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.

5 Competitive Edge Strategies That Leverage The Power Of Your Competitors

28 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Have you ever thought about how your competitors can help you? Probably not. Most people are afraid of competition and would love for it to just go away. Well your competitors aren’t going away any time soon. But that’s a good thing because your competition can be a real source of leverage for you. Here’s what I mean. Think about your best competitors. What do they have that could benefit you? They have traffic, top search engine rankings, a large email list, lots of sales and most likely they dominate social marketing.

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How to Define Your Blogging Niche

Define Your Niche In 5 Easy Steps

68 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Have you recently started blogging? Or maybe you have been blogging for a while? If your answer is yes, you have probably heard of the word, “Niche”. For many bloggers, that five letter word is the bane of their blogging existence. The Niche blogger writes about a specific area. They have an audience because the blogger solves a problem for them. Readership is steady, and readers often turn into customers. If your blogging plans include profiting from your writing efforts, then you might be better with choosing a niche blog. Here’s how you go about defining your niche in 5 easy steps.

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Driving Search Traffic to Old Blog Posts

How to Drive More Traffic to Your Old Blog Posts from Search Engines

48 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

You must be busy publishing new blog posts on your blog with the intention to drive more traffic from search engines. But are you tracking the performance of your old blog posts? As time passes, lots of our old blog posts lose their rankings, which results in you getting less traffic coming to those posts from search engines. If you are facing this kind of problem on your blog, be sure to keep on reading….

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Tips and Tools for a Productive Blogging Workflow

Tips and Tools for a Productive Blogging Workflow

44 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

As a professional blogger, it’s very important to me to have a workflow that really works. I write dozens of posts every month, hundreds every year, so efficiency is essential. It’s taken a while, but now I have a system that helps me be effective in everything from idea generation to publication and sharing. The ability to come up with new ideas or to improve the ideas that others suggest is crucial. Here’s how my blogging workflow works.

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10 Awful Twitter Mistakes

10 Awful Mistakes That Keep You Away From Success on Twitter

55 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Correct me if I’m wrong, but right after you’ve launched a blog, you’ll immediately go and register a few social profiles for it. With Twitter and Facebook being the first ones.

But registering these social profiles alone does not bring you any visitors. You should have a solid SMM strategy if you want to be successful. And most importantly, avoid common mistakes that most bloggers make as they are starting out. Just recently I asked 50 respected bloggers for advice on Twitter Marketing, which made me recall some awfully stupid mistakes that I was making myself early in my blogging career.

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How to Write More Blog Posts Without Giving Up Your Social Life

46 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

I write up to five blog posts every week. That may sound easy for some, but for me, it gets a little tough. You see, I have two jobs. I’m the Grand Master of Customer Delight at Post Planner and I run the daily operations of Leneys, a women’s apparel company that I started with my girlfriend. The key is time management. I want to show you how I write five blog posts a week and share my thoughts on expert interviews while maintaining my sanity.

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Visme Review

Give Your Blog’s Graphics a Lift with Visme [Review]

18 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Many bloggers struggle to give their content some pizzazz. We all know how important quality content is but you also need quality visuals to capture attention. That’s where Visme comes in. It’s a web application that helps you to create online presentations, Infographics and all kinds of interactive visual content – and it’s laughably easy to use. I first reviewed it a few months ago on the Crazy Egg blog, but a lot has changed since then so I thought it was time for a new look at this tool.

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