We recommend that most of our clients have blog as an integrated part of their website. The logic for having a blog is simple and supported by industry trends and facts. Here it is – don’t miss this point: “the more consistent your blog posting the more traffic you will attract to your site”. This means, not only repeat visitors but new visitors as well. Here it is boiled down to an equation for those linear thinkers in the crowd. More Blog Posts + Consistency = SUM (more traffic and higher search engine rankings).

While most folks agree and understand having a blog is good marketing, I know that clients are worried about “having enough time” to keep up with their blog postings and also suffer from writers block and worry about what to write.

Here are a few short tips to ease the most common worries and help create consistent for your blog:

• Reader Friendly Content: At all costs keep your content – articles, poems, photographs, videos – reader friendly, that is to say, it should keep more and more readers interested. Your reader must be at the center of you post in a way that your reader must feel that he is gaining something out of reading your post. This is the basic rule in marketing.
• Worthwhile: Never let the reader feel that he has been tricked into reading your post or clicking on your blog link. You are thwarting all your long term chances of that reader coming back to your blog, in which case your blog rankings over the long term are in a dicey position.
• Check for errors: Making grammatical and spelling errors can be a major put off for many readers. They may not visit your blog again simply because the errors that you make are too high. Always proof read your blog. A small typo here and there can be understood, but make sure you don’t make any major errors.
• KISS: Or, Keep It Short and Simple. This is the thumb rule you must follow at all point. Long winding posts tend to get boring. And it may contain nothing that is interesting to the reader. Also no one has the time enough for your blog, no matter how well you write. In fact, your blog will be much more appreciated if you put your thoughts simply and shortly.
• Interesting: Make sure that you hold your reader’s attention by making your posts snazzy. They must not be written in a tone that is tiring to read. Write short sentences and keep then crisp and precise. Always hit the point immediately in the course of your article.
• Link: Keep linking the blogs you read to yours in order to build a network those people will be in turn encouraged to link you. Remember, linking increases rankings.
• Keywords: Using the keywords of your posts frequently increases the search ability of that particular article of yours which in turn leads more people to visit your blog.
• Clear Thoughts: Make sure you put your thought clearly before the readers so that it does not become tedious for them to read.
• Colloquialism: You can write in a friendly tone. Avoid using too many slang words, but otherwise, if your post demands it, you can be colloquial.
• Post Title: A catchy post title or headline is half your business solved. It can glue a reader to your post almost immediately. However, do not put misleading post titles, or you will lose creditability.

So, be consistent with your blog content and watch traffic flowing in to your blog!

If you’ve been using Google’s AdSense on your blog you obviously feel the need to somehow generate even more traffic to your blog website, which in turn would translate to more AdSense clicks and a higher income.

But who do you do this? Well, the major way you’ll get visitors to see your blog (other then using AdWords, which is encouraged as well) is to use some techniques to have search engines send more and more users towards your blog, by ranking high in search results for your topics of interest.

This is a technique, better known as search-engine optimization or simply SEO. So here are a bunch of tips that can come handy under every amateur or professional optimizer’s belt.

The first thing you need to take care of is the actual source code and layout of your blog. This has to be kept as simple as possible. The problem comes when AdSense and the search engines themselves begin to have troubles in extracting the most relevant keywords on your site because of a too complex layout.

Secondly, try to have each one of your blog pages target only one specific topic. This way it is a lot easier for them to get indexed properly and for the AdSense ads to be consistent with the content of the blog itself.

Also, try not to include too many hyperlinks in your page as well. This also means you should try not to use too many AdSense ads on your page either one or two boxes is all you need.

If there are certain keywords you wish to target, make sure the word you wish to target is present in the blog title, in the first paragraphs of your post as well as in the name of the page. While you’re at it you might want to ensure the word springs up in the page’s last paragraphs.

And of course, it’s very important for your content to have original and compelling content. How do you do this? Well the easiest way to do it is to find something you’re really passionate about. That way, providing you give it a lot of effort you’re bound to have a great page quite fast.

If the content you use in your blog is in the public domain (which is highly discouraged) make sure that you at least give it an original title, and add an opening and a closing paragraph of your own.

This takes a little while, but if, after waiting, you still can’t find your page near the top, you should try rewriting your title and your first and last paragraphs. It doesn’t take much, often just changing a few words will give you the right results to stay ahead of teh competition.

And of, course there’s the use of keyword tools that may aid you in finding some good keywords to include on your blog’s theme that will drive visitors to your blog more and more.

So those are about the basic techniques in search engine optimization. You can find a lot of computer tools to aid you in doing this, and of course, Google is a great place to search for this.

In the end, you’ll find that SEO is a complex topic, and entire books have been written on the topic as well. You might find that you have a lot of optimization you need to do in order to get more and more visitors to your site and clicking those precious AdSense banners.

Add Content to Your Blog Automated

Keeping a blog up to date is one of the most important aspects of blogging. This is so important because regular blog visitors expect new postings on a regular basis. Not all visitors expect to see a new post as often as once a day but most blog readers expect the content on the blog to be updated on a regular basis. In most cases visitors expect new content on at least a weekly basis. However, depending on the subject matter the visitors may expect updates on a basis which is either more frequent. Similarly visitors may not be interested in receiving this type of information more than a few times a year. Blog owners should be aware of the frequency of which readers expect new posts and should make an effort to oblige the readers with updates this often. This article will discuss methods for keeping a blog up to date including scheduling a regular time to post blogs, using publishing tools wisely and hiring guest bloggers when necessary.

Finding Time to Post Daily

One way to help to ensure a blog remains up to date is to schedule time to post blogs on a daily basis. This is especially important when blog readers expect new posts on a daily basis or at least several times per week. Bloggers who allot a specific block of time each day to researching, writing and publishing blogs are more likely to have a blog which is up to date than bloggers who plan on accomplishing tasks when they find time to do so. There may still be days in which the blogger is unable to publish a new post on the blog but these days will be less frequent than if the blogger does not have a block of time strictly dedicated to keeping the blog up to date.

On days in which the blog is unable to devote time to blogging, the blogger may wish to at least publish a short message explaining why it was not possible to post a new blog entry. This will let readers know you are aware of their desire to read more information but are simply unable to publish a new blog post. As long as this does not become a regular occurrence, blog visitors are not likely to stop viewing a blog simply because the blogger skips a day or two.

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In my last post we talked about hiring others to provide content for your blog. Here is another way top blogs add stickiness and regularly updated content to their sites – using syndicated RSS content. I recommend considering the Top 3 RSS content providers:

1. http://www.rsstoblog.com
2. http://www.dynaprime.com
3. http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm

Human Rewriter

– The internet’s only true, 100% people powered content spinner/rewriter.

I stumbled upon Human Rewriter from Yaro Starak’s website and created an account instantly after I read their web page. I am just trying them out now and will report any feedback here after I receive back our content. I hear very good things from others about their services and support. Their writers are all English speaking and base din the US. They claim they will rewrite your articles in less than 36 hours (I hope so…). Since I have no track record with them – my musings stop here – but will be back with a more formal review after using their services for a while. At the very least – worth checking out…

From the Human Rewriter Website – So What Exactly Do They Do?!

* We use 100% human, english speaking writers to personally read and then rewrite every single sentence in your article.

* We provide real, unique, and usable content that you can post anywhere without fear of duplication penalties.

* We take the time to make sure every single article we write is interesting and contextually correct.

* We rewrite content about anything. So bring your public domain, PLR articles, recent news, or any other content you need rewritten.

* We deliver your rewritten article within 36 hours of receiving it.

We would love to hear some comments/feedback from any of our readers who are familiar with Human Rewriters.

Generate Traffic for Your Blog

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