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7 Reasons Not to Write a Personal Blog

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<span style="background-color: white;">Here you will find out why you shouldn’t write a personal blog, and some reasons why you should not write any sort of blog at all. There are plenty of articles on the Internet that claim blogging will get you rich and is fun and is the greatest thing since the invention of the car, but they are often posted to get people to buy blogging services such as hosting, content management systems and SEO (<a href="http://www.bloggertrix.com/2012/12/reaching-out-to-users-with-search.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #0167ab; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization</a>) services. Here are some reasons why a personal blog is a bad idea.<br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">You do not get paid to write a blog and it is work</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">You could be getting paid for the writing you are doing. When you write a blog post that is work. It is something that people are sat in offices doing right now and they are getting paid for it. Blogging may not seem like work at first, but after a few months it will be a slog, and you are not being paid for the slog. You are working for free and there is no way your <a href="http://www.bloggertrix.com/2013/01/tips-to-make-money-online-with.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0167ab; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">affiliate money</a> is going to fairly cover the amount of work you are doing. You could put the same amount of time into sweeping roads and make thirty times more than you are going to make via blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It is not going to make you affiliate money in the way you think it will</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most people are disappointed by the <a href="http://www.bloggertrix.com/2012/06/awesome-8-tips-to-get-more-traffic-to.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0167ab; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">amount of traffic</a> they receive and amount of affiliate money they receive, and yet it is blindingly obvious if you think about it. How many personal blogs do you read? How many do your friends read? You may read the occasional blog about something that interests you, but do you read many “personal” blogs? Furthermore, how often do “you” click on affiliate adverts when you are on the Internet? Most of your clicks over the last year were probably by accident.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Few people want to read your thoughts unless you are famous</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is just a sad fact. You are not special and you are not coming up with anything that thousands of others have not come up with before you. If you think you are being original then you are not researching hard enough.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most people run out of things to write about very quickly</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This happens to most bloggers and is the number one reason why most blogs do not last longer than six months. They usually come to a halt when the hosting services expire. You are going to run out of things to write about very soon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Most of your personal blog posts are not evergreen</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">An evergreen article is one that is still relevant and readable after a few months or years. For example, an article about heartbreak may be relevant for decades, but an article about how to program your VCR to record when you are out is not evergreen. Many of the personal things you write about are going to expire very quickly, which means that new readers are not going to be able to look over your old posts they will only read your most recent posts, which may make it harder to keep your readers.<br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">There are plenty of other things you could be doing that are longer lasting</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />You could be carving wood figurines instead of blogging. It may not be spread around the Internet like your blog, but it will have more value and it will last longer. You could be taking a course in fixing cars or decorating houses. You could be making your dreams come true, instead of blogging onto a platform that you will probably delete in a few months when you are bored with it. <br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Getting no traffic and/or reading criticism will hurt your feelings</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Working for six months and still having no traffic is heart breaking. It is horrible to find yourself pouring your heart into working on your blog, only to discover that nobody is reading it. The worst thing is when you do receive traffic and comments and they are negative. Some people enjoy criticizing because it makes them feel important and superior, and you are going to get that sort of thing on your comment section, and there is a chance it is going to hurt your feelings.</span></div>

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<span style="background-color: white;">Although being relatively young in the social networking scene, Instagram has quickly gained popularity and now boasts 300 million active monthly users. This number is only expected to grow as smartphones take over the global market. Instagram's rapid growth is due to the following reasons:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">1.   It's easy and fun - there are no complicated help topics or FAQs needed for someone to get started</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      with Instagram. The learning curve is manageable even for people who are not technologically</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      savvy. Better yet, the ability to apply filters, borders and other special effects allows people with</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      little artistic ability to drastically change their images without the need for expensive software.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">2.   It's free – All of the filters and other bells and whistles are provided completely free of charge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">3.   It's social – Instagram allows you to capture a moment in time and then share it with your</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      followers instantaneously. While you can do this on Facebook, Instagram allows you to apply</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      different effects to capture not only the actual event, but the feeling associated with that</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      particular  moment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">4.   It's visual – visual content is more in-demand than ever before and Instagram provides a</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">      completely visual platform.<br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><div class="separator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Tell a story about some important thing</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">While Instagram might be a visual platform, you don't need to sell visual products to join the service. At the end of the day, what will bring people to your profile is the story you tell through your images. These pictures can be of your product, customer or even your brand personality. The important part is to ensure all of your images all communicate a message that will also resonate with your audience. The best way to do this is to study up on your competitors and see what they are doing. Then ask yourself how you can differentiate yourself from them. More importantly, make sure your photos provide value to your followers.<br style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1em; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Just because Instagram might allow lower resolution photos doesn't mean you should use them. Use high-quality images and keep the filter use to a minimum as much as possible. If you can, use a third-party editing app instead to enhance your images before submitting them to Instagram. While images are the bread and butter of Instagram, don't underestimate the power of a good caption to your photos. They can be funny or inspirational, but above all they should encourage engagement. If you want to encourage even more interaction, as of 2013 Instagram now allows short 15-second videos. Brands have quickly adopted this new feature and have been very successful as 40 percent of the most shared Instagram videos are from brands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Like other social networks, you need to proactively interact with other users in order to gain followers. While it might seem strange to simply comment on users who don't follow you, this is the best way to reach influences. For best results follow these steps:</span></div>
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How to Create Content That Builds Loyal Audience And Increases Your Traffic And Sales

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Great content make the Internet go round.</div>
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Ask any blogger, writer or marketer about their secret recipe, they will tell you: “content that connects with people is super important”.</div>
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Creating content that sells is no rocket science. You need to learn the art of copywriting and few other persuasive techniques to build massive audience with your content. That’s how Copyblogger did it and built a million dollar online business within a decade.</div>
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If you want to increase your blog traffic, you need lots of great content that people crave for. Observe any successful blog, it’s well received because of just one reason – “posting problem solving contents frequently”.</div>
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If you are looking for proven ways to create content that goes viral and increases your sales, you are in the right place. We’ll first talk about what type of content goes popular.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 types of content that always go viral</strong></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#1) Research backed data</strong></div>
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Gone are the days where you can write 500 word random articles to increase your blog traffic and sales. No one likes to read or share them unless you have effective data-backed content on your blogs.</div>
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If you observe any top marketing (Fitness, Yoga etc) blog, you will notice most of their epic posts are research-driven blog posts. They are not only extremely detailed but they are often contains accurate data.</div>
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For instance, “How Tim Lost 15 Kgs in 2 Months Using Paleo Diet” tends to get more social shares, backlinks and sales when compared to the average posts like “How to lose 10 kgs”. Are you getting me?</div>
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Always use accurate data while creating your content. Analyze all the top performing blogs in your niche and share your opinions on them including the results.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#2) Case studies</strong></div>
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Case studies always perform well. They not only instantly connect with everyone but also go viral if they are well written.</div>
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If we again consider the above same example, an effective case study can be written around “How I lost 10 kgs in a month” and sharing everything you did from diet to exercise to help your audience to lose their weight.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#3) List posts</strong></div>
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List posts can go viral easily. If you observe any top post on Digg, StumbleUpon or any other blog marketing forum, you will notice most of the top posts contain list posts. They are not only easy to consume by online audience but people love to share them with their network if they find useful.</div>
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Now, let’s talk about how to create amazing content that gets more traffic and sales.</div>
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How to create compelling content that gets you readers</h3>
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In order to create powerful content that builds loyal audience, you need to come up with incredible ideas. How do you get ideas that are proven to go viral?</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use Skyscraper technique</strong>. This concept was originally coined by <a href="http://backlinko.com/skyscraper-technique" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Dean</a>from Backlinko. This involves in 3 simple steps. One is finding top performing content in your niche, the second step is to write exceptional content around it and the final step is to promote your content with the right people.</div>
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To put it simply, you need <a href="http://buzzsumo.com/" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buzzsumo</a> (free tool) to start finding the epic content in your niche. Once you enter any keyword on Buzzsumo, it will give you a list of all the top performing posts including the social shares and links.</div>
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Pick anyone of them and beat that content by making more detailed, adding more links and resources etc. Then use tools like <a href="http://topsy.com/" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Topsy</a> to find the top tweets to promote your existing content. Email all the people who are interested in reading or sharing your stuff (use Topsy) to reach a wider audience.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Always aim for quality over quantity.</strong></div>
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One quality link from a top blog is equivalent to hundreds of links from small or random blogs. Likewise, one epic post beats 100’s of crappy posts in terms of getting more shares, links, comments and traffic. Most new bloggers make a mistake of churning out more contents to increase their traffic.</div>
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But the reality is Google won’t send you massive traffic for updating your blog frequently. It will only reward if your site is well linked, well written and well shared on social media sites. So make sure to spend more time in crafting one amazing post than writing tens of crappy posts.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Controversial topics spread like a wildfire.</strong></div>
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If your blog audience are debating on a popular topic, that’s a great blog post idea to spread your blog’s exposure and if done right, controversial topics spread like a wildfire. Make a list of all the trending topics in your niche, then filter all the results that sound controversial.</div>
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Use both Google and other blogging forums to see what others are discussing about the topics you filtered out. Form a strong opinion around it, research well and finish your post! It will not only give you a better idea but these controversial topics always perform well in increasing traffic, shares and comments.</div>
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For instance, blog posts titled “Why Matt Cutts Is Completely Wrong About Building Links” can attract more eyeballs than with the posts titled “Matt Cutts Talk About Link Building”. Are you getting me? Start writing controversial topics in the beginning to increase your brand and if they are handled well, you will soon see a massive traffic spike and social shares.</div>
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How to increase your traffic with your content</h3>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Headlines:</strong> 9 out of 10 people read your headlines before even clicking on any of your blog posts. Magnetic headlines always create a lot of buzz online. If you want to boost your traffic, the simplest is to write great headlines that make your audience immediately click after reading them.</div>
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Here are few simple yet effective ways to write captivating headlines for your blog posts.</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Using specific numbers or data in your headlines always perform well online. For instance, 9 tips to make more money online.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use rocking headline formulas. You can write an incredible headline mentioning the problem and offering a solution. For instance, 10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Headache.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Data driven case studies can attract your target audience. For instance, “how I increased my social shares by 160% in just 2 hours”</li>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategic linking:</strong> The fastest way to increase your overall search engine traffic is to get as many links as possible from other sites. Even if you have a new blog, you can get massive organic traffic by getting quality links from other blogs. Before asking someone to link to your blog posts, you need to frequently link out to other blogs and let them know about it. Sooner or later, they will start linking to your stuff if they find your content useful and relevant.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Proper on-page SEO: </strong>Proper content marketing starts with the right SEO. SEO is incomplete without on-page SEO. Proper on-page SEO include things like using the primary keywords in h1 tags, meta description, image alt tags, right usage of keyword placement and keyword density. If done right, it can alone boost your overall search rankings without building too many backlinks.</div>
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Here are few <a href="http://bloggerspassion.com/on-page-seo-techniques/" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">amazing on-page SEO</a> tips just in case if you want to implement the right on-page metrics on your blog to increase your traffic from search engines.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blogger outreach: </strong>A successful blogger outreach strategy not only increases your traffic and sales but it will also help you explode your online brand. Networking is the main key to succeed online. Without having connections with the influential bloggers in your industry, you won’t see massive results. People see you as an expert if an established expert endorses you or tweets your stuff regularly. It can only happen if you already have a connection with him.</div>
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Before asking someone for a link or share, make sure to understand their needs first. Don’t blindly send massive sales pitches, it’s the surefire way to get rejected. Figure out what their blog needs and give suggestions based on it.</div>
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You can even pitch great guest posts that may help their blog audience. Once you have the proper connections with the right people, you can ask for a tweet or link whenever you post something epic.</div>
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How to create content that sells</h3>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Build rapport with your audience: </strong>Building a virtual friendship with your audience is the key to increasing your online sales. No one buys from strangers online. They think twice if not thrice before buying anything online. If they like you and trust you, it becomes so easy to turn your blog audience into buyers.</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Always ask questions at the end of your blog posts. This is the simplest way to get your readers opinions. And when they leave their comments on your blog, respond to them passionately. Respond to each and every email you get (even though if it’s not a sales relevant email).</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Link out to your blog audience who leaves more comments, frequently shares your posts or buy stuff from you. This way you cultivate the habit of generosity which is essential to boosting your online sales in the long run.</li>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Selling becomes easy with your email list: </strong>Many successful marketers such as Neil Patel, Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, Pat Flynn etc have built their empires just by using an email list. Having a hungry list is what all you need to increase your online sales without sounding like a sales guy.</div>
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Having an email list not only helps you increase your sales and revenue but you can leverage your connections whenever you launch something new (be it a new blog, product or software).</div>
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Another great way of using email list is to promote the right products at the right time. Use special days such as Black Friday, <a href="http://bloggerspassion.com/cyber-monday-deals/" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cyber Monday</a> etc to your advantage. Most companies offer huge deals during such days and you can quickly increase your overall revenue by promoting the <a href="http://bloggerspassion.com/best-black-friday-web-hosting-deals-and-discounts/" style="background: transparent; color: #2f7ed4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">right products</a> to your audience.</div>
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Final thoughts on creating captivating content that connects</h3>
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Creating great content that increases your traffic and sales isn’t hard. If you follow the exact framework I have laid out, you will not only get more traffic but you will actually build raving fans.</div>
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Writing no posts is better than writing a bad post. It’s better spend 10 hours on ONE epic post rather than spending the same time on publishing 10 average posts. So take your steps wisely when you are creating content for your blogs. Also make sure to reach out to other bloggers in your niche to build relationships and grow your online brand exposure.</div>
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If I had to start building a profitable online business by using a blog, I would use just one tactic: content marketing. It works like a charm no matter what niche you are in. It not only helps you boost your online exposure, expertise and sales but also helps you connect with the right people in your industry.</div>
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So, how else can you create captivating content that turn readers into fans into long time customers?</div>

How to Create Content That Builds Loyal Audience And Increases Your Traffic And Sales

Great content make the Internet go round. Ask any blogger, writer or marketer about their secret recipe, they will tell you: “content tha...

10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Improve Your Online Business or Blog

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10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Improve Your Online Business or Blog..</h1>
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No huge intro needed for this post. Here are 10 actionable items that you can do <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">right now</strong> to improve your online business or blog:</div>
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1. RE-EVALUATE YOUR GOALS</h3>
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On a piece of paper (yes – paper), write down where you want your business or blog to be a year from now. Think about the following when doing so:</div>
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So often, we get stuck in the routine of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">just doing things</em>, that we forget exactly why we’re do what we’re doing. Re-evaluating your goals will give you that boost of energy you need to get things done, and possibly even help you realize that you need to do things a little differently to get to where you want to go.<span id="more-2333" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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2. VISIT YOUR HOMEPAGE FOR THE “FIRST TIME”</h3>
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – first impressions are HUGELY important, especially online. You’ve got less than 10 seconds to make a new visitor decide to stick around, or else they’re going to leave.</div>
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So, what can we do?</div>
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Role play.</div>
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Pretend to be a brand new visitor to your site. Go to your homepage and run through the following questionnaire in your head:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.80555em;">What do I notice first?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.80555em;">Can I understand exactly what the site is about without scrolling or clicking anything?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.80555em;">Have I seen other sites like this before?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.80555em;">How easy is the website to navigate?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.80555em;">What seems to be missing?</li>
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By quickly answering those 5 questions, you can easily see what kinds of things need to happen to improve your website. Maybe it’s just as easy as making some fonts larger, or taking away some annoying advertisements or popups.</div>
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If you find that any of these changes will take less than 5 minutes to, do them right now. If it will take you more than 5 minutes to do something, make sure to write it down or put it on a to-do list so you can catch it later.</div>
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3. CHECK AND CORRECT CRAWL ERRORS</h3>
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<img alt="google-tools-crawl-errors" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2444" height="191" src="http://cdn.smartpassiveincome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/google-tools-crawl-errors.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; max-width: 100%; position: relative; top: 6px; vertical-align: middle;" title="google-tools-crawl-errors" width="382" />Using Google’s Webmaster Tools, you can see if there are any errors on your website that you can fix right now.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step 1: </strong>Visit <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Google's Webmaster Tools">Google’s Webmaster Tools</a>.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step 2: </strong>If you haven’t already, setup a Google Account (if you have gmail, you’re good), and verify your website address. To verify, you’ll have to “add new site”, and either use a meta or html page on your server to verify your website. (They walk you though how to do this).</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step 3: </strong>After you’re all setup, click on your verified website and on the right hand side, you’ll see a section called “Crawl Errors”. What happens is Google’s bots that crawl through your website keep track of any errors that they find along the way for you, which may include broken/dead links, or links that people should have access to, but for some reason don’t. You can click on each individual error and find out exactly where it’s happening, and correct the problem right away.</div>
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4. GRADE YOUR WEBSITE</h3>
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An even more thorough way to check the health of your website is to get it graded by a site such as<a href="http://websitegrader.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Website Grader">Website Grader</a>. It’s free (and you don’t even have to enter your email address like they ask you to), and it spits out a nice, lengthy but easy to understand report about your website and the things you can do immediately to make it better.</div>
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For example, if your meta data or website descriptions are too long, it will tell you (and by how much). It also checks your RSS feed, social media, your image tags, and a whole bunch of other things you should have optimized on your website.</div>
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Try it out, it’s free!</div>
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5. ASK SOMEONE A QUESTION</h3>
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No matter what level you’re at with blogging or online business, you’re always going to have questions that you’d like to have answers to. I have questions all of the time, and I’m not shy about going to someone more experienced than me for an answer. More often than not, I will hear back from them.</div>
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It’s easy, and you can do it right now. Don’t be shy. When you think about it, what’s the worst that can really happen? You won’t get a response back?</div>
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Boohoo.</div>
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6. SHOOT A VIDEO</h3>
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That’s right. Turn on that camera that’s connected to your computer and shoot a video of yourself right now.</div>
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What are you going to talk about?</div>
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Anything related to your blog.</div>
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Spend 5 minutes shooting an <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">unedited</strong> video, and upload it to YouTube. After it’s uploaded, make sure you have relevant keywords in the title and in the tags section, and make sure to write out your entire URL in the first line of the video description. Blast it to all of your social media buddies without a thought.</div>
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In Tim Ferriss’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Four Hour Workweek</em>, he likes to give us exercises that we can do that help us step out of our comfort zones. This needs to happen every so often in order to make real progress and take <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/up-the-ante-by-taking-bold-actions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bold actions</a>.</div>
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For example, one of his exercises is just to lay down, flat on the ground in a public place, and look straight into the air. It might sound weird, but if you can do that, just imagine what you can do in front of a crowd when you’re talking about something you love and are passionate about.</div>
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Shooting a video on a whim like this will help you learn how to step out of your comfort zone, and it’s good practice for public speaking.</div>
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7. SPEND 5 MINUTES TO THANK 5 OF YOUR CUSTOMERS, SUBSCRIBERS OR READERS</h3>
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Going the extra mile to just say thanks to someone for no particular reason can make someone’s day. Not only will those 5 people remember who you are just a little bit more, but you’ll never know, one of them may come back and repay you somehow later in the future, just for being extra nice.</div>
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Like in happy, successful relationships, it’s the small little, unplanned gestures that make the relationships really special.</div>
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(cheesy, I know…)</div>
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8. TEST SOMETHING</h3>
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You should <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> be testing something on your website or blog.</div>
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Always.</div>
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Using Google Optimizer, split test something important on your page and wait to see the results. Even if you’re not selling anything, you can still test conversion rates for subscribership, email opt-ins, and even click-through rates for various links on your site.</div>
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If you don’t know about Google Optimizer or exactly how to use it, you can read more about it here at <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-run-free-split-tests-using-google-optimizer-for-better-results/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">How to Run Free Split Tests Using Google Optimizer</a> (this was a blog post I wrote in 2008, but it’s still good!).</div>
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9. TURN OFF THE DISTRACTIONS</h3>
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Distractions are all around us (especially those of us who blog and work from home), trying to stop us from progressing and getting things done.</div>
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First, understand what those distractions are. Secondly, conciously make an effort to turn them off, and only turn them back on once you accomplish something and reach a particular goal or finish something that you meant to finish.</div>
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For me, I specially have to turn off my Twitter client, as well as my Mail program, so I don’t get notified of a message in the middle of doing something. Also, I put my phone on silent, and sometimes work in full screen so I’m not tempted to click on certain icons.</div>
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In the same sense, I consciously think about what’s helping me progress, and what is not. Sometimes, what I think is helping me isn’t doing much for me at all. I take the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">80/20 rule</a>, figure out what that 20% is that’s making a difference in my business, and I work on that.</div>
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As a great internet marketer once said, “You gotta <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">starve the horses</strong>, and<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">feed the stallions</strong>.”</div>
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10. FOLLOW UP WITH YOUR AUDIENCE</h3>
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Whether you have an online business selling some kind of product, or just a regular ol’ blog, you can always benefit by asking your customers or readers what they would like to see improved.</div>
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Seriously, if you ask, they will tell you.</div>
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Send an email to your previous customers (you’re keeping track of their email addresses, right?), or your email list (you have an email list, right?), or even write a blog post asking for suggestions on how to make <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">their experience</strong> a little better. Remember, it’s all about your audience’s experience, not your own.</div>
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This is how I finally ended up with a website design for this blog that I love. I went through a previous redesign, asked what people thought, and I got great feedback from <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">you</strong>, which is all that really matters.</div>
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With my LEED customers, I usually send an email every two months asking my existing customers how their studying was going, and if there was anything I could do to improve my study guide.</div>
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Not only will this help you figure out what you can do to improve your business or blog, but it will show everything that you care enough about them to ask.</div>
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So there you have it. 10 things you can do right now for your online business or blog. If you’d like to help me out, please feel free to leave a comment, or <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/10-things-you-can-do-right-now-to-improve-your-online-business-or-blog/&source=patflynn" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f0a0b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">retweet</a> this post on Twitter.</div>
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Thanks for your support, and wishing you all the best!</div>
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Cheers!</div>
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