Use These 10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post Ever

One popular post can bring your more traffic and links than a month’s worth of your usual content.
In this post, I want to set you a challenge with the potential to launch your blog into the stratosphere.
Make the next post you write your most popular post ever.
The following ten tips form my key advice for tackling this task. I used all of them when hitting the Digg front page for the first time. There’s no blueprint you can follow to write an incredibly popular post, but you won’t have a chance unless you try. I’m confident these tips will give you a good shot at success.

Use These 10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post Ever

What Is A Blog?

It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at least one email from someone asking if I believe blogging has a future. My answer is always “as long as the Internet has a future, blogs do too.” You will see why I answer that below.
You also have countless articles being published every week where the author suggests that blogs are obsolete, and that the next big thing is micro blogging, or lifestreaming or something else. Again I don’t agree with any of those predicted trends.

What Is A Blog?

The second reason for trying to define what a blog is in 2008 (many people have already done that in the past after all) is because blogging is a social phenomenon. As such, it is constantly evolving, and what was true two years ago might not be anymore.

The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names

Domain names are the real estate of the Internet. Just as a good location is vital for a bricks and mortar business, a good domain name will be the corner stone of your website’s success. But how to identify them? Below you will find the 7 characteristics of good domain names.

The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names

What Is Success?

This past weekend I was browsing through my RSS reader, and I came across an interesting post titled What is success? Impact.
The author is basically questioning what should be considered success (on a professional level), and he comes to the conclusion that success should be measured as the positive impact his work will have upon the lives of other people.

What Is Success?

50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?
Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently.
Is there anything you can do about it? Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?
Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but I wanted to give my take on the issue too. I wrote those 50 ideas as they were coming to my head, as briefly as possible. Enjoy.

50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

9 Blog Hacks to Help Show Readers Your Best Stuff

Are you letting your killer posts languish in your archives, sandwiched between January and March? How many great posts have you published in months gone by that new visitors will never see?
Readers come to your blog for its content, so it’s important to show them straight away what you have to offer.

9 Blog Hacks to Help Show Readers Your Best Stuff

6 Ways to Speed Up Your Site

6 Ways to Speed Up Your Site

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability; most Internet users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds. Below you will find the summary of the “Speed Up Your Site” series. Those are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast. You can click on each point to read the article with comments from the readers.

Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips

Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips

First of all a big “thank you” for every one who participated. As I said before the number of entries surprised me (and the quality as well, I will definitely apply some of those tips myself).
Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips:
1. Sridhar Katakam

Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney

How to Find Advertisers for Your Website: The Ultimate Guide

Direct advertising sales is arguably the best method to monetize a website. Finding advertisers for your site and actually closing the deals, however, is not as straight forward. Over the past 6 months I had more than 10 high profile companies sponsoring Daily Blog Tips, and through out this article I will share what I have learned along the way.

How to Find Advertisers for Your Website: The Ultimate Guide

4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.
If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes. Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design mistakes that would come into my head; within half an hour I had over thirty of them listed. Afterwards I did some research around the web and the list grew to 43 points.

43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website

There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it.
Notice that ways to make money with a website are different from ways to make more money from it. Methods to increase your traffic or click-through rate will help you make more money, but they do not represent a method of making money per se.
For example, one could suggest that blending AdSense ads with the content is a way to make money from a website. In reality it’s not; it’s just a way to make more money by improving your ad click-through rate. The real monetization method behind it is a PPC ad network.

28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website

InfoLinks Review and How to increase your InfoLinks earnings

I have being using InfoLinks for almost a year now and this InfoLinks review is based upon my experience of using this service. InfoLinks is an in-text advertising service, which means they scan your post, and converts some keywords into advertisements by showing a double underline below them. There are advantages and disadvantages of using the service and below are each of the discussed in detail. Also I will explain how you can increase your InfoLinks earnings and how you can get more targeted advertisements.

InfoLinks Review In-Text Advertising

Twitter Follower Software to Add Followers Automatically

Twitter follower adder software are becoming increasingly popular because of the advantageous they provide for the users of those software. These software will help grow your Twitter followers automatically at a rapid rate without any intervention from you, making it a must have tool for smart bloggers, affiliate marketers and online businesses. However automatically adding users is not the only thing these tools do. They let you analyze trends, give reports about your followers, give the ability to direct message all your followers, white list or black list certain users, schedule tweets and few other things, thus helping you grow and manage your Twitter followers easily. Mentioned below are some Twitter follower software and how they can help you save lots of valuable time.

Try TweetAdder - The Best Twitter Follower Software

Twitter Follower Software to Add Followers Automatically

AWSurveys Review – Is it a scam or a legitamate way to earn money ?

AWSurveys is a service that pays you for completing surveys and they claim they have the highest number of users for a survey providing company. But there are quite a few reports suggesting that it is a scam and in this AWSurveys review I will discuss things I have learned after using the service. I'm not affiliated with the service and I'm not getting paid to write this review, this is based on my user experience and I understand if yours is different from mine.

Sign Up Process and the Early Surveys

AWSurveys - Avoid at all cost

Get Traffic to New Blogs Methods That Work

How to get traffic to new blogs is common problem faced by many blogger who are new to blogging. Having a blog is useless if your not getting any visitors so this is a valid concern. It is important to understand that it hard for new blogs to get traffic. Don't expect to write a few posts and get a flood of visitors. Thousands of blogs are created everyday so you need to give a reason for people to keep coming back to your blog. Below are few things you can do to get traffic to new blogs.

Share in Facebook

This is one of the best ways to get traffic to new blogs. Generally you have your close friends in Facebook, so they are more likely to visit links you post on your Facebook page. Since they are your close friend you will get honest feedback about your content in a non critical matter as well. If your content is great then they are likely to share it among there friends, giving you more viral traffic.

Get Traffic to New Blogs

Local SEO – 5 Tips to Tackle Negative Reviews

As a well-established integrated search company that deals heavily in website promotion, SEO Positive has helped a huge number of local businesses gain the recognition they deserve in their targeted area. To do so requires local SEO,a slightly different approach to that of traditional SEO, because if the company’s reputation were to be mishandled and tarnished as a consequence, any future marketing campaign (online or otherwise) is likely to be more of a struggle.

There are a number of ways that SEO Positive promotes local businesses online. Submitting company details to free business listings is a fast and simple way to generate interest and place the business in a position to be seen.  The larger search engines actually offer dedicated business listings to aid this website promotion process. For example, Google Places has proved incredibly popular in recent times for local SEO, especially as participants are often propelled to first page SERPs for localized search terms just for placing a relevant listing in Google’s database.

However, the one glaringly obvious drawback to the advantage of getting noticed by doing local SEO is the potential to be shot down in flames by less-than-flattering reviews. This is a sensitive area for many businesses who have dealt with past consumers airing their company’s flaws online, and something SEO Positive has dealt with on a regular basis. Whether posted by a competitor as a malicious effort to ruin your reputation, or flagged up as a genuine concern from a past client, negative reviews can seriously affect your link building work and are a concern that SEO Positive has handled extensively in the past. We’ve compiled five handy tips to help tackle the would-be devastating impact of negative reviews, offering practical advice to businesses hit hard by the definite cons of public interaction.

Local SEO can be very beneficial for businesses

Internet Marketing Specialist, Try Explaining that to People

Last Monday I started working for Cinergix as an Internet marketing specialist. In a country like Sri Lanka where it is hard enough explaining what a software engineer does, it is very tricky to explain Internet marketing specialist designation. The first question is usually about the company and what they do. I explain they create online diagramming tools. Many have no idea what that means, and some get it after mentioning that it is similar to Microsoft Visio. The next question is what I do in the company. I mention search engine optimization, social media marketing, blogging etc and they mostly get a blank look in there faces. Very few even bother to ask and clarify what the words mean. In a country like Sri Lanka where the Internet penetration levels are just above 10%, its no wonder most people have trouble understanding these terms . Everyone is more interested in the salary level more than the job description. Sri Lanka is quickly becoming a great outsourcing destination, and with predictions of an Internet boom in Sri Lanka, now is a good time to join the Internet marketing field.

Internet Marketing Specialist Salary

Internet marketing specialist can be involved in many different things. From SEO, social media marketing, running Facebook campaigns to PPC. If you are knowledgeable about all these things then you can demand a great salary. Even if you are knowledgeable about some of these things you can except a competitive salary far above the average income of a Sri Lankan. Because there are very few courses or workshops about the subject in Sri Lanka, it is basically self thought and you need to have a passion for the subject. The lack of personal is another reason why you can except a good salary.

Few Areas Covered by Internet Marketing Specialist

Make Money Recruiting Affiliates ( Two Tier Affiliate Marketing )

There are hundreds of products created everyday and competition is rising in almost every niche. Because of this reason companies are aggressively looking for new affiliates to promote and sell there products. This offers a nice way to make money recruiting affiliates. To be successful and profitable with this you need to find affiliate programs that has a second tier commission systems. You will be making money as a normal affiliate but you also have the option of recruiting other affiliates and earning a percentage of there commissions. This secondary commission varies depending on your affiliate program. In this article I will list down few affiliate programs that offer great second tier commissions and I will also mention things to look for in a two tier affiliate program.

Another important things to remember is that two tier affiliate program is not something similar to Multiple Level Marketing or Pyramid schemes as they are popularly known. You don't have to build a down line to make money. If you don't recruit anyone at all you can still make money promoting the program. If you manage to recruit affiliates then you will earn a nice passive extra income

What is Affiliate Marketing and How Does it Work

My recent post about make money recruiting affiliates was eagerly read by people and resulted in few signups. But by looking at the comments and the email it is fair to say that many are not aware of what affiliate marketing is and how you can make money from it. Even bloggers who are already making money from there blogs using Adsense are reluctant to try affiliate marketing in there blogs for various reasons. So in this post I will talk about some of the most commonly asked questions about affiliate marketing like what it is, how do you get paid, how to find the right affiliate service and also how to maximize your revenue from affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing ?

In very simple terms affiliate marketing is you selling a product or service belonging to someone else and getting paid a commission for it. If you think of doing this online the basic steps would involve the following

• You sign up as an affiliate with a product
• The owner of the product gives you affiliate links and banners with your special code in it
• You add those banners and links in your blog
• Readers comes to your blog, see the affiliate links and visit the product site
• You get a commission if the reader buys the product

So if you are a high traffic website then you have a very good chance of making money from affiliate
marketing.

Samsung Galaxy R Android 2.3 Smartphone with 4.19″ Display and Long Battery Life

Samsung has introduced its newest (Google Android 2.3) Gingerbread-based smartphone, dubbed asSamsung Galaxy R, which adopts a stylish, metallic modern design to suit the fashion style of today’s youngsters. In addition, the cool premium phone also features an advanced specifications including 4.19″ large, vibrant screen, high-speed dual-core processing power, long battery life and so forth.

For people who always forget where they placed their beloved handsets, the Galaxy R’s ‘Find My Mobile’ might be a cool function for them who looking for a solution to get their mind peace, by tracking, remotely ringing and locking the phone, as well as recall the call logs records while the smartphone is lost, spoilt or stolen.

HTC Sensation XE with 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Processor and Beats Audio Technology

HTC Corporation is proud to announce its first premiumsmartphone packed with advanced Beats Audio technology, which is built more towards taking care of entertainment needs by offering users a superior, studio-grade audio quality – in order to make sure multimedia lovers can enjoy music, videos and games while they’re on the go. Besides, the new Sensation XE Android-powered smartphone comes equipped with an array of competitive specs including a powerful 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch multi-touch screen with qHD (540 X 960) resolution, and an 8 megapixel AF camera with full HD 1080p video capture.

Millionaire Efficiency: How to Structure Your Day Like the Rich

Becoming a millionaire is not usually an accident. Sure, you can win the lottery but the chances are 1 in 304 billion. And with modern medicine getting better and better your wealthy parents might just live longer than you do! You need a plan.
Now, I’m not pretending to be a millionaire. But I have had the privilege of growing up around a few. In this article I’m going to talk about some of the daily habits of the rich and successful. Hopefully you can apply them to your own business life and get closer to that magic number.

A word of caution about millionaires

I grew up in middle-class family that enjoyed both prosperous times and really difficult times. I am part of a family where my uncles and my grandfather are exceedingly wealthy but my father isn’t. This strange situation gave me insights in to both the attitudes and habits of the rich and successful and those that didn’t quite make it.
I once heard someone close to me say that you can only become rich if you come from a rich family. And while it is probably statistically more probable, it is also a load of shit. Now, I am not going to pretend that growing up around people who have made massive fortunes does not give you an incredible insight in to how to behave and think like a successful person. It does. But it also cripples a lot of people with arrogance and laziness. And for every millionaire’s child who also became a millionaire, there is a millionaire’s child who squandered it all.
And then there are the countless number of self-made successful people. People who did it without the advantage of good advice from grandparents.
Genetic millionaires?

Becoming a millionaire is a lot like becoming a professional sports player. Sure, your genetic gifts and upbringing are a huge advantage but, for the most part, you would choose to have average genetic abilities but be hard working, diligent and smart as opposed to genetically gifted and none of the other things.
Millionaires are made by thinking and acting like a millionaire; not being brought up by one. Understanding this is possibly your biggest step.

Blogging is a Waste of my Time

That’s right. Blogging is a waste of your time. The title is not designed to mislead you. Sure, it is designed to be a little bit enticing but not at all misleading. In this post I am going to talk about why blogging is actually not all its made out to be and why it could be a massive waste of the precious little time that you have. But don’t worry, its not all doom and gloom. There will be a light at the end of the tunnel (post).

Your goal: making money online

For the purposes of this post I am going to assume that your goal is to make money online. This might be so you can quit your day job or so you can work from home. Or, perhaps you just want a little extra cash to save up for a new car or something. If you are blogging to make money online then you could be wasting your time.
If, however, you are blogging because you want to help people or because it is a creative outlet for you then it is an entirely different story. The results of this type of blogging cannot be measures by dollars and cents.