12 Tips To Become A Dot Com Mogul Yourself, 12 techniques that you should miss out when doing internet marketing |
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Ben Pei |
Dec 12 2008, 02:05 PM
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This is something that we have to work continuously to achieve the problogger status. I am going to share some tips and personal experience on how to create a branding yourself in the easiest way ever.
1. Visit Blogs Of Your Related Niche DAILY - Know thyself, know thy competitors. Get in touch with what bloggers around you are talking about so that you will be updated with any news. If they have MyBlogLog widget installed, they may notice a new face and they will most likely click on it and check out who is reading their blog. I do click on the little pictures that shows on MyBlogLog widget whenever I notice a new visitor and I would probably read their blog as well. You just gained yourself some traffic and if they like your content, they would probably throw a link to your blog since its a good practice to show link love these days. What a win-win situation.
2. Replying To Comments - This includes both comments on your own blog and others�. Try to avoid �Wow good article..�, �Thanks mans� I like it!� or things like that, unless you do not wish to get some free traffic from these comments. Instead, I suggest you do alittle research and provide a solution to someone�s question if there is any or you can simply create a point of debate from one comment. This works very well for your own blog and it is bound to invite a massive number of commentators. If you have it, flaunt it!
3. Hit The Top Commentators Rank - Try your best to hit the very top position of the Top Commentators section of other blogs or at the very least, be part of it. This can gain you some free targeted traffic and some good backlinks. Other readers would probably find that you are someone who knows what you are saying and they would start following contents on your blog as well. Provided your comments and content are constructive!
4. Provide More �How-To� Than Asking �How-To� - By asking how to, you have just put yourself a level lower than many others because you just declared there are things you don�t know! By providing how to, readers see you as an expert of the field and you will just build up your name from there. No matter where your level of experience is, what results you have gotten so far, I strongly suggest you do some proper research and draft out more �How-To� tutorials on your blog. Spend more time doing it rather than just learning how to do it. Experience and result will follow suite�
5. Link To Gurus Of Your Field - By throwing a link to the gurus, it is as good as announcing your entrance into the game. Let them know you are in it and if you are able to drive some good traffic from your blog to theirs, they will accept you into their community. Imagine the gurus mentioning your name and throwing back a link love to your blog one day, hows that for a branding package?
6. Double Check Your Entries - Make sure you have no spelling errors or any sort that confuses your readers. This is a total taboo if you are looking to brand yourself as an expert in your niche. Why would any expert make such mistakes?
7. Be Active In Forums - Especially in the �Newbie Section�. They will probably make you their idol if you can be of some aid to these newbies. Well, even if you are also a newbie, nobody is asking you to act like one. There is always a first time to become a PRO! Forums are a good way of driving traffic to your blog and letting others know that you can be a resource to them. Just like what I mentioned in point 4, it is advisable to do some research and be there to answer to other users� needs. It will be good if you can throw in some personal experience as well. Never doubt that you can�t help anyone because of your experience level, you never know who might just need that helping hand from you.
8. Get Testimonials - If you have been of any help to anyone, request for a testimonial from them tactfully. Just let them know you will be placing it on your blog and it in turns give their names more exposure as well. Testimonials is a really good way of branding yourself because it shows greater sense of reliability. Try to include a photo, name and website to prove that it is a legit testimonial.
9. Write And Submit Articles - This is cheesey but never underestimate the power of writing and submitting articles. This is one of the strongest and most powerful advertising and backlinking tip that I recommend. Not only will you brand yourself as an expert in the blogosphere with your articles being flaunt around on various blogs, you get a massive amount of free targeted traffic as well. You would probably get backlinks as well if they decided to show your articles on their blogs. Your name is the blogosphere will just grow exponentially.
10. Exchange Reviews - This is just a better reason to ask for a link exchange. By exchanging reviews, readers of both blogs will be able to know more about you and start reading your blog as well. For example, you have 1000 visitors to your blog and I have 1000 visitors to mine. My visitors start visiting your blog after reading my review and vice versa, there we have just gained ourselves 2000 visitors each. Spreading your name to 2,000 by using a 1,000 effort�
11. Guest Post For Other Blogs - Nobody will request for a guest post from you if they think that you are unable to provided reliable contents. Therefore, when readers see that you have been invited as a guest blogger for certain blogs, it shows that your content is much sought after and you have gained some credibility in this field.
12. Be A Resource - Lastly, I strongly advise that we should all be a resource to others if we want to create a branding for ourselves. Be there to offer help to friends in your community, any time anywhere! Don�t be stingy with your knowledge or products, if you have an e-book to share, SHARE! If you know something that others don�t, SHARE! That way people will see you as a PRO and would most likely come back for more of your content.
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22millionperyear |
Dec 12 2008, 08:08 PM
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QUOTE(Miscellaneous @ Dec 12 2008, 02:31 PM) Hey this are very good blogging tips over here Ben, how long have you been blogging?
Yes... I would like to know too. How would you rate my blog? It's in my sig... Great article, thanks for sharing. Have a great day! -Edward Brown PS- Your blog is worth $45,163.20... did you know that? This post has been edited by 22millionperyear: Dec 12 2008, 08:09 PM
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Avery Gray |
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QUOTE(Ben Pei @ Dec 12 2008, 10:05 AM) This is something that we have to work continuously to achieve the problogger status. I am going to share some tips and personal experience on how to create a branding yourself in the easiest way ever.
1. Visit Blogs Of Your Related Niche DAILY - Know thyself, know thy competitors. Get in touch with what bloggers around you are talking about so that you will be updated with any news. If they have MyBlogLog widget installed, they may notice a new face and they will most likely click on it and check out who is reading their blog. I do click on the little pictures that shows on MyBlogLog widget whenever I notice a new visitor and I would probably read their blog as well. You just gained yourself some traffic and if they like your content, they would probably throw a link to your blog since its a good practice to show link love these days. What a win-win situation.
2. Replying To Comments - This includes both comments on your own blog and others�. Try to avoid �Wow good article..�, �Thanks mans� I like it!� or things like that, unless you do not wish to get some free traffic from these comments. Instead, I suggest you do alittle research and provide a solution to someone�s question if there is any or you can simply create a point of debate from one comment. This works very well for your own blog and it is bound to invite a massive number of commentators. If you have it, flaunt it!
3. Hit The Top Commentators Rank - Try your best to hit the very top position of the Top Commentators section of other blogs or at the very least, be part of it. This can gain you some free targeted traffic and some good backlinks. Other readers would probably find that you are someone who knows what you are saying and they would start following contents on your blog as well. Provided your comments and content are constructive!
4. Provide More �How-To� Than Asking �How-To� - By asking how to, you have just put yourself a level lower than many others because you just declared there are things you don�t know! By providing how to, readers see you as an expert of the field and you will just build up your name from there. No matter where your level of experience is, what results you have gotten so far, I strongly suggest you do some proper research and draft out more �How-To� tutorials on your blog. Spend more time doing it rather than just learning how to do it. Experience and result will follow suite�
5. Link To Gurus Of Your Field - By throwing a link to the gurus, it is as good as announcing your entrance into the game. Let them know you are in it and if you are able to drive some good traffic from your blog to theirs, they will accept you into their community. Imagine the gurus mentioning your name and throwing back a link love to your blog one day, hows that for a branding package?
6. Double Check Your Entries - Make sure you have no spelling errors or any sort that confuses your readers. This is a total taboo if you are looking to brand yourself as an expert in your niche. Why would any expert make such mistakes?
7. Be Active In Forums - Especially in the �Newbie Section�. They will probably make you their idol if you can be of some aid to these newbies. Well, even if you are also a newbie, nobody is asking you to act like one. There is always a first time to become a PRO! Forums are a good way of driving traffic to your blog and letting others know that you can be a resource to them. Just like what I mentioned in point 4, it is advisable to do some research and be there to answer to other users� needs. It will be good if you can throw in some personal experience as well. Never doubt that you can�t help anyone because of your experience level, you never know who might just need that helping hand from you.
8. Get Testimonials - If you have been of any help to anyone, request for a testimonial from them tactfully. Just let them know you will be placing it on your blog and it in turns give their names more exposure as well. Testimonials is a really good way of branding yourself because it shows greater sense of reliability. Try to include a photo, name and website to prove that it is a legit testimonial.
9. Write And Submit Articles - This is cheesey but never underestimate the power of writing and submitting articles. This is one of the strongest and most powerful advertising and backlinking tip that I recommend. Not only will you brand yourself as an expert in the blogosphere with your articles being flaunt around on various blogs, you get a massive amount of free targeted traffic as well. You would probably get backlinks as well if they decided to show your articles on their blogs. Your name is the blogosphere will just grow exponentially.
10. Exchange Reviews - This is just a better reason to ask for a link exchange. By exchanging reviews, readers of both blogs will be able to know more about you and start reading your blog as well. For example, you have 1000 visitors to your blog and I have 1000 visitors to mine. My visitors start visiting your blog after reading my review and vice versa, there we have just gained ourselves 2000 visitors each. Spreading your name to 2,000 by using a 1,000 effort�
11. Guest Post For Other Blogs - Nobody will request for a guest post from you if they think that you are unable to provided reliable contents. Therefore, when readers see that you have been invited as a guest blogger for certain blogs, it shows that your content is much sought after and you have gained some credibility in this field.
12. Be A Resource - Lastly, I strongly advise that we should all be a resource to others if we want to create a branding for ourselves. Be there to offer help to friends in your community, any time anywhere! Don�t be stingy with your knowledge or products, if you have an e-book to share, SHARE! If you know something that others don�t, SHARE! That way people will see you as a PRO and would most likely come back for more of your content.
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