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Business Blogging by ProBlogger
In the afternoon I was surfing all over the web and I found great post about business blogging. Blog can be extremly useful for your business if you use it right. You must not have your blog only for promoting your products because your blog will get almost no traffic and you won’t have any benefits from it. You should share useful tips about products you sell.

Darren from ProBLogger has written a kind of a case study. It talks about jewelry store which had blog mostly to get people know they had added new product in their store. They had had small number of RSS subscribers and bad ROI. Than Darren gave them an advice… read more

5 way to get readers to new blog
Darren have also written great series of posts how to start blog - not how to setup Wordpress but how to get first readers to your blog and get first subscribers.

Series include 5 posts:

• Guest Posting
• Networking
• Advertising
• Social Media
• Viral Content

I think it would be enough reading for today and tomorrow I’ll be back with another post full of great tips. Don’t miss it - subscribe to my RSS feed.

There are days we have time and energy to write blog post, but we simply don’t know what to write about. So, I have decided to write few ways how to get inspiration for blog post.

1. Subscribe to blogs in your niche
When I don’t know what to write about I go to one of the major blogs in my niche(ProBlogger, DailyBlogTips and others). Than I go in archive section and read some posts which have been written about a year ago. When I find something interesting I think for a while about this topic and write post about it.

2. Write speedlinking post
You can go to your RSS reader filled with blogs in your niche and read some posts. When you find something useful you can write short review about this post and link to it. An example of speed linking post can be found HERE.

3. Write ‘miscellaneous post’
If you have a lot of things to tell but they don’t deserve whole post just put them together in one post. Example of miscellaneous post can be found HERE.

4. Write about goals
Write something about what you want to reach with your blog, how do you see it in future. Readers wants to know what will happen with their favourit blog.

5. Put down you ideas
Buy yourself a notebook and when you get an idea for blog post topic just put it down in it. You’ll be glad you had done that when you will run out of ideas.

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Today I’ll write something about direct traffic. Direct traffic is group of visitors, which wasn’t referred by any website or search engine. Those visitors simply write your URL in their browser or have your site bookmarked.

If you get a lot of traffic directly it means you have great brand or great domain(typo domain link. John Chow and John Cow or simple domain link pizza.com). This traffic is offen very quality and stable. It doesn’t depend on your SERP, advertising or inbound links. Even if you get banned from SE(search engines) you won’t lose this traffic. Direct visitors are also quite loyal and offen visit site.

You can see direct traffic is great. But how to get more direct visitors? There are few ways. First thing you need is really good site. You have to be outstanding - you have to be the best in visitors eyes. Second thing is good domain. It have to be easy to remember. Pizza.com is easier to remember than Xudfuzy.biz. And the last think, but probably the most important is strong brand. You can build your brand with advertising, guest blogging, forums posting…

This is it for now. For more internet marketing tips subscribe to my RSS feed.

I think we all know BlogRush. It is kind of traffic exchange service for bloggers. You just need to add small widget to your site and it shows few post titles. For every impression of this widget you get 1 credit and for every credit title of your post shows on one blog in your niche.

It is great tool, but the problem is that CTR is REALLY low. For some posts I got no click from 1000 impressions. It looks like worthless tool for you, doesn’t it?

But there are few ways to increase CTR. After doing that I got about one click from 300 impressions. It is still low, but I get quite a lot traffic from BlogRush(I get tons of bonus impressions and I think everybody does).

The trick is in title of your blog. You should use attractive titles. In my case the best title is something like this: 10 free tips to earn more.
People like lists, they want to make money and get free tips. So use this magic words - list, free, earn, and other similar words.

This tips are also useful for AdWords…

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It is very important to have a lot of RSS subscribers. That helps you to get traffic everytime you write a post and you notify many bloggers about your new great post which they can link. There are few steps to get more readers.

1. Add big RSS image on your blog.
2. Links directly to RSS readers with RSS buttons
3. Link to your RSS feed as many times as you can(in the sitebar, at the end of each post…).
4. Write post ‘How to use RSS feeds’.
5. Offer email subscription - use FeedBlitz
6. Add link to your RSS feed in your guest posts.
7. Make your feed discoverable by browsers.
8. Get a bonus to your RSS readers - free ebook for example.
9. Run a contest - example: John Chow.

Do you want more tips how to increase the number of subscribers? Add this blog to your RSS reader!

Networking is great way to promote your blog, but it is hard to connect with other bloggers. There is short list of to-do things.

1. Giving
You need to think about networking as long-term process. If you want to get long-term benefits you’ll have to give away lots of links and other things. Help people to reach their goals and they will start to like you.

2. Start with small bloggers
Every blogger wants to have top bloggers in his niche in his network, but for small bloggers it is rather impossible. You need to start with small bloggers in your niche. It is easier to connect with 10 bloggers with 500 readers per day than with one blogger who has 5000 readers - but effect is the same.

3. Keep your blog quality
Nobody wants to link low quality blogs. You need to work hard on your blog to make impression on other bloggers.

4. Think out-of-box
It is great to be connected with bloggers in your niche, but you can also connect with bloggers in n neighboring niches. Example: readers of real estate investing can be also interested in money making online.

5. Write quality comments
You have to write a little bit longer and high quality comments on other blogs to be spotted by author.

6. Be patient
Sometimes you’ll need to write 50 comments and mails to become friend with blogger.

I wrote about my favourite blogs about internet marketing before. The reason why I write this post is that I found another great blog about internet marketing.

It is Jim Karter’s blog. Jim is really internet marketing expert, he make about $50,000 per month only from his own websites and he owns company, which manage over 300 websites. And he also know how to share knowlage.
Here are few great posts, I really like:
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1. Read blogs in your niche and post comments with URL of your blog.
2. Write every day. You’ll get visitors which read blog regulary.
3. Use ping to inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati about new content on your blog.
4. Write simple posts for newbies. Do not forget to add examples.
5. Have different opininon then other blogers.
6. Use translation plugins to attract readers from other countries.
7. Submit your blog posts to blog carnivals in you niche(http://blogcarnival.com)
8. Submit reviews of your blog posts to newsgroups.
9. Design new outfit of your site and submit it in showcase sites.
10. Develope the conversation around your posts.
11. Be friend with other bloggers.
12. Be active on forums in your niche and add link in your sig.
13. Join in communities in your niche.
14. Include blog URL in business cards, flyers…
15. Submit your articles in social bookmarking sites like digg.
16. Leave trackbacks.
17. Let your readers to be active. Add polls…
18. Try to build community around your blog.
19. Use Squidoo Lenses.
20. Write articles and submit them in article directories.
21. Join MySpace and join groups in your niche.
22. Use Yahoo! Answers.
23. Write about Top 10 bloggers in your niche.

Source: Daily Blog Tips