One of the biggest enemy of a blogger is the time when ideas are of scarcity and doesn't know what to write. If you're having trouble coming up with ideas, here are some simple recommendations from Psychology Today that will help you get the creative juices flowing. A simple mnemonic to remember, SCAMPER. SCAMPER stands for: S = Substitute C = Combine A = Adapt M = Magnify = Modify P = Put to other uses E = Eliminate R = Rearrange = Reverse According to our source, SCAMPER ...

Traffic is the key and most important aspect that makes a blog successful. One way of achieving a highly traffic blog site is by improving your reader engagement. This strategy can possibly turn a first time visitor experience to a loyal and avid reader of your site. Let me share to you this simple and basic pointers and yet very effective. Get into the minds of your readers every time you write your posts. Are ...

Our first ever blog was mypinoyonline.com, in which me and my girlfriend talked everything about "Pinoy" (Filipinos) and our country, Philippines. We were full of excitement and enthusiasm, determined to show our patriotic spirit as we blog and write posts everyday. But after a year, we had to give up the site. It was hard for us. We didn't have much resources (Money and time) to compete with the existing sites in our niche. We ...

One of the most asked questions among bloggers, especially newbies, is how often should you blog? If you would agree with me, there is no definite number or no right answer for this question. If you visit my post "10 sites I visit everyday without a fail", Jeremie of shoemoney.com gets this site updated lately not on a daily basis but still manages to earn thousands of dollar per month. On the ...

Picture this... You spent almost a day researching about your topic. Then, you used another hour constructing all your thoughts and ideas into one place thinking to publish the killer article of all time. Now, how would you be disappointed after building a killer headline for your article, only to lose readers with an opening that failed to carry the momentum? They said that, a great article headline is like inviting someone to ...

To promote a blog, there are very specific things you do: 1. You ping your blog after each post. You can do this at a site such as http://www.pingomatic.com/, which will send the ping to multiple blog directories at one time. 2. You use social bookmarks each time you make a post, tagging the post with your keywords. You can quickly and easily send out multiple bookmarks at one time by using ...

There are three major things that Bitly can offer to its users; to shorten, share and track links (URLS). What's good about this tool is the capability to reduce to URL length. This makes it easier to share anywhere in the web. Here are snapshot overviews from its website. Shorten Share Track Extra feature: Manage How does Bitly work? bitly works by issuing a "301 redirect": a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. When you ...

It is important to have a blog network of your niche. Having a good relationship with bloggers and site owners will give you more chance of linking and recommending you on their sites. This means more chances for you to sell your products or services. Building a relationship on your blog network should be about finding win-win relationships. Before you ask help from them, you need to help them with your initiative. The ...

A portion of your success in blogging will come from choosing the right blog design for your site. Keep in mind that the design of your blog shall serve as a packaging of your content. Though the most important thing in blogging is having a quality content, it is also a need to consider on how you will present them or publish it. Many visitors are easily put off by a ...

There are several tools that have been developed to help bloggers choose a niche for their blog. The following tools are the one I personally use to search and research niche on my projects and campaigns. They are free to use so there's no need of worrying about paying for something. AdWords Keyword Tool This tool allows you type keywords or phrase and in return give you an indication of ...