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Blogger Coach - July 2008

Squidoo is one of the first ever sites I found online to help you build a web page, without knowing any html code to start with and I found it to be one of the most interesting and the best free sites to join, especially as I later found out more about online marketing and many other link building practices.

The importance of relevant content on the internet is vastly important to a website or blogs growth.

With Squidoo you can just write about a topic you know about, just like blogging and it's these niche topics that you can link up to on your blogs, providing a link relevance that is deemed important in the search engines eyes.


One of the first ever Squidoo lenses I created was this Demonic art lens, I have since updated it numerous times since it was created back in October 2006 and this squidoo lens is a shining example of targeted niche content and it's one of my most popular lenses.

When you write your blogs content I always find myslf thinking up new content that I should have included or even updated on my blog post, sometimes I do go back and update blog posts, but what I have started to do now is <a Really Long Link a new Squidoo lens</a> and link it up to my blog post instead, I often find this provides a relevant link that brings in traffic over time.

Wait a minute, what is Squidoo?

SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., addiction:
1) thousands of people creating a handbuilt catalog of the best stuff online.
2) a free and fun way to make your own page and get traffic and online word of mouth and Google juice.

3) a place to find what you're looking for, fast.

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I have been interested in revenue sharing sites that earn you as a content author in mediums such as articles, audio, video and other social network profiles.

On This Revenue Sharing Sites List, there are over a 100 sites that could earn you revenue from producing some original content, it is a great list, although a couple of them are no longer online (As is the case with some websites!!) but however you can use just a handful of these and build them up over time, link to them, promote them further and earn either a side income or really go the full whack and become a serious content creator.

Flixya is another good one that you can share photos, blog posts an videos with others online and get paid through google adsense and this is 100% adsense revenue, but like evrything you have to put the work in and upload some original content of your own.
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For many of us, blogging provides us a way just to relate what we know and love and present it in our own unique way, we want to get noticed eventually, many of us want to make something more of this writing medium.

It's easy to get frustrated with not getting any readers or comments on your blog, but there are ways of over coming this and that is to target potential people who may be interested in reading your blog and also at the same time making something useful for people to read.

There have been many stories of bloggers gaining the freedom to blog about their hobbies and leisure time cool stuff and actually getting paid for it, whether that be through direct advertising or some other means.

There have also been bloggers who blog and gain the attention of large companies and they get hired to blog for them, in effect keeping their blogs, but earn a salary from the company or they actually sell their blogs and stay around to blog on them too, this has happened a few times and is truly inspiring when I hear this.

Earning from blogging has been seriously considered in recent times as fact rather than simply someone who earns some extra cash on the side abd this fades out over time.

Earning any type of income through blogging can be maintained over time and built up to such a level that your readers will end up promoting your blog for you through word of mouth and other tell a friend ways, aswell as numerous social bookmarking tools.

All you need is a germ of an idea, something unique that you can maintain over time and build up, a good read is in all respects a GOOD READ!
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Behind every blog there is a blogger who may or may not care about the future of their blog, but for those that do care, An audit is needed to improve your blog, to see what works and what doesn't.

Every page and aspect of your blog has to be analyzed and then optimized to build a better content focused blog, but also an interactive blog that you can build up your comment discussions with other readers who will read your posts


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RSS feeds are the best way of people to subscribe to your blogs content without ever having to visit your blog, they get it in their feed reader and read all of the content that way, this is quite a prefered method for keeping up to date with popular blogs that are ever growing in lots of blog readers feed readers.

But did you know that subscriber feeds are what make your blogs content go further than just normal blog readers who find your blog through the search engines and other advertising sources, Feedburner is a great subscriber stats package that is free to create an account


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Distractions happen to the best of us, such is life, I always mean to do something then I need the toilet to demonstrate my straining face, then I've forgotten later on what I needed to do, that's why early on I developed some simple tips and techniques not to get distracted and focus on what's important in your blogs content.

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A Useful Blog Is A Well Read One!

July 23rd 2008 20:32
To create a useful blog it attracts readers who may be interested in the content that you provide, they may like the way that you write, the style that you write or the comments that you make with your readers, if they interact from these four main elements then you have a useful blog that your blog readers will find interesting and very useful.

When you are thinking about moving your blog further forward, there are certain things that must be realised


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This is one of the blogger strategies that help your blog in the search engines as they value incoming links that are relevant and also they compliment your recent topics with relevant blog posts that help or add further informational content.

What I usually do is, if I have nothing relevant at that time I bold a keyword or phrase, which then acts as a marker for when I do have a link to create on that bolded keyword phrase and this makes all the difference


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I've already asked the question of why do you blog, now it is time to ask what you hope to achieve with your blog?

Reasons all make themselves known once you get into your blogging mode, when you leave your comments, add your blog url and explain what your blog is about and what you hope to achieve with it


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There is a way of doing this, but you need to be thinking in terms of optimizing your blog posts and titles to the maximum effect of targeted keywords.

If you have never ever heard of a keyword it is not a word with a key glued on the side, it is the internet speak for targeted words that are used in the search engines for your blog posts to be found by people who search for them, not just blogs you understand, but I want to concentrate on blogs here


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One book I bought lately was the Problogger book, that goes into quite alot of detail about how to be a problogger or better your blog to earn money or increase traffic.

Problogger Secrets For Blogging Your Way To A Six Figure Income
Blogger Tips And Strategies

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What Niches Can I Blog About?

July 20th 2008 08:49
Statistics range from the creation of one blog created ever second to millions of blogs created daily, but every one of them potential bloggers have to consider one factor and that's the niche that they want to write about.

A niche is simply a topic that is most likely defined by the bloggers own interests and then it is turned into a writing project that informs others who are interested in the same thing, also it provides unique and original articles and blog posts that they would not find anywhere else


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Why Do You Blog?

July 19th 2008 23:29
Blog Writing
Why do you blog?


Do you have some special interest to share


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How To Increase Your Blogs Traffic

July 19th 2008 22:06
If ever you have wondered how to get more traffic to your blog then I have found quite a few links to really good resources on how to do just that.

But first a good thing is to remember that blogging is first about having quality content, then having people visit your site, it's no good having a blog full of mainly ads or nothing of real interest or readers won't come back at all


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Capturing Interest On Your Blog!

July 19th 2008 20:08
Ways of keeping any readers you have interested in your blog is a collection of things that bloggers need to keep on blogging really, you need to implement these things and incorporate them into every post that you do.

A link I found on Copyblogger, one of my favourite blogs about blog writing goes over 21 great important points to keep your blog interesting and you as the blogger even more interesting


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Commenting On Other Blogs Is Fun!

July 19th 2008 19:32
A recent question I asked on this fairly new Superblogging blog which was:

"Do you visit the blogs of others who comment on your blog?"
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Find Your Niche In Blogging!

July 18th 2008 21:10
Sometimes when starting a blog, it takes a considerable amount of time to find your niche, your own corner of space to fill perfectly online, you need to find something that you may be passionate about and be able to write lots of content for, blogs are a medium that need to be updated frequently for them to be viewed and build up new readers every so often.

So finding a niche that you are going to write about for some time to come is that important, starting a niche driven blog is like writing about and should be your favourite hobby or main interest in life, this helps you to sustain you blogging for as long as you live


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Everyone has a reason that they start writing to a blog, but what is yours?

The main reasons why some start blogging are as follows


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I've been blogging for over three years now, but even I pick up something new everyday in blogging and the internet, that I quite like to ask others who may have some useful tips and strategies that have helped them on their blogs and building a blog up from scratch.

So do you know any good tips that you swear by when it comes to blogging?
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And more importantly why would you want to do this?

Well an important networking point to remember about blogging is to give and you shall recieve, comment on other blogs, do it quite often, not just to gain traffic, to participate in a wider community with thoughtful discussion and well intentioned reactions to other bloggers posts


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When it comes to finding out what visitors are searching for, what keywords they use to find your blog and posts, these are very useful metrics for finding out lots of information about your visitors, what keywords they used through the search engines to find your blog, what internet browsers they use and where they come from and even what search engine they used to get there.

The top ways of using sites like Crazy Egg, Statcounter and Google Analytics are to use the findings to improve your blog in some way, maybe you could optimize an unpopular or even a popular post and drive more traffic to some posts that you think are of a quality calibre, also you may find the top keywords that people use to find your site and to also find out if your main keyword or keyword phrase is doing well


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If you have a blog that you regularly write to, then the profile page or about me page needs some special attention for you to be successful and so readers can find out a bit more about you, but also you need to be hinking about the possibility of your profile page in time might actually become a landing page for many, especially when you brand your name and build up your credibility, so to take into consideration of your about me page, you may need to include links to current or recent blog posts and content that you have written.

This provides links to your content from new readers who visit your blog for the first time, they see who you are and what you are interested in, then they see and can read what you have an interest in or knowledge of


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Backlinks form lots of links to whatever your blog contains, different pages of different content, and it's these backlinks that help you build up your profile and content library for your blog, the search engine spiders index your blog links especially when you update your blogs content regularly each day.

Backlinks can be created easily with a little planning on your part as a content writer, you get your thinking cap on and start to build up a promotional strategy, where all of your backlinks count towards your traffic strategy too


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Being a super blogger is one of them labels that sees bloggers entering a new level of blogging, apart from the traditional blogging of when you feel like it, A super blogger may write at least 3 or 4 posts per day, they may write a news post about something related to blogging or their niche specifically, then they could write a useful post on their topic that would be of use to the blogs readers, the other couple of posts could review a related product or even your own product.

Super bloggers always keep themselves busy constantly, they do all aspects of running a business basicly, they are the internet marketers, the social networking point of contact for their blog, they learn all the time from other bloggers too, they think about blogging all day and every day, essentially they are the blogs they create, so you still want to be a blogger, then think about rising above that lower level of writing about your day at work and then that's it


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Blogging Helps You As A Writer

July 14th 2008 15:39
When I first started blogging, I had trouble thinking of new blog posts to write, but believe me as time goes on you will find new ways of managing your posts and building up new ideas for content, blogging by it's very nature is a daily routine and quite rightly should be, you need to write something everyday if possible, if you are serious about blogging that is!

Blogging also helps you to write your thoughts, for me I write most of my blog posts as I think them, which sems to work for me, I absorb researched information that I have read elsewhere and re-write it in my own words with the personal touch of my own unique voice and writing style


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Taking time out to comment on others blogs takes a little time and effort and if you do this on similar blogs to yours that have similar content, then you are gaining a fast track for more new readers or at the very least some more blog traffic.

One of the best ways I do this, is to search on Google for the same main keywords as mine and then type in blog at the end, you are more likely to come up with new blogs at least once every week (or Two Weeks!) when you do this, save them in your favourites flder for commenting and reading at a later date, but always try to comment on the recently updated ones, because if they have not updated in a while then it's a waste of your time commenting, when they might not reply back or see where the commenters profile link goes to


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Super Blogging Online

July 14th 2008 14:25
Welcome to super blogging, where we share blogging tips and strategies.

For anyone wanting to start an online blog about your favourite topic, it's all about the topics that you want to build your expertise around, this is the best way, researching a niche market that is of interest to you


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