Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

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4 Reasons Why You’re Struggling To Get Backlinks

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

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?

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

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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Google I/O 2012 Marketing Takeaways

Google I/O 2012 Recap by Chris Lang and Friends

Google I/O 2012 was an incredible event that featured over 30 hours of video footage that you can watch on YouTube. Lucky us, I am very fortunate to have Chris Lang in my circles on Google+. Chris is a leader and top expert in the area of all things related to Google and specifically Google+ training for business. He hosted a + Hangout on Air to recap the Google I/O 2012 event and point out some key takeaways and forecasts that will benefit bloggers, small business owners and webmasters. This is a summary of what you can learn from Chris and his distinguished guest panel. …continue reading…

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How to Check the Search Rankings for Your Blog

Three Excellent Tools for Checking Your Blog Search Rankings

Search rankings and the future of your web sites and blogs… It seems like everyone is talking about their search ranking these days, and why wouldn’t they? With Google throwing web sites and their rankings around like rag dolls, you never know where your rankings might be! It takes a lot of time for a blog to go from nothing to an authority site that ranks very well in the search engines. There may be some short cuts or creative ways to get ahead at a faster rate, but in the end it comes down to QUALITY links and QUALITY content.

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Why New Bloggers Should Not Give Up Blogging Soon

In the world of blogging, you must have observed some blogs starting up with an article or two and then end up leaving their blogs in the ‘Silent Mode’ where you see nothing more than those 2 previously written articles. In any niche, it takes time for search engines to show up content from your blog. Same thing applies for Getting Google Authorship. Even if you optimize your posts very well, the competition in that niche or specific keywords will be tough to overcome. Even though it is hard to get on the first page of Google, it’s never impossible!

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