The author of this post is Ben Pei. He is the blogmaster of PeiProfit.com who has his own unique style in reaching out to his readers and friends through very interesting articles on his blog. He has his way of relating to your everyday events and challenges with something to be learned in your business. I’m truly honored to have him as my second guest writer on this blog for the new year.

If there is such a thing as a writer’s block, then there is also what everyone calls a blogger’s block.

Some of you may already know that kind of feeling. These are times when you feel that you cannot seem to start blogging anything. That everything is so clustered and you cannot begin to write one single word.

How could this happen when you were so good at blogging before? Why is it that you cannot get one word written? And the more you think about blogging, the more you are not able to blog.

What is the best thing to do when you find yourself situations like this?

Below are ideas that you might find helpful during your “cannot seem to blog” days.

1. Do some blog hopping

Go to some blogs and read what other bloggers are writing there. If possible, trace back blogs that were past favorite. Or you could also visit some least favorite ones. By doing this, you will be able to get ideas on what to write about. Maybe one or to things that you come across will tick something on your brain and remove the big block there. You might be able to find a topic that you want to blog about but has forgotten already.

2. Have a look at your blog inbox

This is one of the best ways to find a topic to write about. Since this is your site, you might notice aspects you have set aside before. You can try and answer an email or a comment made there.

This is also the best time to check out links that are put into other posts. Have a look at what they are offering. It might just be related to yours and you will be thankful that you checked.

3. Put some comment on other blogs

You can make use of your own blog to comment on another’s. Maybe you can get to expand the idea that is already presented. You can use trackback comments if the site allows it.

4. Check out the news

Even though your blogging is not in any way related to news, current events or politics, there is nothing wrong with checking out what is happening to the world lately. Sometimes, these things tend to have a small relation to what you are blogging about.

5. Blog randomly

Look for a word or topic. Then begin writing about it. You can also do this with pictures. Check out photos and think of something to write about it.

If those things do not seem to work for you, you can search for creative or journal writing software to help you with your writing problem. Oftentimes, these things have suggestions of topic or idea that can help you get started.

6. Think about an extraordinary topic

For example, you can research about inventions and inventors. What was the first car ever invented? Anything that you fancy.

You can look for them at online resources like encyclopedias and almanacs. When you finally have the answer, start blogging about it. You never know, maybe some people are thinking of the same things and you have somehow provided them with answers. Besides, it also fine to drift off from your usual topic one in awhile. Your readers might like the refreshing change too.

7. Do something you have not done before

If you cannot think of something new, any blogging related things will do just as long as you have not done them to your blogs before. Put pictures into your blogs. Add videos or any other unique features. It is all up to you.

8. Forget about blogging for a while

This might be one of those times when your mind and body is in need of a break from writing. Get outside. Go to the beach or go shopping. Anything that will take your mind off your blogs.

You just might feel refreshed and ready to start blogging once you get back up in front of your computer.

There are a lot more ways of getting off that blogging block off you. Think about it. If ever you did come up with other things, you can blog about it to help others experiencing blogger’s block.

Ben shares very interesting yet simple ways to Make Money Online on his blog. If you are dead serious about wanting to make a decent income in 2009, here is one blogger who will tell you making money online is possible provided you learn the right ways. You can subscribe to his RSS feed for more updates.

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This may not be your usual blog carnival, but the intent is very much similar. You get to read all the best posts on your favorite topics on Link Building, Blogging Tips, Blog Marketing, Traffic Secrets. Only this time, I get to invite some great bloggers in my blogging community to showcase some of their work. Call it blog carnival, call it blog festival, this blog carnival is a special post for my subscribers and visitors for your reading and learning pleasure.

What I’ve said about….

Link Building – Is anchor text variation really that important? Yes, absolutely, you can easily find the answer in this statement “Google likes your links natural”. I have to say the best way for backlinks to look natural is by having a variation of keyword anchor text.

Blogging Tips – Don’t focus entirely on single keywords but instead use keyword phrases. There are about five million pages on the web that contain the word “cat”, so a search for just that term produces meaningless results. If your page is primarily about cat care, then that’s the keyword phrase you should have on your web page.

Blog Marketing – Forum Marketing is one of the best methods of driving real targeted traffic to your home business blog.

Traffic Secrets – Make first impressions count. You don’t need to know rocket science or study human behavior to know that the first impression of an event, or an activity is a lasting one. That’s probably the first thing you should do before even thinking about how to get repeat visitors to your blog.

What my friends have said about….

Link Building

Enkay, www.enkayblog.com

There are many ways that you can help build links to your blog that will bring in traffic. One such way that most people overlook is by purchasing ad spots around the blogosphere. In this post, I discuss why purchasing ad spots is a good idea and how it can be beneficial to you. I also showcase how some of my keywords that are related to reviews paid for by sponsors, rank in Google. The idea of showcasing those keywords is to show how purchasing a review has more benefits than you would think it has. Hopefully this post will help you re-think about advertising your blog around the blogosphere.
Post Link: What Advertising Can Do For You

Sire, WassupBlog.com

If anyone was to ask me what my main strategy for link building was, it would have to be commenting on other blogs. I use a particular strategy that I’ve listed on my post. I feel that commenting provides more than just a link to your blog, if you do it properly it will give it something much more important, extra traffic.
Post Link: Commenting 101 Important Rules For 2009

Gyutae Park, Winning the Web

In this article, Gyutae Park of Winning the Web interviews 6 SEO experts and asks them what their most effective link building strategies are.  There are a ton of juicy secrets revealed here that you don’t want to miss out on.  The post itself got a lot of links, which goes to show you that interviews work well in gaining links and exposure.  None of the experts mentioned that one…
Post Link: How to Build the Best Natural Links

Traffic Secrets

Ben Pei, www.peiprofit.com

If you’re looking for success in link building and getting traffic for your blog, you should never miss out these 12 tips. It basically covers what a blogger should do to market his or her blog in an all rounded manner so that the traffic source comes from a wider range and thus gaining maximum exposure. Most people are dead minded about sticking to only one method of promoting which I strongly disagree, so be sure to open yourself up to these 12 tips if you’re looking to achieve higher standards and returns.
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Blog Marketing

Brian Hawkins, ExtremeEzine.com

You have just posted a fantastic article on your blog. How do you get the word out? I thought it would be nice to discuss various methods of promoting our blog posts. I invite you to share your favorite and most effective steps of getting traffic to your latest post. Do you pay for promotion? Do you use Web 2.0? Already have enough regular traffic? Together we can add to our marketing arsenal and save time and energy finding new ways of effective promotion.
Post Link: Methods of Blog Post Promotion

Dennis Edell, DirectSalesWebMarketing.com

One of the very best ways I’ve found to keep the readers you have (returning), gain RSS subscribers, be talked about/linked to, is to be well known for caring about them by continuously responding to comments on your blog.”
Post Link: Blog Comment Tip: Respond To Comment Or Risk Losing Subscribers

Wei Liang, ABloggerBlog.com

It is impossible you aren’t getting at least 50 unique visitors a day with this marketing method. Even for a 1 week blog, this is achievable.
Link Post: Lesson 16: Comment Marketing

Blogging Tips For Beginners

Yan, ThouShallBlog.com

This blogging guide that will walk through you the essential of blogging from A-Z. While it can’t guarantee you fame and fortune, you’ll learn how to avoid mistakes and become a better blogger.
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Tom@The Home Business Archive, TLMarketing.net

By promoting other peoples’ content you will benefit by building your own profile and driving traffic to your site indirectly when people see who has submitted the post and want to learn more.The blogger whose post you submitted will most likely return the favor at some point and submit your posts to the social sites as well.
Post Link: Promoting Other Peoples’ Content Will Benefit You As Well

I like to thank all my friends for sharing their thoughts in this blog festival. Link Building, traffic building, blog marketing and Blogging Tips are what a new blogger should focus on when starting a new home business. But for the experienced blogger it’s another step towards bringing your current business to another level of success. What other new tips have you learned in 2008? Share with us in the comments.

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There are two main ingredients for attracting attention to what you are writing on your home business blog and they are: good content and blog marketing.  Focus on them and you will build key foundation elements for blogging success.

Search engines like Google reward sites that publish valuable content on a consistent basis. Blogs, by their nature, do this (assuming motivated bloggers are running them) and so rise high in search engine rankings – Yaro

 

 

First thing first: Focus On Your Blog Contents

Write good content

You’ve probably heard this over and over again “Content is King” haven’t you? But what exactly is good content. I like to think that it is when I write a post that leaves my readers satisfied, enjoyed it and were able to enhance their online business opportunities in one way or another.

Write Pillar Posts

I know that the expert bloggers we have come to know like Yaro, Darren Rowse write many such pillar posts and they highly recommend us doing so if we want to emulate their successes. But what makes a pillar post?  Essentially it’s a blog post that focuses on specific objectives like getting more backlinks, new readers just to name a few. Well success breeds more success and these bloggers can now tell you they are seeing much more traffic from the search engines due to the massive backlinks generated. For most of us, we may not become the next Yaro and we really don’t know other contributing factors leading to such successes, but I have to agree that writing some pillar posts often is a good thing for your blog. Most “How To” Articles and my 5-part link building strategy blog series are considered pillar posts.

How To Market Your Blog

Now that you have got good contents on your home business blog, it really is useless if no one sees it. You now got to promote it for all to see. The following are some of the tactics that every blogger should use:

• Blog Commenting: Certainly one of the easiest to do. All you have to do is visit all your favorite blogs and leave your quality comments and bam! you’re done. Well not quite I’m afraid. It probably takes a lot more effort and time to get this done if you’re really serious about your objective which is to get you massive quality targeted traffic. The correct approach is to use comments as a communication channel. Here’s when you spend more time on each comment you make and add significant value to the conversation. Another reason why you should be doing this is to build strong relationships with these bloggers, preferably with high profile blogs of similar niche.

• Give A Free Report: This seems to be a much popular tactic among many bloggers I’ve seen. You may not necessarily achieve the desired results, but should you manage to get it right a lot of people may just link to your blog to recommend your report, driving a crazy amount of traffic and new readers. That’s when the acid test comes in to see if your blog is good enough to get repeat visitors or is it going to be ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’. A few bloggers who practice this is Caroline Middlebrook and her Blogger’s Bible and John Cow’s Make Money Blogging just to name a couple.

• Forum Marketing: It’s one of the best methods of driving real targeted traffic to your blog. If you’ve missed the post I wrote on 7 Interesting Facts That You Must Know About Forum Marketing, here it is again.

• Trackback Marketing: Here is one area I’ve tried sometime ago but due to pure laziness have not been consistent at it. Trackbacks are placed at the comment area after each post and it’s a good tactic to search for a popular post and be one of the first to trackback. Here is a post I came across showing the correct way to do trackback.

• Customize your Blog Design: Branding your blog goes a long way to make your blog unique and a big step towards your blog marketing efforts. However cost is a stumbling block and many bloggers including yours truly often settle for second best which is buy a premium blog. I got mine from Woo Themes and it’s money well spent.

• Build your online network: Start building a strong online business network of friends, bloggers, partners throughout the blogosphere. Be a Top Commentator in all of these priority blogs and maintain good communication channels with them, including offline if possible. Join social networking sites like MyBlogLog, Twitter and Facebook and leverage them to promote your blog.

Take Small Steps First

The reality is that it’s going to take you some time before you become the next Darren Rowse or John Chow so you should start to take baby steps first before thinking of making your giant leaps. If you constantly and consistently promote your blog, at some point in time, something big should happen. Perhaps a big site, a popular magazine will link to you or you may be invited to be interviewed by a top journalist. But a point to remember is this: Things don’t always happen on their own, you’ve got to make it happen.

Content + Marketing = Traffic

If you consistently write good content posts on your blog and promote it aggressively with blog marketing to reach out to new readers and subscribers, traffic will come.  Don’t lose interest or your passion about your blog and what you believe in. It’s just a matter of time before your blog takes shape, start to make money blogging and your traffic starts to build using these tactics. Yes, even if it’s a stream now it will eventually become a river.

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