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Maximizing Web Traffic When You’re On A Meagre Budget. | Make Money | Forex Trading | SEO | PPC

Jo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:52:44 +0000

If you’ve created your own product, make an affiliate program for the product you’re selling. You can pay a percentage of the commission to affiliates whose sole purpose is to drive traffic to your site and send potential customers to you. You can easily submit your affiliate program to affiliate directories.

Optimize your website so search tools can index and rank your website. One simple method of optimizing your website is to clear up your keyword, or key phrase, which circulate in the content of your website many times. Another simple method is to make sure your keyword, or key phrase, is in your domain name. Better yet, if you can make your key phrase your actual domain name you’ll get some good SEO points for sure.

Comment on blogs and participate in forums. In both of these methods, you can fix a signature containing your website URL, increasing the chances that people will click on your link and see your website.

Write Articles. Article Marketing is one of the absolute best ways to drive quality targeted traffic to your website. Most article directory sites, like EzineArticles.com, permit you to put your website’s URL in your author’s resource box.

Advertise your website on free classified sites. There is heaps of free classified sites, like backpage.com, where you can place ads on. With this method, you can actually pay a posting service to post ads for you, but since we’re talking about free methods, you can post them manually yourself. Although posting ads is so ridiculously simple, it is pretty time consuming, so be ready to spend a few hours a day doing this.

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Barbaric Book Review: Die Broke by Stephen M. Pollan, Part 2 « The Corporate Barbarian Blog

Jo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:25:16 +0000

This is Part 2 of my review of Die Broke. You can read Part 1 by following this link: Barbaric Book Review: Die Broke by Stephen M. Pollan

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The authors feel that there are three things that will keep you trapped: an unwillingness to change, and your ATM and credit cards. These cards represent instant gratification, making it too easy to spend your money. In order to achieve the goals laid out in the book, you should make spending difficult and uncomfortable.

The argument is that ATM and credit cards take the pain out of spending. You don’t focus on the amount spent if you’re not counting out the cash. Online banking and automatic payments distance you even more from bill paying, and you may be charged for the convenience.

The authors offer a few suggestions for Saving and Spending in the Twenty-First Century:

1. Melt Your Plastic – Remove all credit cards from your wallet, and replace them with a charge card for emergencies. Consolidate your debt on a low interest credit card, and put the card away.

2. Bank with People – Remove the ATM card from your wallet also, and go to the bank once a week for cash. Withdraw the cash by writing yourself a check. Don’t spend any more than you’ve withdrawn.

3. Practice Cognitive Spending – Keep track of where every dollar is spent on an index card, then categorize your expenses each week. This will get you to think about how you spend your money.

4. Buy Your Second Home First – The real estate boom was an anomaly traceable to the baby boom generation driving up the prices for a limited number of homes. Don’t practice serial home ownership, but save for your dream home.

5. Avoid “Everest” Buying – Don’t buy something “because it’s there.” Buy things only when you need them, not when you want them.

6. Ignore the New – Don’t buy the latest gadget, but wait forsomething that answers a true need.

7. Repair Before You Replace – Retailers profit more on new things than repairing old things, so focus on repairing what you have.

8. Pay Yourself First – Put away what you can in your 401K, and do it automatically.

My Take:

1. For people that have no self-control, this is the best advice. However, if you’re responsible, you can use credit cards to your advantage, such as rewards or zero-interest arbitrage, provided you pay off the balance each month.

2. I’m disciplined enough that I don’t abuse my ATM card. I stick to my weekly budget. I rarely go to the bank.

3. I track most large expenses, but our walking-around money doesn’t get analyzed. As long as we stay under our weekly allowance I’m happy.

4. Well, we’re living in our first home, and probably will for the near future. We bought the home in part for the tax advantages, and have added on to it over time, paying cash for the improvements. We’ve also paid off our mortgage.

5. I use a cooling-off period to counteract impulse buys. Can’t argue with that one.

6. Or that one, either.

7. I repair rather than replace if it makes sense. I’m not upgrading an old computer if I can buy a new one for the same price as the repair.

8. We do this. The key is to automate it. Pretend you didn’t get that raise, and put that away, too.

In Part 3 of my review of Die Broke, we’ll examine the third step, called Don’t Retire.

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In Good Times and Bad….. Book Review « Green Panda Treehouse

Jo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:22:22 +0000

t’s time for another book review. In Good Times and Bad: Strengthening Your Relationship When the Going Gets Tough and the Money Gets Tight is from M. Gary Neuman and Melisa Neuman. This is an interesting one, especially in light of the economic times we live in. Gary Neuman has been on Oprah a few times and discussed this topic earlier this year.

Relationship advice for couples having problems with finances

Like a lot of my other book reviews, I’m going to present a review of some of the chapters so you can see if this book would be a good fit for you in your situation.

Chapter 1: Our personal story

The Neumans open up with their personal stories and share the growth and learning. They’ve received from their struggles. They had to deal with both financial and family health struggles. Something I think some readers can identify with is their story of being upside down on a mortgage while balancing a family, raising two small kids, and having little savings.

They also shared a serious health crisis with one of their children. I could relate to this as my sister had to be hospitalized many times. When she was a small child, due to epilepsy. What I found interesting were the two questions posed in the first chapter, how do we come through an experience of difficult he impact or with a sense of growth? What makes one couple stronger while other families deteriorate and failed?

I think this first chapter gives readers an idea if this book is for them. It’s a great personal introduction and sets up how the Neumans’ can cover this topic.

Chapter 2: The decision to fight for your relationship

This chapter, shared many stories from different families struggling in their relationship. Gary shared how he had helped a couple on the Oprah Winfrey show, with their marriage. Amy and Timothy were in a very difficult situation. Timothy had lost his job and then went into a deep depression. He was isolating himself and Amy eventually left him and lived with her mother for a bit.

Gary spoke with Amy about her battle with cancer, and she had made the comment that that was easier than this problem her family was facing. besides the couple’s own struggles, Amy’s family added more tension. Her mother was generously helping Amy out by watching the baby. Timothy made changes in his behavior and along with Amy, they decided to fight for their marriage.

Using the examples, the Neumans pointed out some teachable threads. They emphasize the fighting spirit, give yourself permission to have fun, and find something constructive. They also shared a little history behind the Nobel Prize story.

Chapters 3: The moment to save (or lose) relationship

From reading this chapter, I gathered that a lack of clear and honest communication can be a huge problem. for one reason or another instead of tackling of the problem as a couple. Sometimes we want to handle it ourselves. Some of the stories here present different ways that couples decided to communicate and work on their marriage.

Chapter 4: What money really means to you and your partner

This chapter starts off the second part of the book, transform your relationship. For many people, a fight about money isn’t really about the money. As Dave Ramsey likes the point out how personal finance is 80% personal. While we were growing up we were learning what money is or is it from our family, whether right or wrong.

There’s an exercise on page 41 that can quickly let you and your spouse see, what money represents to you.

as with the other chapters, the Neumans gives case study after case study of couples working through their financial and their family problems. Many people have a fear of money and have been paralyzed, allowing their relationship to deteriorate in their finances to dwindle.

Chapter 5: What you learned about money

This chapter gets a little bit deeper about the lessons we learn concerning money. It tackles topics like:

* the difference is between handling money

* who’s responsible for managing and making the money you sentence,

* how should people discuss money

* What money means to you

The issue of keeping up with the Joneses is discussed here. I think it’s quite easy to be influenced by your friends and neighbors ever so slightly. But sometimes you don’t even notice. I also found it interesting that the Neumans looked at, briefly, the American culture of consumption.

My Take

I really enjoyed this book, and while I would’ve preferred more financial topics discussed, I understand that that wasn’t the authors intention in writing the book. I think this is a helpful book specifically for families trying to keep themselves together, while going through hard economic times. I think the biggest message here is the advice:

Attack the problem, not each other.

I enjoyed the exercises and case studies that the book presented and it definitely made for a good conversation topic with my husband this weekend.

If you are single college student, you should probably check out the book in the library and just scan and review part two with the book. It does a pretty good job of covering situations that many people find themselves in when they’re dealing with money in a relationship.

Your Take

Do you think that this economy has added more stress to your marriage? What have you been doing to stay on track with your family and your finances? When you finish reading the book, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Do you really know how good your site is? | Free Blog Help

Jo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:07:54 +0000

Blogging can be such a humbling experience.

When bloggers first start out, many think that posting articles is all they have to do. Within a few short weeks, they quickly realize they have an audience of one and it’ll stay that way until something changes.

So they get their own domain and hosting, start learning as much as they can about their niche, improve their writing, get a new theme, promote their site, try to get backlinks, research plugins, tie their posts together, and build a brand identity (among other things). And that doesn’t even include monetizing the site!

With so many moving parts, how can you measure your overall progress? Of course, there’s the typical Alexa ranking and Google PageRank so you can examine your traffic and popularity progress. But what about the plethora of other intricate details of your site?

The Website Grader tool is one great way to get a score for your site.

HubSpot’s Website Grader is FREE!

I know, a free tool; how powerful can that be? Let’s take a look.

The Website Grader looks at many parts of your blog to determine how you’re doing. The top level categories of how your site is being judged are:

1. On-Page SEO – design and structure of the site

2. Off-Page SEO – promotional and linking activities

3. Blogsphere – marketing and interaction

4. Social Mediasphere – bookmarking presense

5. Converting Qualified Visitors to Leads – feeds and forms

6. Competitive Intelligence – compares your site with competing sites

Sounds pretty comprehensive, right? That’s because it is! Over 50 variables are factored in.

At the end of the assessment, which takes all of 10 seconds or so, you get a grade!

The “grade” represents the percentage of sites the Website Grader thinks you’re better than. So a score of 50 means that your site ranks better than half the sites it has graded.

Uncover and improve

In addition to the grade, the Website Grader will also identify areas where you could use improvement. This is where you can either work on them yourself or use one of their services.

The great thing about it is that many bloggers don’t realize how many things they miss when trying to develop a site. Use this tool to see where the holes are and start filling them. Essentially, you do your best, get a score, make improvements, get a score again. Rinse and repeat.

Don’t get me wrong, this tool is just one way to assess a site. There are many other factors that it cannot determine through a quick scan, like sense of community, usability, quality and usefulness of the content, stickiness, and branding … just to name a few.

Free Blog Help’s grade

WebsiteGrader Jan10 Do you really know how good your site is?OK, I’m going to try to not be immodest here. Sure, I love my grade but trust me, it wasn’t always this high. In fact, I’m sure many of you have better grades than I do.

When Website Grader gave me my grade several months ago, I wasn’t happy with my score at all (if I recall correctly, it was an 83). Even someone who’s been in the business for many years like myself had a lot to work on to bring the grade up. The reason why I’m even showing you my grade is because I’m proof that making adjustments can make your site a lot better.

It doesn’t mean that this site is perfect but it does show that I’m making progress. Even the climb from 99.1 to 99.2 will be steep since everyone at this level is trying pretty hard.

I have a pile of work ahead of me but at least I know which areas to focus my attention on.

Anyway, head over to Website Grader and type in your blog address. I would love it if you’d be willing to share your grade with us.

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Best Plugins for WordPress 3 and WordPress MU | G NETWORK

Jo — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:56:01 +0000

The best plugins I have found, all tested to work with the latest WordPress 3 – these plugins also work on WordPress MU. Plugins for: RSS, SEO, Widgets, 404, Optimize, Links, Gallery, Drop-downs, Navigation, Forms, Image, Slideshow, Login, Redirection, Related, Search, Server Info, Tags, Translate, YouTube, Popular Posts, Stats, Spam, Cache, iPhone, XML Sitemap, Clean, and Domain Mapping.

BEST PLUGINS – WordPress 3 – WordPress MU

Ad Codes Widget

The Ad Codes Widget allows you to place ANY size banner ads, AdSense®, Javascript, XHTML or any code you like, into a widget-ready bar for WordPress®. Also allows for rotation of scripts each page load. This is the best Text or Code Widget by far!

By PriMoThemes.com / WebSharks, Inc. | Visit plugin site

Advanced RSS

Feed aggregator widget which is able to reformat your RSS and ATOM feeds into any HTML layout you want. The built in widget feeds are cached locally to speed up load times, and title, link and number of items to display may be modified. Feeds are formatted via XSLT, but if you don’t know how to write XSLT there is a variety of built in templates for you use and learn from. The formatting of feeds is this plugins best feature – even display Twitter feeds anyway you like!

By Stephen Ingram | Visit plugin site

All in One SEO Pack

Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. This plugin presents your blog items in a way search engines love. One of the most popular SEO plugins – easy setup.

By Michael Torbert | Visit plugin site

AskApache Google 404

Displays unbeatable information to site visitors arriving at a non-existant page (from a bad link). Major SEO with Google AJAX, Google 404 Helper, Related Posts, Recent Posts, etc. Displays good usable information for visitors arriving at a 404 page.

By AskApache | Visit plugin site

Autoptimize

Optimizes your website, concatenating the CSS and JavaScript code, and compressing it. Easy to use optimizer, great at reducing bandwidth and page download times – use it with WP Supercache (see below) for ripping site speed! If you encounter problems when using the Javascript compressor, just disable it in the plugin options, and manually compress your javascripts using this online Javascript Compressor.

By Emilio López | Visit plugin site | Download @ WordPress

Better RSS Widget

Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals. Display feeds right in your post or page too!

By GrandSlambert | Visit plugin site

Broken Link Checker

Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. Easy setup, works great – no more broken links!

By Janis Elsts | Visit plugin site

Cleaner Gallery

This plugin replaces the default gallery feature with a valid XHTML solution and offers support for multiple Lightbox-type image scripts.

By Justin Tadlock | Visit plugin site

Drop-Down Post List

Generates a drop-down list of posts for a particular category.

By Dagon Design | Visit plugin site

Exclude Pages from Navigation

Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. IMPORTANT NOTE: This will remove the pages from any “consumer” side page listings, which may not be limited to your page navigation listings.

By Simon Wheatley | Visit plugin site

Formidable

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Search Engine Optimization For Traffic And Profits | Blogger Pinnacle

Jo — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:39:29 +0000

The point of this article is to help you to the next level and show you what search engine optimization has to offer.

Doing business on the internet is very competitive. You have to arm yourself with the know-how and the marketing tools to make your business a step above the rest. Each day, more and more websites are clambering to optimize their rankings in search engines and if you don’t keep up, you may just be left behind in the abyss packed with so many failed websites.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a tool used nowadays by many websites. In the past and years to come, search engines have and will be the most used internet tool for people to find information they want.

Most people that use search engines use only the top ten search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a gauge of a sites victory in search engine optimization. You will get a high ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more potential business which leads to profits.

In the beginning of this article, we went over the basics. Now, we will look at this topic a little more in-depth.

So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is a simple one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or perhaps at best make your site generate profits.

With search engine optimization you have the advantage of generating a high traffic volume. Lets just say you get only a turning out of successful sales with 10 to 20 percent of your traffic. If you get a hundred hits or more a day, you get a good turning out of sales already. If you get only twenty to ten hits a day, you only get one or two if not any at all.

So once again, what is search engine optimization? search engine optimization is utilizing tools and methods in making your site the top position in the results of search engines. Acquiring a position in the first page and better yet in the top half of the page will guarantee that your business will produce awareness and subsequently stimulate more traffic, that could lead to possible earnings.

Search engine optimization requires a lot of work to be a total benefit. There are many aspects of your site you may have to change or add to, to benefit from search engine optimization. This will require researching information about the keyword phrases that are prevalent in regards to your sites theme.

You may also have to revise your sites contents so that you will get the right keyword phrases in place trying not to make it too commercial but light with good information. There are certain rules and guidelines to be followed with making your sites content applicable and favorable to search engine

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» Google SEO for WordPress Blogging

Jo — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:23:18 +0000

If you have been in the internet marketing scene at all, even just for a short time, then you are already probably aware of the fact that blogs that are search engine optimized properly tend to achieve greater and faster rankings in search engines like Google than other websites and blogs. The question remains, though, how can your blog best be optimized for Google?

The best blogging platform that is out there right now is called WordPress. It is completely free to use, simple to install, and Google tends to really love it. Here are some of the things that you can do to optimize your WordPress blog in order to achieve high rankings in Google.

1 – First and foremost, do your keyword research.

If you are not doing proper keyword research, then you are going to stand a very small chance of ever ranking high in any search engine, let alone Google. Developing a working list full of viable keywords is absolutely a must. The best tool that you can use to optimize your keywords for your WordPress blog is the free keyword tool that Google offers. While conducting your keyword research, there are some things that you need to consider including the number of monthly searches, the number of optimized websites that are already using that keyword, and how much competition you will be facing.

2 – Next what you are going to want to do is to customize your WordPress blog specifically for search engine optimization in Google.

You can log in to your dashboard, for example, and change the default permalink structure to something that Google much prefers to see. Click on the radio button for “custom”, and type in /%postname%/ — What this will do is change the default structure for the addresses for your posts so that the name of the post will be in the URL rather than the post date or post number. This allows you to optimize your blog posts by putting keywords in your titles, and having those keywords appear in your URLs, which Google pays attention to when determining how to rank you. This structure is definitely much better when it comes to SEO purposes, so if you are not following this permalink structure already, then you need to change it as soon as possible.

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Jo — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:05:09 +0000

3. Post in discussion forums. This can be a great source of traffic for some sites. You just talk about things of interest to you, and get free traffic to your web site (always sign off with a link to your site). If you link to subscription pages for newsletters or e-courses you offer, you’ll get repeat visits from the traffic. Don’t spam, or you’ll be kicked out but true participation makes a relevant link okay in many forums.

4. Search engine submissions. Don’t wait for search engines to find you. Automatically submit to 15 of them at www.freewebsubmission.com. You can also submit manually to Google (www.google.com/addurl.html). Ultimately, search engines will be some of your primary sources of free traffic.

5. Submit to directories. First do a search for niche directories for the topic of your website. Type in “directory + online games,” or whatever your site is about. Many general directories also accept submissions for free. The value of directories is not direct traffic, however (you won’t get much). The value is in the links, which help your ranking (and therefore traffic) with the search engines.

6. Write and submit testimonials. If you love an e-book or other online product, tell the author, and let her know she can use your testimonial. Of course, mention that you’d appreciate it if she left the link to your site (under your name) active. Good testimonials are valuable, and you’ve probably seen them with a name and link attached.

7. Submit articles. This is one of the best ways to generate free web site traffic. In fact, it’s why I wrote this. An article is valuable because of the “resource box,” or “about the author box” at the bottom, where there is always a link. If I leave you intrigued, and wanting more, you might click through. This is a great way to generate free traffic.

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Jo — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:23:41 +0000

You just started blogging and your blog is looking really plain, right? You want and need to stand out from the crowd so your voice can be heard. One of the easiest and most affordable ways to do that is simply to change your blog’s header image.

When you first install WordPress you’re going to have that same old boring standard Kubrick theme with a blue header that everyone and their brother gets. It’s not very exciting, it’s kind of plain, and it’s definitely not much fun at all. The good news is that you can easily change that and make your blog a little happier and a little more you with just a few simple clicks of your mouse.

You have a few options here. You can download a free blog theme from one of the many theme directories online, or even from WordPress.org and install that to your site. Of course, many others still use those themes, but it’s better than the plain blue and white sheet that you started with.

Another option is just to change the header on that standard WordPress theme and replace it with a new image. You can find free blog headers online much the same way you would find themes or if you have some graphics knowledge you can create a quick new header yourself.

There are many benefits to making this small change to your site when you start blogging.

- You’re going to make your site more memorable to the reader when you have a graphic header that represents your topic well, even if that topic is just your every day life.

- You’re going to stand out from your competition and other blogs on the same topic.

- You’re going to encourage your visitors to stay and read more because they are going to be intrigued and interested by what they see before they read.

- You’re going to instantly filter out people that are looking for something else, which is just as important as getting the right people to stick around.

… and the list could go on and on about the benefits of customizing your blog appearance with a header or theme.

If you’re brand new to blogging, take a few minutes today to find something to jazz up your blog look. You’ll be glad you did.

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8 Creative Types of Blog Posts » LadyPens -

Jo — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:13:50 +0000

If you own a blog you know the importance of keeping your blog fresh and your audience interested. It can be challenging to come up with blog posts that won’t bore your visitors and is interesting enough to keep them coming back.

It doesn’t matter whether you are blogging for fun or blogging to make money, if visitors are your goal then here are eight types of blog posts that you can use to keep your blog interesting, promote sharing, increase followers and encourage comments.

Type 1 – The ‘QUICK TIPS’ Blog Post

Quick tips are great “in between” posts. They are short and normally between 100 and 250 words. If you have ideas that you want to share with your readers but it doesn’t justify a full blog post, posting quick tips are ideal. The tip should be focused on one key area of your niche. For example, “How to eat less when eating out” is a perfect ‘quick tip’ for a dieting blog.

Type 2 – The ‘HOW TO’ Blog Post

Expanding on the quick tips blog post, let’s look at the ‘how to’ posts. These provide expanded and much more detailed information to your readers on how to do specific things related to your niche such as step-by-step instructional detail or specific examples. You could even separate these posts into two or three part courses.

For ideas on ‘how to’ posts, have a look at niche topic forums or other related blogs for questions that others are asking on how to do specific things. Well written, detailed informative ‘how to’ posts are typically very popular and can help recognize you as an authority in your field.

Type 3 – The ‘REVIEW’ Blog Post

Product or service reviews are especially useful to readers because it helps them with the decision buying process. It’s also a great way to monetize your blog. This is particularly beneficial to affiliate marketers. When you review a product and include your affiliate link, this gives you the opportunity to make a commission from each sale you generate.

The key to writing a credible ‘review’ blog post is not to simply go over the major benefits and highlights of the product, but to also mention things about the product that could be improved. This keeps your review balanced and also gives your reader a more objective view. Your blog visitors will appreciate your candid honesty and will be more likely to trust your recommendation.

Type 4 – The RESOURCE Blog Post

Some of the most popular blogs use resource lists. Blog readers love lists because they can easily scan the information and focus on what they are most interested in reading.

For example, if writing a post on the ‘10 ways to lose weight fast’ a resource list would mention the posts from related blogs that also have this information. This gives your reader a much broader view of ideas and tips available to them.

By doing this you will also find that readers will look to you as a useful resource for finding as much well-rounded information as possible on the topic at hand.

Type 5 – The INTERVIEW Blog Post

People love interviews, especially if it’s with someone they like and admire. Try interviewing someone in your niche and sharing the results of the interview with your blog readers. This is also a powerful traffic generator as the person you interview will most likely post the interview on their blog and around the web, bringing more traffic back to you!

Type 6 – The ‘BEST OF’ Blog Post

These are great end of the year or end of season posts. For example, if you do a lot of reading, you might list the ‘best of’ articles, books or guides that you read during the past year. Additionally, you could also create a post highlighting your most popular blog posts of the year. Whatever your niche, have a look back at the items, events or ideas that were the year’s best and create a post around them. This can be a fun, especially for the nostalgic reader.

Type 7 – The PERSONAL STORY’ Blog Post

Everyone loves a personal story. Anyone that follows you or your blog would be interested in a personal event or happening related to your niche. Did you attend a seminar? Did you buy a new product? Did you have a mishap that could be made an example of? Without getting too personal or overly detailed, writing a blog post on you personal achievements or activities almost always draws interest and feedback.

Type 8 – The ‘NEWS’ Blog Post

Every niche has some news related items or happenings. Keep your eyes and ears open to what’s going on, then find a newsworthy item and write your personal comments. This is not only an easy to create, quick post; it also encourages feedback from readers. Be sure to link to the post you are referring to along with your comments.

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