by creating a new thread and giving it a title such as: blog comment campaign #1 and then copying and pasting in the rules coupled with the number of their post (Which for the person starting it would be #1 of course) and a link to their post.

Here is an example:

Comment Campaign #1

— Paste Rules —

The Rules:

Rule #1 - Comment Campaigns are limited to 10 per thread. If you find yourself number eleven simply start a new thread using the following format: Blog Comment Campaign #1 (change the campaign number to reflect the new campaign) copy and paste this notice in its entirety and follow it up with a link to the post you’d like comments on.

Rule #2 - You must comment on all other posts in your campaign before moving onto a new one.

Rule #3 – Please only offer up high quality information as it relates to either the internet marketing, or blogging industry. While affiliate links make sense in some posts, if that is your only type of content this likely isn’t the forum for it.

Rule #4 - While the forum is moderated it is up to the members to inform newcomers if they are breaking the rules, or submitting content that is poor quality or in some other way unacceptable.

Rule #5 - While Re-tweets, Likes and other shares aren’t required, if you feel the content to be deserving, or could benefit your own audience then go ahead. I’m sure it will be appreciated and the chance of it being reciprocated is much more likely.

*Note Comments can hit spam traps for new visitors. If you are missing comments try checking your spam folder first.

(Copy these rules into each new campaign)

My Blog post #1
www.blog.com/post-I’d-like-the-other-nine-members-to-comment-on

Thank you.

The following person would then simply add theirs

My post is #2 and the link is

www.blog.com/example

And so on and so forth up until there are ten posts within the campaign. (The 11th person would simply start comment campaign #2 and copy paste the rules and things would start all over again.)

Please don’t start or participate in a new campaign until you’ve finished commenting on any campaigns you’ve entered into already.

While retweets, likes, or shares aren’t required if you feel the content is deserving by all means share it with your own audience if you think they might benefit from it.

Like any beginning I’m sure things will start off slowly, but with each campaign limited to only ten submissions we should be able to get underway with as few as twenty or so regular members to start off, and if we invite others into it, growth should happen quickly.

If you’d like to participate in the comment tribe, you can simply sign up here, or under the members tab up above, and create a free account (there used to be both free and paid, but I’ve recently opened everything up to everyone) and feel free to introduce yourself in the Coffee Lounge, and if you have a blog post you’d like comments on add it under the comment campaign section.

The rules for the forum are fairly standard and are only there for our benefit. If you come across a problem, or issue don’t hesitate to get ahold of me either in the forum itself, or via email and we’ll get it straightened out promptly.

 

 

 

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How To Blog For Backlinks

February 27, 2012 By 5 Comments

How To Blog For Backlinks

Do you know the best way to get backlinks to your website? The best thing that you can do is write an impeccable blog post and hope people link back to it. This is what many people try to do but they just don’t have the basics down to actually do it.

Won’t I need lots of website traffic?

No, although this will help you will want the right kind of traffic or following to get many backlinks. What I mean by this is 100 small sites with links back to you will be good but it won’t compare to 1 link back to your site from Problogger.net or johnchow.com. This is why the right following will do more than tons of traffic.

Also, you don’t need the major bloggers to follow you at this time. What you can do is send out an email to some of the bloggers that you follow and tell them about the post that you just wrote. This is where most people make the biggest mistake. If you don’t write a post that they want to read and that has a substantial amount of information, then they won’t read it and they will probably not even read anything else you send them. Just make sure that if you are sending bloggers a post that you just wrote you should make sure it is a “Pillar post” that they have never seen before.

Why Pillar Posts Work

The reason a pillar post will get you tons of backlinks is because they are used as an all in one article on that particular topic. For instance, if you were looking for a pillar post on link building, then I would point you over to Pat Flynn’s article – The Link Building Strategy That Works

His pillar post is great and as you can see, it shows you everything you need to know about building backlinks to your niche site.

Tips On Creating Pillar Posts

Wrong Longer Articles

Did you know that you can get more traffic from a longer post? The thought process behind this is that each sentence can attract more long tail keywords so the more sentence you have, the more traffic you will get. Not only will longer posts be better for getting search engine traffic, they will have more information in them and that is what a pillar post is all about. The only thing you need to remember is that you can’t repeat the same thoughts or ideas over and over again; this will just be tiresome to read.

Take Your Time

When people tell me that they wrote a pillar post in less than a couple hours, I really wonder how good it will be. The reason I say this is because it is tough to get all your great ideas neatly worded into one article without taking some time to do it. What I would recommend is that you spend week writing a little bit at a time and then once you are done with that, take a day or so to finalize everything. Doing this will ensure that your post is as good as it can be.

Add A Different Flavor

When I say add a different flavor I mean that you should mix things up. You don’t want to create posts that all look the same and because of this you should use heading, subheadings, bullets, interviews, quotes and anything else you can muster together on your topic. Just remember that the more you have in a post, the better it most likely will be.

When it comes to writing a pillar post you need to remember what the point of it really is a wealth of information. You don’t want to make it sound like you are creating a post just for backlinking purposes because that usually doesn’t work out in your favor. Just make the post as good as you can and then add links or sharing buttons so that the readers can easily share that post with their friends or other bloggers.

Creating a pillar post is the best way to blog for backlinks and that is why I highly recommend it. Although, this will take some time to write, it will benefit your blog a great deal.

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Ways To Increase Guest Post Submissions

February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ways To Increase Guest Post Submissions

Every blogger wants to receive guest posts now and then, however, when you never get any guest posts then you should try to do something to change that. The problem that a lot of bloggers have is they don’t make it known that they accept guest posts on their blog. All you have to do is tell your readers that they can submit a post or link to a guest post page.

The best part about getting more guest post submissions is that you will expand your audience, you will get more traffic in the long run, you will have more time to do other things besides writing blog posts and best of all, you are now seen as a credible blog. Other bloggers are not just going to write a blog post on a site that doesn’t have good traffic and is not credible so the more guest post you get, the better your blog is to other bloggers.

Techniques To Increase Guest Posts

Have A Guest Post Page

If you don’t have a page on your site regarding guest posts, then you really need to put one up. The benefit of doing this is that people will now know that you allow guest posts on your website. For many bloggers, they go to a site and see if there is a guest post page. Now, if you don’t have a guest post page you either won’t get anybody asking to do a guest post or you will get a bunch of emails once people start inquiring about it. Either way, it is better to just put up a guest post page and go from there.

Ask For More Guest Posts

Did you know that one of the best ways to get something is to just ask? This is something that you might want to try. All you have to do is ask the people who come to your site to write a guest post if they want to. By just asking you will get more guest post submissions and you will also grow your blogging network.

Run A Contest

How about running a contest where you give away 30 days free advertising or you give away an $25 Amazon gift card. Giving something away is not illegal and in most cases it works better than any other method to get guest posts. What I would recommend doing is to run a contest where you give something away to the person who offers the most guest posts in one month’s time. A lot of bloggers are currently doing contests like these and they are seeing incredible results. Just try it out and see how your blog does after one month.

Increase Your Traffic

One sure fire way to get more guest post is just to increase your traffic. It doesn’t matter if you have a PR6 blog with only 100 visitors a day, however, if you have a PR0 blog with 1,000 visitors a day then people will guest post on that blog. Guest posting is as much about link building as it is about getting traffic and readers to view their article so make sure you provide both high Page Rank and high traffic.

Now, although guest posts are great to get on your site you will need to make sure they are up to your standards. A lot of bloggers will quickly publish guest posts as soon as they come in without even checking them for uniqueness. This is a big mistake that you need to avoid. By simply going through the article and doing a Google search for one of the sentences you will be able to tell if the article is online already or not.

Here is how you do it;

Do a Google search like this – “This would be where your sentence would go and make sure the quotes are around it so that Google searches for this, exactly.”

Do you understand now, why some websites get so many guest posts? If you are wanting to increase your readership and network with other bloggers similar to yourself, then you need to follow some of the techniques that I listed above. The is nothing to lose by getting more guest posts, so make some changes and see how well they work.

If you would like to submit your unique post and be featured as a guest blogger here on PLR Internet Marketing, simply visit my guest posting page, and we’ll get things rolling.

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Importance of Subscribe Section in Your Blog

February 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Importance of Subscribe Section in Your Blog

In the world where there are millions of bloggers, it is essential to learn how to make your blog stand out from the rest. Truth being said, it is almost impossible to be spotted by your future readers unless you have something that will grab their attention. There are different tips and some tricks on how to make your blog the best it can be, but the majority of bloggers insist that their content attracts readers, not gimmicks of any kind.

Is It All About The Content?

Most people would answer positively to this question without thinking about it too much. They would be right, but not completely right. The truth is that your content is what makes your blog valuable to the readers, but this isn’t the only thing that you should focus your attention to. Namely, even the greatest writers with one-of-a-kind ideas are not likely to achieve great success if they have nothing but a great content. The idea of blogging is to attract readers, and if you want to do so, you need to make them want to read your blog posts. How do you do that? Well, you need to make a great design for your blog, and only then will you get a chance to become noticed.

It Is the Design of the Entire Blog Actually

When it comes to blogs, people tend to pay great attention to design. This means that blog posts with lots of colors, useful widgets and on the top of it all, lots of creativity will be more visited that the blogs that are ordinary and plain, and some would say even boring. So invest some time into designing your blog the best way you can.

Subscribe Section – How Important Is It?

If you are just starting your blog, it is vital that you make the subscribe section a part of it. If you, on the other hand, already have a blog of your own, but haven’t included this section in it – do this immediately. Making it possible for the visitors to your blog to subscribe to it is very important for you if you want to generate traffic. By having a subscribe button on your blog you give a visitors a reason to return to your blog, in case they find something interesting there. From here the equation is simple – the more visitors to your blog, the more money you earn.

Make It Simple

From the aforementioned it is easy to conclude that the subscribe section should definitely be made part of your blog. However, there is the question of how this should be done, because it is not all about giving your visitors the option to subscribe, but you should also make them want to do that. The best idea is to make subscription to your blog as simple as it can possibly be. If you make this task hard most visitors will give up instantly on subscribing to your blog. In addition to this, a lot of people who own a blog give away free stuff to their future subscribers such as free e-books. So, keep it simple and try to award your subscribers with quality content, and if possible give them a gift occasionally.

Crystal J. Briscoe is from Self Test Engine. Looking for CCNA Exam help? Let’s take advantage of Self Test Engine self paced training and pass your IT exams on first try.

 

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Why I Break These Blogging Rules

February 8, 2012 By 9 Comments

Why I Break These Blogging Rules

When you think of blogging, what comes to your mind? Do you think of people sitting at their computer writing posts every single day? Unless you are John Chow and you post twice a day, this might not be for you. Do you think of bloggers who write on one topic over and over again? Unless you are blogging in a niche that keeps evolving like electronics, then you might run out of things to write about.

There are a lot of blogger rules that I break but the 4 that I am going to talk about are the biggest ones. The reason I say this is because all of these will revolve around the actual blog and how it looks and feels. Just know that you don’t have to break these same blogging rules that I did but if you do, then good for you.

400 Word Articles

How many times have you heard somebody tell you that every article you post has to be 400 words? This is something I get tired of hearing because in 400 words I am barely getting my point across.

Just to give you an idea of how big of an article that would be, right here is just over 200 words.

The problem that I had with this is that I would give my readers only part of what I wanted to share with them and that is why I break this rule time and time again. Also, who says that a blog post can’t be shorter than 400 words? I know of some A-list bloggers who write posts that are 200-300 words and they still get a bunch of traffic and hundreds of comments.

What I Do Now:

What I have been doing lately is not even keep track of how long my articles are and as you can see, they are all over 500 words and most of them are pushing the 1,000 word mark. Something that I also do is I spend around 10 minutes before every article listing all the tips and key points that I want to put in the article that way I don’t forget anything while I write.

Stick To One Niche

It doesn’t matter if your blog is about freelance writing or Kodak digital cameras, you can talk about whatever you want. A blog is great because you are not stuck talking about just one niche, if you want to expand your following then you will have to put yourself out there in different niches as much as you possibly can. Trust me, if you stick to one niche you won’t make any money from your blog and you will have a hard time getting the traffic that you really want.

Something that I would highly recommend is to ask your readers what they want to hear. The benefit of doing this is that you will be giving your readers what THEY want as opposed to what you think they want.

What I Do Now:

As you can see, I don’t just blog about PLR or internet marketing, I have really expanded what I talk about. Now, I talk about blogging, social media, affiliate marketing, niche websites, website flipping, Adsense and whatever else I think my readers will like. If you have any suggestions as to what you want me to write, then just let me know so that I can fulfill your requests.

Build Backlinks

How much time to you spend building backlinks to your website? If you are like most people, then you will spend more time building backlinks than you will on the actual content. What you need to understand is this is the worst thing you can do. If you have a decent following, then you should be able to get a good amount of backlinks no matter what you do. The content is the most important thing here so make sure you are writing epic content if you want to get the most backlinks.

What I Do Now:

Do I still build backlinks? Yes, but not to my posts. The only thing I do is build backlinks to my homepage and the reason for this is because my content should be good enough to get the backlinks that I need. If you write epic content like I highly recommend, then the links will come in on their own.

Daily Posts

Do I post on a daily basis? I would if I had great articles to publish every day but I don’t. If you have noticed, I don’t publish every single day and the reason is because while most bloggers are rushing to get articles out, I am rushing to get ideas on papers so that I can spend time writing the article.

If you have a niche that requires daily posts, then go for it but I break this rule because I don’t need daily posts. My goal with this site is to ensure that I have the best content on the internet, not to have the most content. If you are anything like I am, then you will understand why daily posts are good for some sites and not for others.

What I Do Now:

Even though I don’t post on my blog daily, I will continue to write. I will write for other blogs and do guest posts, I will write for future posts on this blog and I will just practice my craft. The more I write the better I will be at it so there is no point to stop. Also, if there is a day that I am not writing it is because I am doing something else to make this blog and the community around it much better.

Even though I break these common blogging rules doesn’t mean that you have to do it as well. If you feel that blogging daily or publishing 400 word average posts is right for you and your readers, then go ahead and do it. Just remember that this is my experience with my blog and it won’t work with everybody.

If you have any other blogging rules that you break I would sure like to hear them in the comment section below.

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February 2012 Goals

February 1, 2012 By 26 Comments

February 2012 Goals

Wow, our first month of 2012 sure seems to have flown by! January usually starts out strong for most people, with New Year Resolutions and goal setting being front and foremost on many people’s minds. Bloggers and small business owners are no different.

As I head into February one thing is front and center in my thoughts. This marks the end of my 2nd year with PLR Internet Marketing. March 1st begins the third year for me, and I’d like to achieve as many things before then as I can. (I feel so much more productive when I can list all the various accomplishments I’ve achieved with my site during any particular time period) J

I have an online interview lined up for March where I’ll discuss not only what’s been happening with my site during the 2nd year, but also my plans, hopes, and dreams for 2012 and my third year with the site so I won’t go into that here. What I do want to do however is set some last minute goals for February to make sure I get the most out of my business year.

I should point out that I do use goals, and goal boards constantly, but posting something publically is always a little more “concrete” as there are a lot more people holding you accountable. I only wish February wasn’t a short month! LOL

So without further ado, here are my goals for February 2012:

  1. Write an eBook. This will be something along the lines of an “Operations Manual” for professional bloggers. (Anyone looking to make some money with their blogs) I want to make this very in depth and content rich, so this will likely take up a fair bit of time and energy.
    Since I did write a post title “30 Days to an eBook” though, I’d better make sure it happens!
  2. Open up my internet marketing forum to the public. The forum will be going from a paid structure to free for all users.
  3. Issue a press release to announce the launch of the forum opening.
  4. Send out 3 press releases. (I’m investing some of my marketing dollars this year into a serious press release campaign to track and assess the benefits of a sustained approach. Previously I’d only sent out a couple, and that was sporadic at best.
  5. Start a commenting tribe within the forum. Comment tribes are a great way to generate comments and traffic  but there are still quite a few people who either haven’t heard of them, or don’t belong to any groups.
  6. Holding with goal number 4, I’ll send out a press release to announce the tribe launch.
  7. Complete interview for www.Aaronhoos.com outlining my 2nd year successes and challenges, as well as my 3rd year goals, hopes, and dreams for PLR Internet Marketing.
  8. Make 300 comments on blogs I follow. (Roughly ten a day) This is something I’ve been neglecting, and I need to get out there and interact more.
  9. Publish 29 posts on the PLR Internet Marketing blog.
  10. Record 20 podcasts. I’d like to eventually have all 630+ articles in audio version as well as written.
  11. List out my 3rd year goals for my business.
  12. Install DLGuard on www.blogtraffictactics.net to track sales and downloads.
  13. Install an affiliate tracking software on Blog Traffic Tactics to launch and take advantage of affiliates for the book.
  14. Issue a press release announcing the affiliate program. (This will fulfill my 3 press releases)
  15. Hand out 100 +K (Klout) to the various Twitter users I follow. (I’ve been lax in this regard, but since I keep getting Klout Perks, I should really participate more)
  16. Launch www.earningsuccess.com with Aaron Hoos and start marketing it.
  17. Start paying attention to www.thehappyself.com (One of my blogs that I’ve been neglecting, and yet still gets hundreds of visitors a day)
  18. Make sure my Fiancé gets her driver’s license! (I’m currently spending 80 hours a month driving her into the city and back for work. Time that would be better spent working my business!)
  19. Build a “Link Partners” page, and start doing link exchanges. I’ve never taken advantage of this and I’ve noticed a competing website shoot up to the 3rd position using primarily this method. So for all you bloggers, affiliate marketers, and internet marketers who would like to participate shoot me an email, and we’ll get things rolling!
  20. Expand my own “Operations Manual”. This is a document I keep for my blog and business that outlines all the pertinent information outlining the day to day activities. It serves as a great training document for employees, and outsourcers as well, and I highly recommend you create one for yourself.

That’s it, 20 goals for the next 29 days! It should keep me busy especially since some of these are fairly decent sized goals (like the eBook). I’ll post the interview, as well as a follow up in the first week of March letting you know how I did with it. I’m pretty sure you’ll call me on it if I come up way short! J

Take care, and have a great month!

Podcast version

 

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How To Generate Unlimited Article Ideas

January 31, 2012 By 4 Comments

How To Generate Unlimited Article Ideas

If you are only using PLR articles, then this might not apply to you but in my experience you will have to write some fresh articles at some point. Writing totally unique articles is a great way to get new traffic, expand your market and also break into a new niche. The problem with writing your own article is that you may not have any ideas as to what you should be writing. If this is the case, then just know that there are many ways to generate article ideas.

Now, all you have to do in order to generate some new article ideas is to use one or more of the list below. Trust me, if you can’t come up with an idea after doing some of the things below then you need to take a break.

How To Find Your Next Article Idea

Write About Something You Own

If you don’t know what to write about, then just take a minute and scan the room. It doesn’t matter what your topic is about, there is always something that will inspire you to write about something else. For instance, if I wanted to write about how to make money online and I was staring down my table lamp, then I could easily write about how natural sunlight is better than any other light. What you need to be aware of is the fact that everything is tied together in some way, all you need is that one thing to spark a new idea.

Do You Like To Travel

A lot of people like to travel and this is why you should write about it. If you are going on a vacation sometime soon, then make sure you write about how you are preparing for that. Did you just get back from vacation? If you did, then make sure people know how you kept up with business while you were away. Just know that you don’t have to write long informative articles all the time, they just need to give the reader something to benefit from.

Get Ideas From Infobarrel

Infobarrel has a lot of writers which means they have a lot of articles. The great thing about using Infobarrel to get ideas is that there are new things to write about on a daily basis. Think about it, why wouldn’t you just go and look at another article that somebody just wrote and get inspiration from that? This is an easy way to get a new idea, my only recommendation is that you don’t just steal the content. Take the idea and come up with something original.

Ask A Friend

Hopefully your friends know what you do so they should be a valuable source to use. What I would suggest is that you simply ask a friend or family member about what you write your next article on. Something that many bloggers will do is they get a huge list of ideas together and then they just start writing. The more articles you can have on your website, the better it will be.

Does TV Inspire You

Do you ever get inspired to write something after you watch your favorite TV show? There is a reason why you get inspired to write so maybe that is where you should start. A lot of people watch TV throughout the day and it is normal to get a little inspired during this time but just know that it doesn’t benefit you if you never do anything about that newfound inspiration. I am not saying you need to write a review of the TV show and tie it to what you are talking about but you should find a connection somewhere.

Almost Done

Before I let you go I just want to give you a tip that many of the big time bloggers use – don’t publish all your finished articles.

Are you unsure about what this means?

What I am saying is that you should write a few articles and then just let them sit on your website for a while until you can’t come up with anything new to write about. Lets say you are going to go on vacation for a week and you want to have an article published, all you will need to do is take one of your saved articles and schedule it to be published.

This is something that a lot of bloggers do and the reason they do this is because they never know when they might need an article on short notice. The reason I am telling you this is so that you can use some of the methods above to come up with a few non-time sensitive material.

So now that you know how to come up with more article ideas and why you should have finished articles as drafts, it is time for you to get started.

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