I am a blogger and my husband is a well known blogger with 2.4 million visitors per month to his blog (Steve Pavlina). Here is what he has told me and also written in his articles for other bloggers.
1. Content. Are you writing for yourself or for others? A lot of people just blog about their lives. Unless you're a celebrity, who cares right? write content that helps others. They will refer their friends and come back often.
2. Submit your articles to blog carnivals. I actually have a guy whom I pay $25/month to submit my articles all over the place every week. That has increased my traffic a lot and saves me a ton of time.
3. EzineArticles.com is good, like previously mentioned.
4. write content that OTHER bloggers will link to. That I think was the big secret to STeve's success initially. He wrote amazing content, often controversial, that had the blogosphere buzzing! examples of articles of his that were big hits include: 10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Job, How to Give Up Coffee, How To Become an Early Riser, and How To Make Money from your Blog. Are any of these articles about how he got a puppy and potty trained him?
Nuh uh. Provide real value that will benefit many and your blog traffic will grow.
5. Make sure you have an RSS feed so people can subscribe to your blog.
6. Blog at least 2-3 times per week. so people don't forget about you.
7. Use titles that search engines will index well for you.
8. Write original content. You don't want your blog to be a rehash of other people's blog material. Called Info-Crack by some, there are blogs out there where people just post links to other peopel's blogs.
This year I made a six-figure income from my blog. And my husband made 2.5 times as much as I did. I never would have thought it possible to make that kind of money from blogging. He uses an advertising model and I use a service based approach. Both can work.
Rev that blog up!
1. Content. Are you writing for yourself or for others? A lot of people just blog about their lives. Unless you're a celebrity, who cares right? write content that helps others. They will refer their friends and come back often.
2. Submit your articles to blog carnivals. I actually have a guy whom I pay $25/month to submit my articles all over the place every week. That has increased my traffic a lot and saves me a ton of time.
3. EzineArticles.com is good, like previously mentioned.
4. write content that OTHER bloggers will link to. That I think was the big secret to STeve's success initially. He wrote amazing content, often controversial, that had the blogosphere buzzing! examples of articles of his that were big hits include: 10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Job, How to Give Up Coffee, How To Become an Early Riser, and How To Make Money from your Blog. Are any of these articles about how he got a puppy and potty trained him?
Nuh uh. Provide real value that will benefit many and your blog traffic will grow.5. Make sure you have an RSS feed so people can subscribe to your blog.
6. Blog at least 2-3 times per week. so people don't forget about you.
7. Use titles that search engines will index well for you.
8. Write original content. You don't want your blog to be a rehash of other people's blog material. Called Info-Crack by some, there are blogs out there where people just post links to other peopel's blogs.
This year I made a six-figure income from my blog. And my husband made 2.5 times as much as I did. I never would have thought it possible to make that kind of money from blogging. He uses an advertising model and I use a service based approach. Both can work.
Rev that blog up!
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