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Every blogger wants to make money online, they want to grow a popular blog but how can this be possible? Here is a blogging strategy for you;
#1. Before Starting Out, Think About How To Monetize Your Blog.
One of the biggest mistakes most beginners make while starting a blog is they create content first, try few ways to increase their traffic and then they find ways to monetize their blog.Let me be honest. If you follow the same path, you will eventually fail to build a blog that makes money. But why it this?
Without finding ways to monetize your blog before you even begin, you will hardly make any money online.
Begin with the end in mind. Always!
Analyze your top competitors and find out how they are monetizing their sites. Find out their traffic generation sources, how they are captivating their readers to buy their stuff and repeat the same.
You don’t always have to reinvent the wheel. Spend time in carefully understand your competitors and you will find smart ways to monetize your blog.
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#2. Write For Other Bloggers.
One of the common complaints I hear from new bloggers is; “I’m not getting enough traffic. ”Well, how do you get more traffic if you are writing just for your own blog?
Write for other blogs, do guest blogging and increase your online reach. Build some quality links and increase your overall domain authority .
That’s how you get traffic. That’s how you improve your overall search rankings for any keyword you are targeting for. There are very many websites that pay you for writting contents
Don’t make a mistake of writing just for your own blogs. That’s the biggest blogging mistake anyone can make especially in the beginning.
#3. It’s Useless To Focus on SEO When You Are Just Starting Out.
SEO is a HUGE ocean; If you are just starting out, focusing on SEO to increase your traffic is a waste of time. Why?You might get penalized by keyword stuffing or quickly building bad backlinks or getting traffics from bad SEO Companies. You never know what SEO mistakes you are making unless you gain some basic SEO skills.
That’s the reason why you should forget about SEO in the beginning and just focus on writing engaging content for your readers.
Make your content so good that your readers share it on social media, and you will attract backlinks from other blogs naturally. Thats a cool SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY.
SEO is all about getting quality backlinks and proper keywords . Unless you know those two factors very well, focusing on SEO doesn’t give you any good results.
Quick Note : Even if you don’t focus on SEO at all in the beginning, make sure to learn the SEO basics. That way you can nurture your SEO skills to use them later to bring more traffic from search engines to your blogs.
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#4. Evaluate your Monetization Strategies.
Tell me what’s your #1 source that’s helping you make money from your blog? Is it AdSense? Selling ads? Affiliate marketing? Or something else?Carefully re-evaluate all your monetization strategies once. Find out if you can make “passive income ” from your blog’s traffic.
If you are heavily dependent on ONE monetization strategy (AdSense or affiliate marketing), find out one more way. You never know when your monetization source is going to hurt you, so relying upon only one monetization strategy is never good.
I once shared a list of blogs that'll pay you for blogging, and its cool to add them to your strategies to make money online.
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#5. Learn To Write For Readers, Not Google.
One of the biggest reasons most bloggers don’t make enough money or sales even if they get massive traffic to their sites is because they lack loyal audience.If you write and optimize your blog’s content for Google crawlers, you will surely get more search engine traffic. But you will often fail to capture loyal readers by writing keyword rich contents, ie high paying keywords that render high CPC .
So make sure to entice your blog audience with your writing style. Let them crave for your new posts. Let them leave lots of comments on your content every time you publish something new. Let them share it all over the social media sites just because of your writing style or content.
The more value you add to your readers with your content, the better results you will get in terms of more sales and revenue.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t be optimizing your content for Google at all but make sure to give more priority to your audience first.
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#6. Start Growing Your Presence on Social Media.
Whether you know it or not, social media is the new SEO.Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. can help you in 3 incredible ways.
- They help you quickly boost your blog traffic. Create viral headlines. They always bring you instant traffic from social media sites.
- Use social media sites to build connections with the influencers.
- You can build your own tribe using your Facebook fan pages, groups or Twitter chats.
The pro tip here is NOT to spend all of your time on all the social media sites at once. Don’t grow your presence across Twitter, Google+, Instagram or Facebook all at once. You can never focus 100% of your energy or time if you do so.
The best way to build audience across these platforms is to conquer one after the other. Once you start getting more comments and shares on your Facebook posts, move on to Twitter and connect with the influencers. Once you conquer Twitter, you can move on to the other. Now, you get the idea!
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My name is Gozie Brain Izuka, and to all bloggers out there, i just want to make common sence; i hope i did.
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