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Blogging has become a mainstream activity, with everyone from teenagers to grandparents now blogging regularly.  With that in mind, here are 5 tips to help you become a better bloggger.

Blog Regularly

Many bloggers do not blog often enough. If you want to keep an audience, as well as keeping search engines happy, you need to make sure to have new content on your blog. The best way is to keep a schedule – blogging at least three times a week on different topics can make or break your blog.

Interact with Your Audience

Blogging is very much a social activity. Make sure to reply to comments, trackbacks, and other ideas that are circulating around your blog and your interests.

Interact with other Bloggers

Interacting with other bloggers in your niche is an excellent way to get more links and more readers. Find other blogs in your area – respond via comments, trackbacks. Ask to guest post on those blogs and create content that those bloggers want to link to and tell their audiences about.

Schedule Your Content

If you are using Wordpress (as many bloggers do) probably the best way to create more content is to pick one time during the week and write all of your major content then.  Once you’ve finished writing your content, you can schedule it to post at a later point. You’ve created a lot of content, and at the same time created regular postings and content for your blogs.

Get an Editor

Either a friend or a fellow blogger should be able to look over your content, give you tips and ideas for your content. If you’re a full time blogger, you might want to even consider hiring  a full time editor who can help you improve your writing style. The better your blogging and writing, the more contributors, readers and traffic you will get.

Maya Richard currently writes about high speed internet for Cable Modem Help. She can be reached at mayarichard @ gmail.com

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If you know anything about search engine optimization (SEO), you know that building links to your site (more commonly referred to as backlinks) is probably the most import piece of the puzzle. The question then for most newcomers to SEO is: “How to I get other sites to link to my site?”

In this article, I’m going to show you 10 of the most powerful techniques of getting links back to your site. Some of these techniques will cost you money. Others are totally free. Let’s get into it!

1. Submit Your Site to Web Directories – There are literally thousands of web directories online that will allow you to submit your site. Some will charge a fee, but most are free. The two most powerful
web directories are DMOZ.org and Yahoo. DMOZ is free and Yahoo charges $299 per year.

2. Participate in Forums – Many forums will allow you to put your website’s URL in a signature file. Find forums in your niche and join the discussions. Do not just spam the forum with your link or you will get flagged. Add good quality to the discussion and your link will be left alone.

3. Comment on Blogs – Just like posting to forums, you should make sure you always add good quality and post real comments. Find blogs related to your website’s theme and post comments. I personally use a powerful software tool to help me find high quality blogs to comment on. The tools is called Comment Hut. All you do is input your keywords and it finds blogs. Check out the free video about it at
http://www.contentfortunes.com/commenthut

4. Article Marketing – Write articles and submit them to article directories. You will be allowed to leave a link to your site in your author’s resource box.

5. Social Bookmarking – Make it easy for your website visitors to submit your site to social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg and other top social bookmarking sites. Some website owners even submit their own sites (although this is sometimes considered grey hat).

6. Submit Press Releases – There are many sites where you can submit press releases online and link back to your website. Most will charge a minimal fee to include a link, but there are a few good quality free press release sites as well.

7. Answer Questions – There are a handful of sites out there that allow people to ask questions and others to provide the answers. An example is Yahoo Answers. Join this site, find questions related to the topic of your site and answer them (along with a link back to your site).

8. Classified Ads – Place links to your sites in classified ads. This could include paid newspaper classified ads as well as free classified sites like USFreeAds.com and Craig’s List.

9. Social Networking Sites – Place links back to your sites from your profile pages on any social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo and others.

10. Paid Links – Buy links from other websites and point them back to your site. This is a controversial technique so use with caution.

Well there you have it! That’s 10 solid tips for generating links back to your site which will help your site grow in the search engines.

These tips are from the newsletter of Jason Waganer of FreeMonthlyContent.com.

Additional blog tips: 10 Best Ways to Promote Your Blog

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The basics of blogging cover all the basic essentials, including your writing style, blog category and the content of your blog. Planning your blog can be difficult if you do not know what you want to talk about. It could be extra hard if you do not have the necessary background in blogging. However, knowing what you want to blog about can easily come to you once you start browsing and poking around other blogs. You can pick ideas from those blogs, expound and make them the basis of your blog.

The Blogging Categories

Generally, there are several types of blogs. Nevertheless, there are three popular categories of blogs, such as: the organizational, business and personal blogs.

The first category, the organization, uses the power of blogs to communicate either externally with the public or internally within their organizations. This kind of blog has the purpose of facilitation internal communications amongst employees, colleagues and other organizational personnel. In addition, organizational blogs normally publish information that is of interest by the public. In a certain instance, there are organizational blogs that publish seminar schedules, meetings, and announcements for their clients, customers or members.

The business blogs, on the other hand, are for promoting services or products offered by businesses in order to help increase profits, revenue and interest of potential consumers. These kinds of blogs can look for ways to increase their reputation and authority with vendors, customers and partners. They do this by publishing contents that express expertise and knowledge within a specific market portion, niche or industry.
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Blogging For Traffic Tip #17 – Getting One Way Links To Your Blog

So how do you get reciprocal links? Easy! Submit your links to directories and add link sites.
Here is what you do.

Go to Google.com and type in “Add Link” “target market” then “Submit Link” “target market”

If you don’t know what I mean, here is an example.
“Add Link” “gardening”
“Submit Link” “gardening”

Do that exactly as it’s typed and see what you get…. If you did it correctly, you should have a listing of websites that accept link submissions in your target market.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #18 – Setup Your Own Opt-in Newsletter For Repeat Traffic

If you want to keep getting more and more repeat traffic from loyal visitors, the best way to do this is to setup an opt-in list or newsletter or some sort of way to capture peoples email addresses.

You can setup a mailing list easily with a service like Aweber.com.

The best way to run a mailing list like this is to send out a weekly newsletter, but if that sounds like too much trouble, setup a mailing list where you email people everytime a new post is made in your blog.

Having an online newsletter is very beneficial to blog traffic. People will email your newsletter onto their friends and you will get even more traffic.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #19 – Submit Your Blog And RSS Feed To Relevant Directories!

Another great free way to get traffic to your blog is to submit your blog to all the best blog directories and rss directories.

There are two great websites that are free that deal with this.
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Blogging For Traffic Tip #9 – Become An Expert In A Small Niche Market

One the best ways to get traffic to your blog is to become a big fish in a small pond. When you corner the market in any niche, you become an expert and a traffic gathering machine.

Becoming an expert in the field is not that hard. Just post lots of really informative blogs, setup an opt-in list newsletter, maybe write a few ebooks.

It is so much easier to become an expert in a niche within a niche. Trying to be an expert in a big field full of experts already is hard work.

Internet marketing is a niche, creating landing pages is a niche within the niche. Become the expert in the niche within the niche.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #10 – Great Examples Of Highly Successful Blogs

You can learn a lot from really great blogs, the problem is, truly finding a great blog to replicate. One of the best blogs around is at….

http://www.stevepavlina.com

He actually wrote a post about how he makes money from his blogs. He even shows you how much money and how to get traffic to your blog.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/

His blog is the perfect example of timeless, quality, original content that gives people a plan to use and his personality shines through.
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This is the first part of the 3 part series consisting of 24 simple tips of getting massive traffic to your blog daily.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #1 – Create Original Content Of Significant Value

Content is king. If you have been in the Internet marketing scene for any period of time you would have heard this saying day in and day out. Every Internet marketing manual has this as it’s mantra and rightly so.

One of the biggest problems people have when blogging has nothing to do with the lack of traffic coming to their site. It’s a symptom of something more sinister. Bad content. Even worse then poorly written original content is content that is not original at all. This is the death bell for all blogs that want to be taken seriously.

You HAVE to have unique content. It is the lifeblood of blogging. Every other blog is lacking in original content, you have to be different.

Pay someone to write it if you have to.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #2 – Create Content That Gives People A Plan Of Action

Want to get people to not only read your blog but follow your word blindly and do your bidding for you? I kid you not, people will fall over themselves to do what you say if you do this. You just have to tell them what to do.

This is the greatest idea, especially if you are preselling an affiliate program via your blog.

Every one of your posts you write should give people an action that could be taken by the reader.

IE, every idea you give the reader, they should be able to go and implement in their business right away.

I’m not sure who I read this from but I remember reading that the best way to sell a product or an affiliate product, especially in the Internet marketing arena is to give them a plan that they can follow and implement straight away and then give them the resources to do that with.

A lot of people write ebooks or articles or blogs that are very informative but don’t really presell what they are trying to promote.
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