Weekly Wrap-Up: Creating Quality
Here we are again in the throws of another weekend! I hope you had a productive and fun week!
Today I want to talk about creating quality. There are so many blogs in every possible niche, you may be focusing on how to get traffic to your blog. If that is your focus, you may want to read some of my other blog posts such as, Ten Ways to Promote Your Blog, and Weekly Wrap-Up: Link Building.
But today I want to focus on how to create a following on your blog and how to keep folks on your blog longer, reading what you have worked on so hard to express. Obviously there are many reasons why you want your visitors to visit often and to stay on your site longer. One factor that I have noticed over the past six weeks of testing, is that my Alexa ranking (which is a rough estimate of how popular your blog is) seems to be more directly impacted by how long folks stay on my blog than how many visitors I have. And how do you get visitors to stay on your blog longer? You give them quality; you answer the questions they have come looking for, you entertain. By doing this you create posts of interests, post that others will Digg or Twitter, creating more visitors, more repeat visitors and visitors that stick around longer to see what else you have written.
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If You Build It, Will They Come? 10 Ways to Promote Your Blog
One of the biggest misconceptions on the internet is that if you simply post to your blog, you will get visitors. So much has been written about SEO and ranking high in Google in order to get traffic to your site. There are, however, so many additional ways to get highly targeted traffic.
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Today I would like to share with you ten traffic generation tactics. I have used some of those listed below and have read about others. In the next few weeks I will be using all of the strategies to test which ones work best for me and will post back about my results. If you would like to try, or have tried, any or all of these strategies yourself, comment below and let me know how they work for you.
Does Your Business Need a Doctor?
Greetings! When you go to a doctor it is quite common to seek a second opinion, especially in serious cases of illness.
Whether our business is just taking off, or has been established for years, how great would it be to not only get a second opinion, but a third , forth….up to 53 opinions….for FREE!
That is what Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham have created in the League of Extraordinary Minds. Their goal is to help every entrepreneur and business owner become successful, and it is completely free.
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Weekend Wrap-Up: Link Building
Here we are again — in the middle of another weekend. As you all know, I am working hard to make internet marking my full-time business so that I can once and for all, quit my day job. Then every day will be weekend! I am on track for that to happen by the end of this year — December 31, 2009. If you have similar goals, let me know about them! Let’s reach these goals together. With that said, let’s get into this week’s wrap-up.
This past week I came across several blog posts about link building. On seomoz.org Rob Ousbey recently wrote a blog post called A Link Building Rule to Cut Out and Keep about how to get a website ranked higher in Google. He speaks of advice that he gives to all who ask. It is simply:
“The most valuable links you can get, are those which your competitors will never be able to have.”
He goes on to explain how to tap into links by discovering what your blog or website has to offer that is unique. By being proactive in this regard, you will find links that others will not even be looking for. You can read more about this interesting prospective by checking out his blog post.
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Simple Business Tip: Journaling to Success
Early on in the coaching with Alex Jeffreys course, he mentioned how important it was to journal about what you were doing each day. The reasons were obvious: by journaling you could see all that you have done, keep track of what has worked and what hasn’t. You would also have a template so that you could easily recreate and duplicate your success.
For me, however, journaling never took off. I just couldn’t sit down and write about what I had done in the past, and I couldn’t write about what I was doing as I was doing it — it just messed up my momentum. However, I always saw the value and so I tried to figure out a simple way to incorporate this into my day.
What I came up with is quite simple indeed. I have a text file on my desktop. In it is a simple to-do list. This list contains my daily, weekly and monthly plan. As I check off an item on the to-do list, I cut it from that list and paste it into another text file called “Done”. In this way I can monitor what has been done and what still needs to be done easily. My done file also accomplishes the role of creating a template of the steps of what has been successful.
Having these files on my desktop, I can easily see the progress that I am making (or not). I have noticed that this has increased my productivity as I want to get items out of my “To-Do” file and into my “Done” file as quickly as possible. It is also easy to add to the “To Do” list as I come across ideas that I want to implement. In this way I never spend time thinking about what my next project should be — I just look at this file.
Wishing you great success and productivity,
~Norene
