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.

12 Steps to Blogging Success

12 Steps You Must Take to Quickly Become a Successful Blogger

I returned home a few weeks ago from a 2 year working holiday of Southeast Asia. I have conquered my frustrations and more importantly I am helping an increasing number of bloggers do the same thing. Decide to become successful now. Become so excited about living your blogging dreams that you cannot possibly think of quitting your blogging exploits. You can do it. You can succeed. I believe in you and I’ll share with you 12 steps you must take to get the ball rolling and become one of the most successful bloggers in your niche.

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5 Great Examples of Success Niche Review Sites

Successful Niche Review Sites – 5 Great Examples

Lots of bloggers are intrigued by the concept of creating niche review sites and making money while they sleep. The premise seems simple, but depending on the niche you dive into, you could have a hard time finding success. In my last article here on Basic Blog Tips, we talked about a few different niches that you could start making money with right now. To help you better understand how niche websites are created and focus their content on driving leads and generating revenue we are going to take a look at five different examples.

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Five Things You Can Do To Double Your Blog Traffic

5 Things You Can Do To Double Your Blog Traffic

There are a good number of blogging tips blogs online today, but only a handful of them get noticed or generate a significant amount of blog traffic and readership. Not every blog goes on to become another “Basic Blog Tips” or “ProBlogger”. Even though many bloggers find they can earn a fair amount of money, for most of us we can’t make as much as the big A-list bloggers. Moreover to create a big authority blog, you need to do a lot of hard work. When I say a lot of work, I mean writing quality content, driving a great deal of blog traffic, building high quality links and making connections with other bloggers in your niche. In this post I am going to share 5 simple strategies that you can use to double your blog traffic in 2013.

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blog commenting

Transform Your Blog To A Real Discussion Board Through Blog Commenting!

In this post, I want us to see how you can turn your blog to a real discussion board thereby encouraging repeat visits and improving your SEO through a positive increase in page impressions, return visits, page views and time on site. I’m not going to dwell on how to get more comments or why you don’t get comments. Instead let’s discuss what needs to be done to get your readers coming back for more interaction and blog commenting.

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The Ultimate Guide to Setting up Google Experiments for Your Blog

Ever want to try improving the conversion rate of your blog, but didn’t have the money to hire a designer, the time to figure it all out, or technical prowess to pull it off? Well, I’m happy to say those excuses are no longer valid ever since the Google Experiments feature was integrated into Google Analytics. If you’re not familiar with Google Experiments Lab already, it’s a program that allows you to serve different variations of your blog to different website visitors and measure the performance of those page variations against your goals (more email opt-ins, lower bounce rates) to see which version performs the best. Let me explain in simpler terms with a hypothetical example on how to setup Google Experiments.

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Real Talk About Why So Many Blogs Fail

There are so many new blogs being born every day simply because blogging is one of the easiest and most popular formats for creating content that we can use to spread our message online. Blogging is also a popular strategy when it comes to making money online. Many of the top bloggers make a substantial income from their blogs in order to support themselves and their families. Others start blogs because their friends are blogging and they want to be like their friends. Some find enjoyment in blogging and set-up blogs because they enjoy writing and blogging about things that they love.

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Instagram

Instagram Marketing for Online Entrepreneurs

Instagram was started in October 2010 by entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger as a mobile photography project called Burbn, Instagram has surpassed Flickr, Picasa and other well-known photo apps in terms of volume, importance, and buzz-worthiness. What’s it going to take for Internet Marketers to finally embrace Instagram and use its plug-ins to secure massive customer goodwill in the years to come.

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