7 Steps to Building a Business Using LinkedIn

“If you can’t make money on LinkedIn, you’re deaf, dumb and blind,” says James Filbird ofJMF International Trade Group.It’s 6 pm on the west coast of the United States, but it’s already 9 am tomorrow at James Filbird’s apartment in Shenzhen, China.Filbird is the proprietor of JMF International Trade Group Ltd., a company he built to $5 million in revenue largely through his efforts on LinkedIn, the only major social media platform that is not blocked by the Chinese government.His beginnings in China, however, were less than auspicious.Organization: JMF International Trade Group Ltd.
Social Media Handles & Stats:

• Website— JMF International Trade Group Ltd.

• LinkedIn—over 1,600 connections

• Twitter—1,583 followers

Highlights:

• LinkedIn member since 2004

• Featured as one of 100 members highlighted on LinkedIn’s 100 Million Members page

• 80% of business attributed to LinkedIn activity

Filbird was highlighted as one of 100 success stories when LinkedIn hit 100 million members.

An American in ChinaWhen Filbird moved to China in early 2006, he spent nine months working on a manufacturing venture that eventually fell through. He had planned to stay at least a year, so when the deal went sour, he did some soul-searching.“I had very little money in my pocket. Usually it’s the Chinese coming to America with little money for their dream, but I did it the other way around.”He decided to stay in China as a business consultant and contract manufacturer, the “feet on the ground” for inventors looking to source products there, and gravitated to LinkedIn as a way to connect with potential business.Early AdopterA LinkedIn early adopter, Filbird had joined the site in 2004 as one of the first one million members. At that point he hadn’t used it much, seeing it as a resource for job-seekers. But in late 2006 when he began building his business in earnest, it seemed the only choice for serious professional prospecting.“Neither Twitter nor Facebook were of any interest to me. And there were no professionals to speak of that I saw on MySpace.”LinkedIn has also remained the only platform accessible without a VPN inside China. “[LinkedIn has] never been blocked by the Chinese government except for one day,” Filbird said. “Whereas Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have been blocked for the last four years.”

Since then, he has used his strategy on the site to grow JMF International to between $3.5 million and $5 million in annual revenue. “There are a lot of really good people on LinkedIn,” Filbird said. “They’re professional, courteous, friendly, fun, a wealth of information and they’re super-smart. That’s why I’ve been able to get most of my business from LinkedIn.”
Building an International Business Using LinkedIn
#1: Brush Up Your Profile

Filbird finds groups to join by searching for keywords in the Groups Search function, seeing what groups his connections are in and receiving group recommendations from his connections.
Although the explosion in the number of LinkedIn groups means there is also a lot of spam and self-promotion, he insists that separating the wheat from the chaff is time well spent. “It takes time and a good eye.”
To gauge the health of a group before joining, look at the Activity tab in Group Statistics, which is available on the Group Profile page even for private groups. Look at the ratio of comments to discussions. More comments than discussions indicates highly engaged members, whereas many discussions and few comments indicate a group with little real activity and lots of self-promotion.

As his business gained traction, Filbird cut down somewhat on this time investment, but still reads daily digests for 25 of the 50 groups he belongs to.
#4: Engage in Discussions
It’s not enough to simply join groups and look through the digests. When you find a discussion that looks interesting, chime in and become part of the conversation.
“Make [your comment] attractive to people and something that offers them a lot of value. If somebody likes what you say, they’ll go to your profile and they’ll connect with you.”
By initiating discussions that generate comments, you can also be recognized as a top influencer in the group’s sidebar.

Engaging in group discussions is the main way Filbird finds business on LinkedIn.

He built out his profile to 100%, joined the maximum allowable 50 groups and spent up to two hours daily on the site engaging in group discussions and looking for people to connect with.

Here are Filbird’s seven steps to cultivating successful business relationships using LinkedIn, whether you live in China, Chicago or Chesterfield.

Before engaging with others, spend some time using best practices to fill out your LinkedIn profile.

Completing your profile to 100% and keeping it up to date are LinkedIn best practices.

#2: Join 50 Groups

“If you’re not using groups, you’re not using the biggest resource on LinkedIn,” said Filbird. “That’s where the gold is—people looking for help.”

Profile of healthy LinkedIn group activity.

#3: Scour the Group Digests

“From every single group, I received [daily] notifications. That’s the gold.” Filbird started every day by spending approximately two hours searching for discussions that looked interesting. “When I’d get up in the morning, I’d check my email and go through 50 different news feeds.” Filbird considered this part of his daily work of prospecting for business.

Set LinkedIn Group Digest frequency at Settings (Groups, Companies & Applications, Set the frequency of group digest emails).

A Top Influencer sidebar from one of Filbird's groups.
#5: Connect
Since 2006, Filbird has grown his connections to approximately 1,600, most of whom he has met through groups or found through mutual connections. “They’re all hand-picked,” he said. “I’m not a LION (LinkedIn Open Networker).”
He also lauds LinkedIn’s improvements in the People You May Know feature, allowing members to find more relevant connections.
“I look for [people] whom I might potentially want to work with, engage them there on LinkedIn and if they show an interest, I move them over to Skype.”
#6: Move the Conversation Offline
Once Filbird has engaged in discussion with someone from his groups and connected with them, he evaluates whether he would like to take the conversation offline.
“I say, ‘I would like to talk to you about how I’m able to help you—do you use Skype?’ [They reply,] ‘Sure, here’s my Skype ID.’ Boom, we’re talking in the next couple of days. I’ve developed business partnerships, client relationships and friendships that way, through Skype.”
Filbird estimates that for every 10 people he engages on LinkedIn, one of them will develop into some kind of relationship. For people he connects with on Skype, one in three results in some kind of business.

James Filbird in a familiar spot—conversing on Skype.

#7: Reevaluate

Filbird’s group memberships are constantly evolving as he reevaluates whether they still have value to him. Although he is always a member of 50 groups, only three or four are among the original 50 he joined five years ago.
New groups are forming all the time and the relevance of certain groups also shifts over time. “As my focus in business has changed, so my focus in groups has changed.”
Craft Your Own LinkedIn Strategy
What if you don’t have one to two hours a day to read daily digests? How can you apply these techniques to leverage LinkedIn for your business? Try this strategy or modify it to fit your situation:


Touch up your profile.

Join 50 groups.

Get weekly digests for 5-10 groups.

Spend one hour weekly participating in discussions of interest.

Send connection invitations to people you meet in discussions.

Ask connections if they would like to connect by phone or Skype.

Every three months, reevaluate group memberships and weekly digests.

Filbird can’t say enough good things about LinkedIn as a resource for building a business. “It’s a phenomenal tool. I lost all my money and I had to rebuild, and I’ve done it with LinkedIn.”

What do you think? How have you used LinkedIn to grow your business? Has it helped you create business relationships overseas? Leave your questions and comments in the box below.

GOOGLE DANCE

According to Experts:

The name "Google Dance" is commonly used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. Google's index update occurs on an average of once per month. So, It can be identified by important movement in search results and particularly by Google's cache of all indexed pages reflecting the status of Google's last spidering. however the update doesn't proceed as a switch from one index to a different at one point in time. In fact, it takes many days to complete the index update. throughout this period, the old and the new index alternate on http://google.com. At an early stage, the results from the new index occur periodically. however later on, they seem additional more. Google dances.

 Trigger factors of Google Dance:

• Modification of text in images to HTML
• Social interaction got increase.
• Abnormally Increased in backlinks (specially high PR )
• Making the website more responsive 
• Making the website more faster (CSS &Java mimification, lazy loading, more faster servers, ..)
• Changing hosted IP address of website (sometimes the Google might be penalizing an IP address cause of changing)
• Competitors are being penalized for SEO type black hat SEO

How to Know Google Dance or Penalty?

Unfortunately, there's a No way of identifyin any of these cases.
In fact if you improve your User-interactions like easy interface, fast speed, more responsive or adding values for user you might be experiencing Google Dance.Blackhat expert Steve -" The google dance is a what GreatPVA's said and the indexing of your backlinks combinedly. It makes your rank up and down pages, normally lower down a few ranks, then jumps up higher than what you were on rank before. If you are indexed a lot of backlinks or sent a lot of them to your money website and then stopped or it is a newly registerd domain, it will either get the indexed or a penalty. Google dance's is a usually good thing. At least, from my experience"

5GENUINE PLACES TO GET FREE UNIQUE CONTENT FOR YOUR BLOGS

5Genuine Places to Get Free Unique Content for Your Blogs

#1.     My blog Guest
 

 

My blog guest (MBG) is associate awing community of web loggers and guest bloggers who are willing to provide you their unique contents in exchange for a link from your blog.
 

# 2.     Post Runner
 

Post Runner could be a service that's very similar to myblogguest; in truth most of the location am listing here are a similar constant.

Post Runner helps you to get guest posts from varied authors in exchange for backlinks to their web site of choice, and Post Runner just alike MBG also features a WordPress plugin that makes accepting and managing of guest posts easily..
 

# 3.     Guest blog It

                                      

Guest blog it's another membership community that connects content writers and publishers to facilitate the guest blogging method. they've lot of authors from varied niches that are willing to provide you free unique contents I exchange for backlinks.

The site is cool, simple to navigate and free to be a part of like all others that I even have mentioned.

# 4.     BloggerLinkUp

BloggerLinkUp is kind of completely different from different content service web site that I even have listed, BloggerLinkUp can let you subscribe to their list associated you'll get an email every Mon, Wed and Friday.

These emails can list bloggers searching for skilled sources, requests for guest posts, bloggers and internet masters providing guest posts, and PR reps and others seeking reviews of product. when you see a request that you simply will fulfill, simply respond on to the requester.

# 5.     Content BLVD

 Content BLVD lets you be a part of their content service network and you'll be able to browse through their content gallery to seek out posts that interest and fit your niche.

Make your supply and if it’s accepted, you get the distinctive free content.

The Future Of Blogging

Which Technologies Will Drive 

Blogging has  come an  extremely long  way since its infancy  at the  beginning  of  the  new  millennium’s
first decade. Though the exact number  of blogs worldwide is surprisingly hard to pin down,  most useful
sources, such as Technorati and WordPress are fairly sure  that,  worldwide,  there  are  at  least  1   billion
actively used blogging sites in existence.

Obviously, most of these hardly garner any viewers at all and many of them are barely refreshed with fresh content. Also, we need to take into account the fact that hundreds of millions of these are probably zombie blogs, run by automated software solely for the sake of spam promotion.

However, whichever way you count the size of the blogosphere, the undeniable fact is that hundreds of millions of active, human updated blogs exist and millions of these have regularly been offering information, news or even services that have deeply impacted the way our social and business landscape operates for several years at least.

In essence, blogging is huge and still growing powerfully as new technology developments arrive to augment or change the medium in different ways. Let’s cover some of these now and see how they’ll affect the future of this massive distributed information reporting marvel.

Increased Blog Use by More People thanks to Social Media

This trend seems obvious enough but the devil is in the details here: Blogging exploded right from the earliest days of its development and was quickly adapted by millions of would-be and established agents, from businesses to activists, as an excellent platform for their existing desire to get the word out about whatever they had to say or share.

However, there were, and still are, millions more people who either never were too comfortable with the idea of publishing their own thoughts and beliefs to a wide online audience or didn’t really understand how to get their own blog up and running and lacked the deeper motivation to learn (it’s really not too complicated).

This is now starting to change in a serious way thanks to social media platforms. Since in essence these networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, really act sort of like closed micro blogging environments and since their popularity practically obligates millions of regular people to start using them, we’re seeing more and more of the world’s average, normally publicity shy web users getting used to the basic idea of posting their personal interests or stories before large audiences of hundreds or even thousands of others. This trend will accelerate, and simplified, social media related new blog platforms will emerge that facilitate it even more.

More Frequent, Shorter Posting thanks to Connected Mobile and Tablet Tech

Another, major technological development that’s been ongoing for the last couple of years and will continue to expand enormously as the second decade of the millennium progresses is the explosive growth of web connected smartphone and tablet use. As more of the world’s 2 billion internet users access the web daily from their mobile devices, having the ability to post content, images and videos instantly, we’re going to see an accelerated trend towards far more frequent but much smaller short-form blog posting. While low on per-post content, the deep value of this new shift in how blog posts are published be its extreme in the moment relevancy; posts will often be published almost literally as they occur in the real world.

The ramifications of this for political, social and business events is enormous. And news or information from places in the world where something major is unfolding will be far more in depth by virtue of sheer volume and freshness of anything published.

Trends in video blogging, social media derived blogs and even more simplified blogging platforms will really flesh out the “just-in-time” blogging possibilities described above.

Video and Video Blogging

Online video is inarguably still in its infancy. There’s plenty of room and need for massive growth, especially given the fact that most consumers actually prefer watching their information in live form instead of reading it.

Given this, we’re going to see a sharp increase in the amount of general video content posted to text based blogs (this is already happening big time), and we’0re also going to see more cases of full-scale transition to purely video based blogs, or vlogs, as they get called by some we commentators.

Thanks to the growing popularity of video calling, video conferencing, and video streaming technologies in general, not only will pure video blogs grow in popularity, they will also in some cases be one-upped still further by something much more interactive: blog posts in the form of video conferences with a live, in the moment communicative connection between audience and blogger.

This could be especially popular with news and business blogging areas where domain owners want to create a sort of call-in viewer conversation environment similar to how radio stations and newscasts sometimes manage their reporting/discussion platforms.

The advantage of doing this with ever-developing off the shelf blogging and video conferencing technology is that the whole thing will be much cheaper than an actual radio or TV news broadcast, allowing millions of people to turn their originally simple text or video blogs into something much more dynamic at next to no cost.

Final Words

We can be sure that blogging isn’t going anywhere; instead it will simply evolve into something stronger, newer and more powerful, augmented by new delivery technologies, social media platforms and blog development systems like simplified CMS platforms and superior video coding systems. Beyond all of these, as a sort of nurturing environment for blogging, there is the general internet itself, spreading further every day and capable of transferring ever more data per second over its connective wires.

Awesome Tips To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

Actually most of bloggers trying to get more traffic to their blog. Because all are like to get traffic to their blog or website.Some of don't know where to get traffic.Most of people think, Only way to get traffic from by doing SEO.Actually its not. You will get it after read this article.Now i will give some ideas to how to get more Traffic for

your blog.

Important of Create unique Awesome Content 

This is main thing. because people come to your site for reading your post. That's why you have to write awesome content to your blog.If your Blog have quality and attractive content , people will come to your site again. If not you will loose your precious visitor.Other thing is people think

that writing more than 1000 words is a quality post. Its absolutely wrong. You have to focus to point what you have writing.most people are don't like to reading long article. they need to get the exact point within few line.Im not saying to create small post. I mean you have to write exact point what you talking.

How to get Traffic From Guest Posting

 This is also great way to get free quality traffic. Guest posting is most popular among bloggers By guest posting you will get Dofollow backlinks. it will helps to rank your blog too.

What Is The Importance Of  Dofollow And Nofollow Links. Most of blogger allow you to submit guest posting.

Leave comment on other blogs to get Traffic

This is also another main thing,that you have to focus.If you start new website.You almost have zero blog traffic.And none know it,till you say that exist.So you have to comment on other blog and leave your site Url. make sure not to make spam comment.

Join Forums To Get Traffic

Most of people thing joining forum is not good method and cant get good traffic. Its absolutely wrong opinion. because you can get target visitors by joining forums. Most of forums accept signature links. so you can create signature link with your keyword.. it will helps to get target quality traffic.You can get more forum sites by searching Google search.I hope to give good forums list.Keep in touch.

Join Facebook Group

This is the best way to get instant traffic to your blog. If you don't have Facebook account yet, you can sign up and start searching niche group and join wit it.You can share your article with groups.

How to get traffic from YouTube

More than 4 billion views video in YouTube a day. May be wonder, how to get traffic form YouTube.The Idea is Create video that similar to your post or niche.So you can add description below to video. On there you can add your link.So, visitors will click that link after watching video.So you can get best quality traffic.

How to get traffic from Email Marketing

This is also great method.Im sure all of you are sending emails to your friends and family members. haven't you tried to send your blog link?. You can start sending emails to friends and asking them to forward to others.If you have subscriber option. it will helps you to increase subscribers too.

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking

Actually Social bookmarking is the best way to get instant traffic to your bog.you can use Facebook,twitter, Digg stumbleupon, myspace.. etc.Submit your Every post to social networks.Submit your post to 250 social bookmark sites with One click. 

Hope you got Good information about getting traffic to your blog.Other thing is try to make new post everyday.If not ,you will loose your visitors and subscribers.Because  when they visit your blog next time and found you are not updating it.Surely they wont back to your site.

SponsoredReviews Connects Bloggers with SEO's

sponsoredreviews.com is a blog advertising network that allows you to build links, increase traffic, and improve search engine rankings on your website(s). We have tens of thousands of independent bloggers who will write blog posts about your site on their blog. Also referred to as Paid Posts, blog posts are a great way to increase your search engine rankings and traffic.

If you are a blogger interested in getting paid to blog, you will find that SponsoredReviews has hundreds of advertisers willing to pay you write posts about their sites. Blog Posts are an easy way to earn money on your blog.

High Quality Back Links,Increase Your SE Ranking

What is Directory submission Service? 
It is the process of submitting your website's link to web directories or internet directories. This process involves submitting a short description along with a suitable title. Both title and keywords should be keyword rich. The main aim of this strategy is to get High Quality Back Links for websites.

You can get hundreds of good quality High Quality Back Links using this method. However, the effectiveness of this strategy depends totally on the experience of your link building company in executing this service. Let us take a closer look at SubmitEdge service and analyze whether SubmitEdge offers reliable services. 

SubmitEdge has been in the link building industry for over five years and SubmitEdge offers wide range of link building services. One of the most popular services of SubmitEdge is online directory submission service. SubmitEdge promises customers excellent quality back links through this service.

Why Is Manual Directory submission Important? 
Does SubmitEdge offer manual submission service or do they automate the submission process? Not many website owners are aware of the difference between these two types of submissions. If it is manual directory submission service your website is submitted to every directory manually. If the submission is automated, your website will be submitted to hundreds of directories all at once in just a single click. Which is the best way to submit to directories? Manual submission is the best approach because your approval rate in the directories will be very poor when you make use of automated submissions. What difference does it make to the directories whether you use automated submissions or manual submissions? It is not without reason web directories recommend that webmasters use manual submission services because automated submission tools are used extensively by people that spam the web. Using such tools spammers submit to multiple categories in the same directory and damaging the integrity of the web directories. So in an effort to keep spamming under control web directories do not easily approve submissions that are automated. So if your service provider makes use of automated submissions then you will not get your money's worth.

With SubmitEdge you will not have to fear such risks. SubmitEdge guarantees customers 100% manual directory submissions. You will get the maximum number of links possible from each package. Customers obviously like companies that give them the best value for the money they spend.

Give Something to Download for Free

I love free stuff, don’t you? A good way to gain readership and make your blog popular is to give free stuff to the public. It can be almost anything; an eBook, a wordpress theme, some popular tools or even free online class. Based on the experience from my other blogs, people love free things especially when they are premium and valuable.

There are several PLR content that you could give away to your readers. Whatever you decide to give, make sure it is worth downloading. Ask yourself, would you download it yourself? If you wouldn’t download the free stuff yourself, you can’t expect others to download it either. Quality matters my friend and if your stuff is good, people will just keep coming.

Retweets and search engine optimization

I am sure by now most bloggers have a twitter account. Forget bloggers, pretty much everyone has a twitter account today, and they use it to broadcast what they eat, when they sleep etc. There is no problem in doing that but to make it a little more productive, how about tweeting your blog posts to your followers instead.

People follow you because they are interested in sharing things with you. When you tweet, they are most likely willing to check it out. I like the idea of microblogging because it makes it easy for you to share your opinion and cool stuff with the world. Achieving the celebrity status on twitter is everyone’s dream. If you deliver value through tweets, you will have created a huge network of loyal followers who will retweet your stuff which eventually drive massive traffic to your blog. Retweets matter. Remember, retweets do not only help in driving traffic but also help in search engine optimization.

Create a Facebook Page and Promote it

Facebook pages are rising in popularity. Check your account right now and tell me how many invitations you got to join a page. I bet it’s a lot. Create a facebook page for your blog right now and start sharing it with other millions of facebook users. When requesting to join your page, make sure you don’t spam because it can be really irritating. You can also set up your blog’s RSS Feed on the Page itself so that people can check out your posts without even visiting your blog.

The new facebook timeline gives you lots of options. There are lots of amazing facebook apps that you can use to integrate your blog with facebook and make sharing easy breezy. Some good methods you can use to promote your facebook page is by adding a widget on your blog, adding a popup like button, writing a blog post on it and also including the page details in your newsletter. Facebook is huge and the traffic is legit. The quicker you create your page and get involved with it, the better social presence you will have.

The Jobs Of The Future Don't Require A College Degree

We’re all talking about the “jobs of the future” and “winning the future” and transitioning to a “knowledge economy.” Since predictions are hard, especially about the future, it’s a good idea to look at some data.

And it looks like we have some of it: the BLS has a handy chart of the fastest-growing jobs in America (h/t Erica Grieder), and the vast majority are not the “knowledge economy” jobs we usually think of. In fact, this chart seems to prove things that we already know: the rising importance of the healthcare sector to the economy (especially with an aging population) and the transition of the economy to services, where “services” is not a euphemism for “computers” but, like, actual services.

So the list has your odd “Biomedical Engineers” (fancy!) and, at the bottom, your “Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists” (sorry epidemiologists!), but the vast majority of jobs are jobs like “Home Health Aides” and “Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers.”

A key point here: The jobs of the future are only “low skilled” if you define “low skilled” as not requiring college. Being a good carpenter (56% growth, Jesus is still with us) or, for that matter, a good medical secretary (41% growth), takes smarts (actual smarts, not just book smarts), hard work, and dedication.

Relatedly, the jobs of the future will be high-paying. It’s simply not true that all high-paying jobs require a college degree. It’s very very possible to make a very good living as a tradesman, because good tradesmen are–and always will be, unlike Fortran programmers and data entry clerks–in high demand.

“Helpers–Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters” sounds like bottom-of-the-barrel work, but follow someone likeSamuel-James Wilson, an award-winning bricklayer, on Twitter, or visitGuédelon Castle where contemporary tradesmen are building a 13th century castle with 13th century tools, to see that being a good bricklayer is as hard as being a good lawyer. Obviously I’ve been influenced by Shop Class as Soulcraft, which should be required reading for any discussion of the future of work and education.

And finally–and this is perhaps the most important thing–some jobs of the future only “require” college because we’re very dumb. Very few of those occupations require college in the sense that 90+% of people who pursue that occupation will benefit from having learned about it in college. But my guess would be that more than a few of these occupations “require” college in the sense that employers expect that applicants will have a BA. And this is our problem.  A “Diagnostic Medical Sonographer” is a highly-skilled job that doesn’t require college training in the sense that you can learn everything you need to do the job in a manner of months. But many colleges offer programs to help you become a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer. And when you compare unemployment rates for college graduates and non-college graduates, you see why someone might want to go to college to become a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer even if it means taking on huge, unnecessary debt. And once there are enough college graduates who can become Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, you can see why employers would rationally toss out of the pile any resumes that don’t have a college degree on them.

This is something that we urgently need to fix, because we’re wasting ginormous amounts of money, time, and resources. The first step is to recognize what the actual jobs of the future are.

Make sure your content is SEO-friendly

Get smart about search engine optimization. Identify the key words for searching for a posting’s subject matter, and think about the best way to incorporate those search terms into the title and body of the post.

Earlier in any sequence of words those keywords appear, the stronger the signal Google will receive. For example, “Hiring a Patent Attorney: Seven Things to Look For” will rank better than “Seven Things to Look For When Hiring a Patent Attorney,” because the desired keywords, “patent attorney,” come earlier in the sequence. and keeping every blog title to under 120 characters, so that readers can easily tweet it.

The single strongest variable in Google rankings is the number and authority of sites that link to a posting. “The more powerful the website that links to you, the stronger the influence on Google, and the better the rankings,” . The more useful your content is, the greater your chances that other sites will link to it.

Be a part of the conversation, both on your blog and of others in your industry. Drive traffic to other blogs, and respond as much as you can to both negative and positive comments about your own blog. If you allow commenting on your blog, be sure to have the resources to handle negative feedback. If you don’t enable comments, be prepared for the conversation to pop up elsewhere online.

“People are talking about your company or your products whether you like it or not,”. “Blogging, as a component of a proactive social business strategy, offers an effective capability for company leaders to engage in the conversations and helps create the opportunity for a vibrant exchange of information and ideas with prospective and existing customers.”

Tips To Make Your Blog Popular!

It is true that the decisions you take in a business initially, decide the future of the entire set up. Talking about blogging specifically, there are certain tips that you must know, understanding their significance in boosting your blog’s popularity. It is obvious that once you plan to be a blogger, you look forward to a huge traffic following you along with a considerably great revenue been generated. However, what makes your blog a hit is your attitude towards adopting the basic requirements of this domain. The Tips might differ person to person, but after researching for days and days about what were the magic ingredients that professional bloggers added in their blogs that are earning in Billions today, Here is a list of tips that you need to add in your blogging career.

1) Attractive Blog Name

Choose an eye-catching blog name that makes sense enough to let people know about your domain and follow it.

2) Blog Layout

The better the blog layout would be, the more traffic it would attract. Keep background colors light, giving it a decent look? Make things easier to understand for your readers.

3) An Exclusive Logo

You have chosen blogging as your business, right? You need to have an exclusive logo that will become your blog’s identity.

4) Post Regularly

Good Blogs show regularity in posting their articles. This keeps your visitor attached to you and ensures consistent traffic.

5) Share Quality Content

There are thousands of sites having same niche as yours, what makes you better than them is the quality content. Give your writing, your own shade with an interesting touch.

6) Post Length

An ideal length of a post is in between 700- 1500 words, depending on the nature of post. Do not write lesser than 700, as Google penalize blogs for that severely. The post can be as long as you wish to, but lengthy posts make readers lose their interest in it.

7) Choose a Good Intro Image

An effective, self-explanatory image is essential for your post to become a hit. Choose high quality, relevant images.

8) Your own Screenshots Only

Many bloggers copy paste images in tutorial posts, which is a disaster thing to do. Always use your own screenshots while telling your viewers how to do something. This increases your credibility.

9) Recheck Your post

Being a human, it’s natural to make mistakes while typing. Check your articles before publishing for grammatical and spelling mistakes. This is what we call proofreading.

10) Easy navigation

Keep your blog simple for your visitors, providing them a simple navigation on your blog.

11) Show Your Creativity

Having many blogs in same niche, you need to add your creativity in your articles so that it takes you a level ahead than other bloggers.

12) Keep your Readers Involved

It is interrelated to point 11, the more creative you’d be, and the more interest your readers would show in your articles, decreasing the bounce rate of your blog.

13) Interact with your Readers

Keep a check of all the comments made by your visitors. Appreciate them for staying connected and answer their queries, if any.

14) Comment on other blogs

It’s no more a matter of prestige; you need to mingle well within other social circles to increase your traffic. Visit different blogs and tell on that platform about your existence.

15) Get Advertisements

In order to survive, getting advertisements is necessary. Use Google ad words to earn via pay per click advertising options.

16) List posts

This is what we have been doing on SEM, create list posts, it brings huge traffic!

17) Contests

Value your readers always. Start contests, polls and such activities on your blog to keep your readers active.

18) RSS feeds

Always give an option on your blog to get subscribed via mails. People who are busy to visit your blog daily, can subscribe for its RSS feeds and can still stay connected.

19) Newsletter

Issue monthly newspapers to your visitors; sharing all the latest happenings on the blog with them.

20) Write SEO Friendly Content

Researching on how to write a SEO friendly article can really help in making your blog popular.

21) Make Your Blog your Identity

I’m sure all of you are well aware of e-mail signature. Write your blog name and url of your blog in email signatures.

22) Correct Your Fellow Bloggers

Be a good observer on different blogs and let the owner know about any mistake or error that might occur on a blog. Keep your tone polite.

23) Share on Facebook

Sharing your posts on Facebook Groups and Pages can make your posts, a hit. 

24) Share it on Twitter

Twitter is a great social networking site to attract traffic from western countries. Majority of the users are from west and publicizing your post in twitter can attract those users to become your readers.

25) Allow Links in Comments

The real bloggers have actually got no interest in coming to your blog all the way and read your articles only out of good will. In fact, they are themselves looking for opportunities on your blog to introduce their work. Allowing bloggers to leave their links in their comments will give them a reason to come to your blog again and again, increasing your traffic.

26) Maintain decency

It is a pity that sometimes bloggers fail badly to respect their profession and use their blog more than an informative platform and use it unethically. As a blogger, you need to earn some respect through the way you address your readers, and its only then that people actually start respecting your blog.

27)Use Keywords

Using keywords in your posts keeps you and Search engines happy at the same time. Always try to play with keywords of the post to get more page views, further increasing your earnings.

28) Give Value to your Headlines

Your selection for titles of the post is the most important thing when it comes to your creativity. This was one of those things that I used to find really difficult, initially. Your readers Judge the entire post with the title; always try to keep simple and straight forward titles.

29) Keep Updating the Blog

If you aim high for your blog and do not want it to become outdated just like iGoogle, then keep upgrading it to ensure that your blog meets up the changing demands of readers. Changing blog design once in six months can also be a good decision.

30) Keep Drafts ready

As a blogger its your responsibility to ensure the regular posting on your blog. However as blogging is an entrepreneurship business, where you are answerable to nobody, there are wide chances that you might skip your postings due to some other engagements. Therefore keep your 5 posts saved in drafts at minimum always. Make sure that the posts you choose to save as drafts have a timeless effect in them, the posts that can be published in all scenarios, like How-to posts, Best tips, etc.

31) Easy to read Fonts.

Blogs owning a lucida Handwriting font might give it an unprofessional look for sure. Keep your Font style and size readable for your readers.

32) Give a strong competition

There is always an unsaid war going on in between you and bloggers, writing for same niche. Try to give a tough time to them with your skills that are needed to be polished further with your each post!

33) Set an Inspiration

Having an inspiration in life is really a motivating thing and if you have no ideal personalities, then better start searching them. Reading about great people, here, blogs will always create a feeling to follow similar footsteps to reach on similar levels of success.

34) Be Yourself

This tip is given by almost all the bloggers who share tutorials on similar topics, that is the reason; I have listed this too common tip here. Being yourself mean that you should never place a wrong impact on your readers about either you or your knowledge. Become the master of your domain and do not fake about things you hardly know!

35) Never Give Up

Your one post cannot decide about your efficiency, it is just like some days are not meant for you. As a blogger, I m a living witness of it! What happen actually is the frequency of your readers and yours do not match at times; your readers, having a complete freedom of speech do not think once giving you a bad comment. But this is the point you need to check your post views. The post itself made it in attracting enough traffic that few of them dislike it. Although that feeling is pathetic, still keep your spirits high and start working on the next post, hoping to have some better results. You will see, soon things will start working out.

That was all for now, hope that these tips turn out to beneficial for you in your blogging career.