Guest Posts

All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.

When to start guest posting in your niche

When To Start Guest Posting In Your Niche

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When it comes to blogging, when you start guest posting will determine how fast you can succeed with your business. No matter where you turn now days, you will find loads of people, myself and Ileane included, talking about how guest posting is a great way to build your blog traffic, especially if you are brand new. Although you can get some traffic with little content on your own site, most sites simply won’t let you guest post if you don’t have any content up yet. I would recommend getting at least 15-20 pages of content on your site before you try to do a guest post.…continue reading…

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6 Top Gadgets That Are Essential for Pro-Bloggers

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Gadgets are becoming a popular and very essential in our daily life. I learned these from the experience I’ve gained, but also from asking many close friends from around the globe, who are involved in technology and blogging simultaneously. It can also be stated that “no gadgets, no blogging”. I’ve managed to find the best gadgets that are helpful for most of us who are bloggers.…continue reading…

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When Blogging Do You Have the IT Factor

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As a blogger I often find myself looking for the IT factor in my posts, not only my own but the articles written by my staff. I have seen several of my writers have breakout success articles that exceeded my wildest hopes for an article, one writer in particular I paid more than $120 in performance payments for a single article over the course of 8 months. This is because the article just kept delivering traffic by the thousands, month after month and caused a huge spike in AdSense earnings just from the traffic it brought in.…continue reading…

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Take the Plunge – Buy Web Hosting and Build a Blog

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I am sitting here at my home with nowhere to be and no appointments to keep, all because I had the guts to take the plunge and buy Web hosting, more than a few years ago now. This was the most defining moment of my career and I bet it would be the same for many other successful bloggers. The first thing you need to do is stop saying negative things about your technical ability. Be positive and move forward with your learning process. If you have trouble with some technical aspect of building a blog and getting web hosting, just work on it a little bit harder. The rewards will be all yours in the end.…continue reading…

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6 Effective Ways To Promote Your Blog Using Social Media

103 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Like blogging, social media sites are today’s trending tool for communication. It is an easy and quick portal to share content, connect with other people and create a “network” or community. In recent month, we saw another social media platform that is now making waves worldwide – Google+. The rise of social networking has transcend the way people use the Internet. It became a necessity and part of our lifestyle.…continue reading…

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Do You Do Blog Challenges?

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Blog Challenges. What a great way to get exposure, traffic, subscribers, money and maybe backlinks all at the same time. Well, the above statement depends upon the challenge. There is only one another way, that I can think of, that gives all these benefits – Guest blogging. Nowadays, you can see a lot of blogging related challenges online. Participating in those challenges offers you a good deal of benefits. In this blog post, we will take a good look at the benefits of hosting and participating in a blog challenges…continue reading…

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Are fewer ads always better?

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Google recently announced that it will penalize sites with more than three ads above the fold. Frequently, these sites are low-quality sites with super-SEO’d, thin content landing pages designed to have people quickly bounce off the site when they click on one of the ads. However, placing advertising this densely before Google started penalizing sites was only profitable for thin content sites specifically designed for it, not for sites with actual human readers.…continue reading…

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