There are many ways to grow your own blog market, one being by leaving high quality comments on other blogs.
Following is a list of 7 reasons why you should make commenting part of your blog development strategy:
Link Building.
If the blogger has not set nofollow tags on their comments, every comment you leave will be a link to your blog which will help with your SEO efforts. Backlinks are very important when thinking of SEO. Also note that most bloggers will use nofollow, but this is still not bad for you because leaving quality comments will drive traffic to your own blog.
Attract Attention
Leaving comments on a bigger and more established blog, there are good chances you will attract the attention of that blog...
Getting comments on your blog is quite important because it show credibility to your readers. Work with this, write in a way that invites your readers to participate in conversation and you will have a more dynamic blog.
Here are a couple of tips that will help getting more comments:
Invite comments. - People are more likely to comment when you ask them to.
Ask questions. - Having specific questions in your posts will help to get more comments.
Ask questions in post title. - Doing so you show from the start that you are interested in answers, in comments, and so is more likely to get them.
Have an open end. - If your post say everything, you are less likely to get others comments because you have cove...
An effective way to create loyal readers is to write series of posts that build upon one another and explore a topic over a period of time.
Writing a series will give your readers a reason to come back over and over to your blog at least over the time you will write this series.
Here are the steps you can use for this matter:
Identify a topic.
This is the key when developing a successful series (same as with regular posts). It should be large enough to warranty multiple posts.
Write a list.
After choosing the topic, start with brainstorming and compile a list of the main points that you want to make. Then go back and for each point in the list add a couple of sentences to describe what you want to say.
Se...
Writing effectively for a blog is an art. Web users do not stay long on a page and while there they skim through content instead of reading it word by word.
So it's very important to learn how to write and format the content correctly.
Following are a couple of tips and techniques:
Use lists - Having in the post lists with bullets and numbers are read a lot more than similar-length posts written in an essay style.
Formatting - Use CAPITALS, bold, italic, underlying, H tags, font size, color, style and other formatting. But use all this carefully because too much of it may frustrate your readers. As an example, be careful with underlying as it commonly is used to indicate links.
Pictures - Pictures can grab atte...
If you want your blog to become profitable, choosing the right niche is very important and there are many things to consider.
Do you know enough about this topic and is it interesting for you?
So, the best way to choose a niche is to take a pen, a paper and write down your interests and what kind of knowledges you have. No reason to start a blog in something you are not proficient even if there are many people interested in the topic or if it has a good commercial sense. Remember that you will have to build credibility so you must KNOW what you are writting about and you should be PASSIONATE about it or it will die soon.
Blogs doesn't become successful over night. So you have to be sure that you will can and want to write ...
Knowledge
Usually you start a niche blog on something you know well. As result you can continue blogging for long time without getting stuck on ideas.
Loyal readers
Most of the readers of such a blog know exactly what they are looking for. And if they will find it on your blog and will like it, there are good chances they to return over and over.
Community
People like to get in groups with others that have same interests.
Credibility
Blogging consistently on one particular topic increases the chances for the blog to be seen as a credible and trusted source of information in that area. Doing this correctly will have as effect you being recognized as an expert in the field. As a result people wi...
Direct Monetization - this is when you earn directly from your blog.
There are many ways to do it as being:
advertising (AdSense, Chitika,
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, LinkWorth, etc)
affiliate commissions (Amazon, etc)
paid reviews (LinkWorth, SponsoredReviews, etc)
selling links
sponsorships
etc
Indirect Monetization - this is when you earn because of your blog.
Many wys exists to do this as being:
Consultancy opportunities
Speaking engagements
Writting books
etc
Which method to choose is up to you, but best is to go with both of them of course.
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That's a good questions. It depend. Most of the bloggers will make nothing or hardly will cover hosting spends. Why? Because:
they don't put enough effort into it
they give up too early.
Earning from your blog is not something that will get you rich over night. It will take you time, resources (at least time resources and mental resources) and of course discipline. Discipline because in order to have good traffic and loyal readers, you will have to write posts on a regular basis. Many succesful bloggers have even a kind of schedule like each even date for example.
Don't believe all that "Get Rich in 7 days!", "Make 6 figure income fast", etc. It's not easy to make big money blogging. But with a little effort it IS real to make s...
When searching the NET for blogging advices you will find both options. Some will tell you to blog more. More posts and more often. Others will tell you that the quantity is NOTHING while quality is ALL.
I will tell you what. I think both Quantity and Quality are equaly important and here is why. Let get each of them and see what they will give you.
Quantity
The more posts you have, the more pages will get indexed by search engines.
More pages indexed, more chances someone to look/search for something you have in a particular blog entry.
This will have as result more traffic to your blog.
Quality
The better quality your blog posts will be, the more they will be liked by your readers.
More readers wi...
Probably you heared or read it many times before, but let me say it again: CONTENT IS KING. That are not just words.
If you want a really good blog - CONTENT IS KING.
If you want to have more visitors on the blog (read more traffic) - CONTENT IS KING.
If you need loyal users that will come to your blog over and over - CONTENT IS KING.
The trueth is that no mater how much you will spend on SEO, without good content it will be ZERO in long run. For example, on one of my blogs i have some posts that even after 2 years still bring decent traffic. So, don't get fooled by all the "i will make you Google #1" crap. Create good content and you will be good too.
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