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Blog content - how often should you update your blog?

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There’s no doubt that blogs benefit from frequent updates. I like to update my blogs several times a week if I can, but sometimes that’s no possible.

When I do update regularly, I get more traffic.

Decide on a schedule for your blog that you know you can meet

With a new blog, you’re filled with inspiration, but this doesn’t last, so create a schedule. I just wrote a post for Blogging Tips “Your Blog’s Editorial Calendar - Get Organized, Then Relax”, which outlines how to create a schedule via an editorial calender for your blog:

Here’s how to create an editorial calendar for a new blog.
1. Choose seven to 10 categories for blog posts
When you’re brainstorming ideas for your new blog, choose from seven to ten categories. This is your “table of contents”. Also, keep the search engines in mind when you create categories. You want your categories to attract attention.
2. Brainstorm five blog post ideas for each category
Let’s say you have ten categories created for your blog. Now brainstorm five posts for each category. This gives you 50 ideas for blog posts, and your new blog looks much less intimidating, because you’ve planned a lot of the content.

It’s good advice, and it will help you to get into a routine. Once you decide on your schedule, stick to it.

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Today’s blog questions - traffic, home page

Q: How long does it take to get blog traffic?

A: That depends on how much marketing you do. If you don’t do any marketing at all, and rely solely on your RSS feed and the search engines, it will take you around a month to get 50 visitors a day.

Do more marketing, you’ll get more traffic.

However, do realize that DEMAND is important. If your blog is on a topic fewer than 200 people in the entire world are interested in, you’re not going to get much traffic.

Q: How do I make my blog my home page?

I’m not sure what you mean by this one… do you mean you want to make your blog URL your browser’s home page? Check your browser’s Help file.

OTOH, if you want to use your blog as your “home” on the Web, create a simple blog, and you’re done.

To show you how easy it is, I’ve just created a tutorial for you on how to use Blogger to create a fast and free home page on the Web.

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Blogging is Writing - Five great Tips to Make Money Blogging

Got a blog? Great. Then you know that blogging involves writing, and the more writing you do, the more money you will make blogging. Let’s look at five tips to help you to become an expert blogger.

1. The more you write, the more you earn

As a blogger, your primary task is content creation. This is because without content, you won’t have traffic, and without traffic, you won’t have an income. So content comes first.

However, there are many ways you can create content.

My favorite way is to speak, rather than write. I use a speech recognition program on both my Mac and my PC, to help me to create content more quickly. Although you’ll need to train yourself to dictate your thoughts, the time you spend with the program in the first few weeks is amply repaid, because you’ve got more content on your blog or blogs, and thus more traffic.

2. Plan your blog posts each week and month

Planning your blogging is vital. I teach bloggers, and the first habit I encourage them to acquire is the habit of planning everything they do. Planning your content is vital, because some days you just don’t feel like writing.

On these days, your plan gets you blogging, because you know exactly what you’re writing about on any given day.

One of my favorite tactics is to create series. Once you’ve planned a series of posts on a particular topic, writing the series is easy.

A series can be anywhere from three to ten posts long. Here’s an idea: create a “30 days” series - this gives you 30 blog posts to plan in advance. Once you’ve done the planning, you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can write the series.

3. Create a network of blogs

One blog, or a network of blogs on the same topic?

Initially, focus on one blog, at least for the first year. Your first, primary blog will build traffic via the search engines, and this foundation of traffic is a real blessing - once you have hundreds of readers each day, you can USE that traffic.

After your first year, I advise that you hive off some of your blog’s categories to make new blogs. This is because an enormous blog becomes unwieldy. Posts get buried, and it’s hard to give previous posts the attention they deserve.

4. Where’s the money? Set income goals for your blog

You must set income goals for your blog. Start small: a dollar a day. Then increase your income goals by ten times as soon as you reach a goal. So your first goal is a dollar a day, then ten dollars a day, then $100 a day, then $1000 a day, and so on.

5. Boost your traffic: the more readers, the higher your blog’s income

Finally, as important as writing and content creation in general is, nothing beats marketing your blog. To get more traffic, you need to market your blog. So do it, every day - it’s not optional, you MUST market your blog.

So, there you have five tips to help you to make money blogging - use them and prosper.

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