Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.
As soon as your readers visit your blog, before they even read your content, they will either trust or distrust you based on your web design. There are a lot of design mistakes out there and you need to avoid them and learn how to make your readers trust you even before they start reading your content.
4 Key Design Blunders That Can Turn People Off Read More »
These days everyone has turned their attention to the importance of building a loyal and engaged list of email subscribers. If you’re keeping up with this trend you know that email is the most effective and “tried and true” method of getting traffic, building trust, and let’s face it – making money online today. Most of us bloggers and other email marketers rely on AWeber as our email service provider and it makes sense. But no matter which email service you use, you need an effective Thank You messages to ensure that subscribers follow through with the double optin for your list.
Two Old-Fashioned Ways to Thank Email Subscribers and a Brand New One Read More »
You probably don’t need convincing that posts with images stand out more than those without images. This little bit of eye candy can mean the difference between your post standing out on a social site like Facebook or getting lost in the crowd. You may have noticed sometimes when pasting a link into a Facebook post that Facebook will automatically grab an image, title and description from your link. This little bit of behind the scenes work that Facebook does helps your post stand out by displaying visual elements such as an image and bolded title. If your blog has the meta data Facebook is looking for, any blog link pasted from your site will look great on Facebook.
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Did you ever have a problem and wish the perfect solution would come along? Let me put it this way – ever feel like you’re waiting for a “sign” before making a decision about something? Well some might call it procrastination and maybe it is just a little bit. But this kind of stuff happens to me all the time. I feel like there are little voices in my head saying “not yet” or “just give it another couple of days before you make a move”.And then all of a sudden…BAM!! It seems to appear out of the blue and the answer falls right into my lap! Well that is what happened to me earlier today when I decided to install Google+ Comments here on Basic Blog Tips.
If You Wait for Perfection You Might Miss The Boat Read More »
For most of us, devoting ourselves to blogging means that we need to make money from it. It doesn’t mean that we do not love the subject we are writing about. We are simply doing what most other people can only dream of and getting paid to do something we love. Writers aren’t giving their books away for free, screenwriters aren’t writing screenplays for million dollar movie productions for nothing, and newspaper editors don’t work all day long for the love of their art. They all get paid, as should bloggers. The bottom line is: Doing what you love does not mean you should not be paid appropriately for it.
Recognize the Value of Your Blog and Your Self Worth Read More »
Understanding how to create blog posts that go beyond ordinary is a Blogger’s dream come true. Unfortunately great blog posts are not that easy to achieve. Blog posts that go beyond mediocre have to start with creating great content, but the real road to success means pushing the envelope a bit to include the elements that help you better connect with your readers and provide value. That’s what we’ll discuss here.
8 Ways To Create Blog Posts That Go Beyond Mediocre Read More »
If you want to be successful online, then building a social media following should be one of your top priorities. But there is a misconceptions some bloggers have, that success can be determined solely by the numbers. For example, in email marketing, they say the more subscribers you have, the better your chances are at selling more products. In blog readership, you get more traffic because you have that many more people that are subscribed to your RSS feed when you publish a post, therefore helping you gain more attention. Why have 10,000 fans on Facebook if only 5-15 people interact with you on every update? I would rather have 1,000 engaged fans than 10,000 non-engaging one’s.
How To Build An Interactive Social Media Following Read More »
