by Keith Keller | Nov 1, 2015 | GUEST BLOG POSTS: Social Media & SEO
7 Fantastic Tips To Build Your Blog Audience Attracting traffic to a blog or a web site is challenging enough. So from the very beginning, when visitors coming to read your blog, give them a reason to stick around. Here are seven vital ingredients for building a successful blog with a loyal following. 1. Publish Regularly. As your readers become familiar with the frequency of your posts, it will influence their visiting behavior. If your readers know that you post fresh content every day, they will probably come every day to read it. If they know you post on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, that’s when they will come. 2. Stay on Topic. Stick to your niche. If your blog doesn’t have a niche, give it one. Readers like blog’s that are focused on a particular theme or topic. If you have no theme and just post about anything, then readers are less likely to become passionate about your blog and will probably move on. 3. Use Meaningful Titles in Posts. This not only announces clearly what the post is about, but it will help people navigate your blog and also influence your ranking with search engines. 4. Interact With Your Readers. Think of your blog like a conversation. You post. Readers comment. Be active and be positive as you interact and converse with your readers. 5. Highlight Your Best Posts. Don’t let your best posts get lost in your archives. It’s always a good idea to link to your best posts from a ‘best posts’ category on the main page. 6. Provide Good Navigation....
by Keith Keller | Oct 22, 2015 | GUEST BLOG POSTS: Social Media & SEO
How To Repurpose Your Content (The 3 Rs) Rewriting - Recombining - Reformatting Rewriting Rewriting means taking a piece of content you created and simply rewording it so that it’s original. This was a common method used in the days when massive article publishing led to good traffic from search engines, but simply rewriting content line-for-line is not so effective these days and doesn’t add new value. The search engines have become more sophisticated and they can tell when a new article is just a rewritten old one. So how do you repurpose your article? Add new information and do some editing as you rewrite. Now you produced something that’s truly original. You can update your old articles by adding new, more recent information. Also, instead of rewriting a piece line-by-line, you can reorganize it to make it more original. Recombining Recombining means taking two or more different pieces of content and putting them together into one. You can do this and still produce a piece of content that’s focused and simple. For example, if you have three articles on work/life balance, you can create one article that’s something like, “3 Ways to Achieve Work/Life Balance Now.” Along with recombining, you can also take an article apart and create multiple articles from its sections. If you have an article that teaches 10 tips for doing something, you can turn each of those tips into standalone articles. It’s all a matter of adding or removing details. Reformatting Finally, there’s reformatting. Reformatting means to take a piece of content that’s in one format and turn it into a piece of content...