Being in the front page of a daily newspapers means you are popular. All bloggers who want high traffic needs to be popular and his name should be the talk of the town. These days, it is hard to be one especially now that bloggers are being born every now and there are a lot of them more popular than you.
With this, I would like to share to what I discovered to make us popular through newspapers. How? Well, you simply put yourself the way you want to.
You may notice the picture attached to this post with my name on the headlines. I made it by myself and you can do the same thing too.
To know something about it, it is called the Newspaper Clipper Generator. They have this stuff where you can make your own newspaper clipping and decide what news you want to have about you. So start making your own now.
Hope you enjoy doing this like I do.
I would like to thank Marhgil for unselfishly sharing this information on his blog and hope he continue posting good and entertaining posts like this one.
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How to be a Popular Blogger in the Newspapers
How to Find Effective Ways to Get More Subscribers
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For me, subscribers are loyal friends and I am very much thankful to have them. They are the ones who tell us indirectly that our posts are good and worth reading. Although it is best to have a lot of visitors in your blog, you should also have regular customers. However before you can get convince them, you must be able to discover effective ways or techniques how to do it. We all know that content is king but it will be useless if only a small group knows about it. I have done some researches about it and am currently making some experiments. With this, I am excited to share them with you.
1.0 Join related forums. Find a forum where you can be a regular contributor. This means that you must choose a category that is related to your bog topic where you can start a good thread or reply to posts continuously. If they will like your posts there, you can gain a lot of your regular subscriber. I am a regular visitor of Steve Pavlina's forum and I try to share some brilliant ideas about parenting, marriage and blogging.
2.0 Be a guest blogger. Being a guest blogger means you can write well. This is because guest posting means making posts exclusively for other blogs. If first time visitors learned that you can do guest posting, they will be convinced that you are sincere in making good posts. Incidentally, I posted as a guest blogger for the great but humble blogger Kevin of bloggingtips.com for three wonderful times. I am still working hard to submit more.
3.0 Learn from the experts. Problogger and Copyblogger are among the few blogs where I learn useful tips in blogging. These two generous bloggers have good articles where you can learn a lot to gain more subscribers. They have posted in depth analysis articles to help us achieve what they are enjoying right now, Needless to say, both of them has thousands of regular subscribers and I am honored to be among them.
Here are some of the useful tips I learn from Copyblogger and hopefully these can help on our target.
3.1 Provide options. Some first time visitors would also like to be subscribers but they are hesitant to do so because they want more options on how get posts from you. They are your potential regular customers and you have to provide them some choices. This is the reason why I provided them two options; one is through a feeder and the other one is through e-mail. In addition, make the icons readily accessible but not to blind them.
3.2 Make it easier. Although you have already provided options, it is best to make them easier to know that you are inviting them. It is good that you have icons at your sidebars to let your readers know that they can be a subscriber, but you can also include a friendly invitation at the end of each of your posts. I will am starting this strategy in this post and provide time to edit my previous posts.
A business will not grow without regular customers. They are the ones who will help you promote it without a single penny.
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My Blogs are now wearing Better-looking Templates!
For the past five months of blogging, I have been concentrating on writing quality articles and promotion of my three blogs. However this morning when I was dropping Entrecards, I browsed a lot of blogs with beautiful templates and I found them attractive. Then I noticed that some of them are using blogger.com but the designs I saw were not available in the collection of my free host. My dear friend then asked me search at Google. But by accident, I found http://www.mikesquarter.com which has a post about free templates for blogger.com and Wordpress. I immediately visit http://www.finalsense.com where I found a bunch of wonderful templates. I did not waste my time and started to make some experiments until finally, I came up with this template which I am currently using.
Now, when I compare the old template to my existing one, I understand how important it is to have an attractive template.
An attractive template symbolizes the artistry of the blogger. It has an eye-catching impact to the readers. After I changed the templates of all of my blogs, I felt I just finished a masterpiece. My blogs suddenly look like a true website.
It also adds life to a blog somehow. Although content is still more important, it may look quite boring if the blog contains pure words. Not unless your blog belongs to the group of the elite sites such as Steve Pavlina’s site. He belongs to the very few bloggers who really do not need attractive templates.
Now I suggest that those who want their templates look attractive, you may check out this site. However, I just want to remind you two very important things before you proceed.
Download your existing template content to your PC in case you will need it again.
Do not forget to put a link of his site, not only that it is a requirement but also to show gratitude to the owner.
If you have time, I am requesting you to check out and enjoy the new look of My Other Blogs. I am very much open to comments and healthy criticisms.
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How to Attract Visitors from Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is sometimes being neglected as an alternative way of increasing traffic. One must remember that it covers around 24 countries worldwide and there are a lot of questions to choose from and are rapidly increasing. Moreover, you can be sure that the questions are authentic and their visitors are dying to get the best answers. Besides you need not to be a technical person to be able to answer their questions.
As a proof, the picture attached to this post is an example of one of the achievements of my parenting blog and even had numerous visitors. With this, I would like to share some of the strategies I think are very useful:
1.0 Find the best question for you. Find the questions that you can readily answer with good content. This is very important to be able to have a better chance to win additional points. After finding a good question in which I am pretty sure that you can easily find one, read it carefully and understand what really the question is. Sometimes, there are confusing questions and confirming it means that you are really willing to help him.
2.0 Have a prepared answer. It is better that you have a post that is related to the question. This can help you answer faster and more detailed than the others. Remember that there are other possible answers and the game is first come, first serve. The question usually takes three days before the inquirer chooses the best answer, but he think that he immediately found what needs to know, he can choose at once.
3.0 Be a sincere friend. The inquirer may be look begging for immediate answers, but he is also finding a friend and strong shoulder to lean on. Be polite in giving your answers because you will also benefit from doing so, even more than the additional points. He is still a potential visitor to your blog even if you will not win. Do not waste both of your time by giving nonsense answers. Besides, there are also other possible visitors other than the inquirer.
4.0 Invite him to your blog. Although this is obvious that you should also add the URL of your homepage, you can also add the page URL where you got the answer and of course, invite him to visit your blog. You can invite him by telling him your answer to his question is just a portion of the complete answer and the complete answer is on your blog. Just be sure that you provide him the correct page URL.
Your legitimate visitors can be your regular readers because they are the real ones who need your blog content and you must be able to find them quickly. This is the real traffic.
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How to Get High Traffic from your Resource Box
By definition, a resource box is simply the author’s signature usually found at the end of an article. This indicates where the article came from. If someone likes your post and adds it on their favorite social bookmarketing sites, your signature will come along and other readers can trace the original source through the link.
If you are to place it at the end of your post on your blog, make it short and simple. You can just include your name, blog title or unique pen name that can easily be familiarized with. Be sure that you add some words that can identify that it as your resource box. You can check mine at the end of each of my posts.
If you are submitting your article to article directories, the approach should be totally different. This is simply because you have to attract readers to visit your blog. Although your article can be interesting to read, they will not visit your blog if they found it dull and boring. Here are some useful tips on how to do it:
1.0 If you have more than one blog, put only the one that is related to the article so that the readers will not be confused. If you fail to do this, he might be going to the wrong blog. H will be upset and decide not to visit the correct one. Besides, it is annoying to see too many links in a single signature. You can link your blogs with each other on your side bars anyway.
2.0 If you are into business or offering paid services, you can include some contact numbers, email address and other related information. But do not be too flashy because visitors might be distracted with them. Moreover, do not also show overconfidence like telling that you have the best product in the world.
3.0 Although you must sound like a competent businessman, you must not exaggerate the words and include only what is the true content of your blog. Your readers will confirm it and if they cannot find any, you can be sure that they will not come back again.
4.0 Include the URL of your blog and make a hyperlink on it. This is more applicable if your URL is not the same as your blog title. By doing this, you are telling your readers that you have such URL. Although they might not click to the link now, at least they will have an idea about it.
5.0 Since you can add at the most of three links, you can also include the link of the original article source besides leading them to your homepage only. However, take note of the limit of the number of letters or words that you are only required to.
6.0 Never use the words CLICK HERE. Besides the fact that you are hiding your blog title, this can annoy your readers. It is a very unethical phrase anyone could use because it looks very informal. It is like giving command to the viewer and you do not give command to your customer.
After I did some experiments on my resource box, I finally arrived at this one in which I think is very attractive. Here is what I have been using recently.
I am a Filipino engineer who found himself more comfortable in writing letters instead of numbers. For more quality articles about blogging tips, internet marketing techniques and article marketing strategies, please feel free to visit Humane Blogging Tips at http://www.wherebloggersandhumansmeet.blogspot.com.
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