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Blogging has attentively revolutionized itself greatly from being more than just an online social ‘diary’. Now, many internet marketers and businessmen alike are utilizing blogs to aid in their marketing process of making money online.
However, blogging for money takes on another turn and in itself needs to hold certain integrity performance as well as appearance wise. Having a blog as part of your marketing strategy provides you with an open field of communication between you and your readers of which could potentially be your customers. A blog allows you to post a greater capacity of interesting relevant keyword rich articles that can eventually build up your personal credibility as an expert in the field. This will encourage more traffic and in time build you a very sustainable customer base.
Here are 8 blogging tips on how you can increase the performance of your blog to make money online.
1. Prior to starting anything, set a goal first
Before you actually decide on anything, it is essentially important to set your goal to what you wanted to achieve with your blog. Most often, the usual goal for a blog is eventually to increase the sales of your product or affiliate product. However, some of the other ones that you can consider on accomplishing within your blog is :-
- Answering questions and providing feedbacks
- To simply build a platform for communicate with your existing and future clients
- Giving away the latest updates, newsletters or news of the company
- Providing a guide base blog for customers
- Providing a ground to relate anything that is useful within the similar industry
With your goals pretty much determined, you can subsequently decide on the layout, content to post, numbers of ads, the design of your blog as well as other issues that may arise. Therefore, the sooner you are at deciding on what type of blog you will b focusing, the sooner it is you’ll achieve it as a whole.
2. Work with friendly SEO blogs and plugins
Wordpress is a very highly recommended blogging SEO tool to start upon. It has a highly dedicated content management that allows you to work on themes, widgets, pages and more of it. Best of all that it is amazingly free of charge. With WordPress, you get to install more of blog plugins to greatly enhance the efficiency of your blog for better optimization of making money online. Highly recognizable, you can easily host your own blog with WordPress once you have a dedicated domain or webhosting.
3. Optimize media placement
It has been proven that people tend to focus their attention more towards certain specific areas of your screen surroundings as well as it is also very crucial to be able to attract reader’s attention within the first few glimpse.
Adding media such as photos, illustrations, and video are an effective way of attracting such attention. However, you should always consider the value of each subject and place them effectively on prominent strategic placement within your blog. Remember the faster and illuminating it is for you to grab their attention, the higher chances for you to interest them and keep them interested with what you have to offer.
4. Optimize Ad placement
Ultimately, making sales and money online will eventually become your primary motif of having a blog. Therefore, there are always third party ads such as Google Adsense that will eventually enable you to make money online with it. However, you could always consider adding ads for associate companies, related parties of from interested party into your blog. Remember at any point overdo this. We always want to maintain the highest professional level of our blog no matter how much you can possibly make with it. As far as we know, it should provide information more than turning into an advertisement site.
5. The power of viral effect
It is especially important for you to enable buttons such as tweet me, share it, digg it or whatever sharing optimization you can possibly think for your blog contents. As you post and readers find it of great value, they can always share it with such click of a button spreading a huge viral effect. This enables your blog a better chance of exposure to make money online.
6. Constantly post quality content
keeping a steady and constant pace of updating your blog content with valuable information is crucial. Most often, it is always best to work around a time schedule. It could be once, twice or three times a week. Maybe at times, it could almost be every day. Remember that content is king. Therefore the better your content and posts are, the more people will return to read more.
7. Do not overdo and overcrowd your post content with links
By mentioning this, it is not necessary to link anything that you may find relevant within your blog. Remember that as long as you are able to provide and keep them interested, they will eventually tend to manoeuvre around your blog.
There are essentially plug-in that can enable to list a few of the relevant subject altogether on the bottom of each entry. You can always enable this to provide them a better flow towards their interest rather than linking them within your posted content.
8. Respond, answer and comment appropriately
Having a blog itself is not all about posting and posting content. It should also always be a place to communicate with your readers. Provide them with feedbacks, answer to their queries and response to what they have posted.
Let them be constantly reminded that you are a dedicated blogger/internet marketer/ educator that are here to provide them with genuine information and help.
Maintain a certain professional level of integrity when it comes to posting your share of comments. Avoid matters that may sound irrelevant or too personal. After all, it should be professional and stay professional.
About Author :
Febap Liew is the owner of BlogXic. She shares everything that you would need to know on how to make money online on the world wide web.
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Great tips there Febap.
I agree. Setting goals is fundamental if you want to progress ahead. This way, you can keep a check on your progress.
Also, Posting regularly is important if you want to keep your readers interested. They will know when to expect a post from you and will become used to it.
Finally, responding to comments is also a vital factor if you want to really engage with your readers and want to communicate with them.
Kindest,
Nabeel
heya nabeel,
thanks for commenting.
indeed, its all about getting it done right the first time and learning to tweak/check/analyse/ respond to improve its performance.
=) i hope you have enjoyed reading it and of course continue to learn as we progress along.
cheers
have a nice day
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Awesome tips man,
The answering comments thing has a much bigger impact on whether or not people re-visit your blog haha than a most people think haha.
CJ
hey CJ,
thank you for your comments.
you are right.answering comments and significantly responding to your readers will eventually build up a distinctive bond between you and them. that way, you can somehow reassure them that they literally is a real human operating the blog =)
you get to build substantial credibility which is very good to improve your business online.
cheers
Hi Lee, that is why I modified my blog’s template to make it less cluttered. I believe readers enjoy reading our posts minus the clutter. :)
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hey ricardo,
indeed, it is all about giving values to your readers.. directly and indirectly.
i believe your contents, layout, format,themes etc. of your blogs would eventually compliment each other if there are gradually tweak to provide a much more comfortable reading pleasure for your readers. =)
cheers
have a great weekend.
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Replying to your Commenter is a very important aspect …. since these will build a relationship and they would visit the blog again for sure… all the 8 tips are very much important to better the performance of a blog…
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hey lucifer,
thank you for commenting. yes it is essentially important that you maintain a sort of a ‘bond’ or ‘relationship’ with your readers. by commenting and reply to their messages, they would seem more welcome thus, eventually would somewhat be your most loyal readers. =)
cheers
have a nice day.
Nice Febap! If anyone were to do everything on your list, they too would be very successful.
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hey collen,
thanks for your comment.=)
this is some of the most crucial/ essential ‘application’ to apply to one’s blog if they are determined to see success. however, we should always continue to learn and improve as we progress along.
the road to success is indeed a winding road. therefore you ought to maneuver it accordingly. lol
keep it up.
have a nice day.
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Hi Febap Liew! Nice to see your guest post here again. These 8 blogging tips are essential for every blogger. If we failed to do any of these, maybe our blogging journey will be obstructed. Thanks for sharing! :)
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hey k.siong,
thanks for your comment.
let me just just congratulate you on winning the contest =)
i am glad that you enjoyed reading my post.
indeed,it is equally essential but it takes one to have genuine determination and motivation to push your the effort and time in yielding the success. =D
therefore, keep up the effort.
have a great weekend.
cheers
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I have just created a new blog catering for a specific company. Actually, this is just to promote the jobs available in our company. The points mentioned on this blog post is very much detailed and I find it essential for all my succeeding posts for my new blog like responding to the comments, creating quality posts, SEO power tools and the like.
hey fjordz,
i am glad that you have enjoyed reading and find this useful for your blog’s development.
keep up the good work =)
put in as much determination and effort in what you strive to commit to.
eventually, you will yield very rewarding results.
cheers
FebapLiew
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All tips are here perfect for those who really love his blog. Specially second one that is about SEO plug-ins. Thanks Lee
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hey Rakesh,
thank you for commenting.
i hope you will find these sort of information valuable and useful for your blog as well. =)
have a nice day.
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The article is useful. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Diana,
thanks for your comment.
keep it up in whatever pursue that you are currently undertaking =)
cheers
i like this blogging tips. It was rare to find many blog who sharing their own experience like this.
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hey mashita,
i am glad that you have enjoyed reading.
i hope these tips would be beneficial to you when you apply them to your blog.
have a nice day.
cheers
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