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• Blog Writing: 3 Tips to Improve
• Exciting Blog Posts – 5 Tips For a Steady Stream
• Blog Traffic Through Blog Commenting – 7 Tips

Blog Writing: 3 Tips to Improve Posted: 03 Jan 2020 11:10 AM PST Bloggers write all the time, but few pay attention to improving their writing. Have you noticed the most successful bloggers tend to write extremely well? Practice, just writing a lot, helps, but practice does not make perfect. Here are three quick tips many find helpful to improve their blog writing Read your post out loud before publishing. If you are in an office people might look at you funny, but this works amazingly well. It is actually an old writer’s trick and it will help find grammatical errors and typos as well as improve the flow of your writing. I don’t do this with every post, but I do it quite often. I almost always find something I can fix or improve that a quick proofread may have missed. I even read my entire books out loud more than once before sending them to the publisher, despite several other levels of editing to follow. Occasionally have someone else critically read and comment on your writing. I occasionally have my wife or a friend review what I’ve written and discuss it. I always get feedback, and while it’s not 100% useful, there are always useful pieces and insights I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. For my commercially published books I have an official editor, and their input is always valuable, even if I don’t agree with or implement everything they suggest. Consider taking a writing class. Most local community colleges offer them and you can also consider an online course.These courses will most likely not focus specifically on blog writing nor should they necessarily. Many people are amazed how quickly their writing improves when they take a class. If nothing else it makes you focus and your writing gets a critical review and useful suggestions. Writing is a critical business skill. Whether you blog or not, writing is something you want to improve. You don’t need to be a great writer to blog successfully, but it can certainly help! The most successful bloggers tend to write extremely well. Improving your writing will improve your blog and make it more successful, and the best writers I know continually work on improving their writing.

Exciting Blog Posts – 5 Tips For a Steady Stream Posted: 03 Jan 2020 10:55 AM PST Most bloggers write at least weekly, many write daily, and some write more than daily. How can a blogger keep finding topics to write on? Sometimes it’s easy and there will be so much you can’t blog on everything you want to, but other times you’ll have difficulty finding a worthwhile topic to blog on. Here are 5 tips to help keep you pumping out exciting blog posts. Use the free Google Alerts or a similar service. Google Alerts tells you when it finds new relevant content on topics you blog about. You specify keywords and phrases you want to have tracked for you.For example, if I blogged on flyfishing for trout, I might tell Google Alerts I want to know when any new content is discovered that contains the keywords “trout” or “fly fishing.” I might also specify my name and blog name as keywords. I get emails a couple of times a day from Google Alerts and I have 8 to 10 things that Google Alerts tracks for me. This helps uncover news and new content in my niche that I might blog about. Read specific blogs in your area using a feedreader, also sometimes call a news aggregator, for example, MyYahoo or Bloglines. There are a lot of these out there, and they make reading lots of blogs extremely fast and easy.If you are not familiar with these, they display all the new posts from blogs you follow on one page. You can quickly read the ones with interesting post titles, and skip the others. Again, you’ll find interesting things to blog about. You’ll think of great post ideas at the strangest times, so always have something handy to take notes. I use simple pads of paper which I have scattered around my home, office and car. When I get a great idea and write it down, I place that piece of paper in my wallet so I don’t lose it or the idea. Consider occasionally updating and re-posting some of your most popular posts. Some bloggers simply repost them as is, labeling them as classic hits, and others update or expand on them. Both techniques are valid. Keep a few blog posts in reserve for when you just don’t have any great ideas or are too busy. For example, if you write 3 blog posts on Monday and a couple are on evergreen topics, ones with timeless value, you might refrain from posting them immediately. A steady stream of great blog posts on exciting topics will help build your readership and keep your existing readers coming back. Somedays it’s easy to crank out a new and exciting post, other days it’s a challenge. Hopefully these tips will help you maintain a steady stream your readers will enjoy.

Blog Traffic Through Blog Commenting – 7 Tips Posted: 03 Jan 2020 10:40 AM PST People often recommend building awareness and traffic to your blog through leaving comments on other blogs. This can work well, but will work far better if you consider the tips below, which greatly build on the “write great comments on lots of blogs idea.” Write great comments The typical advice is to leave intelligent and insightful comments that add value to the reader. This is solid advice, but just a beginning on blog commenting strategies. Leave controversial comments Controversy gets noticed, and you can build interest and traffic by politely offering different points of view in comments. Don’t be controversial just to stand out, but only where it’s reasonable and adds value. Opinions are valued in the blogosphere, and as long as you have a legitimate differing view and can back it up, don’t shy away from controversy. Use a consistent commenter name Always use a consistent name when you leave comments. For example if your name is Robert James Smith, don’t sometimes use “Bob Smith,” sometimes “Robert Smith,” and sometimes “Robert James Smith.” Pick one consistent representation of your name so that people will get to recognize you. Append your blogname or other tagline to your comment name You can append your blogname or other tagline to your name when commenting. For example, if you’re Bob Smith and your blog is called “Feline Health,” using the name “Bob Smith, Feline Health” will get you lots of notice on cat blogs. Make sure, as mentioned above, you use a consistent name, whether you include a tagline or not. Comment early Early comments attract more attention than late comments. It’s better to have the first or second comment on a popular blog than the 5th or 25th. The later comments tend to get buried and not read as often. Comment often on the same blogs Regular readers will be more likely to notice you if you regularly leave comments and will be more likely to visit your blog. Leave comments on related blogs It doesn’t matter how great your comments might be, if you are a cat blogger your comments will work better on other cat blogs than on political, ,marketing, or other unrelated blogs! Leaving comments is a great way to build blog traffic. By considering the tips above, you’ll build more traffic than by simply using the common “leave great comments”strategy.

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