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Five Ways to Encourage Readers to Comment More Often on Your Posts via @problogger
This post is by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke
Do you wish more readers would comment on your blog posts?
Some bloggers think commenting is dead. And while that’s not the whole picture, there may be some truth in it.
When I started blogging back in 2008, Twitter and Facebook were only just taking off. And if readers wanted to respond to a post, they’d normally leave a comment on the blog itself, rather than tweet or comment on a Facebook thread.
You might think that if you had more readers then you’d get more comments. But that isn’t necessarily true. Some of the big blogs I read only get one or two comments per post. And smaller ones can often get dozens.
read more https://problogger.com/get-more-comments-more-often/
Seven Types of Product You Could Sell From Your Blog
It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one for Digital Photography School. They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business.
Revealed: How to Start a Blog and Succeed in 2018
Last Updated January 8th, 2018 — Trying figure out how to start a blog and succeed in 2018? I reckon I might be able to help you with that!
This article was first published four years ago and has since helped thousands of bloggers get started. It’s now constantly updated with the latest trends and information.
I first learned about blogging back in college when I was lucky enough to sell some blogs for 5-figures. Since then I’ve been so fortunate to work full time from my couch! I honestly don’t say this to brag, but just to show you how powerful this format can be for changing your career or revitalizing your existing business.
Eight Reasons to Start an Author Blog: Guest Book Marketing Tips
I’m really glad Anne R. Allen agreed to do a guest post for my book marketing blog!
She’s a multi-award winning blogger and the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Camilla Randall Mysteries. You’re in good hands!
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If you tell your non-author friends you’re thinking of starting a blog, you’ll probably hear some noise about how blogging is “totally over.”
People have been declaring blogging dead for a decade. Google “blogging is dead” and you’ll see thousands of entries.
But it turns out the blog is a pretty resilient medium.
Your friends are right in one sense: the “make a zillion dollars with a blogging-about-blogging” blog has passed its sell-by date. You can only teach a finite number of people how to make money teaching blogging until the market is saturated and everybody goes back to the current version of selling Amway.
But that stuff has nothing to do with author blogs. As an author, you’re blogging to get name recognition and publicity for your books, not to sell advertising. You’re using it as a book marketing sales tool. That means most of the rules of business blogging don’t apply to you. The money comes when you sell your books.
Author blogs are easy, fun, and only need to appeal to your target book readership, not vast hordes of consumers. They’re a venue for entertainment and information, not a hard-sell advertising machine. And they don’t have to take much time. Posting once a week or less is fine for an author blog.
Even beginning authors can benefit from blogging, and the blog will pave the way for your future career.
Here are some reasons to blog: https://www.amarketingexpert.com/start-author-blog/
4 Ways To Optimize Blog Content So That It Actually Gets Read via @Jeffbullas
You probably already know that having a blog is important, but you may secretly be dubious about how often people actually read to the end of any post you publish.
No doubt you’ve crunched some data and noticed that the amount of time people spend on certain web pages doesn’t exactly correspond with in-depth reading habits.
But that doesn’t mean it’s time to give up.
How to Get the Most Out of SEO for Your Author Site on Blogger
Blogger may be leading the betting pool for the next Google product to be canceled, but there are still a lot of authors who have their site on the platform (so do a lot of blogs, some of which look quite good).
I would do my best to discourage an author from setting up a new site on Blogger (**), but if you have a site on that platform then it would be worth your time to spend a few minutes optimizing your SEO.
What would be a simple process in WordPress (install a plugin) is a little more complicated in Blogger. All of the changes will be made in your site’s settings pages, and it is a very short list consisting of 3 items.
Yes, that is a short list, but while there are guides that explain how to make a dozen or SEO tweaks to a Blogger blog, most of what they tell you to do is related to optimizing a single post or page rather than the entire site. I am developing a set of instructions on how to optimize the SEO on each post or page as you publish it, but as I see it that is a separate topic because it is focused on your day to day blogging activities.
This post focuses on optimizing the SEO for the entire site.
read more: https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/10/11/get-killer-seo-author-site-blogger/
35 Mind Numbing YouTube Facts, Figures and Statistics – Infographic @jeffbullas
It is not until you leap into a plane and fly half way around the world to distant places that you start to realize the size and scope of the planet we inhabit.
Recently the earth’s population passed the 7 billion mark and over 2 billion of those are connected to the internet and more than 5 billion have a mobile phone.
When you start connecting that many people with global social networks such as Facebook (with over 900 million users), then opportunities and access to markets that were local become global.
Markets for business that were measured in thousands and millions suddenly scale to billions.
It is not only the size that expands but the velocity of the market accelerates as information is transferred and shared at light speed on optic fibre and wireless networks.
Social Media is Unlocking Opportunities
How to Start Guest Blogging When You Are Completely Unknown @jeffbullas
I’ve got some hard news for you…
It may come as a surprise.
If you’re getting less than 250 website visitors a day, your priority should be writing for other people’s blogs, not your own.
Why’s that, you say?
Well, because when you have low visitor numbers, writing for your own blog is like shouting in a vacuum – no one can hear you.
The benefits of guest posting are many – you tap into other people’s traffic, you cultivate relationships with other bloggers in your sphere, and you build a good reputation.
Most importantly, you get ‘DoFollow’ backlinks from various websites, all of which can help raise your domain authority.
In case you don’t already know, domain authority is a scale from 1 to 100 that predicts how likely it is that a website will rank on page #1 of the search results for any given keyword.
And here’s the bad news: if your domain authority is less than about 25 or 30, it’s going to be extremely difficult for you to get a page #1 ranking for any of your chosen keywords.
Blogging is a notoriously hard scene to break into. So here’s why guest blogging should be a priority of yours if you’re really serious about establishing a name for yourself.
read more: http://www.jeffbullas.com/how-to-start-guest-blogging/
#Smashwords has a Podcast
Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble, ebook distributor Smashwords has launched a podcast. It is not called WordSmash (which would have been my choice) but Smart Author:
Whether you’re new to ebook publishing or you’re already a New York Times bestselling author, the Smart Author Podcast will help you reach more readers with your words. A short preview trailer launched this week. Give it a listen now at Apple Podcasts, or visit any of the links at the bottom of this post.
Next Friday, October 27, marks the official launch when we’ll release the first four episodes. Subscribe now at Apple Podcasts so you don’t miss a single episode!
You might wonder, does the world need yet another podcast on self publishing? I think the answer is YES!
read more: https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/10/20/smashwords-has-a-podcast/
6 Powerful Reasons Why you Should include Images in your Marketing – Infographic @jeffbullas
I have become a habitual Instagrammer.
When I am out cycling, walking or just sitting admiring the view or the passing parade, I am looking for photo oportunities that I can snap and then share on my Instagram “app”.
All I need to be carrying is my iPhone or iPad and with my Instagram app waiting patiently for me, I can capture that photo, apply a snazzy filter and click the Facebook and the Twitter share buttons and it flies around the world.
It then showcases in my follower’s streams and updates and invites them to engage with me by commenting, liking or sharing.
Jamie Oliver a “celebrity chef”, understands this and with over 412,000 followers on Instagram has embraced the power of photos to market the Jamie Oliver brand.
Not surprisingly, the better the photo the more it drives engagement and Instagram takes my ordinary and average photos and gives them that “zing” factor (a good example is my Instagram photo from Istanbul, Turkey in the top right corner of this post) .
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