Archive for March 5th, 2010
Every business website should have a fresh and engaging blog and it should always be monitored. This takes time and discipline. But what if you can’t write? The good news is that a blog requires more than writing skills. It needs good ideas and content – and some basic organizational skills. People like blogs because they are written by other people, and not by slick corporations. So don’t waste your money on a blogging service. Here are a few ways you can write a better blog – even if your writing is terrible.
Think Before You Write
Make a list of topics you want to write about. Pick the topic that you think will be most interesting. Go with that idea. A short outline is helpful, too. If you get stuck – don’t tear your hair out. Go to another topic on the list and work with that idea.
Catchy Headline
The headline of your blog makes an immediate impact on the reader. Some say it is even more important than the actual text. Pick an interesting title and try to put a keyword in it. Keep the headline short. If your headline is eye-catching you will attract more readers to your blog.
Be Honest
Write your blog with an open heart. Pour out all your thoughts on the topic you are writing about. Your visitors are reading it because they want some good tips, resources and information. When visitors comes to your blog, it’s your job to give them your best.
Keywords
Keywords in your blog are important for search engines. Think about what keywords a visitor would use to search for you and try to include them in your text and headline. Make sure your keyword placement is natural and not out of place.
Link Sources
Don’t forget to put in links to useful sources that are relevant to your topic. Don’t overdue it – but a few links to sources will make your readers happy.
Keep it Fresh
Make sure your blog has accurate and up-to-date content. Content can come from business or news sources – or any place where there is new and relevant information. Check your facts and make sure any statistics can be validated.
Keep it Simple
Keep your blog consistent and friendly. Make sentences and headlines short and to the point. Don’t write a novel. Visitors don’t like to read long copy. Typically, 50% of visitors will read a 300 word page blog to the end, 20% will read 500 words, and only 5% will read 1,000 words. So try to keep your blog under 300 words. Many experts say 250 is the max.
Engage in Discussion
Address questions to your readers and get them involved in active and lively discussion. Answer their comments in the comment section. Allowing the readers to interact and take part in discussions will make your blog more popular and keep visitors coming back.
Proofread It
Even if you can’t write, you can still use SpellCheck. Before you click the publish button, check for grammar, punctuations, commas and other mistakes in the text. Remove all the clutter and arrange any lists properly. This makes it a better experience for your readers.
These are a few tips to get you started. Don’t worry about being perfect – practice makes perfect. You don’t have to be a good writer to write a good blog. All it takes is a little organization – and a good idea.
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
America should learn from Jakarta’s protesters how to clog the streets with cries of imploding the Oval Office imposter.
Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is beheading America by throwing our money into the downdrains.
He’s a liar. He breaks his promises. He plays dictator. His crook and liar cronies stand to right and left of his every move. His wife is team member with him.
There is no doubt that Obama is using every means possible to wipe out this Republic. That is the prime purpose of any Muslim—eliminate the infidels. Beheading is the favorite modus operandi. But if one can behead without shedding blood, so much the cleaner.
Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610_printer.shtml
Obama is working night and day with cohorts Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to shred this nation from coast to coast. This is most evident with the Obamangst “care” bill ram-jammed down our throats.
Reasonable newsfeeds don’t know how to word their coverage of this insanity. Fox Newscasters in particular are stymied when trying to figure out logical ways to communicate this crazy scene from the White House.
Every day they grope for new verbiage by which to state that the present administration is killing our democracy and no one seems to know how to stop it.
Well, in Jakarta, protesters fill the air with cries that Obama is not to arrive there because he is not Muslim enough. There you have it. In America, Muslim Obama is Muslim Number One. In Jakarta Obama is not Muslim enough.
And that Islamic devotee on Pennsylvania
Avenue thought that once in office the Islamic world would fall at his feet, worshiping the anointed one. Not so.
Now this brings us to the spiritual analysis. God is at work through this whole mess. Why? Because of the righteous remnant at the time of America’s start and at the present moment. Those prayers match up before heaven’s throne. God answers those sincere petitions.
Satan is also at work, evidently. Satan wants to destroy America because it is the only country begun with a Christian stand. America is the Christian-heritage nation of the planet.
God wants that to continue. The sincere believers pray that that will continue.
At times the spiritual battle will become increasingly severe. However, in the end, God and His grace children will prevail. We must keep faith strong.
We must not try to play God. We must let God guide us socially, spiritually and politically—which He will do.
Watch how God moves in the future to rescue America from the Marxist Muslim schemes to rid the world of the Christian-heritage United States of America.
Jakarta is an example of how to protest Obama at the moment. Other protestations will show up on life’s screen. In each of these, God will work His move.
Its been said over and over that maintaining a blog is a great way to grow your your business. If you own a business and do not have a blog set up yet, you might want to think about building a blog as soon as you can! Blogging can be the upper hand you need to give your business a boost. Here are some ways you and your business can benefit from a blog.
Although blogging is the new weapon of choice when it comes to marketing tools, it should be noted that you can’t expect that just by setting up a blog and feeding content to it, you will benefit from it. You have to learn how to blog effectively. Ineffective Blogging will simply waste your time and efforts. But, using blogs effectively you can ensure a healthy growth for your business.
Credibility
One of the best if not the best benefits of blogging is credibility. By being current and posting updated news of your industry and providing relevant information related to your industry, readers will come to know you as an expert whatever niche you may be in. It establishes you as an authoritative figure who knows what hes talking about. Another word, since you are able to constantly provide updated information and stay current with the new and happenings of your industry, people will trust you and accept you as a credible source.
Targeted Traffic
Whether you own an online business or an offline business, you need traffic, targeted traffic to be exact. Blogging allows you to expand your reach beyond the normal boundaries and gives you better ways to drive targeted traffic to your site.
Building a relationship
One of the main reason blog readers prefer bogs over formal website is… well the informality of blogs. Blog posts are usually informal. While they are informative, they are entertaining as well. At the same time it makes it easier for your readers or customers to relate and feel a much more closer relationship between you and themselves. Over time it builds trust between you and your readers.
Easy subscription for readers
Another great benefits of blogging is that allows your readers to subscribe to your blog, and opt to receive notices of your most recent posts, delivered directly to their inboxes. Which makes it easier for your readers to follow you and be updated of any new and relevant information you may post. By Providing relevant and useful information to your readers, you can ensure they’ll continually come to you first.
Comments
Blogs can provide you with one of the most powerful tools for communication between you and your customers. If you set up your blog to accept comments, you readers will be able to post feedback on your posts and tell you what they like or what they don’t like. This will give you valuable insight and ideas regarding your next product or project.
Cheap and effective marketing
If you have been in business for a while, then you know how costly marketing can be. Think of all the money and time you will have to spend to market your new product or service. A blog can cost you as little as $15 a month, yet it is one of the most effective marketing tools of today’s marketing world, not to mention its ever growing popularity that makes it a perfect tool for long term marketing as well.
These are just a few of many ways you can benefits by using a blog. I am sure with the fast evolving internet and related technologies, blogs will be playing much bigger rolls in our economy in the near future. After all, running a buisnees is about making money, and blogging can help you do just that, make money!So jump on the
If You like many other bloggers are using adsense, adbrite, yahoo publisher or any other PPC advertising network as your main source of making money with your blog, then you probably know that the more page views and clicks you get, the more money you make. Having people to read more of your articles by visiting different pages, thus giving your blog more page views, is a great way to help your revenue grow. But, not everybody who visit your blog, is going to visit each and every pages of your blog/site.
Most visitors leave the blog/site, as soon as they have found what they were looking for, which depending on the blog usually happens within the first minuet or so of arriving on the first page (unless of course they are your loyal readers). So, how do you get your visitors to check or read more than one page or article? How do you get them to view more pages?… Here are 10 simple yet very effective ways you can increase the number of page views you get.
Interlinking
Interlinking or deep linking can help you not only with your blog’s SEO status, but also with page views. Every time you write a new article or post, simply link to a related one on your blog (or other blogs, in case of having more than one blog).
Static Page
This is one of the smartest way to increase your page views. I myself haven’t done it yet, but have seen many bloggers do it, and they all are happy with the results (maybe I should get that going as well). Its very simple, you basically make each article a static page. Then simply refer people to the static page.
Reference Page
Make a couple of reference pages inside your blog, with some subjects or material to refer people back to them. When you write a new post, if applicable, mention the reference point and point to the reference page by leaving a link. But, don’t over do it by using it more than one or two times in an article, or referring visitors to it without having any reasonable or useful connection to the article.
Article On Article (Post On Post)
Write an article where you talk about couple of your past posts that you think were very informative, and that you think your readers should definitely read. It would be a good way to introduce new visitors to your old articles, as well as getting some page views from your loyal readers.
Series Writing
I am sure you have seen many of these kinds of posts, where bloggers write a series of article on a subject. Series posting will give your readers something to look forward to, while at the same time you get to refer to the last article in the new one, thus having some new or perhaps even regular visitors to click onto the last article for a quick “catch-up/reminder”. Series articles can be done once a week, month or less or more often. Avoid stretching a subject that can be addressed in a two sentence article, by making it a series of 10 articles.
Favorite Page
You may already have this. But what i am talking about is not for links to your favorite bloggers or friends. We are talking about creating a page with links to all of your master pieces. Every blogger has some articles that (s)he favors and knows has the juice. Make a page with links to your best works and name it favorite articles or best posts or what have you. People tend to like these kinds of pages where they know the can get the high points and important information in one place.
Break It Up
Thankfully most of blogging tools we use today like wordpress and blogger are already using the “more” or “read more” tag. This will make the reader go to the next page in order to read the rest of the article. Instead of having a long and never ending looking article, which most readers shy away from, use the “more” tag to break up your longer posts, and use two or more pages for them, i
Category Favorite
Another way to increase page view which is based on the same idea as number 4(Favorite Page) is a favorite page based on different categories. Since probably like most bloggers you write articles for different categories, it would be a good idea to have a favorite page for each category. Like favorite politics related articles or best money related posts.
I hope these tips will help you increase page views and hopefully the number of clicks you get on your ad sense ads.
