Blogging Tutorials

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

How To Grow a Site to 10,000 visits per month

How to Grow A Site from 0 to 10,000+ Visitors Per Month

Starting a WordPress blog is really easy. But making it profitable is really not. Building a high traffic blog takes time so you need to be consistent with your efforts. Did you know that 81% of blogs NEVER get more than 100 visitors a day? Growing a site from zero to 10,000 monthly visitors is a BIG deal. Now, let me walk you through few insider strategies you can use to grow your site from 0 to 10,000+ visitors a month.

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12 Tips To Boost Audience Engagement on Your Blog

12 Simple Ways to Boost the Audience Engagement Level of Your Blog

Getting people to find your blog is only one side of the story. Keeping them for a while is another side of it. While increasing the visibility of your blog and making it easy for people to find is a tedious task, the saddest part comes when that visitor you worked so hard to earn, chooses to hit the back button and leave your site.When someone arrives at your blog through a search and end up liking your posts, they would want to dig deeper. They want to skim through all your posts and find those posts that interest them and read them. Here are some useful tips that help you engage your readers.

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Ultimate Blog Discussion Part 2: Building the Blog and Adding Automation

We got you started with the idea of building your own blog (versus hiring an agency to do it) in “Chapter 3” from the previous article, but our primary focus was on building a blog that makes you money. True, that could almost be the final chapter, but we thought with all of the talk about spending money, that you could use a chapter that finished out with you seeing how you could spend time and (acquired) skill in actually bringing the money in instead of sending it away from your pocketbook.

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Five Common Guest Blogging Mistakes

5 Common Guest Blogging Mistakes

One of the most effective ways to increase your online visibility and build a successful blog is through guest blogging. The key to effective guest blogging relies heavily on outreach to other popular bloggers in your niche and offering valuable, interesting content in exchange for a publishing slot on their blogs. While guest blogging is a straightforward and effective way to generate more traffic and build your online brand, it’s not always an easy strategy. Popular bloggers get inundated with dozens of guest post requests every day.

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You Must Avoid These Conversion Optimization Mistakes

Conversion Rate Optimization Mistakes You Must Avoid

If you have a website, you want people to see it. If it’s a blog, you want people to read it, and if it’s a product, you want people to buy it.

The first step is getting your page to pop during a search. Next, you need your target audience to click the link. At this point, the battle is not over. You need that customer to convert – to buy, follow, sign up, etc. There are a number of methods you can try and quite a few common mistakes that can lead to failure. Look at things you should absolutely avoid when working on your conversion rate optimization (CRO).

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Do You Know These 15 WordPress Security Tools

15 Security Tools for WordPress Blogs

WordPress is undeniably the most popular Content Management System or CMS that helps DIY-bloggers build the site of their dreams. Unfortunately, its popularity also made it vulnerable to numerous security exploits. Plugins, for example, can be compromised due to code vulnerabilities and cause harm if installed to your WordPress blog. Keep in mind that what makes WordPress great is the amount of resources available for you to customize the platform. The good news is that you also have access to tools that can tighten your WordPress site’s security. Find 15 WordPress Security tools in this article.

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Blogging Considerations for a Fashion Blogger

Ultimate Blog Discussion Part 1: Evaluating and Reaching Your Goals

We all want to get ahead, right? Or maybe we simply want to reach our dreams? Whatever your goal in life is, somehow you have found yourself thinking about blogging. Am I right?
Great, then you have come to the right place for a two-part “Ultimate Blog Discussion.” Whether your goal is to start a blog for the first time, enhance your blog and make some money, or get some help in making your blog something that goes higher than the clouds, as far as your dreams go. But, no matter what the objective, we need to start some place and that is with a discussion.To help us do that, we have broken down the topics into chapters or modules. There are three in this article and two more in the next article, for a total of five. Let’s start with the first three, shall we?

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