30 day blogging success – How to do it?
It’s been 5 years and 28 days.
Sept 7, 2004. I started my first blog without knowing anything about marketing, selling or creating content, designing. I knew nothing about blogging at all.. All I knew was what someone told me about it “Varun, its good for your site”. Yeah well.
For next 10 months life was pretty much like a roller coaster. I experienced more emotions in those 10 months than I ever did in my life. To me, succeeding with blogging was important. After failing in last 3 business, online business was my only hope.
And thank god for blogging, it changed my life.
So today, I am going to give you peeks into my experience and show you how to build a successful blog. I know there are many questions that might be in your mind right now. questions like
1. What kind of design should I go for?
2. How many times per week or per day should I post?
3. What should I sell on my blog (can I even sell?)
4. What about branding, building traffic etc?
5. I wonder how I’ll create content for the blog?
These are very common questions. And they are important factor that needs to be addressed. One of the difficult question I faced during my time was “how to sell using blogs?”. It took me many months and quite a few of sleepless nights to find answer.
2nd problem was “how to create content for my blog?”. Now if you know Content is Foundational stone for your blogs or website, then you understand how important it is for you to create content that brings reader, get them hooked and make them loyal reader.
If you know anything about writing, you know its not easy at all. In fact if you can answer just the above 2 questions on (selling and content), you have already won 98% of the battle. 2 % is all about persistence.
Boy did I persist. I created over 300 posts in 10 months and took my blog from making peanuts to making $150 per day. The crazy thing was it was on free blog system at blogspot.com (Did I hear someone talk about bad branding?)
My first thought was may be I got lucky. But I talked to a friend to mine and shared my ideas. She turned her blog in just 22 days ( I was literally pulling my hair out with the surprise results).
Don’t forget Content is the foundation base that you’ll need to provide to create a selling platform. That’s the only way to do it. There are no secret tagging system or secret keyword strategies or link building tricks… Nope, none at all. All of these tricks should be added later.
Foundational content
When you are creating foundational base for your website or blog, your content will become a KEY factor in it. More important than keywords you use, any SEO techniques you may implement.
This is where you should focus on. While creating content there are few things you have to remember. You should ask these questions to yourself
1. What does my viewers like about _____ (put your niche)?
2. What does my viewers want to read about _______ ?
3. What things viewers hate in _______?
4. WHat kind of content can be called timeless?
5. How other bloggers are writing their content?
5a. Is there anyway I can improve the content or the service of the content?
5b. May be I can enhance the experience of content in anyway?
6. Does it matter if I provide current gossip?
6a. Do I need to worry about gossip at all?
The moment you start asking these questions, you’ll start seeing the kind of content your readers want from you. You’ll be able to build a foundation with content that’ll bring traffic automatically. Think
How can I get readers to consume more of my content?
The answer lies within the above questions.
In the above story about my friend, she started posting 2–3 times a day with short articles and notices. Because that’s what her readers wanted and her traffic and income more than trippled in 22 days.
If you need any help with your blog design, content formation or blog marketing, you can always check up with me.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
Blog Consultation : Do You Need Help With Your Blog?
Blog Consultation : Do You Need Help With Your Blog?
Let me solve your Internet Marketing or Blog Marketing Problems & answer any questions you want.
You can Ask any questions. No question is too small or stupid for me. You can ask me things like.
How to get traffic to new blogs?
How to sell affiliate products?
Do you think product A B or C can help me?
How Can I use email marketing with my blogs?
Do you think blog can help me brand my product/myself?
Can you show me how can I use advanced techniques like blog farming?
I am thinking of starting with PPC, I don’t want to lose my shirt over this, can you show me how to play safe?
Not only that I’ll help you with 4 key areas
- Content: Write great content over and over again. I’ll show you how to never run out of things to say…
- Design : A good design is a must. But you should know when to say “that’s enough”
- Reach : There’ll be no chance for your best design or content to sell your product or services without reach.
- Action: You are not selling anything unless your visitors take action
Like I said, There is no small question. I’ll help you with your issues.
2. Here’s How it works.
Contact me at with email subject line “Blog Consultation”. I’ll contact you and chat with you discussing your problems.
Depending on your choice -
You can either get a written review from me.
Or a Video review where I discuss what you can implement on your stuff.
Oh btw I don’t work with everyone… Here are few things you should remember when communicating with me.
- Your customers should be satisfied with your service or product. If you like “Bait and Switch” kind of guy, then please do not contact me.
I only work with people who are honest, ethical and have high morals.You can make money without using “Hook or crook” methodology. - You must sell multiple services or products. If not, then you should be open to create new product or services. I can show you many ways to increase profits by leveraging and multiple products is one of the best way.
- You must be open to new ideas and be ready to implement them. Only then you’ll succeed in any business.
If you are ready to get in touch with me then… Contact me Now.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
How to easily structure a traffic pulling blog in 30 minutes or less?
How to do you create a traffic pulling blog?
I am often asked that question. You probably already know about blogging as a very effective tool for search engine optimization. To help you with structuring a traffic pulling blog, I decided to write this article.
Just how do you structure a “traffic generating blog”?
Basically, it consists of 2 simple things. Ability to index content and ability to reach and communicate with audience. If you remember, blogging was initially used by internet marketer as a indexing tool few years ago. Even then most marketer underestimated it’s ability and underused the tool. I wonder if you’ve already began to notice the fact how blogging has gone from just a fad to phenomenon.
1. Setting up your blog
Before you start blogging, you have to set up/install your blog. The easiest way to install blog on your website is by using Fantastico and wordpress combination. Most hosting companies have cpanel and fantastico installed for their customer’s ease. Fantistco will help you install wordpress blog in 5 minutes.
2. Setting up bare bone SEO structure for the blog.
After installation, you have to start with basic setting. Things like Permalink structure, which will define the links generation by the blog. You should also install few good plugins like “All in one SEO”, “google sitemap” plugin.
3. Using indexing tool properly
Indexing is done by pinging different services all over the net. WordPress uses pingomatic.com to ping multiple services. What these pinging services do is that they let the search engines know of the updated content.
You’ll also find many websites, giving out a list of 60–80 different pinging services. Often you’ll find many blogger’s suggest you to add the list into pinging list of wordpress publishing. If you are dding that, then you should remove the pingomatic option and paste the links manually in it’s place.
Understand there’s 2 kinds of pinging used by wordpress. 1. The main ping when new content is posted. 2. Secondary ping whenever you do any kind of update on your blog (Editing existing post). If possible, you should check out few plugins (like ping optimizer) to avoid too many pinging possibilities. This will help you by not getting banned by ping services.
4. Ability to reach and communicate.
The most underused tool of blogging is it’s ability to communicate with others. People use blogging as indexing tool or ranting tool, but they tend to forget about the communication. Using blog will give you chance to connect with future prospects, readers and customers.
Think of it as tool to bridge gap of communication between you and your readers.
5. Promoting a blog.
If you’ve been blogging for some time, then you must have heard of one of the most popular myth that surrounds blogging is “Good content will bring readers”. Even with indexing tool and a great SEO tool, your blogging activities needs to be promoted to generate good traffic.
Connecting with others, article marketing and all the simple techniques can be used as promotion methods for blogging. Again, talking about promotion is bit out of scope of this article. We’ll discuss promotion in our future articles.
I’ll bet you’ll find it’s easier to promote a blog than a static website or a mini-site.
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