Blogger Talk Articles

by Cheryl Pickett

Once you commit to blogging regularly, you may notice that you’re coming across new ideas on a regular basis. No matter how frequently ideas pop up, you’ll want to keep track of them so that you have them at the ready when you’re set to write. You can go old school or digital, but a key to being able to writing often is to make sure you know where your ideas are when you want them. The occasional scrap paper or napkin can come in handy, but it’s not a good long term plan. (more…)

By Katherine Droguett

Being deeply involved with network marketing, a significant part of my professional time is spent answering questions related to blog traffic optimization. With more and more people jumping on the blogging bandwagon, the desire to increase blog traffic to enhance online presence is also increasing. So, I thought it would be worth sharing my strategies and experience here.
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by Angela Booth

Creating a blog for profit is an easy way to make money online, but sadly most bloggers fail. They make a fatal mistake: they pick the wrong topic.

Choosing a topic you know will be profitable is essential. Once you know how to do that, you know that your site will be successful. (more…)

By Angela Booth

Are you setting up a blog? If so, you’ve got one overwhelming desire: traffic. All bloggers crave this: the more visitors to their site, the happier and more validated they feel.

If you’re a new blogger, and you’re not getting a constant stream of traffic, you may get so disheartened that you give up your blog.

I’ve been blogging for ten years, and I know one thing: all traffic is not created equal. Too much of the wrong kind is useless, so do be aware of that. In this article you’ll discover how to target the right kind, so that precisely the audience you want reaches your site.

Here are three ways to target the right audience so you get visitors immediately.
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by Chris Nash

By Chris Nash

While blogging can be a lucrative means to earn money for some, for many of us, it is an inexpensive and hopefully absorbing hobby. While experienced bloggers may wish to invest in some professional hosting, for many of us, getting started with a free site is sufficient. Indeed, there are many writers out there who suggest that paid hosting is not even necessary for your blog to be a success.

A simple thought experiment might confirm this for you. For a moment, it is important not to think as a blogger, or a host, but as a typical internet user; a typical blog reader – in particular, the sort of reader you are looking for to visit your blog. Suppose, for example, you are thinking of starting a blog all about classic cars. A classic car enthusiast turns on their computer, and perhaps goes to Google and types in a few search words. In the search results, there are likely to be many, many blogs; after clicking on a few links, our visitor will read some of them, and, if suitably impressed, will perhaps subscribe to them, bookmark them, or leave a comment. At no point did the blog visitor use whether you had a professional-looking “dot com” URL or whether you were using the latest WordPress plugins as a factor to choose your site over any other. All they were interested in was whether your blog delivered the content they were interested in. There are successful, free sites out there. Can you possibly make a success on any platform? (more…)

By Elizabeth McGee

If you own a blog you know the importance of keeping your blog fresh and your audience interested. It can be challenging to come up with blog posts that won’t bore your visitors and is interesting enough to keep them coming back.

It doesn’t matter whether you are blogging for fun or blogging to make money, if visitors are your goal then here are eight types of blog posts that you can use to keep your blog interesting, promote sharing, increase followers and encourage comments. (more…)

By Enzo F. Cesario

Being a subset of journalism, it is no surprise that blogging shares many traits with its parent. In particular, blogging strongly resembles the feature or editorials pages of many newspapers. Not beholden to quite the same rules of timeliness or AP style guidelines as the news sections, these sections focus on matters of personal interest to the writer, or on a specific topic of particular relevance or human interest.

So, given that blogging tends to be derived from these sections, it is reasonable to look into the tactics that bring traditional journalists such success in their writing and to borrow the best ideas from them. In particular, many bloggers have discovered the value of including interviews in their publications.

An interview is fairly straightforward: a conversation between the blogger and another party, generally about a topic of mutual interest to the blogger, the subject and the readers. Some interviews are scripted, some are more extemporaneous, but at their heart they all have the mission of illuminating the thoughts of the interviewee to the audience of the publication in order to shed some extra light on the subject being discussed.

In the world of blogging, there are generally three approaches to integrating an interview into a blog. (more…)

By Kimberly Kennedy Bohannon

Writing SEO-friendly blogs is not only a necessary study for bloggers, it is also a lot of fun. Beyond concentrating on keywords and trying to get a specific density of those words on your page, writing in an SEO-friendly way helps you to stay focused on your topic. If you do it correctly, rather than writing a blog that reads like a bad attempt to use the same phrases over and over, you will end up with an entertaining, useful entry that will keep people interested and that the search engines will recognize as a legitimate resource that deserves indexing. (more…)