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Show Me Your Blog Design and I’ll Show You Your Blog’s Future

By Gilbert Samuel / Blogger Tips, Design

I won’t agree with you if you tell me that your blog design has nothing to do with your traffic and how you make money online.

If I should show you two houses, one with a beautiful design and the other with a rough design and voluntarily ask you to choose one out of it as a gift (I wish I could), you’ll definitely go for the one with a beautiful design.

Let’s draw this back to the aspect of blogging.

Your blog design has a great role to play; it’s the first thing to consider before thinking of writing quality content, generating traffic or making money online.

Definitely it can affect your blog in a positive way and also in a negative way, a good design attracts visitors while a bad design bids them farewell.

What are the blog designs that can affect your blog and how can you avoid them?

1. Use a simple theme

Too much of everything is bad, there’s this saying that goes thus “one man’s food is another man’s poison”. You might optimize your theme in a way that will look good to you but do you know if it looks good to your readers?

I have an idea, why not ask friends or other bloggers you’ve created connections with to check out your blog and tell you their opinion about your design.

If you get a negative answer from three different bloggers then you must make a change to your blog design. Make your blog design simple and avoid over optimization. It’ll not only make your blog look good but will also welcome visitors to your blog.

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You’re building an empty desert on your blog if readers find it difficult to navigate through your blog.

I’ve received few messages from bloggers contacting me to check their blog if it’s eligible for google adsense and to my surprise, most of the blogs have no navigation at all. I managed to type “/contact” after the blog URL in order to get to the contact page, I know that’s a no-brainer.

If a visitor visits your blog, will they find it easy to contact you or know more about you? Those pages are very essential, you also need to group your blog posts into categories; this will make it easy for readers to access your blog. You can make navigations easier by placing your pages at the header and at the footer of your blog, it really counts.

3. Font types and size

Of course, you want to make your blog beautiful and attractive by using fancy fonts.

Before doing this, the question you should ask yourself is; will my readers be able to read my blog content?

If yes, then you’re safe but if no, there are two things involved. It’s either they put on a google glass for easy readability or they won’t bother stressing their eyes thereby leaving your blog. The size and type of your font matters a lot. There are fancy fonts that can slow down a blog and of course, you know we’re all in a hurry. If I should visit your blog and find out that it has a lazy load, I won’t hesitate to leave your blog. So try as much as possible and optimize your fonts for your readers and not for yourself.

4. Using multiple colors

The eyes naturally gets attracted to anything colorful but too much of it is a distraction to the eyes. The maximum number and range of color you can use on your blog is around 4 – 6 major colors, it depends on the theme of your blog. If you’re using a red theme then the background of your navigation bar and sidebar title must be red, your blog background color can be different and your footer color can be different too, making it a total of 4 colors on your blog. This makes your color a uniform and professional. Avoid multiple colors on your blog; it’s nothing but a color riot.

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Conclusion

Go back and do some architectural work on your blog, I’m sure you know how it looks like. Try to make some amendment if you fall on any of the categories mentioned above.

Remember, a bad blog design welcomes a high bounce rate and a high bounce rate can get your blog de-ranked.

I’m sure these tips are definitely incomplete; I would love to hear your view.

Have you previously fall into any of these categories? How did they affect your blog?

How To Really Write Killer Blog Posts To Attract More Visitors?

By Ammar Ali / Blogging Tips, How To

While having a catchy headline results in getting more people to click on your link in search engine result pages and social media feeds, but having a good title only cannot do anything alone.

You need to feed your readers as much as you at the best quality possible. Hence, its must for you to write killer posts for moving up at the ladder of success. Writing killer posts is not as hard as it may seem and for doing so, here are few simple steps to be followed that are unfolded below.

Social engineering concept

1. Create killer headings:

An interesting title catches reader’s attention and killer sub headings keep them engaged throughout their reading experience.

Properly written and placed sub headings are not only interesting to read, but they are easy to digest and follow.

Check out this excellent post to get idea of 100 proven heading hacks, you can steal right now.

2. Add your own story:

Blogs are a place of conversation.

You can find all information about anything at their official website or Wikipedia.

But blogs are different.

There needs to be a touch of real talking style and tone. It should be like two people are talking to each other sitting face-to-face.

And, the best way for doing so is to add your own real story or experience wherever appropriate.

I wrote a story why I hate Adsense and within 24 hours. This post got 80+ comments.

3. Use attractive images:

In order in to write killer posts and then make them success, you need to know the importance of images.

Using attractive and relevant images in articles result in wonderful progress.

They make your articles look pretty and boredom free while at the same time, they provide readers something to look at for a while and start reading again after becoming fresh by that.

Don’t copy images from Google. Instead create your own or check out 101 ways to find images on WPhub

4. Make use of emotions and smiles:

Your readers are human beings right?

And, humans have feeling. ;)

A reader experiences different kinds of feeling while starting to read your article til the end. If you use emotions and smiles wherever suitable, it really makes it a real conversation.

And, trust me when I tell you, when you say something funny and put a smile at the end of sentence, anyone who readers will smile and love your words.

5. Use simple language:

This is a huge misconception particularly in minds of new bloggers.

They think they need to write high class English and do amazing references in order to create a killer post, but that’s not how it is. If you want to write a killer post then the only thing that you need to do is to express your point in such a way that it becomes clear and easy to understand.

The best way for doing so is by using simple English that everyone can digest.

6. Write in short paragraphs:

There are usually very long paragraphs in newspapers and books and some bloggers do the same.

But you need to realize one thing that no matter how good you write, if there are long paragraphs, not even one person will be interested in reading your blog post.

There is a difference between paper and computer screen. You can look at newspapers for hours without feeling anything bad, but it is impossible in case of monitors and LCD’s.

Your eyes cannot look at them and read long posts without having a brake. Hence, writing your posts in shorter paragraphs is a must for creating a blog post that works.

I simply tried my very hard to reveal the best practices for writing killer posts and now it’s up to you.

Do you miss any of above things already? How it has affected your blog? Let your fingers speak of your mind in comments section below.

How to Keep Your Audience Coming Back for More? 4 Ways

By Ian Mason / Blogging, Blogging Tips, Free Traffic

Getting traffic to your blogs is not a rocket science. When you done few things right you can bring lots of organic traffic to your sites within less time (having targeted keywords in mind, proper SEO blog structure, internal linking etc.)

But it’s hard to sustain your blog readership for a long time, agree?

If you want to keep your audience coming back for more, here are few things to do.

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Capture email addresses by giving more

One of the best ways to bring people again and again to your blogs is by capturing their emails. Whenever you publish a new article on your blog, you can use newsletters to send them to your subscribers to keep them coming back for more.

Having a great email list will not only increase website traffic, it also improves your product sales. But you must provide value to your email subscribers often to make money from your email marketing campaign.

Here are few simple ways to build your email list faster.

Give away something for FREE (plugin, theme or eBook etc)
Always write great contents
Use social media sites to bring more people to subscribe
Use landing pages

Check out : Why You Need to Start Building an E-mail List

Social media has become a vital place for most bloggers to spread their ideas and brand.

Social media platforms like Facebook, twitter, Google+ etc will not only bring more online visibility for your blogs, but they will also have the tendency to make your blog go viral.

If you have more followers and fans on social media sites, you can bring drastic changes on your blogging journey. It’s very important for anyone who is blogging for a while to improve their social media interaction to boost their online presence.

If you are always posting useful stuff on your social media profiles, you will definitely be creating curiosity on your fans to read your links whenever you post something on your profiles. So always spend time on social media sites to share others stuff and to boost your online brand to keep your audience coming back for more stuff.

Create series posts

Series posts are attention pullers, most online readers visit your blogs again and again when you have right combination of series posts.

You can start writing series posts on any topic that your readers might be interested in. Few examples are, if you are running a bike advice blog, you could come up with “bike cleaning tips”, “bike maintenance service tips for busy people” etc. This way you will be able to grab the people’s attention who is interested in reading your stuff.

Moreover you can grab their email address by asking them to subscribe at the end of your each post. If they find your series posts interesting, they will certainly do whatever you ask them to do.

Pro tip: Don’t write too many posts in your series posts, limit your posts to 5 to 7 articles and you can complete them by posting everyday on your blogs, thus finishing your series within a week.

Interviews will NEVER get old.

Interviewing someone in your niche is often a great way to get more traffic and attention from other bloggers.

You can see a huge traffic spike in your stats if you interview someone who is influential in your niche. It’s not always possible for a new blogger to conduct interviews of top bloggers, but you can always try interviewing the rising blogging stars in your niche. This way you can bring more online visibility in the early stages of your blog.

If you create a separate page called “Interview section” in your blog and conduct frequent interviews (monthly twice or so), you can bring more audience to your blog again and again. You will also have a tendency to get more likes, shares, tweets and comments on your blogs if they go viral.

Always ask great questions that will provoke your readers mind and build strong relationships with other bloggers by promoting their stuff. This is a win/win approach and you can see great results in no time.

Guidelines You Must Follow Before Interviewing a Blogger

Extra tip: Have an appealing blog design, your blog should be designed to get the reader to do something. It could be anything from getting a blog comment to buying your affiliate products. Invest money to buy a premium theme or hire a professional to get a unique design for your blog, after all, first impression is the best impression in blogging.

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What next? Share your valuable views with us in the Comment section below.

Why Your Blog Posts Were Not Shared And Commented?

By Kimsea Sok / Blogger Tips, Blogging Tips, SEO

Many newbie bloggers and some older bloggers were wonder why blog posts were not shared and commented by their audiences.
There were some reasons which force users to shares and comments on your articles. The below tips are some of those reasons..

Why Blog Posts Were Not Shared And Commented?

#1 articles is not unique and quality contents

Most of the people love to read educational articles which are fresh update information. They could learn about new knowledge which gives them the more experience and expertise learning.

You know?

They may want to share those value information or educational articles to their friends, colleges, and families since it valuable expertise development. That is a simple reason why blog posts were not shared and commented or nothing at all.

The readers will enjoy and share you articles, if you have written a quality post which included above benefits of learning.

#2 you have no private relationship

How many friends in your social media connection? And did you have a strong relationship with them?

Well, private relationship is majority reason of why blog posts were not shared and comment. I have 2k+ follower, 2k+ fans, and 1k+ friends connect, especially I have built strong relationship with those peoples.

Whenever, I shared some information into social media profile they always help to spread my information by shared and commented on the posts and make it popular social release. Therefore, to build a stronger relationship will configure out the problem and give you the answer why blog post were not shared and commented by other people.

I suggested you to spend at least 30 minutes to 1 hour daily to the community with others friend connect through to them and talk about some social relation.

Tips for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed

#3 Shares unattractive posts

Some blogger just share only links which make other people complicated and wondering about what inside the link. Moreover, links could attract other social media users.

Now a day most of the people are very busy with their current job, thus they will never waste their time to click on some links and no valuable information.

The time constrain is another important reason of why blog posts were not shared and commented. Actually, most love to keep working and don’t want to interrupt their work without any benefit such your link.

To make those people skip their value time to click on your link you have to put some call actions such as added attractive image and brief information about value content inside the article.

Social media strategy is like WTO trading. None membership traders will gain less benefit from doing international trading.

You know there a group call CommentsDX which all members could exchange some comments with other members and gain the value of sharing to post of each other. When you ask a question why blog posts were not shared and commented, you should ask yourself that did you joint any networks or groups which benefit for increase more blog comments and sharing.

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When first time I start integrated social media as marketing strategy, I am afraid to share other bloggers and competitors posts.

I am really wondering about my audiences will move to other bloggers or to my competitors websites. But absolutely no, sharing other bloggers or competitors post will make audiences love you and enjoy more big resources of information entire your social profiles.

Sometime your post will be shared and commented by others since you always like or commented them.

Right now it is your turn

Thanks for reading my tip: why blog posts were not shared and commented. I think that it may not a unique idea to increase more share and comments, but I think that these above tips are still working. I believe that it will benefit for newbie bloggers to implement social media strategy.

Did I missed any point? Are you getting good comments and shares on your blog post?

Do share with us below.

30 Must Follow Blogging Tips for Beginners

By Ammar Ali / Blogging Tips

Starting a new blog is no longer hard. Many new bloggers are jumping in this blogging field.

But most of them quit very soon.

Here I decided to share Blogging Tips for Beginners to blog more better.

It doesn’t matter if you haven’t started a blog yet, or if you’re a famous blogger, because just one of below tips can make a big difference in in your blogging.

Blogging Tips for Beginners To Blog More Better

Make Plans before launching your blog.
Choose your blogging niche wisely, choose a niche in which you are expert.
Register a simple, unique and easy to remember domain name for your blog
Signup with some affordable and cheap WordPress hosting like Hostgator or Bluehost.
Use WordPress, It’s the best blogging platform with lots of features than Blogspot
Choose a perfect, SEO friendly and fast loading theme for your blog. I recommend Elegant Themes and ThemeJunkie
Learn SEO, it is too important if you want to take your blog to the next level
Don’t copy from anyone else blog. Instead Post unique content on your blog.
Make a STRONG network around your blog niche, it’ll help you to increase online presence as well as will make you famous soon
Update Blog Regularly. Don’t just publish another blog post instead publish something that your readers would love.
Start blog commenting and write guest post for other blogs to increase website traffic, Backlinks and exposure
Don’t dream big, instead set up goals.
Don’t always get topics from other blogs.
Build an Mail list. It is really important. Use Madmimi email marketing service, it’s free up to 2.5K subscribers and it’s too cheap as compared to mailchimp or aweber
Keep your posts simple. Write for readers not search engines. Because readers are the one who can make your blog post go viral.
Be kind towards your readers. Solve their problems, provide them freebies.
Blogging is not an overnight success. It require lot of time, efforts and hard work.
Don’t overload your blog with widgets. Use clutter free theme
Make your blog SEO friendly. Use premium themes and plugins like SEOPressor for WP
Link to other blogs in your niche more often, in return they would do the same!
Ask opinions about your blog from it’s readers (like I did)
Reply to every comment on your blog. It’s important!
Reply to almost every email that you get in your inbox from your blog readers, try to help them as much as you can.
Don’t use too many ads on your blog, remember your readers want to learn something new, they don’t just want to see ads on your blog.
Don’t copy others images to add them on your blog instead create your own images or use any free sites to get images for your blog posts
Quality of your content matters, not quantity. Write awesome content and detail article.
Subscribe to other blogs in your niche. Don’t just focus on your blog instead do focus on other blogs as well. If you follow this, your blog will be successful in short time.
Add useful pages in your blog like About, Contact, Archives and Privacy related.
Make Subscribing, Commenting and Contacting on your blog easier. Award your commentator as well.
Don’t quit blogging if you don’t not earning enough. Instead use blogging to learn new things and to build your name around. Blog to help people, not ‘just’ to earn.

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