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.

Traffic from YouTube Is Like Gold – 8 Tips to Get a Piece of the Action

84 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts, YouTube / /

It is not that hard to get targeted traffic from YouTube. In fact it is really easy. Just think about it, the person has watched your video and gone to the effort of visiting your website, so they are definitely interested in your topic. I guess you can now call them targeted and this is exactly why traffic from Youtube is like gold. It is because when the visitors get to your site they are ready for action, warmed up and wanting more information, most probably ready to buy. But how do you get the actual Youtube viewer to visit your website? …continue reading…

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Guest blogging benefits

3 Main Reasons Why You Should Try Guest Posting At Least Once

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Guest posting is a type of contribution to another blog, and when done correctly, it means that you write a unique blog post and publish it on another blog. That post will solely belong to the blog owner and can’t be republished anywhere else.
There are actually many people who refuse to do guest posting on others blogs because of this one reason, “When I write a unique and awesome article, why don’t I write and publish the blog post on my own blog?”, this question has been asked and answered thousands of times, but still there are people refuse to submit guest posts on other blogs.…continue reading…

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Giving feedback

How to Give and Respond to Feedback Successfully

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Feedback is one huge aspect of blogging that is rarely discussed. Whenever you submit or accept guest posts, feedback usually occurs; however people usually don’t put much thought into how they are giving this feedback or how they are going to accept this feedback. They know what they want to say, and they know what they need to do, but is there a polite way to go about feedback in this industry? As a full-time guest blogger, I would say absolutely.…continue reading…

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struggling to get backlinks

4 Reasons Why You’re Struggling To Get Backlinks

106 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

The concept of “link building” has become big business with numerous tools, courses and specialist providers helping to get backlinks. But make no mistake – it can be boring, slow and frustrating to get backlinks for your blog – especially if you’re looking for the very best authority links to beat your competition. Google has publicly stated that one aspect of their ranking algorithm is looking at the over “link neighborhood” of a website. If you get backlinks from low quality sources – mass-produced forum profiles, blog comment spam and suchlike – the more than likely you’re going to struggle to rank highly.

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How to Survive the First 4 Weeks of Blogging

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Whilst anyone can start a blog, the trickiest part of it all is actually surviving the first few weeks or even the first four weeks of blogging. It’s important to understand that if you’ve just started blogging and you are struggling to get through the first month or so, you’re probably not going to make the long haul; to me it’s simple as that! In this post I’d like to share with you some simple tips and tricks that I’ve used myself and have frequently recommended to other budding newbie’s out there, on how to get through the first 4 weeks of blogging. The tips and ideas will set you up for the course of the duration of your new blogging career, and for life… Yep, blogging is a lifetime commitment just in case no one told you…continue reading…

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More Targeted Traffic Means More Sales

Is More Traffic All You Need to Make More Sales?

71 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

If you are keen on making decent profits from your website (by decent you know how much I mean), there are some things which you will need: Lots and lots of targeted traffic. Pay a little more attention on “targeted” here. A person looking for an iPhone has got nothing to do on a website which promotes weight loss products. Even a slight difference between what the visitor is looking for and what you are selling on your website can result in that visitor bouncing away from your website. The quality of traffic matters more than its quantity.

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Ultimate Guide: How To Choose a Publishing Blog

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you have written this awesome, spectacular post and you have resisted the urge to post it on your own blog and want to show it off to the world on another blog. How do you decide where to publish it? It would be great if Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger.net were knocking at your door for the next masterpiece of writing, or Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com called you up, personally, and said he cleared his schedule, in anticipation of the next article that exudes from your great wisdom. So, where do you start? The key is to do just that, start! …continue reading…

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