December 25, 2008
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
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.
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:
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.
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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