Keyword Research Guide for Bloggers - Case Study

The biggest mistake I have ever done to previous blogs is not targeting any "Primary Keywords". Every normal blogger research on various tools before writing every post. Have researched for keywords before starting your blog ?

Answer to this question is most frequently "NO".

Reason behind this silly mistake is blogging is a sort of passion and bloggers want to write on the things which they love to write. No matter what competition is.

Result of this kind of philosophy is low organic traffic and even if there is traffic, that traffic is not targeted as traffic is coming from wide range of subjects. It is impossible to scale-up these kind of blogs in terms of revenues as well readers' base.

Let's not waste your precious time and start the keyword research process

Ethical Link Building Guide for Bloggers

Links are one of the important SERP rank determining factor. Google, By their various search algorithms they have threatened the small blogger like me to not to link any low authority website. This is giving birth to era of "Mega Blogs" as capitalism in our economic system.

As rich are becoming more rich in capitalist economic era, these so called Mega Blogs are becoming bigger than ever as small bloggers are not linking each other at all. Even in case some blogger connects and makes a community, Google will penalize them labelling it as "Link Network"!!! I  am still to find anything bad in this. What is bad if some bloggers from similar niche, writing about similar topics join their hands to provide users' a better reading experience and providing them deep insights by linking various sources and blog posts from their network bloggers' blogs. After all it is helpful for bloggers, they need not to go back to Google and search again for deep insights.

Why Blogger is better than Wordpress

You might heard this issue many times but today I will share my personal experiances both with Wordpress and Blogger. So today I have decided to write what I have experianced in past

No need to worry about page loading speed

2 years back, I started my first blog Jasica.in, I know the name sounds weird but I bought this while learning and made a funny mistake as I usually do. I choosed a good template, customize that myself because I was taught HTML a bit in my school days. But that was some 6 years ago. There was no problem of page loading speed. My blog use to open with a bang. I was so happy with Blogger. Then while time passes and I made some money from blogging and providing services, I decided to start a new blog Designrapid.com. I promised myself to to do this seriously and beautifully. I designed the whole theme myself, thanks to Kulwant Nagi for his help and guidance. Purchased ipage hosting, I was amazed to see that  my website was taking more than 20 seconds to load, by analysing the situation, I found Ipage was culprit. I wasted hosting fee for a  full year twice and paid for Maxcdn service. After that I purchased HostGator, happy with it. But I end up wasting lot of money but still my Blogger blog is loading faster than WordPress blog.

Security issues

I use 2 step verification for my Blogger account, so it is very difficult to hack a blogger blog. Never heard ever that a big blogger blog had been hacked. Even one of the biggest Indian Technology blog Labnol was hacked last year. I am quite assured about my blogger blogs that they can never be hacked because large number of Google cyber security specialists are working for me to get secured accounts. But this is not with the case of Wordpress, although security plugins are available in Wordpress plugin repository like Login Lockdown but still they are not enough.

Blogs management

I have 4 blogger blogs and it is really easy to manage all of them from a same account without paying anything. In case I need similar kind of service in WordPress, I need to pay monthly fee to a service provider for proving a premium plugin.

SEO friendly

I heard many people saying, WordPress is more seo friendly than Blogger. I don't think. I always wanted to add separate meta description to each post and change the permalink, further to add location information in the post. Blogger took the bloggers requirements seriously and now they provided everything I want. Now I love Blogger.
                              I really don't know what other people are saying about Blogger's search engine frienliness but I believe in results, results from blogger blogs are far better than of Wordpress. In blogger I don't need to worry about how often Google looks at my site, is there any crawling error, structure of website, page loading speed, what other websites are there on same shared IP and much more.

Design

Blogger is unable to beat Wordpress here, because nobody is ready to pay for blogger templates. I designed 4 blogger templates, in return some of the website owners changed the name of my templates and claimed as their own. I filed DMCA complaint, but after 6 months, I can see many of blogger templates sites are listing my templates but with a nofollow link or no link at all. There is no motivation to make a blogger template, neither you will get money or links. 

17 ways to increase traffic to a website

Increase traffic of a website is the obsession of every webmaster in this article, or better in these 2 articles (the article is too long then it will be divided into two parts) we will see all possible methods to increase traffic on your web page.

Suggest your site to all search engines

: Often just insert a link to a page that is already in the index of the engine, but sometimes you have to suggest our url, do it for all the search engines, even if Google represents the main source for our visits other search engines can contribute to our purpose.

Optimize all your pages by making them SEO Friendly

Factors affecting the positioning are many and not all are known, but many of them have already been revealed, leaving the details are not cured anything, the speed to the tag title the url etc..

Your site is accessible to all browsers

often happens that there are compatibility issues with browsers css, test your site and correct any errors, you can read How to test different browsers with CSS.

Constantly monitor our analytics

 This method will reveal which strategies have worked, where our visitors come and which pages are most visited. Thanks to all the information Google Analytics, we can see if what we write or not like visitors, logically, if a theme like most of the other’s focus on this specific subject. An example of how much you understand this article with analytics is a Reduce the bounce rate and increase earnings.

Create a button for feeds

In this way you will give the visitor the possibility to be always updated oggni once you publish a new article.

Enter your site in major directories

With this method we will have a double advantage, increased visits and link popularity. Of course you do not even spend your life visiting 10000 directory, suggest your web page in the main directory and the theme with your site.

Write interesting content and original

Copy does not copy style will be useful, take inspiration from what laws and creates useful and comprehensive content. The web is full of sites dealing with your own theme so there will be anything but easy.

Make sure that whoever reads your content is pushed to insert a link in his blog

This represents a key point to increase visits. Offer free resources, free downloads, ebooks and more tools if you have the chance.

Well like I told you in 17 ways to increase traffic to a website Part 1 we came to the second part:

Offering discounts to your users

If you are an e-commerce or at least you have the opportunity you offer discounts to your members, word of mouth will do the rest.

Visit blogs and forums that deal with the same theme

I would say a good way, comment on blogs and forums of the other items in an appropriate manner. Comments such great article, or worse, or by entering the url of your site are often considered spam, then commented criticizing or adding something to the article.

Create a newsletter

This method as well as make contact with your visitors will give you the opportunity to alert the user of your news that may be opening a new blog or a contest.

Publish a Review

Try to get a review on your site or blog services that deal with similar topics.

Write often

Our motto is just one more chance to write and more chances to increase visits to your site.

Offline advertising

Imagine being the owner of a dating website of our city, well-publicized unleash the imagination and the most of your site in your town, then in newspapers, yellow pages, T-shirts, local, on your car and so on and on and so put.

Create an affiliate program for your site

Expensive but I would say the most effective, if you do not hesitate to spend a few dollars, creat your own affiliate program and manage them as you like, there is always an alternative adwords of Google.

Link your site with others in your industry

If you really want to do link exchanges or buy banner space do it with blogs and sites dealing with your same issue.

Connect your blog to social networks

By now, most Internet users spend most time on Facebook and the like, overtake with your group or your page.

Well I think I said everything, if you are ready to add more tips.

Apply internet marketing and blogging for your small business

If you’re starting a small business, then one of the best ways of promoting it is through internet marketing and online blogging. Put to use effective internet marketing and business blogging strategies, and very soon your business will reach the heights that you’d always aimed for.

 Apply internet marketing for your small business

You can follow the steps given below if you’re looking to implement internet marketing for your small business.

1.  Search engine optimization

Internet marketing requires you to concentrate on search engine optimization (SEO) for your small business website. Make use of the SEO resources available if you’re looking to employ SEO.

2.  Content of your website

Remember, one of the best ways to spread word about your small business is through your website and that can be done through informative articles and quality content. Always remember the phrase “content is king” when it comes to internet marketing.

3.  Video marketing strategies

Video marketing can actually prove to be a very effective tool for your small business. Internet marketing is crucial and video marketing is actually an integral part of it. You can distribute your videos to the different video websites.

 Tips for starting a small business blog

Another great way to implement Internet marketing for your small business would be by starting a business blog. From sharing updates to providing your customers with crucial tips, you can fill your blog with useful information as a small business owner.

1.      Feature on your website

Your customers can have instant access from your website if you’re featuring your blog from your website. In other words, this means you should link from your website. When you’re doing this, make sure that you come up with a list of topics that you’d like to cover.

2.      Lend a voice

It’s important that you provide your small business blog with a voice. That means set a tone for the posts in your blog. You can choose to use casual communication. This would actually prove ideal if your business happens to provide products or services to customers.

3.      Engage a good writer

It’s not always possible for you to write weekly blog posts as the owner of a small business. You can hire a freelance writer perhaps who’s got blogging experience. He or she can write and post for your company blog depending on the topics you’d like to cover.

4.      Keep a tab on the comments

Blogging will obviously have your customers leaving comments about what you post quite often. Hence, there are chances of receiving a great variety of comments which can be positive, negative as well as spam. Employ a staff member who should be responsible for monitoring your comments.

5.      Promote your blog

It’d be ideal if your present customers are aware when you’re promoting your blog. You can inform them about the launch of your blog by announcing it on your website, or perhaps sending emails. You could also host contests to drive traffic to your blog and in turn your small business website.

Keep in mind the strategies and tips discussed above for launching your business blog and using internet marketing for furthering your small businesses profits. These are efficient not just to garner profits, but also to build the reputation of your small business.

6 Places To Find Paid Reviews

Paid reviews are one of the major source of income for bloggers. I have some blogs whose AdSense and direct ad sale income is less than $30 a month and during last 3 months I have earned $200 from sponsored reviews. In AdSense or similar ppc networks, bloggers get 50 to 70% of the proceeds from advertisers. But in case of sponsored reviews advertisers directly contact with bloggers to advertise their brands. Here comes a problem, how to get sponsored reviews and where to find advertisers?

  Think like an advertiser, if you are an advertiser and your goal is post 50 paid posts in high authority websites this week. You will try to find the places online where bloggers gather. In case you are not successful, you will go to an intermediary. So as a blogger your goal must be to get maximum related and genuine paid posts, so you need to pay attention to all sources.

Intermediaries

There are a lot of websites acting as paid posts intermediaries. Some of them are reviewme.com, sposeredreviews.com, postrelease.com, socialspark.com etc. I have tried all of them but got success only on social spark.So i recommend socialspark.com, you can register here

Pro bloggers

Whenever an advertiser thinks to advertise his product then face towards the big websites of a particular niche. Once a deal strike between advertiser and blogger, its time for advertiser to find some more good bloggers in the similar niche. As advertiser hot a good experience from that pro blogger, he will ask to refer some good bloggers. Now that pro blogger will refer bloggers from his network, which he keep up on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or commentators and contributors of his own blog. So try to build some sort of relationship with pro bloggers.

Social media groups

Advertisers will try to put less efforts in finding quality blogs. Normally bloggers in every niche, geographical location or sections becomes a part of social media groups which are maintained on different social media sites. Advertisers use to post update on these groups about the sponsored review need.

Bloggers' forums

Bloggers' forums such as google groups, css-tricks, bloggertricks etc provides great opportunities to bloggers. I have seen bloggers earning huge from forums, by selling premium domains, websites, articles, paid posts and a lot more.

Are you a Good Blogger ?

Ask yourself, are you really a good blogger?
In long run you can't succeed as a blogger if you don't make a faithful reader base, a group people who loves to read your content. You need to act as a guide. Following unethical practices and providing information that is not reliable won't let you make a reader base. You need to answer yourself following questions before  claiming yourself a good blogger.

Using too many ads

Using too many ads on your website ruins the viewers' reading experience. A header ad then an ad below post title then another ad in just above footer and a bunch of ads in the sidebar. Using too much more effects your search engine rankings as well as the readers' experience.

Promoting products that have no value for money

I have seen bloggers promoting some products that doesn't worth promotion, just because those products bring them high revenue, bloggers misguide their readers. A sponsored post after every two articles passes a bad impression to the readers. Viewers get irritated by so many ads and lack of content. It is really important to generate revenue from your blog, but if you are doing so in return of bad readers' experience, then certainly you can't taste success. Just give a look to some pro blogs, these blogs have one or two ads on there homepage, sometime not even one. They use sponsored reviews which comprises of less then 25% of total content. So it is advised not to use too many ads on your blog.

Badly designed blog

I have seen lot of high quality blogs having unique and fantastic but unable to catch much attention because they are badly designed and using some basic blog template. There are lots of free professional and clean WordPress and blogger templates aw available which can make your blog look clean and elegant.

Inactive on social media sites

Bloggers need to be active on social media sites. Blogging can,t be done on an island. You need to make close relationships with related niche bloggers. All your target audience access social media websites daily, so to make good relations with fellow bloggers, readers and advertisers you need to be active o. Social media sites.