If you have taken the time to start a blog, there is little doubt that you want it to be as successful and widely read as possible. After all, there is little more discouraging than pouring your heart and soul into your blog posts week after week and knowing that only a few people are reading them. So what is it that makes some blogs so popular while others remain relatively almost invisible? What can you do to get more traffic and make more money from your blog? Luckily, there are some common factors that can take a blog from average to amazing. Listed below are the five components that can make or break your blog’s success. Content – Content is the backbone of your blog. Regardless of the main reason you are trying to... 
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Five Components of a Successful Blog
If you have taken the time to start a blog, there is little doubt that you want it to be as successful and widely read as possible. After all, there is little more discouraging than pouring your heart and soul into your blog posts week after week and knowing that only a few people are reading them. So what is it that makes some blogs so popular while others remain relatively almost invisible? What can you do to get more traffic and make more money from your blog? Luckily, there are some common factors that can take a blog from average to amazing. Listed below are the five components that can make or break your blog’s success. Content – Content is the backbone of your blog. Regardless of the main reason you are trying to... Digging into WordPress v3.0
WordPress is an unbelievably powerful system that can do just about anything you need it to, but using more than a fraction of its capabilities, or getting under the hood to modify certain things can be a daunting task for some. While the WordPress support forums boast an active and thriving community, sometimes you just can’t find the answer you need when you need it, which costs you time, money and most of all, sanity. Fortunately, Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr have solved that problem by releasing an updated and expanded version 3.0 of their book, of Digging into WordPress. There is a lot to learn about the World’s most popular web publishing platform. Starting with your first steps of learning the basics of WordPress all the way through maintaining and modifying your site throughout... Is the Attorney General going to censor YOUR website?
Imagine this… You’ve been working hard on your website, steadily filling it with lots of useful and informative content; well within the right to free speech that has protected Americans for hundreds of years under the First Amendment. And then, BAM! It’s gone! You weren’t hacked. You didn’t accidentally delete everything and your web host didn’t somehow lose all your files. No, instead, the Attorney General, with virtually no oversight or check and balances simply “deemed” your website to be “infringing” copyright, requiring domain registrars/registries, ISPs, DNS providers, and others to block users from accessing it. Sound impossible? Considering some of the stunts our government has pulled lately, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. This blatant abuse of power was introduced yesterday by Senator Patrick Leahy and 13 co-sponsers, as the “Combating Online Infringement... When inspiration strikes…
As entrepreneurs, many (probably most) of us are plagued with a common challenge; we have more ideas than we have time to execute them. One particular case for me is writing. Whether that means something as basic as a post for our blog, something more robust like a book or something in between, ideas pop into my head throughout the day, every single day. Unless I make a note of them, many are lost forever to the next wave of ideas, so I’ve made it a point to always have paper and a pen handy everywhere I go so I can jot my ideas down whenever inspiration strikes. But paper has it drawbacks. I’ve often found some of my best ideas tucked away, deep in a filing cabinet, that have outlived their usefulness, despite never... Five Tips for More Exposure from Your Article Marketing
After you’ve written and submitted a few articles – hopefully several – it’s time to start promoting them. While it’s great that your articles are out there for people to read and republish, to get the best results, you’ll need to do some promotion. There are five main steps you should take to get the most traction from your articles: 1. Tweet about your article Let people know when you have posted a new article in a directory by tweeting a link to your followers. Letting them know about new information available from you is a quick and easy way to spread the word. A simple tweet should include the topic and the link, but try to stay under 120 characters so people have room to retweet your message without having it get cut off.... Expert status, reader relationships and social bookmarking
Who wouldn’t want to be viewed as an expert in their field? It usually means more money, credibility and visibility. You can get there with the help of your readers and social bookmarking. When people find useful content they want to share it with others, and that’s what social bookmarking sites are all about. There are bookmarking sites for just about every kind of content, such as text, videos, pictures and more. The bookmarked content is then voted on by other members, and if popular, could even be featured on the front page. There is one crucial thing to remember: Very few readers will bookmark your content if you don’t first build a relationship with them. Listen to what they have to say say in surveys and/or comments, and make changes to meet their needs.... Are you ready
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