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.

Top 5 Blogging Strategies That Kill Your Blog Fast

I come across sales pitches more often than I want to admit. Information overload is what ya usually come across when you begin looking for help. The vulnerable baby bloggers just looking to be heard, or business owners looking to engage with their customers are being targeted. By wishy washy hopes of reaching the Mount Everest of blogging and getting paid in the process. When in reality, these sales folks promote blogging strategies that kill your blog. This “expert” advice is what would-be good blogs go to die.

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12 Free Ways to Optimize Your Blog Posts For Better Rankings!

You’re a blogger and you know that you’re pretty awesome at blogging — but why aren’t you getting better rankings and more traffic to your site? Your friends like your articles and you’ve had several people leaving positive comments on your posts but why aren’t your social signals shooting through the roof? Well, are your blog posts Search Engine Optimized? If they are, then you should probably be focusing your efforts elsewhere such as Social Media Marketing in order to increase traffic, but feel free to continue reading to see if you’ve missed out any of these 15 optimization tips. Search Engine Optimization (which is the process of getting your website ranked onto a search engine’s first result page) can be easily broken down into 3 parts – on-site optimization, off-site optimization and social media marketing. Today, we’ll focus on the cheapest methods of SEO and that is, on-site optimization.

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7 Dead Simple Website Traffic Tips – Even Grandma Likes These

Over the years I have developed my own website traffic tips that have sent real fireworks through my websites. My tips are never any big secret though and are usually very easy to implement. You could say that my whole life revolves around website traffic because I have been generating it since 2005. When I look back, generating traffic for my quality content is all I have been doing to create successful websites. In the picture to the left it says “get website traffic fast”. I am not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that! Here are a few website traffic tips that even your grandma can follow. I have used all of these to generate the traffic showing in that screenshot.

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The evolution of blogging

The Evolution of Blogging

The evolution of blogging has been in a constant state of flux from day one. Since the earliest days of the Web, the natural human inclination to communicate, share and form groups has expressed itself using whatever tools that happen to be available. Beginning with BBS and Usenet and continuing into the 90s with Personal Journals and cult sites like The Best Page in the Universe, the primitive blogging ecosystem was a wild and woolly place.

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How To Get Past The Noise And Get Noticed In The Blogging World?

Your readers should be very precious to you since they are the ones who will read, share, and comment and encourage others to read your blog posts. So invite them in with open arms and be very particular to respond to their respective queries or suggestions. If your blog helps you to earn money, make sure you tell people at least a part about it. In addition, yes, do not forget to do some charity work with the money that you earn. For one, nothing works like a humanitarian approach. So go ahead, involve people in this, and watch how your blog posts steadily are read.

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Top 5 Ways To Create Conversions with Hangouts On Air

et’s be honest here, most Hangouts On Air produce a 45 to 60 minute video. Most people just are not going to take the time to watch all that. But what I did find was that the ones that do watch an hour long teaching video are the people who buy my products. So it came clear to me fast that if I was going to push replays of a weekly or bi-weekly show that would be viewed mostly by people who were buying info products and joining membership sites, that it would be best to host them on pages that convert into sales of such. You have probably heard the term “landing pages.” Well we like to call them “action pages” around here. Sending your viewers to Google+ and YouTube to watch your Hangouts is a big mistake as you will soon see below. Using the 5 strategies here I was able to convert 37% of my small list into buyers of an info product.

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Drive Blog Traffic With Pinterest

How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Pinterest is one of those social networking sites, which started with a unique concept and became popular in no time. For many bloggers, Pinterest is driving more traffic than Facebook or any other social network. Being an image oriented social networking site, it’s beneficial for many niches and an image pinned from your blog post could easily go viral and drive immense amounts of blog traffic.

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