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How To Be A Blogging Superstar

Posted on 08 May 2009 by

Lots of people get famous on the Internet. Just look at Perez Hilton , the offbeat celebrity commentator or The Satorialist, a photographer who liked to snap great street fashion. His style blog was recently selected by Time Magazine as one of the one of the top 100 design influences. Not bad for an average guy who started out with a camera and a free blogspot blog. It looks like fame hasn’t gone to his head either as he kept his free blogspot domain name!

So what do you need to do to become a Blogging Superstar?

Write or Produce Great Content

Factor #1

The first requirement might be cliched and a tad boring but it is the foundation of all great bloggers Internet fame. Whether you are taking photos , creating art or design or writing about your speciality, if it is not unique, engaging and inspirational to your readers, you will never get recognition for it. This leads nicely on to …

Factor #2

The more unique the content you present, the more likely you are to build up a big following. Having a tonne of subscribers to your blog or followers is a key factor is becoming Internet famous! Once you present great content, your followers will make if viral. Going viral is every bloggers dream.

Factor #3

Nobody gets famous with some hard work! If you are keeping a blog you can be proud of, the next step is to ‘network’. Share your posts on social bookmarking sites, booking marking everytime you have added something new. Twitter about your blog, link it to your Facebook, invite guest posters, leave comments on forums and other blogs. In other words, work your butt off to get your name out there. If you are targetting people and places relevant to your blog topic, eventually you will be recognized. Your blog name will become a familiar site around the internet.

Factor #4

This relates to the last point a little. Become an expert. The Satorialist blog became a respectable resource on style and fashion. Perez Hilton became a celebrity himself becuase of his authority on celebrity gossip. To become an expert, you need to be passionate about what you are keeping a blog on, your need to be consistently maintaining your blog, so people know that you are a constant and reliable source of good information. Nobody will respect a blog maintained every few weeks or months. Your input needs to be daily or a least 3 times a week to keep people coming back for more.

Now that you know what you have to do, make a start and don’t forget us when you get super famous!

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Don’t Be Boring - How To Keep Your Readers Interested and Alert

Posted on 04 May 2009 by

The number 1 rule that every blogger should follow is DON’T BE BORING! Easier said than done sometimes, right? Every blogger has had those moments when what we have to say comes off a litte flat! We can’t be interesting or exciting ALL of the time.

But don’ t worry. There are a couple of small tricks you can use during those moments when your blog post is at risk of sending your readers into a pemanent coma. Every blogger uses them now and again and I like to call them post props!

Prop Number 1 - An Interesting Photo

Use something at the start of your post that is there for no other reason than to GRAB your readers attention. A great image works brilliantly. Our eyes are instantly attracted to interesting images. Having one at the start of your post is a surefire way to wake your reader up and let them think “hey interesting image, interesting post to follow! “ They’re hooked.

Prop Number 2 - The Post’s Title

We can often be lazy with our titles. Sometimes it’s just so difficult to come up with one and the harder you try, the more difficult it gets. You’re nodding, right? Because you’ve been there. The title is the first thing you reader sees and if the title sounds boring, your reader will expect that post to be boring. They leave … maybe forever and you have lost a fan. Sad face! So next time you are writing a blog post on Chanel Fashion, don’t title it “Why Chanel Clothes Will Make You Sexy” . Make it “Inspirational Chanel Dresses To Awaken Your Inner Fashion Goddess ” .

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5 Tips to Instantly Boost Traffic To Your Blog

Posted on 03 May 2009 by

So you’ve finally got yourself a blog. You’re posting daily on loads of cool stuff and doing all the things a great blogger should do but where are the visitors? What’s the point of spending all that time and effort on buildling a great blog if nobody comes to see it?

You see, it’s not enough just to have your blog, now you need to get people to come to it. Bringing traffic to your site is difficult at first but once your site has been around for a while and you are posting to it regularly, the mighty king of search engines, yes, I’m talking about Google, will begin to show you some love and send traffic your way without you have to do much to get, except maintain a great blog of course!

So while you are waiting for Google’s love, along with millions others, there are some things you can do to get people to come to your blog and check out the great stuff you are posting there, and maybe click on a ad or two, which makes it all worthwhile if you are in blogging for the money!

There are dozens of ways to bring visitors to your blog. Lot of people who are new to blogging and desperate to get visitors will dive right in and start working on all of them a once which turns into a ‘jack of all trades master of none’ type of situation. If you wanted to learn a new instrument you wouldn’t try to learn the flute, guitar, piano and diggeridoo all at once, would you? Yes, the diggerdoo is an instrument! What you would do is master one a time and the same goes when it comes to learning the skills needed to get traffic to your new blog.

Here are 5 quick tips you can use to start bring visitors to your blog:

1. Hunt down relevant places where you can link to your blog. A great place to start is Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answer nearly always come up top of Google for question type searches. If somebody asks where can I find great Twilight wallpapers and your blog has some, leave a reply. This is a quick and easy way to get a link to your blog on page 1 of Google.

2. Organise a link or banner swap with blogs that compliment your own. Or arrange to be a guest poster on a similar blog. By collaborating and bulding good relations with people in with blogs similar to your own, you can open your self up to a whole new source of traffic. Just like in the offline world, be nice to poeple and you will generally find that they will be nice back. So get emailing right now! The amazing thing about the Internet is that there are so many people out there to colloborate with and most like you, are looking for easy ways to get free traffic.

3. Social bookmarking is huge … who hasn’t been to Digg, Stumbleupon or Delicious. Everytime you post, remember to submit your post to as many social booking marking sites as you can find. This is an excellent way to get links to your site. Google loves to see links to your site from some of the biggers sites, it know and trusts. Post something great and the chances are it will go viral. Social bookmarking sites are excellent for an instant traffic boost.

4. If you love forums this tip is easy. Join lots of forum related to your blog, if you haven’t already and reply to posts that are relevant. Don’t spam or you’ll be hated and banned. Try to hang out there often and build a reputation for providing useful information and links if relevant. Forums are a great place to pick up tonnes of free traffic.

5. Keep a twitter profile for your blog and update it everytime you do something related to your blog, like post or promote. Notifying all your followers will bring some immediately traffic to your blog to check out your new changes. This is great in two ways, one, you get traffic and two, it creates a link (backlink) to your blog from sites that Google loves. Google will come check you out and add you to its list of sites to love too! Nice

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How to Write An Interesting About Me Page

Posted on 03 May 2009 by

Generally, people like to know the face behind a blog and if somebody likes your blog there is a good chance that they will click on the about me page. It’s important then that you use this page to make a good impression about yourself and give your readers what they are looking for.

Here are some of the main questions visitors will be asking when they check out your About page :

1. Who Is This Person Who Writes An Amazing Blog?

This is where you introduce yourself. It is a really good idea to put a picture here so don’t be too shy. Find you best mugshot and upload it. Having a face on your blog personalizes it and makes it easy for your readers to identify with you. Also introduce yourself by name and if you like give a little bit of personal information about yourself.

2. What You Know or Why You Blog

Let people know about your area of expetise or the reasons you are keeping a blog. If your blog is a personal journal, let your visitors know why it is that you started blogging and why you like to it. If your blog is about a particular subject, explain how you got interested in that subject and why you enjoy it.

3. What Your Goal Is

You may have no goal with your blog other than keeping a record of interesting facts you know or because your enjoy writing. But if you goal is to share your knowledge, epxertise or life experiences with your audience tell them why that is important to you. They will admire you for it!

4. How to Contact You

Your About Me page is a great place to put all your contact information. You may want to give visitors your email, skype or IM address. If you have profiles on any of the popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Myspace, Bebo or Facebook, add them to your contact page so people can find you and and become a fan!

To Sum Up

Keep your About Me page friendly and welcoming. You don’t want to scare away your visitors. Be as brief or as long with your information as you like. If you find your about me page becoming extremely long, you might consider making some of the information into a post. For example, “What inspired me to write a blog”.

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