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.

Blogging Industry in India – An Overview

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My first association with blogging happened in 2003 when my mom bought the ‘Google Cash Cow’ CDs out of curiosity. Marketed as the ultimate money making machine with free hosting and free website that supposedly let’s you make millions in a short span of time, the Indian blogging industry has gone beyond the Google Cash Cow’s and evolved as a strong publishable medium, with the number of professional tech bloggers, personal bloggers and business bloggers on the rise…continue reading…

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Zombie Email list subscribers

Why Zombie Subscribers Are Killing Your Email List

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By now you’ve probably read at least three dozen out the thousands of articles written on why collecting email subscribers is so important to the growth and success of your blog. And to a certain extent this is going to be another one… as I agree completely. Email subscribers are of the utmost importance… Truly the only non-revenue counting stat I care about. If you are like me and you constantly tweak your newsletter to produce the best product then feedback is very important. You could be writing killer content but see increasingly diminished results because of Zombie subscribers inaction…continue reading…

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How to Stop WordPress Trackback Spam Completely

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If you are an owner of a WordPress blog, then most probably you might be facing some WordPress trackback related spam in your blog and if your blog has some good amount of blog posts then this problem escalates and it’s quite difficult to control the problem.
Although this problem maybe solved by using some wordpress plugin, but using wordpress plugin for every small problem simply bloats your wordpress and your blog becomes quite slow. So, use as few plugins as you can.…continue reading…

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Get more traffic

How To Increase The Flow Of Traffic Coming To Your Blog

167 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Have you ever had a burst of traffic and wish that traffic would go higher and higher each day? I have had that feeling lots of times and I just wish my traffic would continue to rise each day. Well in order for me, you or anybody else who want to increase their traffic then we have to put out the extra effort and work in order to do so. We have to be at it each and everyday if we want to increase our blog traffic. In this post I will give you tips on how you can build up your blog traffic.

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Say Yes: 8 Tips for Creating a Winning Proposal

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Most of us have a love-hate relationship with writing proposal. When we’ve decided to start our own business we should be ready to communicate with clients. On the one hand, we adore being asked. After all, proposals are the lifeblood of our business, so who doesn’t appreciate being wanted? On the other hand, we despise unknowns. And by their very nature, requests for proposals are full of them. They force us to make assumptions, pressure us to draw conclusions, and often propel us into chaos. No wonder proposals evoke feelings of doubt and vulnerability in even the most staid professional.

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Creating an Online Business

Finding and Preparing to Start an Online Business

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I always tell people to surf the internet and you’ll soon find an eclectic and diverse range of successful online business, from multi-million dollar enterprises and run by boards of directors to solo-owned ventures generating a modest but regular income and run by enterprising teenagers. One interesting point you may glean from surfing the net is that these online businesses are incredibly varied. Some are based on sales of products and others provide a service. Some are extensions of offline businesses. There are even some that don’t have any blatantly obvious way of making any money, yet have an enormous subscriber list or astronomical site traffic, which actually equates to serious income generation potential.

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Remove all Sidebar Distractions

Better Sidebars for Better Conversion – How Does Yours Look?

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The video in this post is all about optimizing your sidebars for getting better results. We’ll cover: Customizing your widget titles for astonishment – Conversion by astonishing is something that we all can do. We need to astonish our readers by being different and then convince them (it will be easier for you to do is if you are able to astonish) to subscribe or do whatever you want them to do. And removing sidebars from the post pages for better conversion. We will talk about how your sidebars can act as a distracting mechanism to your readers and how you can change that.…continue reading…

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