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7 Steps to Cranking Out Content
The oft repeated phrase in SEO is “content is king”. It is, consistent, well written, targeted and useful content is sucked up by the search engines as quickly as it can be written.
My brother often talked about how my mother would spend hours chasing quarters in business while the dollars flew by over her head. It was true, she spent more time rearranging the stock on the shelves than worrying about getting the stock sold to customers or giving the customers something to come into the shop for.
It is true for many trying to make a dollar online too. We design and redesign, tinker and tweak while the job of writing content continues to beg for attention.
Bloggers!! Think About Your Readers
Okay, you know, everyone likes to have their own style on their blog. We strive to stand out from the crowd not only with our writing but with our the look and feel of the blog. So why do so many bloggers practically drive their visitors away with bad font choices?
It is frustrating enough when I visit a blog and find the font small. At least when that is the only problem in Firefox I can press the CTRL key and the ‘+’ key to enlarge the type to a size that is easier on the eyes.
When the font owner decides to use colours either on their fonts, or their backgrounds, which don’t contrast well, that I can’t overcome. I have to either choose between straining to read the post or moving on. Often I choose to move on.
You know, as much as we might like and want to use colours to present our text, the easiest to read contrast is black text and white background. In fact, while writing this post I went and had a good look at the text on this blog. In particular I had a hard look at the text at the top of the post where there is a very light blue background before it graduates to white. The text was a very dark grey. I changed it to black, and immediate improvement in the contrast at the top of the post.
Maximize Productivity With Blog Post Writing
Today I finally got around to reading some articles I’d tucked away for a future time. Mostly because I’ve been too busy for my own good. One of those articles was on the Associate Program site, hosted by Allan Gardyne. Sally Evans has written an excellen article on improving your productivity and writing your blog posts. Her hints could be applied to any writing really.
Her twenty-three points include:
- Work when you are at your best.
- Walk or do something similar before you get going
- Get distractions out of the way
- Stay hydrated
- Set a timer
- Schedule breaks
- Glue your butt to that chair
When to Monetize Your Blog?
Most people start blogging as a hobbies and a way to share their interest with friends and others on the web. Still others start their blogs as a source of income tight from the get go.
In order to generate income from your blog or website, you need to generate traffic. The greater the traffic, the greater effect your monetizing will have. You also need to approach monetizing with care. You want visitors drawn into the site for what you offer, not turned off by your monetizing.
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Creating a Succesful Site Review Blog
Many People write blogs specifically to make money off of their content with PPC ads all optimized and such around their blog. Don’t get me wrong, this kind of thing works, and probably will not stop working for as long as the internet exists. Now there seems to be a new way to make money blogging.
This alternative to “content blogging” would be to turn your blog into a site that reviews other websites. Certain blogs charge up to about $200 dollars just to review somebodies website, which most likely only takes about 10-15 minutes. Of course the blog that is doing all the reviewing has to be quite well established before it can take off as a site review blog.
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The Top 77 Blog Newbie Mistakes
Josh over at Time for Blogging has an interesting post on the Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make. He’s compiled them from his experience and observations. Most of them are pretty self evident while some I’ve never really thought about. Of course, that is the easiest way of making mistakes, not thinking through your actions.
That’s ok though cause if we were all perfect, life would be damn boring. It is being able to own up to them and fix them that makes the difference. Yes, as I read the list, I had to wince as some of them applied to me. OK, as soon as I finish writing this post, I will remove the requirement to register in order to comment. I do have spam filters on and the ability to delete spammers so it really shouldn’t be a big issue.
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