tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76551523191687806922024-03-23T04:25:04.289-07:00Electric BloggingBuild, Brand, PROFITNathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-14328061027514928742012-08-26T06:01:00.003-07:002012-08-28T06:02:06.415-07:0010 Of The Worlds Most Popular Bloggers Share The Moments That Inspired Them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
On my previous post, <a href="http://www.electricblogging.net/2012/08/17-no-bs-strategies-for-creating-viral.html" target="_blank">17 No-BS strategies for Creating Viral Content</a>, I talked about "<b>writing to inspire.</b>" One thing I forgot to mention was that in order for you to write to inspire, most of the time, <b>YOU</b> have to be inspired.<br />
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Inspiration is often a key ingredient in most success stories.<br />
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Without someone, somewhere being inspired to do something, the world would still be in the dark ages.<br />
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Inspiration can come from the most unexpected sources. For example, an apple inspired Newton and a bath inspired Archimedes. It's sometimes that strange.<br />
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While trying to find inspiration for my next posts, I decided to throw a question at some of the world's most popular bloggers.<br />
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I asked them what moments actually inspired them to do what they do and I've decided to share their stories here. They are both inspiring and motivating.<br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">1.</b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Trent Hamm - <a href="http://thesimpledollar.com/" target="_blank">The Simple Dollar</a></b><br />
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The defining moment of my career was when I held my infant son in my arms and realized that I needed to give him everything, but that everything meant *me*, not an excess of money. That led to career advancement that focused on time flexibility above salary.<br />
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</b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>3. Zac Johnson - <a href="http://bloggingtips.com/" target="_blank">Blogging Tips</a> and <a href="http://zacjohnson.com/">ZacJohnson.com</a></b></span><br />
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One defining moment that made a big change in my business and mentality was when my father and I flew across the country from NJ to CA to attenda Commission Junction University in 2000. I was still in high school and already making money online for a few years now. This was the first affiliate/internet marketing event that I went to, and being a 17 year old kid amongst the mega million dollar dot com companies was quite a thrill. I would go on to speak and attend a ton of conferences in the coming years, but this was my first event and it made a huge impact on my business and helped me get to where I am today.<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Henri Junttila - <a href="http://wakeupcloud.com/" target="_blank">Wake Up Cloud</a></span></b><br />
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The first thing that comes to mind was the discontent I felt. I wasn't doing what I really wanted. It was literally the straw that broke the camel's back. I knew that what I had been doing wasn't working, so if I wanted different results, I needed to change my game plan, which I did, and here I am.<br />
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</span></b> The defining moment for my career as an author came long before any actual writing. In 2002, I was depressed after 9/11 and moved to West Africa for a four-year volunteer commitment. I consider that experience the foundation for everything that happened next.<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">6. Erica Douglass - <a href="http://erica.biz/">Erica.biz</a> and <a href="http://whooshtraffic.com/" target="_blank">Whoosh Traffic</a></span></b><br />
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</b> Looking back, I think the defining moment so far has been the day in<br />
2006 when I decided to sell my last company, as I knew that web<br />
hosting wasn't what I wanted to do long-term. It took me a year from<br />
that point to actually wrap up the sale, but it has been totally worth<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">7. Mars Dorian - <a href="http://marsdorian.com/">MarsDorian.com</a></span></b><br />
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</b> It was the moment I came back from my year-long travels and realized:<br />
Shit, now what ? I don't want to work for the man - I want to create my OWN career.THAT shock of having to work for someone ELSE boosted my passion like dynamite nitro and made me work EXTRA hard to achieve that goal. FEAR can be your grrrreatest motivator IF<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">8. Abhijeet Mukherjee - <a href="http://guidingtech.com/" target="_blank">Guiding Tech</a></span></b><br />
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</b> When I came across blogging and the fact that money can be made from it in a magazine<br />
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</b> I was cleaning vacation homes for a living, NOT loving it on any level, making probably only $200 bucks a week, if that, and thought "There has to be something bigger and better than this." I was miserable and not very fun to be around.<br />
I started researching online opportunities, got a lot of help from fellow online entrepreneurs from a forum I was a part of, and somehow fell into writing web copy for a living! I'm honestly not quite sure HOW it happened, other than God was leading me in the direction He wanted me to go, the pieces fell where He intended, and here I am. :)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">10. Grethen Rubin - <a href="http://happiness-project.com/" target="_blank">The Happiness Project</a></span></b><br />
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</b> Gosh, it would be hard to say. When I learned to read, I suppose! :)<br />
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If you're a blogger, what moments inspired you? What got you started.<br />
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</div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-87284707118493599522012-08-25T07:22:00.001-07:002012-08-25T07:31:17.429-07:00Top 16 Killer Tools That Will Help You Manage Your TwitterVerse - Twitter Management<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Twitter is one tool that can be very powerful if you know how to use it.<br />
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With well over 4 million users, <a href="http://hootsuite.com/" target="_blank">Hootsuite</a> shouldn't be taken lightly. With it's powerful and seamless Twitter integration, it gets your entire twitter account and helps make sense of all of it.<br />
Features includes sending and scheduling of Tweets, listening through search, list and keyword tracking as well as monitor Direct Messages,Mentions, Favorited Tweets,Sent Tweets and more!<br />
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Features arrangement with customizable columns, powerful filters, Tweet scheduling, monitoring and management of unlimited accounts and notification alerts.<br />
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<a href="http://www.socialbro.com/" target="_blank">Social Bro</a> is a tool whose most outstanding feature is its ability to give a deep insight into your audience. This is the one of the best tools for marketers and other people looking to build an engaged audience.<br />
Features include powerful search filters(including account age, avatar, verified or non verified and number of tweets), influencer discovery,Twitter community location maps and "best time to tweet."<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4. Buffer</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexU3AnxK3ikD_1hkgEQblOYF5E8zuiOq43dXWyK5i2gD1PwK5c8RX4cttiSC69WQJuzWfSnRhjtJYwgsAspDrLHF_kqaj4XcVJNtFzAaRgfGXC4N8P8zph1E9iUXAYkaI_iPX5iv8g2o/s1600/BufferApp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexU3AnxK3ikD_1hkgEQblOYF5E8zuiOq43dXWyK5i2gD1PwK5c8RX4cttiSC69WQJuzWfSnRhjtJYwgsAspDrLHF_kqaj4XcVJNtFzAaRgfGXC4N8P8zph1E9iUXAYkaI_iPX5iv8g2o/s640/BufferApp.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://bufferapp.com/" target="_blank">Buffer</a>, though not localized to Twitter, does have a powerful integration with it. It allows you to manage multiple social media accounts and schedule tweets, shares and bookmarks all in one place and allows them to flow during the day.<br />
It also gives analytics and insights into how many likes, tweets, retweets and shares you receive at a glance.<br />
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<a href="http://tweepi.com/" target="_blank">Tweepi</a> is a Twitter management tool that focuses more on followers and interactions. You can flush unfollowers, reciprocate, clean up the inactives, force to unfollow and follow followers of other users. It's fast and saves a lot of time. Great for promotion.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">6. Sprout Social</span></b><br />
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</span></b> <a href="http://sproutsocial.com/" target="_blank">Sprout Social</a> while also not Twitter specific is an amazing management tool with excellent integration. Its features include brand monitoring, conversation management,comprehensive reporting and management as well social channel and team management.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7. Group Tweet</span></b><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.grouptweet.com/" target="_blank">Group Tweet</a> is a Twitter management tool that allows an unlimited number of users contribute from one account. It distributes the whole burden of content creation among a group of people. It basically creates a group account and you have the option of displaying the name of the specific contributor before or after the specific tweet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><b><span style="font-size: large;">8. FollowerWonk</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOUKAWtlD7xzN5OfSlbmAx76SbJlInJPzkWp1leTYtoKMEPoSvbZgevGC8A2L3el5sek3e3eHbWX03A6SE2-wpi053BTBcsZYURs07U2iPv27d4pQcute_Fh73hCLyuoijHUai8lXt-M/s1600/FollowerWonk.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOUKAWtlD7xzN5OfSlbmAx76SbJlInJPzkWp1leTYtoKMEPoSvbZgevGC8A2L3el5sek3e3eHbWX03A6SE2-wpi053BTBcsZYURs07U2iPv27d4pQcute_Fh73hCLyuoijHUai8lXt-M/s640/FollowerWonk.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://followerwonk.com/" target="_blank">FollowerWonk</a> is one of the most detailed analytics Twitter management tool on net. It allows you to view where your followers are located an when they tweet. It also helps you locate and connect with influencers in your niche as well as use super-actionable visualizations to compare your social graph to others and share them with the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">9. SocMetrics</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHB7VRnL0BhVC-6DJ97bt3BgVtMMMAgozoumm0x7IX2hzIsYjMBZS_CQnXnCjCaHxAyQJDlnrhLP5uiAr1jZLDejbATzA44uAEIGMl4ursUAvvsmete47zl8T0-kwPOw7MM-3ym1ENOLM/s1600/SocMetrics.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHB7VRnL0BhVC-6DJ97bt3BgVtMMMAgozoumm0x7IX2hzIsYjMBZS_CQnXnCjCaHxAyQJDlnrhLP5uiAr1jZLDejbATzA44uAEIGMl4ursUAvvsmete47zl8T0-kwPOw7MM-3ym1ENOLM/s640/SocMetrics.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Marketing professionals who want to build an effective social media campaign based upon influencers in a specific industry should give <a href="http://socmetrics.com/" target="_blank">SocMetrics</a> a look. SocMetrics can help you harness the power of thought leaders, which in turn can help you build your brand and sell more. You are able to create strong word of mouth and generate more sales.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">10. TweetReach</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHF_pLhV-LFY7e9xLPzkiHYscKfvrsG4MAF7aeaLK6juelA2mt57GnZpqKXD9VlCSC4_o0PyoZcAE37hllWBwXfOmkY_Nk0lN6lIXEXl8AZN9HNatka5-1skjiJkf8IXJZFB5hQVvA5sE/s1600/TweetReach.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHF_pLhV-LFY7e9xLPzkiHYscKfvrsG4MAF7aeaLK6juelA2mt57GnZpqKXD9VlCSC4_o0PyoZcAE37hllWBwXfOmkY_Nk0lN6lIXEXl8AZN9HNatka5-1skjiJkf8IXJZFB5hQVvA5sE/s640/TweetReach.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://tweetreach.com/" target="_blank">TweetReach</a> is a metrics tool that measures the reach of tweets. You can analyze your own as well as other influencers in your niche. It also helps you find topics that people are talking about what generates the most buzz. Also you get to find out who's talking bout your campaigns and driving the conversation.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">11. TweetLevel</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4md8yj4YeSn-Q7n6fwC_6G9DtUNm1oIOUJyl1bivfsbQxe9Q8O83U-XW5noAPiTqZe2p9x8KxFU1GmPHCHG9aObqkZMYyNS9mnBQ9N0fDSuTuhHeXGYDUUvaTPIptILBLtZgAdhO4oBU/s1600/TweetLevel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4md8yj4YeSn-Q7n6fwC_6G9DtUNm1oIOUJyl1bivfsbQxe9Q8O83U-XW5noAPiTqZe2p9x8KxFU1GmPHCHG9aObqkZMYyNS9mnBQ9N0fDSuTuhHeXGYDUUvaTPIptILBLtZgAdhO4oBU/s640/TweetLevel.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/" target="_blank">TweetLevel</a> is an excellent measurement tool that is specifically designed to rank twitter users by influence. It uses criteria such as popularity, engagement and trust. You can also search for influencers by topic.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">12. Social Oomph</span></b><br />
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</span></b> <a href="http://www.socialoomph.com/" target="_blank">Social Oomph</a> tool that allows you to auto follow followers, schedule tweets, track keywords, shorten URLs and save drafts an unlimited number of accounts at no charge. The multitude of features makes this tool both powerful and easy to use.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">13. Twuffer </span></b><br />
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<a href="http://twuffer.com/" target="_blank">Twuffer</a> allows you to tweet pre-written announcements, set appointment reminders, run a time-based scavenger hunt and notify subscribers about upcoming podcast or video episodes.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">14. Friend or Follow</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMeWF8Ws4rd3pYiq_X_t9xnHLL7ysASkxUdpOX2-Z6HXlk-Ibwxgs2HjJyRy8NaUQ3fy4xWqiGOqm8Uof0zajKbNUgAa9OGdLnFD2R1LZlzKiaKiRbprVvX1_OkeeU4hWJ2ZxUxWLZ0E/s1600/FriendorFollow.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMeWF8Ws4rd3pYiq_X_t9xnHLL7ysASkxUdpOX2-Z6HXlk-Ibwxgs2HjJyRy8NaUQ3fy4xWqiGOqm8Uof0zajKbNUgAa9OGdLnFD2R1LZlzKiaKiRbprVvX1_OkeeU4hWJ2ZxUxWLZ0E/s640/FriendorFollow.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://friendorfollow.com/" target="_blank">Friend or follow</a> is a simple tool that allows you to monitor your interactions with you followers. With it you can find out who unfollowed you, who's not following you back, who you're not following back and who your friends are.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">15. Refollow</span></b><br />
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"<a href="http://refollow.com/refollow/index.html" target="_blank">Refollow</a> makes it easy to discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle.<br />
Manage your friends and followers, establish new relationships, unfollow or block users,<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">16. TwitWipe</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NodgEA9HkhyXUmOXjwlA_BoMVNtWbGrKVFfvKjp6at3_f8p7RsE0dgpbqzCEiITQqowAqhjfsaOPKiypeBZclA2yDEr5IPtiW22QWhzD0dUbHyyxpT_kA_H2XezdxSR6zLNbb5e2qpM/s1600/TwitWipe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5NodgEA9HkhyXUmOXjwlA_BoMVNtWbGrKVFfvKjp6at3_f8p7RsE0dgpbqzCEiITQqowAqhjfsaOPKiypeBZclA2yDEr5IPtiW22QWhzD0dUbHyyxpT_kA_H2XezdxSR6zLNbb5e2qpM/s640/TwitWipe.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://www.twitwipe.com/" target="_blank">TwitWipe</a> is an interesting little tool that lets you delete all your tweets at one go. Why would you want to do it? Surprisingly many people have different reasons,you may need to do this to start over, to clean it out before handing the account over to someone else, or maybe you've just realised that your tweets aren't exactly awesome. Whatever reason, TwitWipe make it easy to erase all your tweets.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Over to You</span></b><br />
Have you ever used any of these tools? What's your experience with them?<br />
Do you have any more tools to add that aren't on the list?<br />
Tell us in comments. </div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-49489108517577815622012-08-20T17:51:00.006-07:002012-08-26T06:14:53.958-07:0017 No-BS Strategies For Creating Viral Content<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Whether you’ve just started blogging or you’ve been doing it for years, one thing you will always crave is TRAFFIC.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I remember when I first started blogging. I never really cared that much about it. My main focus was link building and increasing my page rank, nothing more. I’m sure it’s the same thing with most newbies.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Don’t get me wrong, it’s important to do link building but until realize why you’re doing it in the first place, you’ll never see my point.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Why do we link build?</b> To get better SERPs(Search Engine Ranking Position). <b>Why do we want better SERPs?</b> Do get more TRAFFIC. <b>Why do we want more traffic?</b> To build our blog, spread our influence and eventually <b>generate an income</b>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If you can properly leverage traffic, you won’t even need to worry about link building! (<a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=If%20you%20can%20properly%20leverage%20traffic,%20you%20won%E2%80%99t%20even%20need%20to%20worry%20about%20link%20building!%20http://bit.ly/PPqfGa" target="_blank">tweet this</a>) Links will all come naturally (which is Google rule #1).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most people think driving traffic only happens after you hit publish. That’s not the case. Even before you type the first word, you can take steps to ensure that your post, once published, drives the type of traffic you want.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now, here are my 17 No-BS Strategies for creating viral content.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>1. Find your voice. </b>People want to read and share stuff written by other people. If you don’t have your own voice, you will sound robotic and if you copy someone else’s, you’ll be labeled a copycat. I don’t need to tell you that this will be bad for your reputation. So if you’re funny, use that to your advantage. Embrace it and throw in some jokes in your posts. If you’re the type of person that likes to motivate people, even better! Posts that encourage users to take action always do well online.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>2. Talk to your readers.</b> When you write a blog post, it shouldn’t scream Wikipedia! Wikipedia is an awesome resource for information, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that it doesn’t actually address the reader. It simply lays down facts. When you start a blog, you should aim to connect with your readers. Address them like you’re having a conversation. Use more words like “You” and “I”. Show them you’re a real person.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>3. Be simple but effective.</b> Don’t use too many “big” words to try to sound smart, you might use them wrongly and look stupid in the end. Don’t forget your grammar and spelling either. Just make sure you’re easy enough to understand but powerful enough to captivate.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>4. Share your experiences.</b> By this, I don’t mean telling people what you ate for lunch (unless you’re writing about healthy eating, then go for it!) I’m talking about relating your advice to an experience you had. For example, if you’re writing about driving more traffic with twitter. Share an experience of you <b>driving more traffic with twitter. </b>It’s a proven fact that people respond more to personal stories than general advice. Try it.<br />
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</div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-36225922702162570552012-08-19T10:42:00.004-07:002012-08-20T10:59:36.014-07:0021 Most Bankable Freelance Writers On The Web<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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If you didn't read it, here it is, <a href="http://www.electricblogging.net/2012/07/the-dilemna-writing-your-own-content-vs.html" target="_blank">Writing Your Own Content Vs Outsourcing</a>.<br />
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</div><div>This list (in no particular order) includes 21 of the most inspiring, efficient, bankable and compelling writers on the internet today who offer freelancing services. If you want an excellent return on investment, these are the people to look for.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Now, without further ado, these are the <b>21 Most Bankable Freelance Writers On The Web</b></div><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1.Kristi Hines - <a href="http://kikolani.com/hire-me" target="_blank">Kikolani</a></span></b><br />
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He mainly writes in the personal development niche but can also write on a range of other subjects <a href="http://twitter.com/StevenAitchison" target="_blank"><b>Follow him on Twitter</b></a><br />
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He helps people grow their businesses through writing while placing emphasis on quality of work.<br />
He offers a range of services from Blog content writing to eBook publishing. He also has the ability to write for almost any niche! <b><a href="http://twitter.com/youngprepro" target="_blank">Follow him on Twitter</a></b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCf8cbDOMLfAoymMLacNXqn1SpVLvytU3SBuSCawF_kG2cKWBzIFu2nE-iuigcB9Z33fXtI-U8dy0Kwxb17l4BSQhxodFmt3n-7UCZOaeWbgO1OxcgJY37ozFD0gIxCR5zWchxkiNPuyA/s1600/Chris+Pirillo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCf8cbDOMLfAoymMLacNXqn1SpVLvytU3SBuSCawF_kG2cKWBzIFu2nE-iuigcB9Z33fXtI-U8dy0Kwxb17l4BSQhxodFmt3n-7UCZOaeWbgO1OxcgJY37ozFD0gIxCR5zWchxkiNPuyA/s200/Chris+Pirillo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Chris has been working in the content publishing industry since 1996. His first company, LockerGnome, provided practical technology knowledge to millions.<br />
Today, Chris helps drive businesses and entrepreneurs forward by providing insight and guidance through speaking engagements, consulting arrangements, and coaching endeavors<br />
From creating compelling content to fostering community building to implementing winning social media strategies, Chris Pirillo has been there and done that. <a href="http://twitter.com/chrispirillo" target="_blank"><b>Follow him on Twitter</b></a><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">5.Keisha Easley – <a href="http://weblogbetter.com/hire-me/" target="_blank">We Blog Better</a></span></b><br />
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She holds a masters in English so she's not just a pretty face.<br />
She offers blog consulting and copy-writing services as well as design. <b><a href="http://twitter.com/weblogbetter" target="_blank">Follow her on Twitter</a></b><br />
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He has over six years experience in the industry and at the moment offers free blog consultation on his blog!<br />
He mainly focuses on <span style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 21.981481552124023px;">SEO, Social Media Marketing, Guest Blogging, Copywriting etc. <b><a href="http://twitter.com/obaidulhaque" target="_blank">Follow him on Twitter</a></b></span></span><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">7.Carol Tice – <a href="http://www.makealivingwriting.com/hire/" target="_blank">Make a Living Writing</a></span></b><br />
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Her services include blogging, ghost blogging, <strike>Facebook fan page content</strike> production and White Paper Writing.<br />
Her client have included Costco, CBS Interactive and True Blue.<br />
<b><a href="http://twitter.com/TiceWrites" target="_blank">Follow her on Twitter</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Myriad Pro, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 21.981481552124023px;">His aim is to help individuals and small businesses to profit from their experience and expertise. From advising you on starting a new blog, establishing and developing an overall marketing strategy, getting more traffic, increase conversion, to leveraging on the social web to find your target audience, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Myriad Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"> <b><a href="http://twitter.com/ditesco" target="_blank">Follow him on Twitter</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">9.Nancy Brown – <a href="http://capabilitymom.com/about/content-creation-writing-and-editing/" target="_blank">Capability Mom</a></span></b><br />
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She specialises in content creation, social media,writing and editing. She has written for large companies, blogs, websites and other clients.<br />
She brings a lot of personality to her content which connects with readers.<br />
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His services include Blog setup, copy-writing, editing and general consulting.<br />
Want a successful online business? This is the guy to go to.<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">11.Annabel Candy – <a href="http://www.getinthehotspot.com/travel-writer-and-blogger/" target="_blank">Get In The Hot Spot</a></span></b><br />
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She's one of the best Travel Writers, Speakers, Blog Designers, Copywriters and Social Media Consultants on the internet today.<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">12.Anne Wayman – <a href="http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com/" target="_blank">About Freelance Writing</a></span></b><br />
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On top of this she offers ghost writing services.<br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">13.Kylie Ofiu – <a href="http://kylieofiu.com/hire-me/" target="_blank">Kylie Ofiu</a></span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxXZj8FGSEM2QjZN632FMfSHGYTHVGbRTbgfV0eJuZij1b0gkl_uzqnYBZpXKiLCvHwEnmZcWIJMFbTh7IK0E3DYyEzILMy9Mc9GRQLOM6dgObfGw2Io_AM4wLFPkDnY7nIHMXfopmFE/s1600/Kylie+Ofiu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHxXZj8FGSEM2QjZN632FMfSHGYTHVGbRTbgfV0eJuZij1b0gkl_uzqnYBZpXKiLCvHwEnmZcWIJMFbTh7IK0E3DYyEzILMy9Mc9GRQLOM6dgObfGw2Io_AM4wLFPkDnY7nIHMXfopmFE/s200/Kylie+Ofiu.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Kylie is all about teaching REAL ways to save and make money. She has been blogging for more than 2 years and has experience writing for Moneyhound, Mozo, BigPond, KleenexMums and has guest posted on a variety of other blogs.<br />
She's no nonsense and brings her expertise to the table.<br />
<b><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/kylieofiu" target="_blank">Follow her on Twitter</a></b><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">14.Michael Chibuzor – <a href="http://contentmarketingup.com/hire-me/" target="_blank">Content Marketing Up</a></span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ICD3gUH2ef72nLVWm1O5TJ8tiqLJyK1PVUMuogt5QLQVLcSJIxm0vJDegfIjjUcHCUgMzmvXgjtxzgSScorGIgK7W0mvj5KfYODMgG_HraLt8Bk0C0q24DagDFuxWfj8K07zZnU9q7M/s1600/Michael+Chibuzor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ICD3gUH2ef72nLVWm1O5TJ8tiqLJyK1PVUMuogt5QLQVLcSJIxm0vJDegfIjjUcHCUgMzmvXgjtxzgSScorGIgK7W0mvj5KfYODMgG_HraLt8Bk0C0q24DagDFuxWfj8K07zZnU9q7M/s200/Michael+Chibuzor.jpg" width="195" /></a></div>Michael is the man who runs Content Marketing Up. He writes for a number of blogs from Lifehack to John Chow.<br />
His specialities include ghost writing, guest posting and writing email sales copies. <a href="http://twitter.com/mikecoder" target="_blank"><b>Follow him on twitter</b></a><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">15.Amrit Hallan – <a href="http://crediblecontent.net/content-writing-services/" target="_blank">Credible Content</a></span></b><br />
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This mom knows what she's talking about! <a href="http://twitter.com/themomwrites" target="_blank"><b>Follow her on Twitter</b></a><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">17.Samantha Bangayan – <a href="http://www.whatlittlethings.com/hire-samantha-bangayan/" target="_blank">What Little Things</a></span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGHa9sQtBO4pmbg4xIaOiJqpJtI7R-H3WUznb1vo-proSipX0QYn6Z_z_QuQ6mK0xke9Z0BjdZCEXUMQVTL0JTlY4gG2mVQ44_EmOfU0_qSBRDYC4PM0gfKlzhkmoOop7U47nMinU6Jw/s1600/SamanthaBangayan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGGHa9sQtBO4pmbg4xIaOiJqpJtI7R-H3WUznb1vo-proSipX0QYn6Z_z_QuQ6mK0xke9Z0BjdZCEXUMQVTL0JTlY4gG2mVQ44_EmOfU0_qSBRDYC4PM0gfKlzhkmoOop7U47nMinU6Jw/s1600/SamanthaBangayan.jpg" /></a></div>Samantha is a freelance writer, editor and translator. Her content is research focused so you know you're getting amazing value for your your money.<br />
She has a Bsc in Psychology and she uses this to write excellent compelling content that connects with her readers. <b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/samanthaluy" target="_blank">Follow her on Twitter</a></b><br />
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A guru to most Michael writes some of the best content on the internet today. <b><a href="http://twitter.com/michaelkwan" target="_blank">Follow him on Twitter</a></b><br />
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One of his most amazing achievement was when he wrote an online sales letter that grossed over $400,000 in just 45 days! Not bad. <b><a href="http://twitter.com/HeyHealy" target="_blank">Follow him on Twitter</a></b><br />
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</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">21.Ahmed Safwan – <a href="http://www.tostartblogging.com/services/" target="_blank">To Start Blogging</a></span></b><br />
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He doesn't care who you are! As long as you hire him , he will give you top notch work and ensure that your business grows rapidly.<br />
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Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bankables/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bankables</a></div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-75157020075950892822012-08-04T16:20:00.000-07:002012-08-04T16:20:38.265-07:00Search Algorithm: My Almost Instant Google Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tnlbUKnVRLEdwfzTgOxwOjfewP1GuLz7vp9ANKWzrSZ2AyVkqZfLgtXEcj2rzK84l52ZXuScEIb386YW_EGrEKSfK7zvjK2hcKFWnhcjklVTQpA-kV5cYQzv7Wk61stu2VTUkw6aevs/s1600/ID-10038280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tnlbUKnVRLEdwfzTgOxwOjfewP1GuLz7vp9ANKWzrSZ2AyVkqZfLgtXEcj2rzK84l52ZXuScEIb386YW_EGrEKSfK7zvjK2hcKFWnhcjklVTQpA-kV5cYQzv7Wk61stu2VTUkw6aevs/s200/ID-10038280.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
This is just a quick post I thought I would write to share my quite unexpected success in terms of PR and understanding of search algorithms. More specifically, Google's search algorithm.<br />
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Up until now, I thought I fully (okay... almost fully) understood what search engine algorithms were about.<br />
In the recent August 2012 PR update, I was shocked to discover that my site had moved from a virtually useless PR 0 to a surprising PR 4! In less than a month!<br />
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My first thought was okay I'm probably dreaming because it didn't make sense. I made used every PR checker I could find and they all said the same thing, Google had smile at me.<br />
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I hadn't done any serious PR level link building so there was no reason for Google's search algorithm to all of a sudden stand up and say, "Your site is useful, I give you a 4." I guess most of my links were natural i.e. other people were actively linking to me. They were doing the link building job for me!<br />
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Then it all made sense...<br />
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After various attempts to sneakily increase my Pagerank failed, I gave up (admittedly, I was going a bit black hat). I was tired of trying every guru strategy on earth. That's when I made a very important decision.<br />
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A month earlier, I decided to do a complete overhaul of my content. I decided to become USEFUL, even if it killed me. No more useless everyday content.<br />
I decided that if I didn't spend at least 6 hours on every blog post, then it wasn't good enough.<br />
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If I was going to use article marketing and spinning as one of my strategies, then I was going to use a top class article spinner. I chose <a href="http://bit.ly/SHONPY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Best Spinner</a> because it was so professional and allowed me to come up with literally hundreds of highly unique spins. I definitely recommend it if you want to go the article marketing route and are serious about building high quality backlinks.<br />
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And... I guess it was all uphill from there!... Actually that's not the whole story..<br />
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Over the coming weeks I'll be writing step by step posts about the search algorithm and exactly how I got a PR 4 in less than a month. If you don't want to miss out, then consider <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=ElectricBlogging&loc=en_US">Subscribe to Electric Blogging by Email</a> :)<br />
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</div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-58043251172780574342012-07-18T13:47:00.001-07:002013-05-07T17:00:24.418-07:00The Dilemna: Writing Your Own Content Vs Outsourcing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just went through one of the busiest weeks of my life. I have a couple of niche sites that I’ve just launched and I’m trying to rank on Google. My plan is to get them to page one in 2 months. I know it’s going to be a challenge for such a short time frame but I like such challenges. They keep me motivated and make sure I don’t waste any valuable time. After all, “time is money.” Okay, a bit cliché I admit. :)</div>
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My plan for monetization is of course promoting affiliate products. I’m not going to go for Adsense because I realized (with a bit of help) that it actually distracts readers and sends traffic to competitors for only cents. So that’s a big NO to Adsense for now.</div>
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While preparing to launch the sites, I had to write a lot of content for both the sites as well as keep Electric Blogging alive. Admittedly, <a href="http://bit.ly/SHONPY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Best Spinner</a> streamlined this process and helped me create a lot more high quality and unique versions of content for off-site and article marketing purposes. </div>
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<b>QUICK TIP: </b>If you are already using The Best Spinner then you should spin your article to more than 50% unique to avoid Google dupe issues. :)</div>
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For on-site content, spinning wouldn’t cut it. I had to write pages of super quality content to provide value to my readers once they reached my site. </div>
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This is the point when I considered outsourcing content creation so that I could focus more on design and SEO. I ultimately decided not to outsource because I felt it would be sort of cheating and I want to be able to write a post in future about how you can do this all on your own.</div>
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Though I didn’t outsource my whole experience inspired this post on whether you should write your own content or outsource. After you read this, you can decide which is better for you.</div>
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So let’s get down to business.</div>
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<b>Outsourcing: </b>This is basically hiring someone temporarily to do a job for you, in this case writing content for your site.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing Your Own Content<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I’m not going to talk a lot about this but I am going to give you some advantages I have found personally about writing your own content.</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b>It’s free.</b> Since you write your own posts, it costs nothing. This is great for someone just starting out or someone wanting to spend as little money as possible.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Improved writing skills.</b> The more you write, the better you get. When I just started out a few years back I wasn’t exactly amazing. I struggled to land some guest posts on even small blogs. Now I’m published on even the popular ones like Problogger and BloggingTips.</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Lack of Knowledge. </b>Sometimes you’re not exactly an expert in the niche you’re targeting and it’s hard to write content.<b><o:p></o:p></b></li>
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These are some advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing.</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Consistent Quality. </b>Most of the time, the people you hire will be experts in their chosen fields. So you would expect high standards for what you’re paying them.<b><o:p></o:p></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Determining Whether you Need to Hire a Writer</span></b> </div>
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When you’re starting to build your blog, you should first identify what type of content you would need to write. A good promotion strategy is one where you are everywhere your audience is. This means you have to consider whether you’ll be writing eBooks, making presentations or distributing reports. Each of these requires different skill sets which you may not have. You can cut costs by learning how to do these things yourself but it can get time consuming and other parts of your blog may suffer.</div>
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Sometimes you could have all the skills you need but do you necessarily have the time to manage every aspect of your blog? Ask yourself this question. If you are like me with so many projects on your plate then you might want to consider. You don’t want any of your projects to suffer and hiring a writer really lessens the workload (… trust me)</div>
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Sometimes it all comes down to whether you are financially able to hire someone or not. It can be tempting to go for the writers that offer cheaper rates. The problem with hiring cheaper writers is:<br />
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Look at samples of their previous work. Have they written for your niche before? Is their English good? Ask yourself all these questions to ensure you get the upmost quality in your work.</div>
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There are a quite a number of services where you can hire freelance writers and some of them have sites of their own. Most of them add their resumes, writing experience and rates. They usually charge according to your budgets so they are actually quite flexible.</div>
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Below I’ve compiled a list of services and individual writers you should consider if you want to hire someone to create content for your blog.</div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.freelancer.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freelancer</a>.</li>
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UPDATE: Check out this cool video on outsourcing http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/video-why-outsourcing-is-bad-for-business<br />
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Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-65859245621779149572012-07-16T12:35:00.001-07:002012-07-16T12:36:19.451-07:00Trademarking Your Blog…. Should you do it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Less than a month ago, I was reading one of my favourite blogs (<a href="http://smartpassiveincome.com/" target="_blank">Smart Passive Income</a>) and I read a post that I felt I really related to (well not entirely but I’ll explain that soon.)</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was reading Pat Flynn’s May 2012 monthly income report (always amazing) and within his post he said that Smart Passive Income had officially become a registered trademark. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Besides his openness and incredible profit making talent, this made me gain even more respect for him. This move simply showed he was super serious about his blog and what he was doing and wanted to take it to the next level.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">About three years ago (2009), Charlie (who was 25 at the time) decided with his friend to start a business. What he did was import quality furniture and electronics from around the world at a reasonably low price and then sells them to shop owners and other businesses for profit. The name of their business was “Green Vine Trading.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In about a year and a half, they had managed to do extremely well and even open two of their own stores to sell directly to consumers. Everything was going well until he started to get calls from people claiming they were ripped off and that their electronics they bought from his store were fakes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">This would have seriously worried him if those people hadn’t said that they were from nearby town, which he hadn’t even expanded to! It turns out another business was using a similar name “Green Vine Investments” and people automatically thought it was related to Charlie’s.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So immediately after that they decided to register Green Vine as a trademark and sent notice to the owner of the other business who surprisingly changed their name without a fight. (I guess they probably knew it was going to happen… who knows?)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Patents:</b> Protect ideas and inventions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Trademarks:</b> Protect any “mark” associated with a business like names and logos.</div><div class="MsoNormal">There is a lot of confusion between copyrights and trademarks because they often overlap especially when it comes to dealing with logos i.e. an image used as a company logo can also be protected by copyright.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The main goal of a trademark is to prevent any confusion in the business world. A trademark prohibits the use of any marks that would cause any sort of confusion. These can be:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What does this mean for your blog?</span><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you’re like 98% of the bloggers on earth then you would probably either want to monetize your site or you already have. Whether it’s through selling ad space, using Adsense, promoting affiliate products or coming up with your own, making a reasonable income is probably one of your goals. You would want to make it a business. Building your brand would be another important goal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You would want people to know your brand and associate it with quality especially when you release your own products like eBooks, audio seminars, training videos, training programs or software. You would want them to immediately recognize that it actually did come from you and not confuse you with someone else. You would need that protection. Trademarks provide that.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the example I gave with Charlie, another company had a similar name and where dealing in basically the same products. This caused confusion with customers and was in some way affecting the reputation of his business.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Think about this. You run a blog about gardening for example and you called it Garden Maniacs. You write a really awesome book about the secrets to growing bigger, juicier vegetables faster and you want to sell it. You call it “The Garden Maniacs Guide to Bigger, Juicier Vegetables.” Then someone else releases a similar book called “The Garden Maniacs Guide to Gardening” using a similar logo that’s low quality and the content sucks. You’ve got a problem right? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When people get the other book and realize that it’s full of garbage, the next time they see your book, they won’t even give it a second look. They will be preprogrammed to hate you products and you will lose sales.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Also, another dark side is that people could be piggybacking on your name to help them get more business. If they ruin your reputation along the way, they don’t lose out.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Other Advantages of Trademarking Your Blog<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Gives you the right to sue people infringing your trademark.<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Allows law enforcement agencies to take action against people counterfeiting your trademark without permission<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">How You Can Do It<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can get an attorney to do it for you but this might cost you extra. You can also do it yourself by going to your local Trademark and Patent Office.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>NOTE:</b> If you live in the US you can visit the US Patent and Trademark Office Website.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Do You Really Need?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, it’s not a must but once your blog really takes off, you should at least consider it. If it’s probably bringing you on average high 6+ figures a year and you release a lot of products, I would recommend it. It gives you the protection you need.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Disclaimer: </b>I am not a lawyer or in any way an expert in law (I’m just a blogger :) ). Any advice given should be taken as such.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Image: <a href="http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/" target="_blank">FreeDigitalPhotos.net</a> </div></div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-65738271327445483672012-07-10T17:46:00.002-07:002012-07-20T04:12:40.686-07:00How to REALLY Create Content That Connects With Readers, Prospects and Customers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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One of the main problems with bloggers and other online business owners is that they struggle to produce the type of content that connects with and engages their audience.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This causes a chain reaction that in the end affects their relationships, revenue and possibilities for growth.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This doesn’t only affect first time bloggers. Believe me even the greats have days where they simply have nothing to write and are completely stumped.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Surprisingly, for some reason some people seem to be immune to writer’s block and blank screen syndrome. They keep pumping post after post of amazing content and you keep scratching your head and biting your nails wondering what their secrets are.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well they don’t actually have any secrets. They just know things you don’t know that you don’t know (if that made any sense) and you can’t be blamed for that.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now enough talking, let’s get down to business.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Most super bloggers understand the following five things.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. They know who they’re targeting.</div><div class="MsoNormal">2. They know the importance of a Unique Selling Proposition.</div><div class="MsoNormal">3. They know the art of being creative without necessarily creating.</div><div class="MsoNormal">4. They know the importance of research.</div><div class="MsoNormal">5. The know the importance of writing to change lives.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Now I’m going to break these down and make them easier to digest.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Know Your Audience<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m no expert but the first thing any marketer would tell you would be to know who you’re targeting. When you know who your audience is then everything becomes much easier. You are able to craft every piece of content you write to appeal to them and they will absolutely love you for it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">They will not hesitate to subscribe to your feeds, join your lists or even buy your eBooks because they would feel like you understand them and their needs. The good part about it is you genuinely would!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So the question now is, how exactly do you get to know your audience?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There are two incredibly effective places to get all the information you need about your audience. The best part about it is that they are both at your disposal for free!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">These places are:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. On your blog.</div><div class="MsoNormal">2. Off your blog.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>On your Blog<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Your blog is a gold mine of information if you know just how to mine it. Here are some strategies.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. <b>Review Your Stats. </b>If you haven’t already installed Google Analytics, install it now. Google analytics is a world class website analytics tool that allows you to study your reader’s behavior from the time they reach your site to the time they leave it. It shows both your most popular and least popular posts. You can use this information to figure out why the readers responded more to those pages and not to others. It also shows you how they navigated through your site and this can be useful when it comes to tweaking the design of your blog.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now I don’t need to go deep into the power of Google Analytics because there are people who are better qualified than me to teach it like:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cameronchapman.com/" target="_blank">Cameron Chapman</a> in his <a href="http://blog.kissmetrics.com/google-analytics-5/" target="_blank">Beginners Guide to Google Analytics on KissMetrics</a> and</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://secretstowebsuccess.com/" target="_blank">Dali Burgado</a> in her <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-seo%E2%80%99s-guide-to-google-analytics-5-getting-used-to-new-features-part-i/39544/" target="_blank">SEO’s Guide to Google Analytics on SearchEngineJournal</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">2. <b>Pay attention to comments. </b>Most bloggers don’t pay as much attention to their comments as they should. When it’s not the random surfer trying to get a free backlink, it’s usually someone genuinely interested in what you have to say and giving you important feedback. Use this information! You get to know exactly what your reader wants directly from the source which is awesome. Also don’t be afraid to join in the conversation. You get to cover more ground that way and build important relationships.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">3. <b>Ask! </b>It never hurts to ask. I think it was Wayne Gretzky who said “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” If you don’t ask you never know what they want or what you’re missing. Most readers would be happy to contribute if you just ask. Putting up a blog post or poll asking them their opinions works extremely well and can also give you a lot of ideas. So swallow your pride and JUST ASK!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Off Your Blog<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>1. Visit Related Sites. </b>Visit sites that are similar to yours. If they are doing better than you, it means they are doing something right. Get ideas on what post types their audience responds to the most. Study their writing styles but be careful not to do exactly what they do 100%. You have to give them a special reason to come to your site. I mean no one really wants another Copyblogger or DailyBlogTips if they’re going to be exactly the same.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>2.</b> <b>Ask the Don (or Donna). </b>Simply put, get help from the guy or girl who is doing better than you. Shoot them an email asking them about their site. Heck, give them an interview! Most bloggers would be happy to help because where you see them as a threat or competition; they see you as a potential partner. Some even offer critique services which you can really benefit from.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://socialtriggers.com/" target="_blank">Derek Halpern</a> offers this type of services and he can show you how to increase you conversion rates as well. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Create your Unique Selling Proposition<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Your unique selling proposition is your identity. It’s what makes you stand out among the 181 million blogs on earth. It’s what makes people decide whether to visit yours instead of one of your rivals.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Just to put things into perspective, let me give you two examples.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Derek Halpern. </b>This guy is personally one of my favorite bloggers (that’s why I mention him a lot in my posts). What he did was notice that though people where talking a lot about techniques of marketing; they didn’t explain the psychology behind them. So he created social triggers to fill the void and it was all uphill from there. (That’s <a href="http://thinktraffic.net/derek-halpern-17k-subscribers-in-11-months" target="_blank">17000 subscribers in 11 months!</a>)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Steve Kamb.</b> Now this guy, I respect. He took the weight loss niche and turned it upside down and inside out when he created <a href="http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/" target="_blank">Nerd Fitness</a>. He approached fitness from a whole new angle. This had never been done before and that’s why it was able to grow so quickly.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With uniqueness comes strong branding and with that comes loyalty. If you want to create content that strongly appeals to your readers or customers and keeps them coming back, give them something they’ve never heard before.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">ULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Again I think there are people better qualified to teach you more about USP like:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sparringmind.com/" target="_blank">Greg Ciotti</a> on his post <a href="http://www.sparringmind.com/unique-proposition/" target="_blank">Your Unique Selling Proposition: Why It Matters, and How to Find One That Really Works on Sparring Mind.</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Getting Creative(…or not )<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">You don’t have to be create to be creative. In all honesty, I stole this one from <a href="http://firepolemarketing.com/" target="_blank">Danny Iny</a> from <a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/create-content-ideas/" target="_blank">his guest post on Copyblogger.</a>(A good example, no?) Coming up with ideas for posts is easy if you know where to look. A simple process I use to come up with blog post Ideas when I’m completely blank is:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">1. I visit a related popular blog and look at their recent posts as well as their most popular posts (they’re usually in the side bar)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">2. I write down the title and type of one of the post e.g. ’21 ways to make a million dollars in the next 10 minutes – list post’</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">3. Then under that I write information the author missed.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">4. I write the interesting questions the readers asked in comments.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">5. I write down my alternative solution or things I don’t agree with.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The beautiful part about this system is you get ideas without really using a lot of effort and these ideas can be used for your next epic guest post as well.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Other ways to create without creating:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b>1. Explain your personal success. </b>Have you noticed how popular success stories are? Do you know why? It’s because it shows people that it’s possible for them as well. People respond to these kinds of stories. So pick a time in your blogging career when you achieved success and tell your story. It’s unique because it happened to you and you don’t have to think much. <b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pat Flynn gives a monthly report of his earnings on <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/" target="_blank">Smart Passive Income</a> and this generates a lot of interest among his readers(me being one of them… I swear this guy is a genius).<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b>2. Explain your personal failures. </b>Has the same effect as explaining your successes. If you had to read a post title that said ‘5 Reasons I Will Never use Pinterest as Part of my Marketing Strategy Again’ wouldn’t you be intrigued? People would want to find out why you made such a statement and will click through.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b>3. Link to some old posts. </b>Monthly and yearly mash ups are great for posts especially for those readers who might have might have missed some of your work.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Research is probably the most important part of the whole post. Without it you’re just dishing your readers a whole bunch of nonsense. If you don’t do any research for your post you’re risking your readers trust in you which is not an option if you want to create a thriving business online.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well researched content:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">1. Shows you know your stuff.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">2. Shows that you care about providing your readers with value.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">3. Helps create a stronger brand because you can back up your claims.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So the next time you write a post quote a book or give some statistics to back up whatever advice you’re giving your readers. Trust me; it will do wonders for your credibility.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Now that you probably have all the information you need, it’s time to put it all together. After all, you could have the word skills that even Shakespeare would envy but if you fail to present it in a flowing and logical way then to the reader it would be absolute garbage. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You have to be familiar with the anatomy of a good blog post.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Anatomy<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Every good blog post has an amazing anatomy i.e. it has a certain structure to it that makes everything easy to follow and really stand out.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There are many anatomy types out there but so far the best in my opinion is Danny Iny’s which you learn in his free webinar for <a href="http://writelikefreddy.com/" target="_blank">Write Like Freddy</a> and this is how it goes:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Headline<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">à</span>Hook<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">à</span>Root of Problem<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">à</span>Outline of Solution<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">à</span>Implementation of Solution<span style="font-family: Wingdings;">à</span>Engagement Building Question.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Headline: </b>The very first thing that catches the reader’s eye. Without an eye catching headline they won’t be bothered to even read what you’ve written.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Hook:</b> This is the first few paragraphs of a blog post that if you land on a site, you have to click the read more button to get to the rest of the post. It’s the part you put before a tag in a Wordpress blog or jump break in a Blogger Blog. It’s probably one of the most important parts of the entire post because it determines whether the reader will continue reading or not.</div><div class="MsoNormal">To create an excellent hook you have to describe in detail the pain the reader is having or the pleasure they would like to have. It’s as simple as that. It draws them in and keeps them interested.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Root of Problem: </b>This is also a very important part. This allows the reader to recognize where the problem is coming from in the first place and how they can avoid it in future.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Outline of Solution: </b>Here you describe your solution and you have to make sure that you are as thorough as possible. The post doesn’t have to be long, just enough to get your point across. If it takes 300 words, great! If it takes 12,000 words(like the viper, <a href="http://viperchill.com/" target="_blank">Glen</a>), even better.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Implementation of Solution: </b>Explain how they can get started by using your information to solve their problem.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Engagement Building Question: </b>This is what gets them talking. Leave them a question at the end of your post that they can respond to and make them good. This creates relationships between you and your readers who can turn into potential customers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Engage!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">If you have any social media accounts, get on them and promote like crazy. After all there’s no use in creating quality content if no one’s going to see it right?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Read and reply to all your comments. If someone retweets one of your posts thank them, if they mention you in a tweet thank them. If they Digg your posts, Digg some of their posts back. Get involved with your readers! Once they start to feel comfortable because you include them you would not only have gained a loyal subscriber. You would have also gained a friend.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>P.S.</b> I would also recommend getting a Facebook page for your blog if you don't already have one. After all that’s where 8 hundred million people are! I personally don’t have one for Electric Blogging. It’s not because I don’t want one. It’s just that I’ve never found the time to build one. But I can assure you that one day soon, I will.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I put in a lot of work writing this post. Where I am right now, it’s 2 in the morning!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So now it’s time to hear from you.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">How do you find great content ideas?</div><div class="MsoNormal">What’s your biggest problem when it comes to writing content?</div><div class="MsoNormal">How much research do you really do for your posts?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since I started blogging and link building a few months ago, I noticed that the way I used the internet has drastically changed. I used to be content with just checking my mail, news and playing a few games online. Then I became obsessed with SEO,SERPs and pagerank. Every time I visited a site, I started to check its Pagerank and Alexa Rank.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then Recently, I watched a documentary on Bugatti and I started to see a link between the ways they did business and how most successful bloggers do theirs. So I decided to put my thoughts on paper and it soon evolved into this entire post.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pick something you’re good at</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When it comes to blogging, you have to find what you are good at and excel at it. I know this is probably one of the most overused pieces of advice in the blogosphere but there is a lot of truth to it. If you do something that you don‘t enjoy, there is a very slim chance of you ever making it. When you enjoy and have a passion for what you are doing, it will hardly feel like work and you will actually have fun while doing it. Just make sure that you choose an interest that has an audience otherwise all your work would be for nothing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bugatti has been known for building good looking, quality cars. One thing they are especially good at is speed. That’s what they are good at and they use that to their advantage. Their engineers have a passion for speed and that is why they excel at it as you can see from the Veyron and the Supersport.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as Bugatti specialized in speed, you can also specialize on a particular part of your niche. For example, instead of making a blog on a general term ‘weight loss’, you can specialize on ‘weight loss program reviews’ or ‘weight loss for kids’ or instead of ‘Technology’, you can choose ‘Linux’ or ‘Android’. This is highly targeted, has less competition and gives you a higher chance of conversions e.g. subscribers and affiliate sales. This is also related to the SEO technique of using long tail keywords.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By being specific, you get known as an expert in the field then in the future after some success, you can decide to expand to cover other related topics. The following are some successful bloggers who have used this technique:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brian Clark - CopyBlogger.com (Copywriting)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Corbett Barr - ThinkTraffic.net (Traffic Generation</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Danny Iny - FirepoleMarketing.com (Online Marketing and Business)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Derek Halpern – SocialTriggers.com (Traffic and Business Psychology)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pat Flynn – SmartPassiveIncome.com (Home Online Income Generation)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each of these has passion and has specialized and become an expert in their chosen fields.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Invest in Incredible Quality</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is always good to invest in incredible quality content. It shows people that you are serious about your niche and you aren’t just in it for the quick buck.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the Veyron, it cost Bugatti about $5 million to produce but they only sold it for $1 million which is an obvious loss. But one thing you have to understand is that Bugatti didn’t build it to make money, they built it just to show that they could. They made a statement and that statement stuck. They invested in quality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When writing your blog posts, don’t just write for the sake of keeping your RSS feed alive or just to add more pages of content. You should write like you mean it. Do extensive research for it and be thorough. Don’t publish a post unless you are sure your point has been made. Try to leave no stone unturned and make your reader feel good about reading your content. A quote from Corbett Barr, ‘write epic shit!!!’</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most bloggers hold out on a lot of their juicy secrets and only give them out with their paid products. This leaves their public content with an empty feel. Their blog posts are bland and simply uninteresting. Give out a lot of free secrets. I would say at least 40-60%. This would leave your readers hungry for more and then you can release your eBook or product. You would already have proved to them that you are the real deal and you would have a higher chance of conversions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Create a brand and aim to associate it with your niche</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bugatti Created the Veyron and from then we associated the Bugatti brand with incredible speed. Even when the Ultimate Aero was released and took over the crown of world’s fastest car, Bugatti engineers went back to work and soon released the Supersport and reclaimed the crown. They had a fighting spirit and so should you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you enter the niche, aim high. Have the mindset of dominating your niche. Become the ‘Google’ of your niche. By that I don’t mean create a search engine; I’m just stressing the need to have the domination mindset. Think about it. When you want to search for something on the net, what do you say? You say <b>‘Let me Google it’ </b>even if you end up using Bing or Yahoo. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Make something and create a buzz. This can be a blog, ebook, video or anything that has potential to become viral. Make people know you and associate you with quality.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Get Authorities to Mention You and Build Relationships</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Top Gear is probably one of the most popular motoring shows today. It is watched by millions, maybe even billions of people around the world. When the presenters (Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig) test and recommend a particular car, it gets attention. The Bugatti Veyron was so highly recommended by Top Gear that they had to dedicate three episodes to it. People trust their advice and they have a huge following. Get your car mentioned by them and you are guaranteed a spike in sales.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Same goes with Blogging. When an authority in your niche mentions you or something you have done, you should expect to get some attention and siphon some of their subscribers as well as gain some good backlinks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By people, I mean the ‘gurus’ or top bloggers in your niche. You can do this by:</span><br />
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<div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) Writing Guest Posts.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Linking to Other Bloggers through your own content.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) Doing something so amazing, it gets attention.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">d) Asking. Sounds funny but it works.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Build relationships with others and make friends. Sooner or later when you need a favor, they will be more than happy to<span style="font-family: inherit;"> help.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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1. Write something amazing and current about your niche, email other bloggers and chances are that they will link to you.<br />
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2. Be Controversial, challenge what everyone is saying but justify why you are opposing it. People eat this stuff up and they will either agree with you or disagree and link to you to explain why you are wrong. It's so easy. Look at the example of my recent post that got a lot of attention and page views.<br />
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<a href="http://www.electricblogging.net/2012/06/google-smoogle-why-you-dont-need-google.html" target="_blank">Google Smoogle: Why you don't need Google for explosive traffic </a><br />
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3. Leave awesome comments on other people blogs linking back to your site (to find blogs that will probably gather some serious traffic look at Digg, Delicious and Reddit's Upcoming or Hot sections)<br />
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4. Get on Yahoo Answers and answer peoples questions, make sure you have the absolute best answer so that you are always on top. Add a link to your site as a resource.<br />
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5. Add an email list, opt in form at a very prominent, hard to miss area on your site. Some people ue the hover method which works for them.<br />
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6. Add an RSS button so that people can subscribe. Don't forget to ask people to subscribe. If you don't ask, you don't get.<br />
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7. Ask people to subscribe to your feed either at the beginning or end of each post.<br />
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8. Review a product or company and ask them to link to you. People love free publicity and if you give it to them, they would want to link to you.<br />
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9. Add bookmark and share buttons to your site. Make t easy for people to share our content with the world. Hover bars like the one on this site works well<br />
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10. Submit your RSS feed to feed directories. ( Got upwards of 1000 views for a single post within two hours from a single post.)<br />
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11.Give well researched and thorough posts. If your posts aren't researched enough, it will show. People will realize you are not giving any value and wouldn't want to link or subscribe to you.<br />
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12. Optimize your post title for the keywords people normally search for. This is the first thing search engines see. I'm not saying continuously using exact match, too much optimization could penalize you but instead find a way of incorporating them. you can also use different variations.<br />
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13. Submit your site to hundreds of free directories. It may not be as effective as before but cumulatively, it does work to build links.<br />
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14. Conduct a survey in your niche, publish the results as a post and contact some bloggers and tell them about it. They might link to you if you just ask, they don't all have to be A-listers. All you have to do is make sure it is relevant and really informative.<br />
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15. Get your RSS feed syndicated by using sites like hubpages and Zimbio.<br />
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16. Network with other bloggers. Make friends with other bloggers in your niche. That way, if you ever need a favour. They will be willing to help you out ( e.g. you are launching a product or you wan to guest post for them. )<br />
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17. Write Amazing Headlines. This is extra effective on sociall media sites like Reddit and STumbleUpon.<br />
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18. Link out to other bloggers. Don't be stingy with the links. You want your readers to gain value, so provide them with a place they can get additional value. Bloggers also keep track of who links to them and will probably browse your site and link to one of your posts as a sort of thank you,<br />
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19. Get a good domain name, something catchy and easy to remember.<br />
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20. Brand yourself. Create a brand and promote it. Make people associate your brand with top notch content.<br />
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21. Take advantage of PLR content for your niche. Add a catchy title and post it to your site. You get a lot of new content and a lot of new traffic. It' a win-win.<br />
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22. Use a commonly searched keyword or words as your domain name. This creates strong association within search engines.<br />
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23. Apply to be listed on Google News Search only if you firmly believe your site is high quality otherwise you risk rejection.<br />
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24. Get your site listed on All Top. You get pr7 backlinks and a good traffic boost.<br />
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25. You can buy advertising in others peoples mailing lists. Find someone within your niche with a high number of subscribers. Shoot them an email and start negotiating.<br />
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26. If you have a product, start an affiliate program or join one as a merchant and get people to do most of the promotion work for you.<br />
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27. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche. Link exchanges still work if done in moderation. Don't list your site or your partners site on a page just for links. This waves a red flag. Put them in a small blogroll. Maybe a maximum of ten quality sites.<br />
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28. Send articles to Ezine Publishers with a link back to your site.<br />
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29. Give away something for free. This is where ebooks and reports come in. People love free stuff. So use this as bait and reel them in.<br />
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</div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-40080930657735739652012-06-08T12:34:00.002-07:002012-06-08T12:39:16.632-07:00Stumble Upon Traffic Series: Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfxlFSKFg2ghAC8EwsCJMf5wmPc2-J66TJSAtRoZD_u8Xtej2JCrlONkpv_R2a6ranXl40Am1hBjbDL1zLI-ZZXmNaqz9x0PzRxEjoOfUSiitCNa5oFhKkU-HwQ0w2n4dgpTojFtLeNk/s1600/social_stumbleupon_button_color_256.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfxlFSKFg2ghAC8EwsCJMf5wmPc2-J66TJSAtRoZD_u8Xtej2JCrlONkpv_R2a6ranXl40Am1hBjbDL1zLI-ZZXmNaqz9x0PzRxEjoOfUSiitCNa5oFhKkU-HwQ0w2n4dgpTojFtLeNk/s1600/social_stumbleupon_button_color_256.png" /></a></div><br />
In this current age of social media and blogging, there are many services that you can use to promote your content and share your ideas. One of these such services is StumbleUpon.<br />
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StumbleUpon traffic is<b> one of the most debated methods of generating traffic</b> among many seasoned bloggers.<br />
It has the potential to send you anywhere from a hundred to tens of thousands of views in a single day (the highest I received in a single day was 3267 hits) which is good but the argument is whether the quality of traffic is good or not.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>On average the<b> average stumbler spends between 15 to 35 seconds on a page</b> (which is rubbish) unless the content on your site is attractive enough to engage him/her.<br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Write Eye Catching Titles</b><br />
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This is the key to most web 2.0 sites. Possibly the most important part of it. A mouth watering title helps draw the reader and make them stay on your page longer. Increasing the likelihood of a conversion ( affiliate clicks, Subscribers etc)<br />
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Titles That Work On StumbleUpon:<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Resources</b></li>
<li><b>Top Lists</b> (e.g. top 10 internet millionaires) </li>
<li><b>Funny Stuff</b></li>
<li><b>Something that helps or fills a need</b> (e.g. How To's)</li>
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</div><div>So the first step is the title but if you don't have top class content backing it up, you will lose the visitor as they skin through your post and realize it's worthless. Engage them from the beginning and leave the with an overwhelming wow feeling that will make them want to explore your site more.</div><div><br />
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Thousands upon thousands of so-called gurus have led you to believe that Google is the king of all traffic and that if you don't follow Google's rules of SEO and linking, you are doomed to fail.<br />
Well i'm here to show you why you don't relly need Google to crash your servers because of too much traffic.<br />
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According to alexa, Youtube is the third most popular site on the web. <b>Billions of videos are watched each day and millions go viral</b>. Im going to give you a real world example of a business that took off from a single youtube video gone viral.<br />
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Funny right?? have to do is get creative and post an online video series for your blog and watch the traffic pour in. Just make sure you have a link back to your site for your fans to follow you.<br />
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Don't just say something lame like, "Great post" or "Like your blog". Say something meaningful. Challenge the poster if you have to, ask him/her questions and slip in some information about your site like a similar post you had written. People will take notice of you and follow your name link to your site.<br />
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There are enough ways to get traffic off twitter that i don't need to go through right now. (if you want to know more check the twitter section) Basically all you have to do is<b> build a following</b>. Follow people who have already followed someone related to your niche. If they follow you back great, if they don't unfollow them.<br />
Then whenever you have a new blog post or whatever. tweet it and <b>sit back and watch the traffic come</b>.<br />
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Actually my biggest traffic and subscriber bringer when I first started out. Write an awesome post. Stumble it and watch the traffic roll in and the great thing is it's long term. <b>I tried it with a brand new blog with only one post in it and got 1500 views and 57 subscribers. IN ONE NIGHT!! </b>Do not underestimate it's power.<br />
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Get people to subscribe to your sites feed. These people will automatically be sent an update every time you update your content. So you will have a list of <b>loyal subscribers</b> who have gotten to know you and willing to read your posts. Which reminds me, if you are new here, <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElectricBlogging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">subscribe to my feed to get free updates.</a><br />
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This is a little excerpt on a free eBook i'm working on. It is called <b>"The Psychology of Attracting Links and Building Traffic."<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_658792732"> </a></b><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/electricblogging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to my feed</a> to be the first to receive it when finished.<br />
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For you to understand the psychology of attracting links and boosting traffic, you have to have to be familiar with the term <b>Link Baiting.</b><br />
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By Definition: <b>Link baiting is a piece of content placed on a web page for the purpose of gathering links from different sources. </b><br />
This can be a blog post, an image, a video. Really, anything that gives your reader an urge to share it.<br />
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In blogging links are usually shared through different means from social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit to other blogs that generally find your content interesting. They link to you and you gain a backlink which helps you rank better in search enginse and drives you more traffic. <b>If you don't know what backlinks are just go through the <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/search/label/Seo" target="_blank">SEO</a> section of this blog.</b><br />
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I am going to show you the best ways to create content that attracts a large number of links and probably boost your traffic 10, 20 and even a 1000 fold.<br />
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People love current content. If it's happening now, people will share it now. So find something in your niche that is trending or being talked about and add your two cents to the topic. Chances are a lot of people will link to it because for obvious reasons they are interested.<br />
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This method is good for short term boost in traffic but also gives a possibility of long term links.<br />
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People share content that they find funny. How many times have you discovered a funny picture or article and just felt like sharing it with the world? That's how you can use link baiting. Create something funny and cool and people would want to link to you.<br />
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Rage comics and memes are popular these days, why not use them as your medium. These tend to go viral in a short period of time.<br />
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Controversial stuff sells. Be the person people love to hate. Get something widely accepted and challenge it with every fiber of your being. People will eat it up and will either love or hate you. Either way it still works to your benefit. <b>People will be talking about you.</b><br />
You've probably heard the saying <b>"All Publicity is Good Publicity"</b><br />
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As I said earlier, this is is just an excerpt. There are many ways to build traffic and I will be putting them all in my book. So <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/electricblogging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to my feed</a> to be the first to receive it when finished.<br />
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<b>So, If you're reading this you are probably not getting as much traffic as you wanted: </b>Don't worry, you are not alone. Millions of bloggers have this problem and don't beat yourself up about it.<br />
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Traffic generation is one of the most misunderstood topics in the blogging world and i am going to give you 5 reasons your blog isn't doing as well as you hoped.<br />
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<b>1. You're not in to your topic: </b>Passion is very important when it comes to blogging. If you are not passionate about your topic or are just in it for the money, then you might not go very far. When you have a passion about what you are writing, you will find it fun and not as much work as you think.<br />
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Think about the time when you were in school. You usually did better in classes that you enjoyed than those you didn't. Your passion shows in your posts.<br />
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<b>Fix:</b> Change your topic or find a way of getting more interested in the topic you are writing about.<br />
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<b>2. You have a horrible design: </b>The first thing people see when they visit your blog is your site design. People may want to read what you are writing about but if your site is unattractive they might not even bother.<br />
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<b>Fix: </b>Get an attractive theme or template. Trust me it's worth it. Make things look organised and don't bombard your visitors with unnecessary widgets. First impressions are everything.<br />
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<b>Fix: </b>Learn patience. Sorry to use this overused lime but <b>Rome wasn't built in a day!!!</b> Carefully work on you content. The better your content the greater the likelihood of them going viral.<br />
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<b>4. No One Cares About Your Topic: </b>If you choose a topic very few people care about. It's going to be hard to build a large audience. Give the people what they want and they will keep coming.<br />
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<b>Fix: </b>Make people want what you are providing. Steve Jobs once said that what he did was provide something and make you need it even if you don't know it yet. Give a unique angle to what you are writing about and people will start getting interested.<br />
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<b>Fix: </b>Add some How To's to your site. Help someone. Find questions that are asked by readers of your niche and answer them. When you help them, they will help you by sharing your content, subscribing etc..<br />
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<b>2. Share Your Old Posts: </b>You could have written an amazing post a while back that you know gathered a lot of attention. Why not share it again. <b>I recommend using a popular posts widget</b> or simply rewriting the article and adding a bit of new information to it. Then re-share it on social networks and bookmarking sites. Chances are lightning will strike twice.<br />
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<b>3. Blog Commenting: </b>Choose when and where to comment. It is best to comment on a blog that has a new post and be one of the first because these comments receive the most traffic. You should also leave some sort of contribution.<b> Don't go for the usual spammy,</b> "Great post!" approach because chances are it is not going to get published.<br />
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<b>4. Write On Something Current: </b>You want fast traffic? Write about something current, something everyone else is talking about. Write a post add your two cents and publish it. You are probably going to get a piece of that traffic. If you want to know what's trending. Go to sites like<b> Alltop, Yahoo or even Twitter</b>.<br />
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<b>5. Get Advertising: </b>I am usually against paying for advertising, but for the purpose of this post, it is essential. Pay for advertising on a top site<b> in you niche</b> or a site like Google, Facebook or Stumble Upon. These are high traffic sites and there is a high traffic and you can funnel away at some of this traffic.<br />
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<b>6. Use Trackback: </b>Read a big blog and write a post about one of their post. Add your two cents and add a link from your post to theirs. Just make sure the blog you are linking to uses trackback. <b>If your content is relevant it should receive a good number of clicks</b> because trackbacks are shown before comments<br />
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<b>7. Write An Amazing Post: </b>I know this sounds a little vague but i'm going to say it again <b>WRITE AN AMAZING POST!!!! </b>When you write something amazing and uniquely different. People are most likely going to share it. It is what I call, <b>"The Law Of Share"</b>. <b>Mark Zuckerberg</b> understood the concepts in the beginning of Facebook, that is why he was able to achieve such success. So for your next post try to think differently and write the best post you have ever written.<br />
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Yes for all you Google Heads(me being one of them) it might come as a shock or a cause for concern. You might be saying, "Who the hell does this guy think saying Google is becoming a souless corporate multi-billion dollar machine. Google is awesome, fun and is our friend. This guy is an idiot and should never be allowed to blog again." A few days ago, I would have said the same to someone who wrote a post like this. At one point, the late, Great Steve Jobs predicted this would happen. So let's put aside our emotions and look at the cold hard to swallow facts.<br />
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<b>First of all Microsoft Co-founder and Tech Legend Bill Gates said it himself </b><br />
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<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">The Windows OS owns over 85% of worldwide market share.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Google owns well over 80%</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">If you think about it Google runs the internet. You face suicide if you do not play by their rules.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">With this kind of dominance comes greed, if you are not careful which comes to my next point.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Google was recently discovered to favor Google+ search results by engineers from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. A clear message from them was <a href="https://www.focusontheuser.org/" target="_blank">Don't Be Evil</a>. The funny thing is this was Google's slogan which is now being used on them! Funny ho things change huh?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Free, Free, Free</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"> ran into some monopoly trouble over discouraging competition by bundling free software to their windows platform. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Google is doing the same with Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Plus.. etc The list is endless. All you have to do is sign up for one of these and you have an account for all of them. They have effectively taken an operating system and put it online so that you never have to leave Google to do what you want. I can't complain, I like this because it does come in handy but according to the FTC( ), for some reason, that's a big no-no.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">Okay there are many ways that Google is becoming Microsoft but I don't have the time to go over all of them. So just search the net, i believe there are people with more knowledge than me on the matter and I encourage you to read about this.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">My goal is to send a message to Google and tell them what they have been saying all along <b>"Don't Be Evil" </b>I am a big fan of these guys especially Larry Page and Sergey Brin themselves and I don't want them to go go down this dangerous road. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><b>SO MAKE THIS MESSAGE HEARD, SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY TWEETING, EMAILING, LIKING, DIGGING, STUMBLING AND JUST PLAIN SHARING THIS WITH THE WORLD! WHILE YOU ALSO FIGHT PIPA, HELP SAVE GOOGLE FROM THEMSELVES!</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5ykDBNpVm92XNOTmqfvj0q8WNGJpzlgnS0AnTDlKAHh-qkYlxzeZOKuHiWMCnAyFaoyIak31akEP1Z6w_4Dq9LB9CrgyvFSTCp-QfjMbPBUKtvGaysKerSjfZ4VicZfyEt-sBTe465c/s1600/tearing_hair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5ykDBNpVm92XNOTmqfvj0q8WNGJpzlgnS0AnTDlKAHh-qkYlxzeZOKuHiWMCnAyFaoyIak31akEP1Z6w_4Dq9LB9CrgyvFSTCp-QfjMbPBUKtvGaysKerSjfZ4VicZfyEt-sBTe465c/s320/tearing_hair.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Tell me if this sounds familiar. You've got your new (or old) blog ready and set up and you are so excited when you pump out your first world record breaking, mesmerizing and all round perfect blog post .<br />
The next day you are so excited to finally see how many people have read it or even commented.<br />
First you open you blog to check for any praise giving comments............ nothing.<br />
Okay you're not deterred, you say to yourself "anyway, at least I know people read"<br />
You check your traffic stats....<br />
<a name='more'></a>................... 0 or maybe 1, you get excited then suddenly realize it's yourself! You get even more frustrated.<br />
Now what do you do? In this case you are one of two people. Either you:<br />
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If you belong to the first group, change that attitude. Rome wasn't built in a day. You have to start small for you to become big and decide that you have to become part of the second group.<br />
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If you are part of the second group, you have the right attitude. The main problem would probably be that you are not promoting your site effectively and there are many ways to do this and the main way being through through<b> SEO (Search Engine Optimization)</b>.<br />
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Performing SEO on your site simply means making it<b> search engine friendly</b>. Think about it when you want to find something on the internet, where do you go? A <b>Search Engine</b>. Whether it's Google, Yahoo or Bing,(Google dominating the market) someone will use a search engine like it or not.<br />
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Along with SEO there are special sections of this site dedicated to <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-old-seo-techniques-i-hope-you-are-not.html">SEO</a>, <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-ways-to-make-your-blog-so.html">Blogging</a> and <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-ways-to-promote-your-blog-effectively.html">Blog Promotion</a>. You should check them out... :)<br />
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<b>Like this Article??? </b><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ElectricBlogging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>subscribe to my feed to get free updates.</b></a> </div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-73197464966118180392012-01-22T07:18:00.000-08:002012-01-22T07:30:02.942-08:00Key To Blogging Success:Timeless Content<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKqtEIjFa2x1tuWfSCFUzUyevA3syKbETh1wURJ1YH2H1Ng589DLfR-5NUP8SbfZT510iNdOsq9haxeNi39AjIBcpFDHCNbfBfWnpFwH6cyttKy4whZ90VG6uPaF5aOY_Ulw8WOvpPQY/s1600/no-time-480.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSKqtEIjFa2x1tuWfSCFUzUyevA3syKbETh1wURJ1YH2H1Ng589DLfR-5NUP8SbfZT510iNdOsq9haxeNi39AjIBcpFDHCNbfBfWnpFwH6cyttKy4whZ90VG6uPaF5aOY_Ulw8WOvpPQY/s320/no-time-480.gif" width="320" /></a></div>If you want to run an <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/">ultra successful blog</a> then timeless content has to be one of your main focuses that is unless you write exclusively about current events. Timeless content is content that can be useful today, tomorrow, next week and even ten years from now. If you write timeless content you will always have a good inflow of visitors because what you have written is still relevant.<br />
The thing about current events is that when they die down and you stop consistently updating, your <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/2012/01/5-ways-to-get-free-traffic-overload.html">traffic stats</a> also start to suffer. So you have to be prepared to keep on working to make sure your blog always has a pulse.<br />
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So now I will share with you some of the techniques I use to produce high quality and timeless content and I hope you do the same.<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Use Your Experiences: </b>Use a question that you have asked and think a lot of people have asked before and will continue to ask. Produce a highly informative and detailed answer to that question and put it up as a blog post. People will most likely continue asking that question if you chose the right one and this will help drive traffic and loyal readers to your blog.</li>
<li><b>Look To The Future: </b>If there are rumors on a certain product or service that will be available in the near future and is related to your niche, start blogging about it now while you have very little competition. This will ensure that you will be prepared and be considered an authority in the subject once other people start blogging about it. Think about it.</li>
<li><b>Mix it Up a Bit: </b>Don't focus wholly on timeless content, maybe once in a while talk about a current event. This will show your readers that you are up to date with whatever is happening at the time and this will also give you large bursts of short time traffic which can turn into long time traffic(if they subscribe) which is good.</li>
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If you have a lot of ads on your website, Google's new algorithm change will definitely punish you for it. I know it may be tempting to put ads in as many places as possible, especially Adsense because you want more clicks but Google is cracking down on sites that simply overdo it.<br />
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According to Google, the new search algorithm will search for sites with a good balance between good content and ads which could make your site drop a few places for it's keywords if you have overdone your ads. This algorithm change was made after many users and webmasters complained that Google favored sites with a low quality to ad ratio.<br />
Google Engineer Matt Cutts also mentioned in the blog post that High Quality sites will be rewarded in order to encourage " a healthy web ecosystem"<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"> "<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful websites around the world, and we do have a responsibility to encourage a healthy web ecosystem. Therefore, it is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that’s exactly what this change does."</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> "<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, we’re very excited about this new ranking improvement because we believe it’s a big step in the right direction of helping people find ever higher quality in our results. We’ve been tackling these issues for more than a year, and working on this specific change for the past few months. And we’re working on many more updates that we believe will substantially improve the quality of the pages in our results." </span></blockquote>Google has also increased "<a href="http://mashable.com/2011/11/01/google-why-these-ads/" target="_blank">Ad Transparency</a>"<br />
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When you look at it, Google is doing all of us a favor and increasing the quality of the browsing experience. You will no longer have to navigate through pages and pages of ads before you get to the content you are actually looking for.<br />
The change will apparently only affect less than 1% of all global queries.The algorithm will devalue sites with low value ads.<br />
If you are afraid of losing your precious rankings. Google suggest you do some spring cleaning on your site with tools like its <a href="http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/" target="_blank">Browser Size</a> Tool and <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/screen%20resolution" target="_blank">screen resolution emulators</a>.<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/google-reduces-ad-view/" target="_blank">http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/google-reduces-ad-view/</a> (You should also check out the video on this page)<br />
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So do you think your site or someone else's site will be affected by this?? Let me know. Drop a few comments.<br />
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Everyone needs free content once in a while and what better way to do that than do open your site for guest blogging. It's a win-win situation. You get a free informative article that gets you lots of traffic and the Guest Blogger gets exposure and a link back to your site. The problem is that people don't juts guest blog on any site, they are very picky even though they want free links. They also want to write for a blog that gives good targetted ad quality traffic...<br />
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Now how do you make your site more appealing to guest bloggers? It's simple, follow these steps below....<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Get yourself an attractive Theme/Template: </b>A basic template just won't do. It shows you don't care about what your site looks like and this will not bring in more bloggers. If you are on WordPress, there are a lot of free and <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/p/free-professional-blogger-templates.html" target="_blank">awesome templates</a> you can get your hands on although paid ones are 5 times more attractive. The main point is that you should get something decent looking. If you are using Blogger, I have some templates on this site that I am giving away for free.</li>
<li><b>Update your blog frequently: </b>This shows your blog has a pulse and guest bloggers would happily give you free content if they see that it has a high chance of being read. Don't leave your blog idle for more than a month or you face certain blogging death. Frequent updating will not only help you get more followers and guest bloggers, it will also help your SERPs(Search Engine Result Page) especially with Google.</li>
<li><b>Never Steal Content: </b>Please do not steal content and claim it as your own. In the case that you do have to use someone else's content and they are not guest blogging. Give them the right credit. If a potential Guest Poster recognizes some of your content as stolen, they will look down on your site and probably never visit your blog again. Is it worth it? Think about it.</li>
<li><b>Build relationships with your readers: </b>Interact with them. Get on a semi-personal level with them. Make them feel like you really care about solving whatever problems they have. Yo can do this by replying to comments and sparking up a conversation. It's really easy actually.</li>
<li><b>Don't over-stuff your page with links: </b>When your blog is full of external outbound(out of site) links, someone may not want to guest blog because that would mean sharing all the link juice with hundreds of other links. Keep a few outbound links and people will most likely feel like blogging for you.</li>
</ol><div>Basically that's it. So show me some love and bookmark this page with your favorite site or just hit it with a Facebook like or Tweet. I would really appreciate it. :) </div></div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-28763882742283650092012-01-20T05:29:00.000-08:002012-01-20T05:29:19.465-08:00Does Keyword Density Matter Anymore?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9hvJsKnEZrR9iI8xqVz-EB4fK0Hmjg2B496twMLtfDRtTNshaP2SkKr27Imdoinbo_ekSpP4Y0grjrPXQ-fsW8U7z0jMCrKQw7L7NyMxkImdA4ydfAgEqL7gpNofVkRUErgf5tthEuA/s1600/Keyword-Density.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9hvJsKnEZrR9iI8xqVz-EB4fK0Hmjg2B496twMLtfDRtTNshaP2SkKr27Imdoinbo_ekSpP4Y0grjrPXQ-fsW8U7z0jMCrKQw7L7NyMxkImdA4ydfAgEqL7gpNofVkRUErgf5tthEuA/s320/Keyword-Density.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There was a time when all you had to do to rank for certain keywords on search engines was to have a very high keyword density and you would be able to land on the first pages for those keywords. Those days are gone no that search engines are getting more and more sophisticated, especially Google because it changes its search and ranking algorithm very frequently.<br />
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This is the percentage of times a keyword or key-phrase is found in your content along with the other content on the page.<br />
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The formula for this is: ( # of keyword repetition / total words on page)*100<br />
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If you want to rank highly for specific pages you have to make sure you don't over stuff your content with your keywords or you might be penalized for trying to manipulate the search engine. That's not to say keyword density doesn't matter. If you keep your keyword density to at least 5%(which I call the sweet spot) along with other ranking factors, this will help boost your page's rank in search engines.<br />
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Just a quick question, one of my readers asked me. Hope this helps! :)</div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-85910054906578429192012-01-19T07:13:00.000-08:002012-01-19T07:13:17.554-08:006 Simple Ways To Shut Down Your Blog Because Of Too Much Traffic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1h_yW3ZmJuTTEZoESaKtehiNezMdh2CM1pXEwD5FVeqwrYuCFTRiqYSKcZ_bOylhZXohlBFGoxvhk1Xus1x5af3Fdh8VxqRgLyF9jovN7cnkYhnrpOy4rhBGrhyphenhyphenWVLavwOnwsmhWy2I/s1600/traffic+jam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1h_yW3ZmJuTTEZoESaKtehiNezMdh2CM1pXEwD5FVeqwrYuCFTRiqYSKcZ_bOylhZXohlBFGoxvhk1Xus1x5af3Fdh8VxqRgLyF9jovN7cnkYhnrpOy4rhBGrhyphenhyphenWVLavwOnwsmhWy2I/s1600/traffic+jam.jpg" /></a></div>If the traffic you are getting at the moment isn't leading to sales or you are just not getting any traffic, that means you are not attracting the type of visitors who are specifically interested in what you have to offer. It's a common thing and many newbies often make this mistake. But don't fret, there is a solution to this problem and all it requires is a perfectly laid out game plan.<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Leave comments on other people's blogs that are closely related to your site with a backlink to your site. You will start to find that the number of subscribers will increase drastically because these people are genuinely interested in what you have to say.</li>
<li>Become a participant of forums related to your specified niche. Join group discussions and show off your vast knowledge on the subject and people will begin to trust you and this will lead to targeted traffic and sales.</li>
<li>Join LinkedIn and participate.</li>
<li>Publish a press release on an appropriate site and join craigslist to get more traffic.</li>
<li>Create a viral video or picture with your website embedded. This could attract a lot in traffic, so what are are you waiting for. Grab a camera or fire up Photoshop and come up with something creative.</li>
<li>Make friends with already successful bloggers. You simply have to interact with them on a regular basis, commenting on their blogs. You can even interview them then ask them to mention your site in some way on theirs and watch the stream of traffic come to your site( worked for two of my blogs). Writing guest posts works well too. :)</li>
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</tbody></table>Blog promotion can be a daunting task and very time consuming. It can also be very frustrating if you don't do it right and don't see any results. One thing (first timers especially) think that promoting a blog has to only do with external promotion i.e. using other sites to promote your blog. This is true if you only want a few visitors but if you want a large in-pour of traffic you are going to have to also work on the blog itself first. Here I will outline a few good ways to get some serious traffic to your blog and how to keep it coming.<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Work on Your Titles: </b>Your Post titles have to be Captivating an force the user to click even if he is not interested in the topic at all. Make a title that is just itching to be clicked. A good title can definitely bring in the traffic especially when added to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon.</li>
<li><b>Work on the Content:</b> Your content has to be clear an informative that way, when someone finds your content amazing, they will feel the urge to share it with their friends through Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 sites. Then those friends will share it with their friends and you could possibly have thousands of people visit your site.</li>
<li><b>Add Share Buttons: </b>You have to add share buttons to your site and make sure they are easy to access. This way someone likes the article. This point actually actually works hand in hand with point 2. This may seem a bit obvious but a lot of people when starting a blog forget to add the share buttons until later on and will have missed a lot of opportunity for massive traffic.</li>
<li><b>Join Blog Communities: </b>Joining blog Communities like BlogEngage, Blokube and Bloggers can really boost your traffic. Usually you are allowed to post a link and details on a post you recently published and this post is voted on. If your post is really good and voted for, you end up on the first page where all the main traffic is and guess what? More Traffic. This is where point 1 comes in. You have to work on your titles so that they are noticed. Some communities also hold regular blogging competitions with prizes up to $1000. So this can also help you gain exposure.</li>
<li><b>Update Frequently: </b>Frequently updated sites help when it comes to search engine traffic, especially Google.Google likes frequently updated sites because it shows that the site is alive and that along with quality content will help you climb the search engine ranks.</li>
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<b>Commenting on related blogs:</b> is also a very effective way of promotion especially if you give meaningful, well thought out comments related to the post. People would want to know who you are and would probably visit your site, just make sure to leave your Name and URL. Comments like "good post" wouldn't work because most blogs now are moderated and it will be seen as spammy.<br />
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<b>Joining Blog Carnivals: </b>Joining Blog Carnivals can be a very efficient way to promote your blog especially when your niches are related.<a href="http://weblogs.about.com/od/marketingablog/qt/BlogCarnival.htm" target="_blank"> See More on Blog Carnivals</a><br />
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</div></div>Nathan Kashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087454467291230196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655152319168780692.post-87961441185678148522012-01-17T05:24:00.000-08:002012-01-17T05:58:44.646-08:00Review My Site, I Review Yours Plus You Get Free Traffic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Hi Everyone,<br />
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I have an offer for you guys, all you have to do is review my site on your site, preferably a blog post. Just something small, maybe even 50-100 words with "<b>make money online</b>" or "<b>how to blog</b>" as part of the anchor text and submit a comment on this post containing a link to where you put my review and I will also review your site with whatever anchor text you wish as a link to yours.<br />
Benefits are we get links from each other and we also share traffic between our new sites giving us more readers.<br />
P.S. Make sure it's something good. I will definitely return the favor.<br />
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Example of review:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">" Electric Blogging is a blog dedicated to teaching people <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/">how to blog</a>, seo and <a href="http://electricblogging.blogspot.com/">making money online</a>. Nathan Kash the owner of this blog gives a new insight into how blogging should be done and shares all the insider secrets on the subject. He has definitely mastered what it takes to run a successful blog."</blockquote>Thanks a lot!!!<br />
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Nathan Kash<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Im Only Looking for Five Reviews So You Better Hurry!!!</span></b><br />
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