Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

When Blogging Do You Have the IT Factor

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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Three Ways to Find Incoming Links for Free

It’s important for us to have incoming links from around the internet coming back to our blogs and websites. Google and the other search engines use this as a barometer to measure the importance and value of our content. As time goes by, and we start to accumulate more and more quality incoming links we’ll see a direct correlation to the rise in the amount of traffic coming to our sites from Google as well as the other search engines. In this video you’ll see 3 free resources that you can use on a daily basis to check on your incoming links …continue reading…

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Take the Plunge – Buy Web Hosting and Build a Blog

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

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?

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?

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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Suffering from Blogging Conformity?

Conformity is when you conform or comply or behave according to certain rules and standards because they are perceived as the “norm”. Let me make it easier. You act in a particular manner and stick to it because that manner is perceived as socially acceptable. Okay, this might work in the actual social world. But it really is something to think about when we enter the blogging scene.…continue reading…

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