Thursday, January 20, 2011

Setting Up A blogging plan to post every day

Today I am going to share with you my plan of attack for my blogs, as well as explain why I have set up a blog at http://www.getziggys.com/ .

With that being said lets take a look at my plan to post a new blog everyday and my reasoning behind it:

  1. I am setting out to write 10 blog post 2 days a week, Why? So that I will have content to post everyday. As I write each post I will be able to optimize my keywords that I search for and decide to use in my blogs articles.
  2. This will allow me to focus on being more involved with Twitter and Facebook, which I use to help promote my blogs and find other bloggers to learn from. This will not only help me to find more SEO tips to share but also over time may create some link exchange opportunities, helping my SEO.
  3. I will be able to focus more on create product, and finding product to make money from.
  4. I am a new blogger and as anyone whom has been doing this for awhile will tell you that blogging for money is very time consuming. There is a lot of software to learn about, tips and tricks to implement. I have been trying to manage my time so that I can post every day, but its just not working. So thats why I have decided to take 2 days a week and write my post in advance.
  5. I will be able to improve my writing skills, over time creating more interesting content for my blogs and hopefully this will keep my readers coming back for more. After all I think my readers are my blogs most valuable asset.
Now with that being said I hope that my plan might help other to create a plan of action to better serve their blogs.

I started hosting a blog on my paid for site because what I have found is that hosting a blog on a free site limits what you can do as far a generating a income. I am not knocking blogger but I am just saying. I have noticed that my traffic is more on my blog at http://www.getziggys.com/ is very much different compared to this blog. I mean here I have been blogging for about 2 months, I have only seen 170 page visits. On my paid for site has seen 577 in the last 2 weeks!!!
I use Twitter and Facebook to share my updates, promote both blogs. I know that if you are blogging here on blogger.com that Google takes around 60 to 90 days to index your blog at first.
The only thing that I can say is different is that I am getting indexed more on my paid site than I am here on blogger.? Maybe you can tell me?
Hosting my own blog allows me to keep everything on one site, which I hope will allow me to brand myself over time.
I hope that this is helpful to anyone whom is blogging for money, especially new bloggers.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Bloggers Can Grow Using Twitter

Today I want to discuss using Twitter to grow your readership. For the last month or so I have been using Twitter to find more blogs to research for link building, Seo, Keyword optimization techniques and more. Along the way I have been able to find more bloggers related to what I am trying to do than I could possibly imagine. I have found e-books, video e-course's, ideas, rebranding tips and more. All because of Twitter.

I want to explain why I am so impressed with marketing your blogs on Twitter. With Twitter I have been able to learn how to set up my business blogs on my host site at host gator. With in 1 week, its been about 2 right now, my blog has seen around 400 visits. It has took me 2 months to get 150 visits here on blogger. I think that a big part of it is 1) I tweet every time I update my wordpress blog that I host on host gator, 2) I am paying for it, which means that I am getting indexed more often. After all it takes money to make money? Right!!!!

Here is what I know Twitter is becoming very popular, definitely in the last 2 years, Twitter is away to get free advertising for your blogs as well as Twitter is a way to make important business contacts related to your niche. I have learned more in the last month than I have in the last 3 years, all because of the followers that I have found on Twitter.

I can honestly say that every time I Tweet a post update that I will see 2 to 4 new followers each day after posting for 3 -4 days as a result, that's every day. Twitter is a magnet for bloggers who are trying to build their business blogs, you will without a doubt grow.
All you need to do is:
  1. Tweet useful tweets to your followers
  2. be active, have conversations with your followers tweet (or retweet) their updates, share them on facebook.
  3. thank them for their comments
  4. write great content to keep them coming back
  5. be as helpful as you can
  6. comment on their blogs when you can
  7. set up a Tweet button on your blog
  8. tweet your products web sites, this will generate traffic to your site.

I would like to say that besides using Keyword Ninja, and SEO Pressor, that Twitter has helped me grow in the last month more than I could possibly have dreamed. I will have to admit that I have paying more attention to my blog on : http://www.getziggys.com/, than I have here because on it I am able to do more.

I am currently working on a video e-course that will teach you how to make money with your blogs by branding and rebranding products. So please be patient I will make the lack of post worth while in the end for you.

As always good luck in all your business adventures, and don't forget to get your free copy of " Secret Lives" it is packed full of interviews with 7 internet marketers. Also If you need tools to help you grow your blog business check out my "Keyword Tools list" here on my side bar.