Blogger: Make Time for Blogging Success

by angela.booth on August 26, 2010

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If you have a blog, you know that turning it into a money-maker takes time and effort. However, as you’ll see in this article, it’s not the amount of time you spend blogging, but the quality of time. Indeed, you can create a very successful blog, in just a couple of hours a week.

I’ve been blogging for a decade, and have many blogs. Novice bloggers ask me: “How can you manage so many blogs?” The answer is: planning.

Let’s see how you can use your time wisely, to create a successful blog.

1. Pre-Blog: Draft Posts Are Your Friend

All blogging applications allow you to save your blog posts as drafts. It saves time when you create five to ten draft posts, and then complete them later. This is because you’ve beaten inertia: when you log into your blog, you’re not faced with a blank editing screen.

Try this yourself: log on to your blog, and create four draft posts. You should be able to do this in less than 20 minutes.

2. Create Marketing Funnels, and Motivate Yourself

If you check your blog’s stats, you’ll find the bounce rate. This is the percentage of visitors who hit your blog, and then left immediately. You can bring the bounce rate down considerably if you create marketing funnels in your blog; you’ll also motivate yourself.

A “funnel” is something which leads your blog’s visitors into doing something you want them to do. Creating a funnel can be as simple as creating an email list or newsletter for your blog.

3. Review Your Blogging Goals Once a Month

Do you have goals for your blog? If you don’t, set some goals, with deadlines, and with tasks to help you to achieve those goals.

Without goals, you’ll spend too much time procrastinating, checking your statistics, and wondering what you should do next. When you have goals, you know precisely what needs to be done, and when. You can also see which processes give you the results you want, and which are ineffective.

You now have three tips which will help you to make the most of the time you spend blogging. Try them, they’ll help you to build your blogging success.

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Blog Content: How to Make Your Blog Sell

by angela.booth on August 25, 2010

Do you want to make money blogging? You can. You simply need a strategy, and content which sells. Your content is the attractor which brings people to your blog. They read your content, and they buy whatever you happen to be selling.

Did you notice that I said “content which sells”? I’ve been blogging for around ten years. Until 2004, combining blogs with commerce was frown upon; luckily, I didn’t care what the then-gurus had to say. I’ve always sold on my blogs, and I’ve always done it successfully.

If you want to do it too, here are two vital tips.

1. Realize that content is the king, queen, and the entire court of your blog. It’s your blog’s army too.

Yes, I know: “content is king”: you’ve heard it before. This time however, please take it seriously. If you’ve been shoveling “keyword content” onto your blog, please stop doing that. Generic, keyword-based content is anaemic. You need to provide it with a life support system of link purchases and other tactics. Once you stop providing that, the content stops bringing you traffic.

Before you start a blog, define your audience very carefully, and then create content which is useful to that audience. If you do that, you’ll get traffic, and some of that traffic will buy whatever you’re selling.

2. Sell your blog’s visitors what they want.

You defined your blog’s audience before you created the blog. You write your content specifically for that audience. For your blog’s content to sell, you need to promote what they’re likely to buy.

You can tempt your blog’s visitors with a variety of items. For example, if your blog is about successful weight loss for new mothers, your blog’s visitors are women with a wide range of interests. You can sell them anything from fitness wear to high-thread-count cotton bed linen.

So there you have it. All you need to do to make your blog sell is to provide your visitors with good content, and sell what they want. Try it.

Imagine creating a blog which you KNOW will make an income…

You’ve heard about the great income you can make blogging, and how easy it is.

Unfortunately, most bloggers don’t succeed, because they don’t have a method to follow.

Now you can discover the secrets of blogging success with Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You can start today.

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Blog Traffic: How to Get 100 Visitors a Day in Your First Month of Blogging

by angela.booth on June 15, 2010

Want to get 100 visitors a day in your first month of blogging? You can. There are many ways to get visitors, but the best way is to plan for that traffic right from the beginning — even before you create your blog. Effective research and planning ensures you’ll succeed.

There’s just one reason many bloggers fail: they fail to plan.

Let’s look at an easy process you can follow to ensure your success.

1. Research Keywords: Look for Long Tail Keywords With Little Competition

Getting traffic starts with your choice of keywords.

In almost any niche, the top keywords are highly competitive. Avoid these. It’s impossible for you to get traffic quickly if you’re targeting highly competitive keywords — unless you have a big budget.

If you have a tiny budget, or no budget at all, you need to look for long tail keywords, with a small number of competing pages.

Unfortunately, finding those keywords takes effort. Luckily, there are tools you can use, such as Market Samurai, which is my own tool of choice.

2. Buy a Domain Name Based on a “Buying” Keyword

When you’ve found at least one keyword which a good number of daily, searches and little competition, it’s time to buy a domain name. Try to buy the domain for that exact keyword phrase.

3. Plan Your Content: Target Low-Competition Keywords First

Now you’ve purchased your domain, it’s time to plan your content. You’ll use all the research you’ve done so far. Select more keywords with good search volume, and little competition, and use those as for your categories.

Next you’ll write content targeting those keywords.

Aim to add several posts to your blog each week. If you can blog daily, that’s great, and you’ll build up your traffic quickly. Sometimes this isn’t possible, but blog as often as you can in your first month.

This process may sound simple, but it’s highly effective. A final tip: stay on top of your research. All keyword data is historical. If you target effectively, you’ll get 100 visitors a day in your first month, and your blog’s traffic will keep rising.

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Blogging Cash: Questions, and Planning a Profitable Blog

by angela.booth on May 2, 2010

Do you want to create a blog which pours money into your bank account? This doesn’t happen by accident. It starts with planning, and your planning becomes laser-focused when you answer some simple questions.

Here they are.

1. Choose a Topic: What Do You Know and Love?

The better you know a topic, the easier creating a blog on that topic will be. You’ll enjoy sharing your information with others.

Start by making a list of your current interests and hobbies. Don’t stop there.

Expand your list by thinking about your interests. Which books and magazines do you read? What movies do you watch? What kind of car do you drive? How’s your financial situation? (Many people have problems managing debts and living within their income — so blogs which talk about saving money and eliminate debt are very popular.)

Aim for a list of at least 50 potential topics.

Don’t editorialize at this stage — no topic is off limits. Just keep writing down subject areas as you think of them.

Put your list away for at least 24 hours. (But if you can think of other topics you’d like to blog about, add them to the list.)

Next, select five topics from your list.

2. Research: Does Anyone Care about Your Topic? (Are They Spending Money?)

To create a profitable blog, people need to be spending money in the subject area in which you’re blogging. If there are no advertisements on related sites, and if no one is spending any money, then you have no chance of making money.

Eliminate any topics from your list which are not high-spending areas.

3. Blog Content: a Little, or a Lot? (Authority or Niche?)

Have you chosen your topic?

It’s okay at this stage to have several topics in which you’re interested. Choose one topic which you feel intuitively you’d like to work with at this time.

Now it’s time to decide how much content your blog will actually need. For small niches, that is, blog-sites which target specific buyers, or promote one product or service, you won’t need much content. A couple of review posts and two or three other posts will do it.

On the other hand if you want to create an authority site, you know that you’ll need hundreds if not thousands of posts. This kind of site requires time, and commitment… and the cash won’t start flowing immediately.

4. Monetization: Who’s Spending Money? How Much?

Yes, we’re thinking mainly about money. However this is what you need to do if you want to create a profitable blog.

Please remember that at this stage, you haven’t decided on a blogging platform and you certainly haven’t created your first post. You’re in the planning stages. The longer you spend in these stages (within limits, don’t dawdle for months), the more successful your blog is likely to be.

Blogs are monetized in various ways. One of the most popular ways is with advertising. However, as Google has pointed out, there are currently one million blogs which are using AdSense advertising. This means that there’s a huge content inventory; your AdSense and other advertising income will be tiny.

There are ways around this, but be aware that the huge content inventory exists.

You can also sell products on your blog. Remember however that if you decide to go this route, with affiliate marketing, you’ll have lots of competition. Your blog needs to stand out and offer something special in order to make affiliate sales.

Once you’ve answered the above questions, there’s a much greater likelihood that your blog will be profitable sooner, rather than later.

Introducing — Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method

After several years of trial and error, these days I create blogs which I know will make money: I’ve cracked the code. Not only do my blogs make money almost immediately, they’ll also keep on making money for years to come.

If you wish, you can join me on the blogging journey. I hope you do. As the Internet grows ever larger, there are endless opportunities which can turn you into a lazy, rich blogger.

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Blog Traffic Bonanza: 4 Speedy Ways to Boost Traffic

by angela.booth on May 1, 2010

Want to boost traffic to your blog? Let’s look at four speedy ways to do it. Every blogger needs traffic; it’s an ongoing challenge, but if you accept the challenge you’ll be amazed at what it will do for your blog.

1. Add Your Blog’s RSS Feed to Directories

Yes this is a simple tip, and no doubt you know it already — but have you done it? I’m constantly amazed at how many bloggers fail to do this. Adding your blog to directories is the simplest way to kickstart a flood of traffic over the months and years to come.

I should add here, that it goes without saying that you’re adding content to your blog regularly. You can’t expect a lot of traffic if you only blog once a week or once a month. When you’re trying to increase visitors to your site, make it a habit to blog at least once a day.

Blogging frequently ensures that your RSS feed is updated and when it’s been added to directories, it’s updated across the web each time you post.

2. Pay for a Blog Review on a Popular Blog in Your Niche

Yes, this costs money, but a review is a great link to have, especially if it’s on a popular blog.

If you can’t afford to pay for review on a popular site, approach bloggers in your niche and make a special deal with them. Many will be prepared to write a review for you at a reasonable rate.

3. Use Article Marketing Effectively: It’s an Ongoing Adventure

Article marketing works, if you work at it. You need to become proficient at writing articles (or you need to pay someone to write them for you).

Commit to writing at least one article a week and posting it to a good directory.

Some article marketers post to dozens or even hundreds of directories, and it’s up to you whether or not you choose to do this.

4. Create (Free) “Baby” Blogs in Your Niche Pointing Back to Your Primary Blog

Your blog needs links, and there’s a way you can provide some of those links yourself. Create some blogs on the free blogging platforms, using your preferred keyword as the title, and point some links back to your primary blog.

A big tip: avoid spam. Creating dozens of spammy bogs pointing to your primary blog is a great way to shoot yourself in the foot. Any new blogs you create must be professional, with unique content, and must be truly valuable to visitors. Create a schedule to update those blogs, and keep them current for a traffic boost each time you update.

(Don’t forget to add these blogs’ feeds to RSS directories…)

As blogging becomes more competitive, it’s more difficult to get traffic. However, it can be done and the rewards are tremendous.

Want to develop the blogging skills to create money-making blogs? You can, with the Lazy Rich Blogger method.

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Posterous to shelter Ning orphans

by angela.booth on April 17, 2010

The problem with anything “free” is that it often doesn’t stay free. Ning is a case in point. (I’d link to the site, but they’re currently down.)

Ning allowed you to set up your own social networks, completely for free.

I tried Ning out, and even paid for the service for a year, but I eventually gave up on it, because it was plagued with spammers, and frankly babysitting the site was more trouble than it was worth.

However, Ning is enormously popular, with 1.9 million networks created, according to Techcrunch.

If you have a Ning network, and don’t feel like paying, new solutions are emerging, so don’t panic. :-)

Posterous, an application which I like, and use, is offering to shelter the Ning orphans.

A blog post, Posterous commits to building a Ning blog importer. Bring your network to Posterous, for free – The Official Posterous Posterous reports:

“Posterous is the best way to publish anything online, providing email and web based tools to post and share anything. Posterous lets individuals, families, and brands create a fully customizable website and easily post photos, video, audio, and documents.

A Posterous site can require a password, and have multiple contributors, allowing you to create a private community within Posterous.”

I’ve heard good things about blueKiwi too, and they offer a free option.

Imagine creating a blog which you KNOW will make an income…

You’ve heard about the great income you can make blogging, and how easy it is.

Unfortunately, most bloggers don’t succeed, because they don’t have a method to follow.

Now you can discover the secrets of blogging success with Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You can start today.

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Writing content for your blog: easy SEO

by angela.booth on April 8, 2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for your blog posts. Without it, chances are your posts just won’t be found. You need to research keywords before you start writing, and it’s a hassle. You just want to get on with it and write.

Relax. SEO for your blog posts just got easier. You just need to use the Firefox browser, and install the free SEO Blogger extension.

Here’s what it looks like in action.

Write your blog content, with the SEO Blogger window open, so you can integrate the keywords you want to use into your blog post.

In the image below, I’m about to write a new post for my write a book blog.

Imagine creating a blog which you KNOW will make an income…

You’ve heard about the great income you can make blogging, and how easy it is.

Unfortunately, most bloggers don’t succeed, because they don’t have a method to follow.

Now you can discover the secrets of blogging success with Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You can start today.

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How to waste time and energy blogging

by angela.booth on April 5, 2010

Looking for blogging shortcuts? There are many, including buying and using “auto blogging” scripts, buying Private Label Rights content (PLR), and so on.

I was speaking to a writing student yesterday, who told me that he’d spent several hundred dollars on PLR for a niche blog, and that the content was so horrible that he couldn’t use it — none of it.

He could have saved his money and written the content himself. Then he’d have quality content, which would produce an income for years.

Developing a quality blog takes time. Just face that fact. You’ll be amazed how quickly the days and months pass.

Everyone wants to find shortcuts, but please steer clear of things which just cost you money, and waste your time and energy.

Tip: before you spend your money, find some popular blogs in your chosen niche, and read the blogs. Do those blogs have scraped content? Are the bloggers using PLR? (You can tell.)

There’s only one shortcut to owning a high income-producing blog that I’m aware of, and that’s to buy the blog. :-)

Imagine creating a blog which you KNOW will make an income…

You’ve heard about the great income you can make blogging, and how easy it is.

Unfortunately, most bloggers don’t succeed, because they don’t have a method to follow.

Now you can discover the secrets of blogging success with Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You can start today.

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Blog content: oh, the horror and guilt

by angela.booth on March 29, 2010

Blogs need content. Unfortunately, as your initial enthusiasm for your blog wears off, content may become harder to create. You tend to procrastinate: you write draft posts, then ignore them or delete them because they don’t seem to be going anywhere.

Whole weeks (and months) go by, and your blog is all but abandoned.

If this sounds like you, and you’re consumed with guilt, relax. :-)

Although a regular blogging schedule is wonderful, and will help you to grow your audience, there’s no need to become obsessive.

Blog when you have something to say.

Here are a couple of tips which will help you to maintain enthusiasm, and to create content for your blog regularly.

1. Conduct a blog content inventory: what have you got?

Once your blog is over three months old, you’ll lose track of your content. It’s off the home page, and out of mind.

Those older blog posts are valuable content however.

New readers will miss out on them totally. To keep track of what’s on your blog, regularly conduct a content inventory, so you know what you posted about, and when.

I create a spreadsheet for every blog I own, and note down the categories, and what I’ve covered in each category.

This makes it easier to revisit older blog posts, and to update them with new information.

Every month or so, write a “Perhaps you missed…” post, to update new readers on great posts they haven’t read.

2. Create an editorial calendar — you’ll know what to write, and when

Magazines created editorial calendars. They publish these for their advertisers, so that advertisers know what the primary theme is for each issue. Writers also know what themes are being covered, and can plan their article queries in advance.

Next time you check your blog’s content inventory, create an editorial calendar. List the themes you want to cover over the next several months.

This makes it easier to research content, and to write it.

Creating a content inventory for your blog, and keeping an editorial calendar, will help you to create fresh new content, and will grow your audience.

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Imagine creating a blog which you KNOW will make an income…

You’ve heard about the great income you can make blogging, and how easy it is.

Unfortunately, most bloggers don’t succeed, because they don’t have a method to follow.

Now you can discover the secrets of blogging success with Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You can start today.

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Guard your blog’s most important asset

by angela.booth on March 28, 2010

What’s your blog’s most important asset?

Here’s a clue.

Foursquare Goes Dark Too. Unintentionally. reports:

“While the site is back up and running now, it appears that Foursquare forgot to renew their domain name, which expired on March 25. As a result, GoDaddy, the registrar, pulled the site and put up their own landing page. Which some people noticed on Twitter and other tipped us about.”

Yes, your most important asset is your blog’s domain name, which comes up for renewal every year, unless you opt to renew for several years. No domain, means no blog.

TechCrunch says that Foursquare has an on-paper valuation of 80 million, which goes to show that it’s easy to get caught out, obviously no one was assigned the task of domain management.

Go check your bog’s domain renewal date now, and either renew it, or set it to automatically renew. It’s easy to forget. In fact, a close friend did exactly that. He set up a small blog, and was happily sending traffic it to it. He got busy, missed the notices, and lost the domain.

Luckily he was able to get it back again — but at a cost of several thousand dollars.

Guard your domain. The vultures will circle if you forget.

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