Okay, you’ve finally decided to start your own blog. The blog has been installed, style sheets edited to fit your personality and you have been working tirelessly adding high-quality original content. Mission completed.
Now you just sit back and wait for the money to start rolling in right? Ummm… not quite. Sorry.
It’s a common misconception many new bloggers (and website owners in general) have. Create a nice looking site, add good content to it and magically, the search engines will spider your pages and visitors will appear.
The truth is, gaining traffic and readers can be hard work. Work you must complete if you want your blog to succeed. And since I am assuming you want to profit from your blog - you know, make money from it - you must be successful. So how do you increase traffic to your blog?
There are thousands of articles on the net regarding traffic and tips to bring more of it in, but here are tips I give my own clients (many who are working from home to make extra money) after installing a blog for them.
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Well it took me 2 months but I *finally* installed and set-up the SEO Title Tag Plugin I mentioned back in July. Good thing I waited so long, it was so difficult to install - NOT! I had it up and running in under 5 minutes. It was super easy, just FTP, activate and edit a few variables. I love it. Incredibly easy to manage.
Do yourself a favor and don’t be a procrastinator like me. Download this and install it now if you haven’t already done so.
Why this will help my blog and yours too (go install it now!):
Adding (or fixing) the title tags of your pages can often generate quick and appreciable differences to your rankings.
Title tags are considered one of the “big three” as far as the algorithmic weight given to them by search engines.
When calculating a sites relevance to a search, most search engines consider the title tag as one of the parameters and display that content in search engine results pages.
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Are you interested in making money with your blog? A growing number of companies are now paying bloggers to write reviews about their products and services and then post the reviews on their blogs. Sound like fun?
Of course it does. Who wouldn’t want to get paid to write about things that interest them? (My husband who won’t write no matter what the topic is)
How does it work? The whole process is pretty simple. After registering with one of the companies below, you search through a list of opportunities, post a review on your blog, have the review approved and then wait to get paid. Earnings for posts range anywhere from $2 to $200 for reviews.
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Here is the definition of tags from Technorati themselves:
Think of a tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos and videos with any tag that makes sense.
Basically, tags allow you to categorize your blog posts with Technorati. Tags are usually displayed at the end of a blog post and are click-able links that take you to Technorati where other blogs using the same tags are displayed.
So why use tags? I personally feel tags help bring you traffic in two ways.
First: People searching Technorati (and other search engines that recognize tags) will find your blog by entering tags you have used in your posts. Thus bringing your blog traffic and potential readers.
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