Lots of blogging tip related sites has talked about ways to Create a blog’s content. some will also teach you “The killer ways“  =D but I want to give information -The elie palima Style!  that’s why I have decided to Cover The different ways that you can use to Generate Content for your blog.

1. Create the Content yourself

so far, This content Generation Strategy is What I Highly recommend. There’s nothing more Greater than a Content written by the real blog owner. The only downside of creating the content yourself is that it takes work and time.

2. Hire someone to do it for you

Bill gates became the richest man in the world and probably one of the most successful. But you know what? He couldn’t have done it without the help of his employees. The fact here is He didn’t became the richest man because he did it all alone. He hired someone for help! – this gave him the time to relax, sit all day and make lots of money while doing it.

Time is as important as money is. The more you hire someone do the work for you, the more time that you’ll save. you get to relax by hiring someone to do the work for you. The only downside of outsourcing is of course, it cost you money.

If you’re interested in hiring writers or any other outsourcing services
here are Recommended places to look:

Taskus.com
elance.com
Odesk.com

3. Ask Readers to Write For you

another cool way to Generate content is to ask for a Guest post. Readers Love it when they Get to write on their favorite blog. The only downside of accepting guest post is the post’s quality. Some Guest posters would submit junk content. That’s why it’s best to review the content first before you even accept a Guest post.

Myblogguest is a serviceable forum by anne smarty that’s aimed to finding bloggers who are interested to Guest blog and blog owners needing for new and unique Content for their blogs. Check the site out if you’re looking for guest posters.

4.Use an Auto blogging Software

WARNING: don’t use this strategy on your MAIN BLOG. Instead, I recommend you to create a new blog which is more focused on auto blogging. The Reason behind this is because Auto blogging softwares would just make your site look like a huge spam site.

WP robot is a wordpress plugin I recommend you use for your auto blogging needs. What auto blogging softwares does is it Scrapes up Content from other website’s RSS feed especially Article directories like articlesbase.com

which in return, will give the blog owner New but duplicate content – AUTOMATICALLY. There had been lots of success stories from people who uses autoblogging as one of their income source. When done correctly, Auto blogging may just become one of your best money maker. The only downside of this however is yes. Auto blogs look like Spam/scam/junk sites. :-)

5.PLR (private label rights) articles

another way to get content for a blog is by using PLR (private label rights) articles. You can find them anywhere. Heck. I’ll give you a whole bunch of them right now! (click here to download)

These are Articles that you can use anywhere and place your name as the author like on your blog. Ideally, I much prefer to use them when I’m submitting articles to the top article directories.

the downside of using PLR content is the Duplicate content case. Google Frowns when he sees a duplicate content. A good solution for this is to Re-write the articles or Hire someone to re-write the articles for you.

If you want more PLR articles, Content Whole salers dot com is a good site that I find to be a good PLR article source.

6.Trade articles with other blogs

look for one of your old posts and ask a blogger who blogs on the same niche like you and ask him to trade articles with you. It’s a win-win situation since both blogs would have new fresh content.

7. Re-publish your old posts

There’s a cool feature on wordpress where you have the ability to edit the post’s date. with that option, you can either choose to publish your article on the future or make one of your posts look older and certainly – Republish old articles.

To Republish one of your old articles, Just login to your wordpress dashboard>>>click on posts >>>> look for one of your old article >>> click edit>>> and on the post edit screen, you’ll be able to see the publish option menu:

Set the date on whatever date it is today or any future date you want the content to be published and… BOOM! New Content published. :-)

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My Top 15 Best blogging advice for bloggers who wants or is already using blogging for profit. follow the tips written here to become a blogging legend! =P

1. Be passionate about what you are / will be blogging about

blogging is not a job. blogging is a hobby and the reason why we do hobbies is because we enjoy doing it. no matter how profitable your blog niche could be – if you do not love what you are doing, there is a big chance that you will not stick to it. if you are going to blog about a topic, make sure that it’s something that you really like to talk about.

2. Get your own Domain name

while you can start a blog using free platforms like blogger.com, I would always recommend to get your own domain name(s). the reason for this is for the blog’s branding and flexibility. these are two core factors to look at if you really want to make lots of money from a blog.

the only downside of getting your own domain is it costs money. but luckily, there’s a cool Site named bluehost who gives out a FREE DOMAIN NAME FOREVER (just pay for hosting).

3. Have a Posting frequency! update your blog

one of the main benefits of having a blog is the ability of the blog owner to update his blog whenever he wants. Search engines loves website that’s frequently updating. one of the best advice I could give you is to decide how often you want to update your blog – have a posting frequency.

do you want to write a post once a week? twice a month? once a year? it’s your choice. ideally, I would suggest that you update your blog daily if you want to make the most out of your blog. doing this would also help to avoid ‘confusion’ of your blog readers.

4. Treat your blog like a regular business

like on any other regular business, we spend time and work hard to Market our products and get people to ‘buy’ from us which afterwards makes us money. The same Goes to blogging and owning a blog. in order for it to be successful, we need to learn how to ‘brand it’ market it heavily. Treat it like a regular business and not – “just a blog”

5. Monetize your blog with multiple sources

“do not put your eggs in one basket” is a very popular way to explain this. The more you monetize your blog, the bigger chance that you’ll make lots of money from it. Check out my recommended blog money maker list to see the different ways I monetize my site.

6. Be Friendly

“you will never make money online – ALONE.” this is one phrase that Has been stuck in my head for many months when I first started my blogging ventures. if you really want to make blogging profitable, you must also make it a habit to Build your connections and relationship with the people around your network. such as, making friends with other bloggers, Replying on comments and emails, Visiting other blogs and leaving a comment, retweet their posts, etc… there are lots of ways to do it.

7. Have basic HTML knowledge

a basic knowledge about HTML could get very handy at some point in your blogging career. you don’t have to be an “expert” in the topic but I would always recommend you to learn a ‘little’ from it. if you have no basic knowledge about html, w3schools.com is one site that I found to be the best source of information to learn html and different areas regarding web development.

8. Learn SEO

Search engines is one of the biggest traffic source of blogs. and I can’t imagine a blogger who is – blogging without any single knowledge about SEO. again, you don’t have to be an ‘expert’ I Just want you to Have basic knowledge about the topic.

Luckily, There is this SEO book (click here to download) which teaches you everything you need to know about Search engine optimization. the book is 100% free and it’s very Easy to understand. frankly, I almost felt like an ‘seo expert’ after reading the whole book. :-)

9. Get a mentor or a coach

Manny Pacquiao wouldn’t have been the pound 4 pound king if it wasn’t for Freddie roach and Michael Jordan wouldn’t have been the greatest basketball player of all time if he wasn’t inspired with Dr. J’s basketball moves. All Champions have mentors. I advice you to get one too.

10. Do not spend money like water

One of the biggest mistake you can make when your blog is already making money is the point where you Spend all your blog’s earnings and you’re left with $0. this is a  VERY wrong way to go. if you really want to make lot’s of money online (even offline) the First thing you need to do is to Learn how to budget your money – RESPONSIBLY. have a budget and know what you can and cannot afford.

11. Always make room for improvement

you are never too big to stop learning. you should always make room for growth. That’s why it’s also good to take certain classes like online courses and ebooks which would further improve your knowledge about what you are blogging about and most importantly – Internet marketing. but again, you should still take in consideration point 10 and know what you can and what you cannot afford.

12. Have Goals for your blog

success first comes with a goal. that’s why I advice you to list down some of the goals you would like your blog to achieve. ideally, it’s much better to set goals for your blog that’s easy to achieve or ‘doable’ at the moment. ie: 1,000 visitors per day, 1,000 subscribers, 5,000 twitter followers, 1 ad spot sold per month, etc.. (based on your blog’s level)

after you’ve achieve these ‘doable goals’ you can then higher them based on what you can do. Remember to always put a “time limit” to your goals. do you want to achieve these in 3 months time? by the end of the month? next year? you decide.

13. never give up

some times you’ll feel that your blog sucks. but if there is a will, there is a way. if there is no will, then certainly – there is no way. When you really want something in your life, the whole world conspires together with you to achieve that goal. When you Quit, You lose! – that’s the difference between winners and losers.

the same also applies to your blog.  when you lose your ‘will’ to achieve the goals, then certainly there’s no way your blog will ever be successful which brings us to point #14.

14. know when to Quit

My philosophy on quitting is very simple. if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing anymore… just quit!

if creating content for your blog just seems to be a lot like a job for you or if Checking your blog’s comments is not the first thing that you like to do in the morning… Just quit Blogging.

15. don’t be afraid to take risks

one thing that will make you stand out from all your competitors is the fact that you are willing to accept certain risk. taking risk is one thing that Most people especially in the real world are mostly afraid of. they are afraid to make mistakes – you shouldn’t. why? mistakes makes us stronger.

it is the mistake that makes us do the right thing. that’s why my advice for you is to LEARN from this mistakes like 32 year old Thomas Edison who made a thousand mistake before he could even invent the light bulb.

The same also applies to blogging. there will come a point when you’ll need to try out something new for your blog like experimenting on getting other traffic sources, advertising, Hiring someone for seo work, Creating a new ebook, Getting an Aweber account and Frankly, Stuffs that will make you LOSE MONEY.

things like these would definitely take your time and money. but when done properly, Certainly it will make you LOADS of money. Never be afraid to take risks and Try something new – Learn from your mistakes.

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this post is Sponsored by 4 cheap web hosting and written by Hani

one of the Greatest advice elie could give especially to bloggers is to get a very reliable web host to host their blogs. most of the time, People who is new to blogging often gets confused on choosing the right web host. and don’t get me wrong here – There are alot of things you should consider when Finding the right web host.

1. the Price
2. How it’s being rated by other users
3. it’s platform
4. the available amount of disk space
5. The number of domains that you can host in it
6. the Bandwidth limitation
7. Customer support rating

one of the biggest mistake elie made when he first started blogging is he chose the wrong web host.  it turned out, it wasn’t very reliable, the customer support sucks and they even got his sites un-accessible for almost 2 weeks.

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Yesterday I shared with you a 10 minute video tutorial about creating cool video intros. after checking out the tutorial, I got very interested with video editing so I decided to play around with my sony vega and try it out for myself. here’s what I was able to come up with:

learning  to Create videos can be very fun and exciting. if you get too good at it, it can even make you money.

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There are times when you’ll need to create videos like screen-cast for your blog. One thing that you should keep in mind while creating videos is that you need to make the first 7 seconds of your video interesting enough to keep your viewers watching. and one way to do that is by creating cool Video intros.

alex from braproductions.net is a guy that I find from youtube who creates video tutorials on making cool Video intros. and today I would like to share with you one of his useful video tutorials.

you can checkout more of video editing tutorials by checking out braproduction’s youtube channel.

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The Ultimate blogging theme is a really cool wordpress theme to have. it’s one of the best wordpress based theme I’ve ever found online yet. They recently released the latest version last month and I’ve got to say the new features was quite awesome.

one Feature which I liked a lot is the “featured posts slides” that they added to the theme. you can see what I’m talking about when you visit my blog’s home page.  however, I was a little disappointed when I found out that the slides were not Auto scrolling.

Adding an Auto scroll feature would totally help a lot especially if you have lots of featured posts on display. The Numberings are not very noticeable either and that’s another reason why I’ve decided to add an auto scroll feature to the blog theme.

How to add an Auto Scroll feature on the ultimate blogging theme

What I did was I installed a simple javascript to the theme. here’s a complete step by step guide on how I did it.

1. download this file.

2. extract the zip file. after extracting the zip file, look for the file named “slide.js” and proceed to the next step.

3. open up ftp software and upload the script (slide.js) to “wp-content/themes/ubt-firstclass/ folder.

4. login to the wordpress dashboard (yourblog.com/wp-admin) and go to “editor” under the appearance tab.

5. on the ‘editor page’, go to “header or header.php” and add this code anywhere inside the <Head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript" src='http://www.yourblogname.com/wp-content/themes/ubt-firstclass/slide.js'></script>

note: change “your blog name” to your real url.

6. after you’ve done step 4, don’t forget to save your changes by hitting “update file”

Test it.

after doing all the steps above, you should be able to see the auto-scrolling in effect by going to your blog’s home page.

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Traffic is the most important ingredient that every blogger needs in order to generate lot’s of money from his website. a blog that makes lot’s of money and receives a decent amount of traffic is a successful blog. While following the best blog marketing tips may solve your traffic-problem, there are still dozens of ways that you can increase your blog’s traffic.

There are a lot of e-books and courses out there that are suppose to teach you ways on how to increase your blog’s traffic. Some also say that they can teach you how to generate ‘floods of visitors’ coming to your site. but the truth is – none of them works 100% and to tell you honestly, most of the time they’ll only give you lot’s of confusion.

I’m here not to give you ‘floods’ or ‘swarms’ of traffic. but instead, I’m here to give you the ways to generate traffic to your blog that will afterwards give you the solid ideas on how you can increase your blog’s traffic.

Two Methods to increase blog traffic

There are two methods to increase your blog traffic – Paid traffic and Free Traffic. both of them are good. however there’s a lot of difference between them.

1. The Paid Traffic Method – is probably the most easiest and sure fire way to go if you want to instantly increase your blog traffic. The only downside of paying for traffic is of course – it costs you money.

2. The Free Traffic Method – is what most blog owners use to increase their blog’s traffic. The best part about it is that it doesn’t costs you any money at all. The only downside of this is that of course, it costs you Time and would definitely require a little bit of hard work and effort in your part.

11 Ways to increase blog Traffic using the Paid Method

1. Advertise with Google – this one is a no-brainer. if you want targeted Traffic advertise with search engines! make it more even better by advertising on the most popular search engines of all – Google.

2. Advertise with Facebook – Facebook is exploding with traffic. some days, it even beats the traffic of Google. now, it Beats Google’s advertising by Giving advertisers more targeted traffic! what’s great about facebook’s advertising is that you can target people based on their age, Gender, interest and even target them on their birthdays! if you’re looking for a way to generate lots of REALLY targeted blog traffic, Facebook is the best way to go.

3. Pay Blog Directories to feature your blog – blog directories like blog catalog receives over 45 million visitors a day. you can get a cut from their traffic by adding your blog to their directory and paying them to Feature your blog based on the category that you want. these are what most Probloggers do to increase their blog traffic.

4. Pay a blogger to Review your blog – look for bloggers that are RELATED to your niche and Steal some of their readers by asking them for a Sponsored review.

5. Buy an Ad-spot from a blog related to your niche – do you know some High traffic blogs that is related to your niche? buy an ad-spot on their blog and get more referral Traffic.

6. Buy Junk traffic – if you’re just looking to increase your alexa rankings, junk traffic could sometimes be the answer to your problem. Their cheap, easy to implement and effectively increase your blog traffic!

The Guys over at Visitorboost offers a service like this. Warning: don’t depend on junk traffic too much. use this only if you want to improve your alexa rank.

7. Advertise Offline – Pay someone to Feature you on the most popular newspaper or magazine in your country. you can also pay Radio stations to make a radio commercial for you. or if you really want to make it big time, Get your website on a T.V. commercial. some more ideas are giving away stickers of the logo of your site, getting your website on some billboard and many more! advertising offline to increase your blog’s traffic is practically endless. you just need to be creative.

8. Pay for SEO – search engine traffic is what every website needs. the higher you rank on Search engines, the more traffic you’ll get. The Easiest way to get High Rankings on search engines like google is by paying Someone to do the SEO work for you. it saves you time and a lot of hard work.

9. Make use of Redirects – Very easy. buy a domain name and create a 301 redirect to your blog. if you do this with a popular domain, it can also be an effective way to increase your blog traffic.

10. Pay Someone to Tweet your website – look for someone who has a lot of twitter followers or Facebook fans (80,000 people maybe more than enough) get him to tweet your blog by paying him to mention you on one of their tweets or facebook updates. most of the time, 20% of their followers will checkout your blog.

11. Hire someone to do all the Free traffic method for you – if you like to Get traffic using the free methods and you totally have no time to do it, why not Hire someone to do it for you? :-) the more you outsource, the more time you save! Remember: Time is gold. =D

10 Ways To increase Blog Traffic using the Free Method

1. Guest Posting – I highly recommend this. submit a guest post to the top blogs that are related to your niche. do this once a week and pretty soon, you’ll see a huge traffic boost.

2. Article Marketing – submit an article to popular article directories. it’ll increase your blog traffic and it’s also good for SEO.

3. Youtube – Create an interesting or helpful video Related to what you are blogging about and upload it on youtube. of course, mention your website on the video and don’t forget to put your Link on the description box.

4. Blog Commenting – List down the most popular blogs in your niche. Comment on the latest posts on their blog. if they have the top commentators plugin installed, Make sure you get yourself as a top commentator. it’ll also help a lot if you’re the very first person to comment on one of their posts. – of course, Avoid comment spam.

5. Yahoo answers – sign up for yahoo answers and answer user’s question then add your blog’s url in the resource box. this is one of my best traffic source when I was just starting out.

6. DIY SEO – Remember on the Paid method when I told you to outsource SEO? on the Free method, you have the choice to do it yourself. Build backlinks to your blog and rank high in google. if you have no idea about Search engine optimization, Checkout this SEO book. it’ll help you out! :-)

7. Forum Posting – join webmasters forums or simply a forum that’s related to what you are blogging about. be helpful in the forums by answering user’s questions and sharing your expertise. add more traffic to your blog by adding your blog’s url in your forum signatures.

8. your Facebook and Twitter accounts – create a facebook fanpage and twitter account. build up your account by getting lot’s of people following you. if you have lot’s of followers already, one tweet could generate lots of traffic to your site.

9. Get on the frontpage of digg – people who gets on the front page of digg get’s over 100,000 people to their sites in a single day. if you’re looking for lots of free traffic, work your way up to the front page of digg.com by getting people to digg your articles.

10. Get people to tweet your posts – add a “tweet this” button to every post of your page. you can easily do this with tweet meme plugin. if lots of people tweets your post, it will definitely increase your blog traffic.

Bonus Tips to increase blog traffic

like on any other successful blogs, the tips to increase your blog’s traffic as mentioned above is not enough to make your site a huge success. there are still added actions that you need to do if you’re trying to increase your blog’s traffic.

1. Capture your Visitor’s email address

one of the most common mistakes that websites and blog owners make is the fact that they don’t make an effort to capture their visitor’s email address. this is definitely a wrong move if you’re trying to heavily market your blog.

What you want is to keep visitors comming back to your site. and one way to do that is by Getting their email address. this is one thing that will not only help increase your blog’s traffic but this will also give you a huge advantage over your competion. Aweber is by far the best Email marketing tool that I highly recommend you use for this.

Biggest tip here: take advantage of your newly found traffic sources by Capturing your visitor’s email address using the best email marketing tool around.

2. Chase after The best Traffic source for any website

There is no doubt that the given tips above are the best traffic source that you can use to increase your blog’s traffic. however, in my own personal opinion, there is no other traffic source that can be compared with Direct traffic.

Direct traffic are visitors who came to your site without first visiting a search engine, another site or using some marketing tactic. it’s the kind of traffic that gives you the ‘sign’ that visitors remember your site and quite frankly, this is the kind of traffic that I advice you to chase after. The trick on getting direct traffic is by far very Debatable. the easiest answer here is to – Get people remember your site.

Few ideas to get people to remember your site:

1. get an easy to remember domain. (or if you have a domain that’s not very ‘memorable’ you can still buy another one by adding redirects to it.)
2. get your blog name, logo, or anything that will describe your site included in all your projects like ebooks, videos, etc..
3. get a consistent flow of traffic to your site.

Conclusion:

increasing your blog’s traffic is easy. and there are lot’s of ways to do it. it’s important that you also take advantage of the traffic by capturing the visitor’s email address and chase after direct traffic by getting people to remember your blog.  by following the given tips above, you’ll surely will increase your blog’s traffic in no time.

How about you? what’s your most favorite traffic source? do you know any other best way to increase blog traffic? do you have any opinions about the post? share them by posting a comment below! :-)

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