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If you’ve read around and you know your stuff when it comes to creating and running a blog, then no doubt you should know by now the value of sharing your new content as you upload it. Create a post, share said post on Reddit, Google+, Twitter, Facebook… rinse and repeat. Simple! But what if you don’t have time to update your blog with new content every day? Does that mean you cannot do any promotion that day? Of course not! It simply means that you should look for ways to promote your old content to get repeat traffic from old posts. Lightning can Strike Twice Say you created a post on Bruce Lee, uploaded it to your site and then shared it on social media and it went somewhat viral. Maybe it got you thousands and thousands of hits on that day alone and then trailed off for the next few days. Does that mean that you’re done with that post just because you already shared it once? Of course not! An article on Bruce Lee is what you would call ‘evergreen’. That means that it will remain re...

Money-making bloggers constantly look for new methods to improve the popularity of their blogs. They are eager to win new visitors and strengthen the relationship with existing fans.  They want to build authority and dominance in their niche realm. But how? One of the most effective ways to do all these things is to add video to your site. Not only is video highly engaging and difficult to look away from, it’s also highly persuasive and very personal. For building a ‘personal brand’ in particular, this is one of the very best ways to let your visitors get to know you. Creating Your Vlog The first step to vlog creation is to set up a YouTube channel. YouTube allows you to brand and embed into your blogs. Upon setup of your TouTube channel, you can upload videos and easily share them on social media. Then you can create new blog posts with each YouTube video embedded to one post to create a series of the vlog. A big part of the job is to create your videos. To do this, all you need i...

If you aim to make money from your blogs, you must write appealing blogs contents, attract traffic, build subscriptions, and provide easy access to your products and services through your blog. That sounds awesome but is rather difficult to achieve. New bloggers often make costly mistakes that wasted a lot of time and money but fail to get results. The number one cause of the mistakes could be the conduct of trial and error without an action plan. Ambitious bloggers want to get the blogs up and running quickly and start to sell something right away. However, such quick approach usually does not work well. Business does not start out great this way; business starts with people. You may be better off by focusing on building relationships with people first. Therefore, a practical plan is to build traffic and subscriptions. If you are new to blogging business, you need to understand the importance of subscribers and learn multiple methods to traffic and subscription generation. 10 Action P...

In the blogging world today, Google Blogger and Wordpress are among the most popular platforms. Google Blogger is the free web-based blog system from Google. The Wordpress realm comes with web-based Wordpress.com (similar to Google Blogger) and the self-hosted Wordpress website. There are advantages and limitations with each platform. Therefore, choosing the right blog system is crucial to your blog business. Google Blogger Google Blogger (www.blogger.com) used to be the Blogger.com that was acquired by Google many years ago. The once independent Blogger.com was the pioneer for personal blogging. Now under the Google ownership, a Blogger site should be detected on Google’s radar faster, meaning your blog would be indexed faster.  This would be a unique advantage. Also, Google Blogger is truly free. It is not a "Basic" version to let you sign up and lure you to pay for the "Premium" version. There is no premium or paid plan for Blogger. Thus, what you get is all Goo...

Over the last decade, the internet has evolved to become more personal and spontaneous in the new type of cyber communities known as blogs. A blog is a special website maintained and managed by individuals. The blog owner called blogger is the webmaster of his or her own blog site. From a blog, one is able to share ideas, emotions, jokes, advice, and anything that can be comfortably expressed in words. In fact, blogs are getting so popular that everyone seams blogging. While blogging to share is good, it is even sweeter to blog to make money. In fact, many blogs are created for the sole purpose of money-making. Some of them just quit their 9-5 jobs and run blogging to make a living.  While most of us love our day jobs, we can still blog for a nice second income. In this step-by-step guide, you will see the practical roadmap to building your own blog, almost free. Then, let's find out how to get your blog as popular as possible, and start to make some money from it. If you are new t...

The Sacramento-based blogger Erin Alderson started Naturally Ella in 2007 for a good reason. Her dad's heart attack was a wake-up call to her change towards healthy diet. She realized that her family wasn't making nutritious choices, and the daily diet for her dad, herself, and whole family members must be changed.  This major awakening not only led to a healthier lifestyle but also generated a sustainable blog income. For Erin, neither cooking nor blogging was in her blood, but somehow she made it. “My backstory is not that I grew up with an Italian grandmother in the kitchen,” she says with a laugh. “Cooking was definitely not in my blood—fast food was in my blood.” And of course, she didn’t exactly feel at home in the kitchen. But the strong self-determination for change made her a successful blogger and cooker. Erin found an unlikely solution in blogging. By writing about her experiences and recipes online, she decided that not only could she learn about healthy eating, sh...