5 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks
1. Your post titles suck.
As the saying goes, first impressions count. They count when you’re out on your first date, when you go for a job interview, and when you try to get a website visitor to read past the first line of your blog post.
Nowadays, with many visitors arriving at blogs through advertising networks like Entrecard and Adgitize, you have really only a few seconds to make a good impression. And your blog is competing with thousands of others vying for reader attention.
Your post title needs to be relevant and descriptive, but it also needs to jump out and grab the reader’s attention right away if they’re to continue to read your article. While there is no magic formula for coming up with a killer title, here are a few pointers to keep in mind when titling your entries.
“How to” titles are generally effective as many people visit blogs to find free information to accomplish a specific task like backing up a Wordpress database file or monetizing their blogs.
Did I mention free? Some words are inherently more attention-grabbing through their abilities to evoke certain feelings and emotions. Free is probably the most over-used word in advertising, but it continues to be a highly effective attention grabber. Truth be said, nothing in life is really free, which probably explains why people are always looking for something that is. Other attention getting words include killer, amazing, and even suck.
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Automate your blog commenting campaigns
An important aspect of blogging is that it is a two-way, peer-to-peer communication medium. To get your blog read by others, you must actively engage your readers and build mutually beneficial relationships with other bloggers.
One way to get others to know about your blog is to leave comments on their blogs. I regularly read blogs not only to get ideas and inspiration, but also to reach out to other bloggers and promote my own blog. Leaving relevant, on-topic comments on other people’s blogs is a source of both direct traffic and one-way links back to your own site.
But blog commenting can be a tedious process. A few days ago I stumbled across a blog commenting software that relieves much of the headache involved in finding blog posts and leaving comments on them. With BlogCommentDemon, I can find hundreds of blogs that are related to my topic of interest and quickly leave comments on them. This piece of software is the only one of its kind with a comment tracking system. You will be able to track if your comments are approved.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t advocate spamming in any way, shape, or form. I am not suggesting that you buy this software to leave “great post…I agree” comments to thousands of blogs. But if you want to make life a little easier, BlogCommentDemon is the way to go.
Here are some of the features of BlogCommentDemon:
- Track your comments to check if they are approved.
- Deep crawl a website for more similar pages.
- Sort blogs according to TLD, PageRank, Dofollow/Nofollow.
- Scan the number of comments and outgoing links on a blog page.
- Random proxy server support.
- Dashboard showing all your recent dofollow blogs.
- Ability to add and organize the blogs as favorites.
- Auto-fill the comment field.
Visit this link to buy the software for just $47. Yes, I am an affiliate of BlogCommentDemon (and a happy customer, too).
The gift of failure
Many people are afraid of trying new things because they’re afraid of failing. Perhaps we’re afraid to fail because we’ve been conditioned all our lives, by our parents, teachers, coaches, and peers, to avoid failing. Perhaps we’ve managed to achieve a track record of successes which we do not want to be blemished by a failure. Failure can lead to many undesirable consequences, both real and perceived, including financial losses and low self esteem.
Truth be told, failure is just a part of life. We’ve all had our fair share of successes and failures, no matter how hard to try hide the latter. No one can succeed in every single aspect of their life. For instance, even those of us who have managed to achieve extraordinary successes professionally may suffer dismal failures when it comes to the things like family and relationships.
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Hire a blogging coach?
Did you know you could hire a blogging coach who will teach you all the ins and outs of blogging and, presumably, help you become the six-figure-income “pro” blogger that you’ve always dreamed about? To me the idea of hiring someone to teach you how to blog seems a little odd; you don’t need to be taught how to blog, you just blog.
The internet is such a fluid and dynamic medium. As soon as someone discovers a new way to make money online, it’s already old news. Just because some talented blogger is able to rake in $40,000 a month with his blog on personal development doesn’t mean that the hordes of would-be personal development gurus would be able to duplicate his success.
Needless to say, it helps to get in early. Rather than paying others to teach you the “secret” of making money blogging, try to unlock it yourself. Understand that the internet is always changing and evolving. There are really no fixed rules or formulas for success.
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Can you really make money blogging?
Seriously, can you really make money blogging? This is a question that gets asked a lot these days. I’m not talking about earning a few dollars here and there. I’m talking making blogging a full-time occupation, one that lets you work without having a boss breathing down your neck, one that you can take with you on a vacation to Rome, Shanghai, and even Timbuktu.
So, can you making a living blogging?
It all depends on whom you ask. There are those who try to sell– I mean literally sell– you the idea that you can make $10,000 or even $20,000 (US) a month devoting just a couple hours a day to your blog. For just $97 they’ll show you how to make easy money with minimal effort on your part.
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