By far the most important thing about ‘how to make a blog’ is your content.
People are searching the information highway for answers to their problems, information and help and Google strives to keep the internet a source of good quality information that can be accessed quickly and easily.
A blog is an online journal or diary which should be added to consistently. Without good content there is nothing for people to read and no reason for them to return. You can only build a readership of loyal followers by giving them what they need.
What is a niche?
The definition of a niche is “A special area of demand for a product or service”.
For instance, if you were to search for “time management” on Google, you would receive over 137 million results.
Albeit, “time management” is a niche, it is rather large and generic. If you performed a Google search for “time management for nurses”, you would receive over 21 million results.
As you can see “time management for nurses” is a smaller niche than “time management”.
However, each one, “time management for nurses” and “time management” is a niche.
This new blog series is going to be a 16 part series covering all aspects of how to make a blog.
I feel many of my visitors want to understand the exact steps to make a successful blog and by writing this series it will be easy for you to follow and extremely convenient to find.
These are the ‘How to make a Blog’ topics we
shall cover:
1. Choosing the best niche
In this post we cover why choosing the right niche is so important plus we share the best methods to determine your niche. Getting this right is so important to the success of your blog.
Sometimes your guest post is going to be rejected. That’s a fact.
The following tips are designed to support you to write the best possible article to be published on someone else’s blog, making sure all the different aspects of etiquette are completely covered to give you the ideal opportunity to get your online identity cemented through a really positive network of contacts and new readers…
Don’t be afraid
It takes courage to write your first guest post – but be brave. The blogosphere is a pretty friendly and accommodating space, and most people will be delighted to read something you have produced as a guest blogger. Go for it!
Your blog has probably been shouting at you over the holiday break, if it’s anything like mine.
You sit down to check your emails, and all of a sudden there’s a nagging voice coming from your PC, saying ‘You should update your blog!’.
Our blogs are relatively undemanding beings most of the time, but they do require some basic things to be in place to flourish, just like kids, animals, and friends!
One of the main things you can do to keep your blog happy and quiet is update it regularly, publishing regular interesting content to it.
The internet is like a giant machine. If searchers are the gasoline that runs it, content is the engine that moves it forward.
People are online by the millions all the time searching for help, information and answers to their problems.
Content feeds their needs and answers their questions, and as needs change so should content.
A website is never finished and a blog is an ongoing, endless process.
It’s never like writing a novel when you can finally lean back and type “The End”. The day you decide it’s the end and quit adding content to your site that will be the beginning of the end for your online business.
You’re going to make mistakes during the life of your successful corporate blog…all the best people do and they’re not afraid to admit it.
Even when you think you’re doing everything just right, there’s going to be someone out there who tells you otherwise. If you express an opinion someone will possibly disagree.
The underbelly of the internet contains some odd people – spammers, leavers of stupid comments, virus-spreaders, haters, liars and other jealous or failed internet marketers. The internet is only a reflection of the outside world. These people are considerably easier to deal with than the same kinds of people in real life. The Delete button helps a lot.
This is the fourth post in the new blog expert series called: Successful Corporate Blogs and we talk about a technique that many people are scared to take on board!
You see…it’s no good being a mouse online…you won’t be heard.
Being bold, brash and unique and even controversial will get you noticed.
To get your message across loud and clear means having confidence in yourself and your products.
Millions of people are online searching for answers to their questions and problems. Somebody is looking for a solution to a problem that you may have the answer to, but how do you find each other?
We’re off…the first post in the new blog series called: Successful Corporate Blogs.
And this first one is about writing for your audience.
Remember the old saying, “If you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick”?
If you’re an amateur plasterer that may work quite effectively but if you’re an internet marketer it won’t work – you have to choose your walls very carefully.
What I’m saying here is if you aim your marketing at receptive people who are interested in your products your efforts will stick – and a lot more effectively.
Are you getting jaded with your blogging?
Sometimes when we use a blog as our primary vehicle for sales and marketing for our company, it can seem much more like a chore than a pleasure to produce great content and keep the enthusiasm burning.
When people get fed up with their blog, it really comes across to their customers and it’s easy to tell when someone is feeling bored or uninspired through their blog posts.
In a recent post I talked about the ‘30 Ways To Upset Your Visitors With A Blog Post‘.
In this post let’s explore some more phrases that you should avoid…
I’m often talking on the blog about great language to use to pull readers in, ways to sell without turning your audience off, and good ways to engage your readers and increase your traffic. However, for every great phrase you can use to encourage sales, hook your audience in to your blog article and invite positive feedback, there will be another one which you could write, that would instantly kill off all of your readers and leave them scurrying away to find new industry experts to fulfill their need for information. Here’s the lowdown on the top phrases that you need to really avoid when you write, to make sure you don’t alienate your followers…
Last week, a business colleague of mine called me in a state of high excitement, because an article she had written for her blog has resulted in her making contact with someone who requested her writing services on an ongoing basis.
She was pleased on a number of levels – her own site had done its job properly, bringing in a new contract for lucrative ongoing work. Secondly, here was real, tangible proof that blogging works to meet marketing and selling objectives. Her blog, which often doesn’t get a wide readership, had struck gold because of one factor.
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