New Blog Help

Blog ownership seems interesting at first glance. We dream about what we are doing that adds value to our society. Working online means freedom from the office and we are not bound by the rules of the company we work for. But then, almost as an afterthought, the reality of how much work a blog requires to manage starts to sink in and has us re-examining our situation.

Slowly and insidiously, we begin to spend more time hard at work blogging, sometimes working well into the night to finish our daily posts and implement our backlinking strategies and linkwheels.
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As a new blogger, you may be wondering to yourself about just how much traffic you blog gets and why. It’s important for any blogger who wants to be commercially successful to take a look at their web stats and measure their performance once in a while. If you’ve never even heard of web stats or how to measure them, then you do have your work cut out for you but hopefully this post will help get you through the worst of it. Every time you as a blogger publish a post, it affects who comes to your blog and the reasons why. Certain post keywords and tags have the ability to draw in readers like a magnet while others don’t do anything to improve your blog’s performance at all.

So how do you know which keywords and phrases are drawing your readers in to your blog? That’s where analyzing your website statistics comes in. It may not be the most enjoyable task you will have as a blogger, but it will show you exactly what people are searching for online before they end up at your blog. Analyzing your web stats can show you:

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How do you know if a website is a micro niche? The basic elements of a micro niche website are made up of a few factors as follows:

Search Traffic: A micro-niche doesn’t have millions of search traffic per month due to the fact that it is a small niche. A good bench mark for keeping in mind is that your micro niche search volume estimates shouldn’t go below 800 searches per month.  Less than 800 people searching for your keywords per month means poor sales for you even if you dominate the serp’s.

Competition: There must be a small enough number of other websites competing for the traffic you will receive to your micro niche. A targeted and well focused keyword can ensure that you will have fewer competitors to have to outrank in the search engines. A broad one word keyword will have you competing with literally millions of other websites to get to the front page of the search engines. Finding a targeted two, three, four, and even five word keyword phrase will considerably lower the number of websites competing with you for search engine traffic. You really shouldn’t go after keywords with millions of competing pages, it’s best to bring that number of competition down to a workable number within the hundred thousand range.

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More and more people are turning to the Internet in their quest to earn extra money from home. Why? Because the promise of Internet success is possible for those who work hard and with the instability often seen with job security in today’s economy, many people who have ventured into the area of work from home businesses have been extremely motivated to find success and quite often do. So what can you do to start the making money ideas flowing?

Take a look at this list of Internet work from home ideas and see where you might be able to find your own opportunities for success.

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Today’s post is all about the mysterious business of SEO.  If you’re new to blogging then you’ve probably seen the term floating around the Internet and wondered what the heck the fuss is all about and whether or not you need it in order to survive online as a blogger.

Let me start by saying that the term SEO stands for search engine optimization.  What this means is every time you search for something for example “red tennis shoes” on Google, any webmasters who run sites that match your search words “red tennis shoes” want to be as close to the top of the first page of results that Google or any other search engine comes back with.

Have you ever had a look when you’re searching in Google at just how many sites are returned for your keywords? It can be an enormous amount of websites that often number in the millions. Since the Internet has been around since the early 90’s, there are literally millions of websites out there that span all kinds of topics and interests but they can’t all be the number one search result right at the top of Google’s results page.

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Lots of bloggers have difficulty in driving traffic to their new blogs. The myth is that all you have to do is write the posts, and the traffic will just magically come. Sometimes a blogger gets lucky and gets turned into a celebrity in the blogging world and they have very little work to do to pull in the traffic, but for the rest of us it’s not so easy. The number one best thing a blogger can do to increase their traffic is to create quality backlinks to their blog or specific posts within their blog. This means that you would want to leave a link to your site from someone else’s site. Not just any site either, but a site with dofollow linking and a higher pr (page rank) score than yours.

What the heck are dofollow links anyways? Basically, you can leave a link at any site you like on the Internet, but some webmasters choose to use “nofollow” link structures on their pages. This means that they would like to keep the search engines on their site only, not let the search engines pass to your blog through the link you have posted on their site. A website that uses “dofollow” link structure allows the links you post on their sites to be found by Google and the other search engines every time these search engines come around to their sites. So think of sites that have ton of constantly  updated content and you will start to see how easily you can find places to put links to your blog on their site. Here is a list of the best sites that offer dofollow backlinks to your blog: Read More »

Shopperpress is a full featured storefront shopping cart solution for Wordpress that is packed with amazing features that turn a standard wordpress blog into a feature rich shopping cart website in just a few easy steps. The ease of installation of Shopperpress will have your online store up in running in 5 minutes or less. You have the ability to use the built-in Amazon product importer, CSV product import, and datafeed imports as well. It’s a snap to quickly and easily import thousands of targeted products and merchandise to your blog without headaches or frustration working with complicated software. Your products will practically sell themselves as Shopperpress includes lots of extra product data like product photos, product descriptions, and customer reviews.

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This tutorial is for anyone who uses the All in One Adsense and YPN! Plugins and it will show you how to track the Adsense ads that are served on your blog.

For this tutorial you will need:

-          A Google Adsense account

-          The All in One Adsense and YPN! Plugin by linewbie

This tutorial assumes that the All in One Adsense and YPN! Plugin is already activated on your blog and that you have your adsense ad already built.

For the first half of this tutorial we will go over to your Google Adsense account and get a channel number so we can start tracking your ads.

Step 1 – Log into your Google Adsense account

Step 2 – Click on the “Adsense Setup” tab at the top of the page

Step 3 – Now look just below the tabs for a link marked “Channels” and click on it

Step 4 – On the next screen you need to find the “Add new custom channels” link and click on it

Step 5 – Enter a name for the channel – it can be named anything you want, but I would name it the same as your blog’s name so you know which channel is which in adsense

Step 6 – Make sure the “Show this channel to advertisers as an ad placement” box is unticked

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A question all new bloggers have at one time or another is, how often should I post? There’s no firm rule about this, but here are some guidelines:

Some posting schedules are too frequent and a waste of good quality posts, while others are more efficient at getting your articles out there in force. What your personal posting schedule relies on are two crucial factors, one being the size of your readership and two being the quality of your posted messages.

If your blog attracts several hundred visitors per day, over posting made be detrimental to your success as great posts travel through the blogosphere by word of mouth and social circles, so it’s best not to post several times a day in order for your best posts to gain a certain amount of exposure. Replacing a post that hasn’t received enough exposure with an inferior quality post just for the sake of publishing regularly will only lead to your best posts not making its as far as they can go. Provided you have enough time for quality content that is ideally suited to a small number of blog readers, then posting could be scheduled every two days until your readership picks up.

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Most new bloggers fail to spend enough time in their organizational skills. It’s just not enough to have most of your best ideas on post-it notes all over your computer desk and no idea how you’re going to manage your blog. It’s also extremely important that you have a clear and focused plan for your blog overall, but also for the time you spend working on your blog as well. If you don’t have a set schedule for working on your blog or online business, then your failure rate increases. Even more detrimental to your new blog besides the lack of a clear schedule for working on it, is not having a plan laid out for the time you do spend on your business or blog.

Does this sound familiar? You’ve made yourself a nice two hour slot to sit down and work on your blog but you haven’t decided what it is you’re going to do with that time before you sit down to use it. So you open up your email and there are six new emails from friends and family wishing you well with your new venture and so you feel obligated to write them back. Then as you’re replying to those emails, the phone rings and it’s your mother wanting to see how you’re doing so you indulge her for a little while but then after fifteen or twenty minutes you cut the call short only to find you’ve gotten three new emails. One is from someone’s blog you subscribed to and the article they’ve sent you looks fantastic, the headline is a real attention-grabber so you can’t help but to read that article and head over to their blog to read the rest. While you’re there you see a nice free eBook you might like to read so you subscribe to their list and head back to your email to finish going through the two emails you haven’t read yet. Read More »