There is a revolution going on right now in the blogging world. Can you feel it? Change is coming and there is a new crop of bloggers that are quickly taking over. These new school bloggers all share some common traits. They are passionate and most importantly they give more than they take. Bloggers helping other bloggers is a beautiful thing.
Talkin About a Revolution
I am sick and tired of seeing the selfish bloggers succeed and just watch hordes of people follow along like lemmings. Take for example John Chow. Hey John, I do not give a f*ck about what you are eating for lunch or the next convention you are going to. Stop already with the Shoemoney promotion crap. Every day I scratch my head and really try to figure out why this guy is famous. Sorry for going off on a tangent, but that has been building up inside me for a while now.
I am not really sure where I am going with the post. I guess the point I am trying to make is that we as bloggers should support and help each other get to the top. I like to think that I spread the blogging luv around but I will commit to making a more concerted effort to helping my fellow bloggers that are working hard.
I welcome you all to join me, if you are spreading the luv, thanks and please continue. If you are looking for ways that you can help your fellow blogger brethren, here are some quick ideas.
There are 7 quick ways that you can join the blogging revolution and be a cool blogger instead of a dick.
Help me build out this list in the comments… What other ways can you think of.
I wanted to write a follow up to the post I wrote yesterday about driving traffic to your blog from Google. I am not an seo expert by any stretch but I did want to dive in a little further about how I actually found out what questions people typed into Google that actually lead them to my blog. Some of you may already know this but I also realize that a lot of rookie bloggers stop by here for blogging tips for beginners. So this post is for you.
Almost every single blogger that takes blogging seriously has Google Analytics installed on their blog. There are dozens of useful features built into Google Analytics and as I was digging through my data this weekend and taking a look at what keywords were driving traffic to my blog. This was a fun little exercise and here are are the Top questions that my visitors are asking and hopefully I am answering.
Q. How to write an about me page
A. Check out these two posts:
How to write an about me page and Improve your blogs about me page by adding video
Q. How to get the word out about your blog:
A. The majority of my post are about blog promotion. Here are a couple good posts to get you started:
10 easy ways to get the word out about your blog and How to promote your blog
Q. How to get sponsors in Ad.ly
A. I have no idea, sorry. I have not made one sale from Ad.ly. I am doing pretty well with Sponsored Tweets though. Here are a couple Sponsored Tweets posts..
Sponsored Tweets versus Adly and Tips to make money with Sponsored Tweets
Q. How to get on the front page of Google
A. I am thankful for Kai Lo for writing this awesome guest post . Here it is..
Getting to the first page of Google
What questions are people asking that are driving them to your blog?
Do you have any specific blogging realted questions…just ask away in the comment section. If I can’t answer, I am sure one of my readers can ![]()
Making a name for yourself and standing out from the blogging crowd takes a bit of talent, a bit of luck and a ton of hard work. It has been said that over 90% of all blogs that are started are abandoned well before the year mark. That is a shame because it takes at least one year of constant work to get a blog off the ground. Luckily for me, I am on the heals of my one year anniversary and I am starting to feel that I am breaking through and I have enjoyed some modest success that keeps me going. Let’s face it, as humans we all need some positive reinforcement to push us forward. This is the major reason why bloggers fail, they do not get the positive reinforcement and just give up. I have listed below some milestones that you should hopefully obtain within your first couple of years of serious blogging.
I am very happy and fortunate that I can actually write this post from experiences that have happened to me in the past couple of months. I am hoping that you have achieved these milestones as well. If not, the message is not to give up. Keep on blogging!
What do you think are some signs that you are gaining some authority in the blogging world?
[stextbox id="alert"]Have you optimized your blog for mobile devices yet?[/stextbox]
I am happy to say that I can now cross this off my to do list. It took me about 6 months to get around to this but I have finally made my blog “mobile friendly.” I have spent the last couple of hours researching the wordpress mobile plugins and wanted to summarize my thoughts here to save you some time if you have not installed a mobile plugin. Let me start with the plugins that I did not choose and then I will get into what I selected and why.
This plugin just blew me away with the amount of features they have any what is coming next.
Here are some of the cool features:
If you have your mobile phone handy, check out my site and let me know what you think.