How The Holidays Can Kill Your Blog

38 CommentsBlogging, Traffic,

If you are a person like me who regularly checks the statics of your blog, I am pretty sure that you have seen the decrease of traffic from your blog during the holidays.

Why is this? Why does your blog lose traffic during the holidays?

This doesn’t mean that your blog readers has stopped reading your blog, they are on holidays/vacation. These are the times that most people take a break away from browsing the internet and take the time out to do other activities.

You might also be caught up in the spirit of the holidays that you even forgot to check up on your blog. You find yourself not blogging, not affiliate marketing, ignoring blog comments, not checking your email and the list goes on.

So what can we do to keep our blog up running while enjoying ourself?

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Blogging Your Way To Success

13 CommentsBlogging, Make Money Online,

This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele from Young Entrepreneur Blog. Download his free e-book. If you would like to become a guest author for WebMaster Success, please read the guest post guidelines page and sign up.

Every blogger wants to be successful, we all want to be an A-list, we want to have a high traffic blog and most importantly, many of us want to make a large amount of money blogging.

Blogging success might have various definitions to many people, to me it might be high traffic, to you it might be the amount you made and to others, it can be the type of community and interaction you have around your blog. Any one of it you want, the steps below will help you achieve blogging success.

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Strategies I Am Taking To Win The BlogEngage Contest

7 CommentsBlogging, Contest,

Whenever you enter a contest you should be in it to win it.

This is my motto for the guest blogger contest at BlogEngage which is powered by Brian. On November 23rd, 2010 a contest was launched at BlogEngage with a share of $1,200 in cash prize to be won along with other great things to be had.

In order for me to win the contest, or at least stand a chance in winning, I had to have a few strategies for myself to take on this contest. All contests need a really good strategy in order to win and if you fail to do this then you will fail to win.

Here are my plans and strategies to winning this contest.

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8 Reasons Why I Don’t Comment On Your Blog

52 CommentsBlogging

I love making blog comments, because it helps to build up my blog’s backlinks so as to get more search engine traffic and also to get traffic from the blogs that I comment on. Blog commenting can also help to build your brand when commenting if you leave a great comment, rather than saying “thank you” or “nice post”.

But recently I have stopped commenting on a few blogs, I will not say which ones because I don’t want to start any drama. These reasons can also be said of other bloggers as well why they stopped commenting on other blogs.

So here are some 8 reasons why (not just me) people stopped commenting on your blog.

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6 Reasons Why You Suck At Guest Blogging

23 CommentsBlogging

Guest blogging has become come more popular in the blogosphere since it is a means of getting exposure in the blogging world, building backlinks, creating a brand for you and your blog, getting traffic and also just for the fun of it.

Not all bloggers have the ability to write excellent guest posts which have the readers begging for more. Plenty of bloggers suck at guest posting and that’s why the blog owners reject their guest post.

I have gathered 6 reasons why you suck at guest blogging. There might be more reasons, but I am only going to give you 6.

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What To Do With Your Ideas…

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What do you do with your blog post ideas?

Really interesting question. But how would you go about answering it? Well let me help you out a bit. The other day I came up with an idea for a great blog post but I didn’t write it down. So what did you think happened? I totally forgot what I wanted to blog about.

This is where I now got the idea to write a post on What To Do With Your Ideas…

For that great idea that I came up with for writing that blog post seemed like I just threw it in the trash. But that’s not what really happened. Since I started blogging I have started doing lots of reading and thinking in order to come up with new blog posts.

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How To Develop Good Writing Technique

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When I first started out in the blog world, I used to think that I lack good writing technique. But I soon resolved this problem and it was very easy to do so. I was really concerned about my spelling, my grammar and style of writing in paragraphs.

For each of my blog post I try my very best to write over 400 words. 400 words may seem like too much but when you enjoy writing, 400 words is like nothing to write within a couple of minutes. I do this be using an introduction (state what the article is about), the body (which gives full information of the article) and then the conclusion (which would be a group discussion) to have my readers/ visitors engaging in a discussion. If you lack good writing skills this article was dedicated to help you develop an excellent writing skill.
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