People read blogs because they want to discover new interesting things, to stay informed or to motivate themselves. They always love reading motivational posts and success stories, because everyones loves to follow successful people. There are a lot of unsuccessful bloggers, that either don’t work enough, don’t write quality posts or don’t know how to market themselves. Among all these, they make one more big mistake. They complain about their lack of success and this is what makes his readers stop following him, because nobody likes people who fail. Of [...]

Having traffic is every blogger’s dream and a lot of them are getting stuck on this part, because they simply don’t know what to do. Unfortunately, a lot of them are spamming everywhere they can and they finally quit, because spam is no good way of getting traffic. I’ve tested virtually every possible method of getting traffic, except a few really bad ones, like automated forum or blog comment spamming, because I don’t want to get involved in those kind of activities. I won’t tell you what worked best for [...]

Most of the blogs approve comments automatically and this is because bloggers are lazy to verify each comment or they hope the anti-spam plugin will do its job. Currently I’m using Akismet and rarely a spam comments gets approvedy, so I let comments get approved automatically, though I check them all afterwards. Unfortunately, not all bloggers are like me and a lot of them don’t check the comments on their posts, which means the commentators only get exposure to that blog’s visitors. Usually when a blogger choses to approve comments [...]

The following is a guest post by Tibi Puiu, a professional blogger and social media consultant, who can be found writing down at Lost Art of Blogging. As marketers and bloggers, we should all be very opened minded and inclined to new things. Exploration is the keyword here. If you want to be successful, in any activity you might want to follow, it’s very very important you always look around you, analyze and experiment with your work and surroundings. In the past the easiest way to get in contact with [...]

Blogging itself is a trend and if you do blog then you have already followed this one. But there a lot more appearing and you have to make use of everything to bring traffic and increase your readership. Social media is so used those days, that you definitely have to use it to bring more traffic. Unfortunately, it won’t bring quality traffic, but you need all you can get and if you have good skills, then you can also monetize and convert it like organic traffic, just the rates will [...]

There are a lot of blogger good at marketing that only tell their readers what they want to read and make profit of their naivety. Unfortunately, this is far away from quality blogging, because almost all blogs of this kind that I’ve seen offer almost no useful information and only general facts that can be found everywhere. Readers are subscribing when seeing that blogger earns a lot of money in the hope they will find out how to do it. But rarely this will happen because nobody is that fool [...]