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How To Make Money Blogging

Have you ever wondered how do top bloggers make a living blogging? Do you ever question whether making money blogging is real? Then this article is for you because I’ll be explaining how many popular bloggers are able to make money blogging.

If you’ve ever doubted the potential of making a living by having a blog, then doubt no more. Although many bloggers do not end up making money from blogging, there are some bloggers who are not only making money blogging – but they are making extremely high earnings through their blogs!

According to an article published by Forbes here, top bloggers are earning far more than an average income through their blogging efforts. These extraordinary bloggers have gone through all the hurdles and pushed through to see that their blogs become a success. The rewards for their efforts are unimaginable.

Below are the monthly earnings of some of the top blogs mentioned by Forbes:

Huffington Post: $14,000,000 per month
Engadget: $5,500,000 per month
Moz: $4,250,000 per month
Mashable: $2,000,000 per month
TechCrunch: $2,500,000 per month
CopyBlogger: $1,000,000 per month
Perez Hilton: $575,000 per month
Gizmodo: $325,000 per month
Smashing Magazine: $215,000 per month
Tuts+: $175,000 per month

The fact that there are bloggers who are making money through blogging means that you too have the potential to make a living through blogging – as long as you are willing to work hard towards making your blog a success.

Get Paid Web Hosting

I’d say that if you are serious about turning your blog into an income generating machine for you, then you’d definitely need to get a paid web hosting to start off with. I’ve previously started my blogging journey through free platforms but regretted it and felt that it was a complete waste of time.

In my article here, I explain why it is so important to have a paid web hosting for your blog.

Find A Profitable Niche

If you’re looking to make serious money from blogging, then it’s really important to choose a niche to focus on that will be profitable. This is because if you are blogging on topics that attract people who are not willing to pay money, then no matter how hard you work on growing your blog readership, you will still not be able to make money from it.

My eBook entitled, ‘Secrets To Finding A Super Attractive And Profitable Niche’ explained step-by-step how you can quickly find a niche that will attract people who are willing to pay so that you can potentially grow your blog to eventually earn a side or full time income.

More information about my eBook can be found here.

Create Useful Content

We all know that content is king when it comes to the blogging world. But just any content won’t do the trick if you want to see your blog grow.

Like I said earlier, if you want your blog to grow, you’ll need to focus on a profitable niche. An equally important thing you need to do to attract the right people to read and follow your blog is to create content that your target audience will actually love reading.

Popular posts that often get more reader engagement are such as lists, how to’s, tutorials, resources or link lists, checklists, reviews, case studies, controversial posts and interviews – just to name a few!

Most importantly is to write on topics that are relevant to your target audience. Because when you do this, your readers will want to come back to your blog again and again to get more information on the topics that are of interest to them.

Learn SEO Tips & Tricks

Writing great content without having an audience is very discouraging especially for a blogger who puts his or her whole heart and soul into creating purpose-driven content that is valuable. Having paid advertisements for each of your blog posts can be very costly and it’s unreasonable to pay that sort of money just to publicize your posts.

So to get more people to look and read your blog articles, you will definitely benefit by learning how to use search engine optimization (SEO) tips and tricks that can help you to reach more people who are interested in reading the blog articles that you’ve written.

With SEO, you’ll be able to target specific keywords that are most commonly used by your target audience whenever they search something in their web browsers. The target keywords have to be related to your article of course, or else you won’t be able to rank your article high in search engines anyway!

Build An Email List

Many people who happen to stumble upon your blog when searching for solutions for their challenges might not ever come back to your blog – unless you work on ways in which you can remind them about you and your blog existence.

So the best way to keep in touch with your blog visitors is by building a quality email list. With an email list consisting of readers who are interested in the niche that you’re in, it will be easier to invite people to come and visit your blog again and again.

You can also use this email list to sell stuff to your subscribers later on.

Sell Something

The fastest way you can start earning money and get paid from blogging is by selling something. You can either sell your own products or other people’s products.

Many top bloggers initially start selling other people’s products. This is called affiliate marketing. To earn from affiliate marketing, you will need to introduce other people’s products through your blog. As an affiliate marketer, you’ll be given a link to promote your affiliate offers. And when someone buys from your affiliate link, you will get a commission for making that sale.

Once you’ve gained confidence in selling through your blog, you might want to start creating and selling your own products. Many top bloggers have made their fortunes through selling eBooks, online courses and membership sites. This might be something you can consider as well.

Besides selling digital products, you can also offer services – like coaching, consultancy or freelance services to your readers.

You can also sell physical products either as an affiliate or as a vendor. The best ways to set-up an eCommerce store is by using Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, or eBay.

And if you’re selling through your own website, then you can also use the WooCommerce plugin.

If you want to expand your ideas on selling stuff online beyond just blogging, then you can check out my eBook on Multiple Income Ideas. In this eBook, I will expand your mind on potential ways you can turn your talents into money-making machines online.

For more information on my eBook, click here.

Earn From Advertising

Once you managed to build a large following for your blog, you can start earning extra income through advertising.

In order for people to want to place their banner ads in your blog, you would need to show people proof of your blog viewership. If you blog has hardly any visitors, chances are nobody will want to put their banner ads on your blog. But if you have lots of viewers, people will be ‘fighting’ to get a spot at advertising in your blog. That’s for sure!

But what if you do not have a huge amount of following for your blog yet? Then my advice to you is to start by having Google Adsense displayed on your blog. When people click on ads displayed by Google Adsense on your blog, you’ll be able to earn money per click.

However, when using advertising to earn extra income, please bear in mind that having these ads displayed on your blog will move people away from your blog. So they might not stay on your blog as long as you want them to read your articles. And the amount of money per click that you get will not be that much anyway.

So proceed with caution when using this method of making money through blogging.

10 Best Ways To Get Free Traffic For Your Blog

It is practically every blogger’s dream to be able to grow their blog readership to accommodate a huge flow of traffic. After all, there’s no point in sharing your articles and views through your blog if nobody cares about reading it, right? Unfortunately, with the ever-growing number of blogs that are created each day, getting your blog in front of your ideal target audience has become more challenging. And using paid advertisements to drive traffic to your blog will cost you a lot of money. That’s why in this article, I’m going to share with you the 10 best ways you can use to get free traffic for your blog.

Optimize Your Articles With Long Tail Keywords

No matter what niche you are in, you are bound to be faced with stiff competition. To stand out from the crowd, you need to create content that focuses on keywords with less competition.

Many people talk about optimizing blog articles for SEO, but my advice to you is that if you want to get your articles in front of your target audience effectively, you need to aim towards focusing on long tail keywords.

Long tail keywords are better than just general term keywords because when you focus on general keywords, you are competing with a huge pool of other articles that are targeting the same sort of keywords.

For example, if you are writing about blogging, instead of using the word ‘blogging’ as your target keyword, you can choose to narrow down your article to talk about ‘blogging to make money’.

By focusing on more specific terms through long tail keywords, you will be able to reduce your competition and increase your chances of getting in front of your target readers faster. So you will get more visitors to your blog.

A good tool you can use to get long tail keywords is Ubersuggest.

Publish Relevant Content for Your Target Audience

Your target audience will not even bother reading your articles no matter how good the quality of your content is if you do not write posts that are compelling and relevant to them.

I know that many internet marketing gurus will be encouraging you to publish one blog post a day. But don’t fall into the trap into writing your article and publishing it in a hurry just so that you can meet your goal of the day to publish one article a day!

If you do not do your research to figure out what sort of information your target audience are searching for, then you’ll never be able to reach them.

Why?

It’s because everyone is in a hurry these days. People do not have time to randomly read articles that they feel are of no use to them. Sad but true!

If you want to learn more about creating content that will attract your target audience, then I’d highly encourage you to read my blog articles below:-

How To Create Engaging Blog Content

How To Create Evergreen Content For Your Blog

How To Create Epic Blog Content That Will Rock Your Readers’ World

Use Catchy Article Headlines That Attract Reads

Even if you’ve prepared the best and most compelling content for your target audience, they still won’t read it if your article headlines do not excite them.

Creating catchy article headlines for your blog posts are equally important because the headlines are the first thing that your target audience will see before they decide to click in to read your article.

In search engines, they will quickly browse through article headlines to see which ones they won’t be interested to read. So at this point, you’ll be competing with all the different article headlines that are available.

So if you do not carefully craft attractive article headlines, you’ll lose out on your article viewership.

I’ve written an article previously on how to create catchy headlines. You can read the article below to help you get started:-

17 Catchy Blog Headlines That Actually Work

Publish Blog Articles Consistently

Try to at least contribute one blog post a week if you want your viewership to grow. Search engines love websites that are consistently updating their content.

So by having fresh content up on your blog frequently, you will soon be able to rank high in search engines. And when you get to rank in search engines, people who search the terms that are related to your blog articles will be able to easily discover your blog.

Besides this, people who visit your blog will be motivated to regularly visit your blog and let others know about what you write about because you are always updating your content. It becomes something exciting to your readers!

Be Active In Facebook Groups Related To Your Niche

Facebook Groups are a great way to do networking with people who are searching for topics related to your niche.

To promote your blog through Facebook Groups, you can join multiple groups that are related to topics within your niche. Once you’re approved as a member of these groups, introduce yourself and let others know about what you do. You can let them know about your blog if permitted by the group owners.

Be active in the Facebook Groups that you join. Take notice of the challenges of other people and if you’re able to help them, then reach out to answer their questions. By being a helpful person in these communities, people will want to get to know you and what you do. They’ll also be curious to visit your blog.

Don’t forget to add a link of your blog on your personal profile page so that they can find out about your blog!

This will help you to get traffic to your website for free.

Contribute Guest Posts On Popular Blogs

You can also start contributing guest posts on popular blogs to grow your blog traffic.

Before deciding on the blogs that you would like to contribute to, you must do some research to see if their blog audience will be interested in your blog content.

You can do this by looking at the types of content that they post. See which content that is gaining a lot of likes, shares and comments. Ask yourself whether your blog content fits within this category. For instance, if you’re writing about healthy eating, you won’t want to contribute to a blog that gives recipes that recreates unhealthy type of fast-food chain meals!

Another thing you need to consider is the popularity of the blog itself. To make your time worth, you need to aim at contributing guest posts to only blogs that have high readership. Because if you don’t, you’ll be just wasting your time!

And the last but most important thing you need to be sure about is whether or not the blog owner will give you a dofollow link back to your blog. This is the no. 1 thing you must ask the blog owner before even working on your guest post.

Because if they do not allow you to link back to your blog, there’s no reason to put your sweat and hard work in contributing an article for their blog, right? That’s because people won’t know how to find your blog…

Promote Your Blog Posts Through Social Media

You can also grow your blog readership by using social media to promote your blog posts. Although paid advertising in these platforms will get you traffic faster, you can still grow your blog popularity organically by constantly sharing about what you write about on your social media platforms.

The most popular social media platforms that you can use are Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter. When you contribute posts through these platforms regularly, they will begin to show your posts to the potential target audience who are interested in topics that are related to what you share.

If you want to grow your blog faster, take some of your most popular blog articles and create multiple social media posts for them. It doesn’t matter how many times you post on social media.

The more you post on social media, the higher your chances will be in getting more people to notice your blog and blog articles!

Encourage Social Sharing In Your Blog

You can encourage your existing blog readers to share your articles by installing social sharing buttons under each blog post.

When you include social sharing buttons, it triggers a sense of excitement for people to share your content.

Even if the person who reads your articles have no direct use for the information you have provided, that person can easily share the information with others who might be in need of such information.

So by having these social sharing buttons, you’ll be able to get more people sharing your content to their friends and family.

This will increase your blog traffic fast, especially if you are great at writing content that can go viral!

A really popular WordPress plugin that you can use to do social sharing is Shareaholic.

Utilize Other Publishing Platforms

If you don’t want to go through all the hassle of submitting guest posts for popular blogs, then you can write on other publishing platforms with huge audiences to direct more people to your blog for free.

Some of the popular publishing platforms that you can use to promote your blog out there to more readers are such as Quora, Wikipedia, LinkedIn Pulse and Medium.

You can simply reword and paraphrase the content that you already have on your blog to contribute to platforms like Quora, LinkedIn Pulse and Medium. Alternatively, you can write on other topics within your niche to be published there.

When you publish your content on these popular platforms, you will have the potential of reaching a much larger audience. These platforms will show your content to their readers based on their search preferences, interests and reading history.

For Wikipedia, you can add information to an already existing write-up on their website and link back to your blog post that contains the information that you’ve provided. Don’t be spammy or promotional though because you’ll be banned from Wikipedia!

For Quora, you can also provide answers to the questions of others so that your potential target audience will begin to notice you and your blog.

For all these platforms, don’t forget to add a link to your blog where permitted so they’ll know where to find your blog!

Join HARO To Expose Your Blog Through Publications

You can also get ‘free publicity’ for your blog by contributing your answers and articles through HARO. Registering yourself as a source can be done in minutes. And all you need to do is pitch your answers to publications when they need resources or thoughts on some things.

When you contribute through HARO, you will get your name and website link featured. This will be a huge advantage to you as you will be able to reach out to a wider target audience who are already interested in topics within your niche.

This will help you to generate traffic and promote your blog for free.

I hope the strategies on how to get free traffic for your blog will be of great use to you when doing your blog promotion. Have you tried any of these strategies before and found them useful? Or do you have other strategies to share? I’d love to hear from you in the comment section below.

By caroline_poh

Blogging, Business Tools, Content Marketing

15 Reasons Why Every Business Should Have a Blog

Blogging is one of the most powerful tools that any business owner can use to grow and compete in today’s digital landscape. However, many still question the need of having a business blog.

They question whether having a website is enough and whether a blog will be able to give them the return on investment they are looking for. To me, whether you’re a carpenter, handyman, baker, hair stylist, fashion consultant, medical professional, artist, musician, tutor or anything at all – you will definitely be able to grow your business by having a blog!

Here are my 15 Reasons Why Every Business Should Have a Blog:-

Establish Yourself as an Authority and Expert

Blogging gives you the ability to demonstrate your knowledge, skills and expertise in your field. When you provide your target audience with relevant information and write-ups that help them solve their problems, they will begin to regard you as the expert in the field and use your blog as a go-to resource whenever they need to learn more about your field. And when they become your regular blog readers, they will become interested in knowing what you do and the types of products or services that you offer. These regular readers might become your leads and sales. And if they don’t, they might recommend your products or services to friends or family members who may want to buy from you!

Motivates You to Improve Your Knowledge and Skills

When you’re constantly updating your blog with fresh content, you will be motivated to do more research, experiment and connect more with people in your industry. The more you write about the topics in your area of expertise, the more knowledgeable you will become. And you will also be able to sharpen your communication and writing skills along the way while writing your blog and interacting with your others in your industry and your blog readers! Also, when you become more knowledgeable, you will begin to see more your readers being drawn to your blog to provide them with more information about your chosen niche.

Helps You to Compete with Competitors

If you’ve been in the situation before whereby you thought that having a blog was going to be a waste of time and money, there are probably a lot of your competitors who are still saying the same thing! So getting your blog started can put yourself in front of your target customers fast before your competitors get to them. And when you have a blog, you will be able to showcase your personality, values, brand and unique selling points to your target audience. Many other businesses may be offering the same products and services as you. But when you are able to differentiate your business from the rest of your competition, you will begin to see your blog readers begin to connect to your business. These readers may become loyal customers to you or even recommend your business to other people!

Grows Your Email List

Every business needs leads that they can convert into sales in the future. So by having a blog, you will get an engaged audience to opt-in to your email list. These will be strong leads that are most likely to convert into sales because those who have signed up to your list already reads your articles and know that you have expertise in your area. You can include call-to-action to encourage your blog readers to opt-in to your email list by offering them free digital downloads, reports, case studies or trainings. And by moving these people to your online sales funnel, you will be able to introduce them to your products and services so that they will eventually turn into customers.

Encourages Two-Way Communications With Customer

By having the ability to showcase your personality through a blog, you will become more approachable in the eyes of your customers and future customers. Besides providing valuable content for your blog, you should also encourage customers and prospects to leave their feedback and comments on your blog. This will give you an insight as to how your target audience sees you. And you will also be able to clear any doubts or negative thoughts of people towards your business by responding to any negative comments.

Provides Content for Social Media

You can also connect your blog posts to your social media channels to reach more audiences. Your social media channel needs to be updated regularly. So instead of just sharing content created by other people, why not share your own blog content and drive your target customers directly to your blog? You can create multiple social media posts using a single blog post to attract people who are visiting their social media accounts at different times.

Creates Opportunities for Content Sharing

When you share engaging, valuable, entertaining and fun content on your blog, chances are that your blog article may actually go viral! Ensure that you have installed plugins on your blog that will make it easier for people to share your blog article on social media. When people share your blog content, you actually get free publicity and benefit from word-of-mouth marketing. The more people share your content, the more you and your business will become well-known. The best part is that more of your target customers may come to know of you when your articles go viral!

Gives Your Business a Face and a Voice

Would you like to give a phone call to a company only to be answered by an answering machine? Probably not, right? Same goes with customers of any sort of businesses. Your customers want to deal with real people. Having a blog will enable you to personally connect with your readers by showing exactly who you are (as the Founder or staff behind the curtains) and what your business and brand is all about. When you readers begin to connect to your business this way, they would more likely want to do business with you rather than some other companies that doesn’t bother to connect with them. This helps to build brand loyalty amongst your target customers.

Opportunity to Express More Through Blog Content

Who loves receiving sales letters that are all about selling a product rather than connecting to you? None, right? But through blog content, you will find that your readers will be more opened to receiving news about your products and services if they are connected to a topic that is relevant to them. In fact, an attention span of a reader of a blog post is generally higher than someone who reads a generic sales letter! This is because blog posts provide value rich content that draws a reader to engage with it. However, you must be aware that you need to write your blog post in a way that highlights more about the problem that your readers are trying to solve rather than talking all about your products and services. There is an art to doing this and I may reveal it in one of my upcoming blog articles in the future.

Helps You To Launch Successful Marketing Campaigns

When you have regular readers to your business blog, you will find that launching a successful campaign for your business much easier. This includes doing product launches, eCourse launches, the promotion or certain ideas or events, poll competitions or any sort of campaigns that will help you to generate more leads and sales.

Grows Your Community and Network

Practically everyone loves to be part of a community or network that shares common interests and challenges. Once you have established your blog and gain regular readership, your readers will start to communicate to you by providing feedback and comments through your blog. Some of them may even contact you directly to collaborate and offer joint venture opportunities. You will find that when people begin to take part in communicating through your blog, more people will be encouraged to connect with you. This is because your blog has brought them a sense of belonging. They want to be part of a community and network. And that’s what your blog will do.

Drive More Traffic To Your Website

Relying on getting traffic from search engines when you only have an ‘About Us’, ‘Contact’ and ‘Services’ pages will be very tough. By having a blog, you will have the opportunity to rank your website by using certain keywords that are normally used by your target audience. Search engines, especially Google loves websites that constantly provide relevant and fresh content. Your blog will enable your website to rank high in search engines if updated regularly. The more visitors come to your website, the higher your chances will be to get more leads and sales for your business!

Rewards You With Long-Term Results

When it comes to blogging, the post you write today for your business will continue to help you generate more leads and sales in the future. In my previous post – ‘How to Create Evergreen Content for Your Blog’, I’ve highlighted how you can come up with blog articles that will stay fresh and relevant for years to come. You can use the tips I’ve shared to promote your own products, get affiliate products to sell or establish a connection with your readers so that they will follow your blog. You will find that the more you contribute blog articles, the more results you will get for your business – as in you will be able to generate more leads and sales!

Helps You To Improve Your Products and Services

Your customers and potential customers will not tell you directly why they are not buying your products and services. But by creating blog articles that describes about a particular product or service and asking for feedback from readers, you will be able to determine the real cause for your lack of sales. Using this method, you will be able to continuously improve your products and services to a point where it becomes a hot seller amongst your readers and target customers!

Provides a More Affordable Form of Marketing

By having a blog, you get to promote your business, brand as well as products and services in a more affordable way. For example, the web hosting company I use – BlueHost provides me with unlimited storage space for my blog at a low cost. So no matter how many posts I publish in my blog, the cost of running my blog will be the same. I can do promotional blog posts, announce about my new course, introduce affiliate products and create poll questions as well as competitions using my blog without any additional cost.

Blogging is no longer just an alternative tool that you can use to improve your business. In fact, if you have a small or medium-sized business, then blogging is a highly essential tool that can help you to beat your giant competitors. Having a blog will give you the ability to showcase your personality, brand and business to a wider target audience. It will also help your customers and prospective customers to connect with you. You will also be able to improve your products and services by receiving relevant feedback and comments from your valued readers.

I hope that you’ll be encouraged to start a blog for your business after reading my article.- 15 Reasons Why Every Business Should Have a Blog. Do you agree with any of the points that I’ve just mentioned above? If yes, please leave your comments in the comment section below. And if you already have a business blog and are benefiting from it, I’d like to know too.

By caroline_poh

Blogging, Content Marketing

How To Create Epic Blog Content That Will Rock Your Readers’ World

It is every bloggers dream to create epic blog content that attracts their ideal target audience to engage with it, share it, bookmark it for future references and read it over and over again. I mean, who wants to spend hours writing articles that nobody will read or even care about? None, right? That’s why in this article, I’m going to explain to you exactly how you can create epic posts for your blog that will rock your readers’ world!

You must be scratching your head right now wondering what is epic content, right?

Well, epic content is content that provides the ultimate solution to your readers’ problem, provides them with the courage to move mountains to solve it, motivates them to change for the better, inspires them to share the content with others and emotionally connects with them so that they can fully engage with it.

Epic content is the key to connecting with your target audience at a higher level to gain more loyal readers and increase the popularity of your blog, brand and business!

Although we can never really fully define whether an article is epic, readers of the content will know it straight away when they see it!

So if you are planning to write epic articles for your blog to impress your readers, then keep reading.

Here are my best strategies on How to Create Epic Blog Content That Will Rock Your Readers’ World:

Well-Written

When preparing your blog articles, do not rush into hitting the ‘Publish’ button as soon as you have completed your write-ups. Take the time to read your post over and over again, preferably aloud at least twice to spot any typo or grammatical errors. Remove any jargons that are not familiar to your target audience. Try to simplify the way you explain things so that it will be easier for your readers to understand what you are trying to say. Make your message as clear as possible.

Catchy Headlines

A great article will never get noticed without catchy headlines that will draw your readers towards it. So remember to brainstorm potential headlines first before hitting your ‘Publish’ button. In my article ’17 Catchy Blog Headlines That Actually Work’, I explained how to craft impactful blog headlines that will attract your potential audience to read your articles. Take a look at this article by clicking here.

Be Conversational

Try to spark a conversation with your audience by writing as if you are talking to them. Blogging is an informal way to connect to your target audience. There are many ways you can use to set the conversational tone going in your articles. A really popular way to start a conversation is by asking questions to your audience and encouraging them to leave comments in your blog.

Controvversial Views

As a beginner in blogging many years ago, I feared to express views that are controversial to the norm because I was afraid that there would be readers who will hate me for what I stand for. However, I now realised that by expressing my views honestly, I draw more loyal readers to follow me. Creating controversial views not only attracts attention, but because it is seen as an alternative to what is usually being said, people will tend to get excited and share about it even more. It’s considered – ‘news’! So if you are afraid to write controversial views, do not hesitate. Because by doing so, you’re probably just one step away to creating that epic blog content you’ve always wanted!

Unique Solutions

Have you ever been searching high and low for a solution to a pressing problem in your life or workplace only to find that the answers given in each and every blog you visit are the same? You’ve tried all the recommendations and unfortunately, the problem was not solved and you keep on running into the same answers whenever you go online over and over again. Will you get frustrated? I’m sure you will…

Well, like many people will say – if it’s not new, then it’s not news!

So do your readers a favour and give them alternative solutions to their problems. Because if they have tried you solutions and found them useful, they will probably let others know about you and your blog!

Be Detailed

Another mistake that many bloggers make is writing as though their readers already have prior knowledge about the topic they are covering; or writing as though they can read the writer’s mind. When writing your blog content, explain the topic and any complicated terms or words in detail so that your readers will understand where you are coming from. This will motivate them to continue reading your article. You can publish ultimate guides, tutorials, detailed to-do lists and in-depth case studies or examples to give them a thorough understanding on what you are explaining. When you get to connect to your readers at their level of understanding, you can also inspire them to take action and succeed. Readers love to share about blog articles that connect to their emotions and help them to change their lives.

Action Oriented Advice

You should also strive towards giving action oriented advice to your readers. If everything is elaborated in just a story form without including any list of actions required for success, your readers may feel lost when it comes to taking the first few steps to solving their problems. So by having a list of actions that they can take, this will help them to overcome their fears of not knowing how to get started and minimize their level of failure. When your readers are more confident that your solution can help them with their problems, they will most likely share it with others facing similar problems as them.

Invoke Emotion

Connect with your readers’ hearts through your written blog content by inspiring them to push forward and overcome their obstacles. Provide them with the confidence they need to succeed in their challenges.

When you get to connect with them at an emotional level, they will begin to step into your world and see what it would be like once they have solved their problems.

Share with them the stories about how you went through the same thing that they are going through now. Let them know how you faced it with courage and the emotional roller-coaster you went through. And describe to them how you felt after you have solved your challenges.

Stir their emotions, connect to their hearts and they will love your content and share it with everybody they know!

Visually Appealing

You only have a few seconds to impress your readers. People are no longer just attracted to blog posts through written content. They are attracted through images too!

Have you ever scrolled through your favourite social media channel such as Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest and find yourself stop to read a post from an unfamiliar person because of the catchy images that has been attached to the post? I’m sure you have! And the same goes for blog posts…

So to attract more readers to your blog content, you need to include images!

Some examples of images you can add to make your content epic are photos, infographics, videos and diagrams.

Do Your Research

I know that a lot of internet marketing ‘gurus’ out there are drumming in your heads to publish at least 1 article a day. But to me, that is not even necessary…In fact, if you force yourself to publish everyday but have no idea what content to publish, what you will find yourself doing is publishing for the sake of publishing.

And because the content is rushed, your readers will notice. Your article quality will be compromised and your readers will see you as being unprofessional.

So hold back…

Do your research thoroughly before writing your blog article and hit ‘Publish’ only when you are ready.

When your target audience gets to know about your article, reads it and finds it valuable, they will be hungry for more information. This is a key to getting them to visit your blog over and over again.

Now imagine if you simply wrote an article for the sake of publishing it and your target audience discovers it? What impact will it bring to their lives? Nothing, right? Will they ever come to your blog again? Probably not!
So do your research first before writing and publishing your article. You won’t regret it.

Valuable Content

Last but not least – make sure to give valuable content if you want your blog to be epic. If you’ve managed to provide the ultimate solution to your readers that cannot be found anywhere else, your readers will definitely find your content valuable.

And when you provide solid advice without using flowery words or using 1000 words when you can explain things in just 50 words, that’s valuable too!

I guess that’s all the tips I can share today…

Although there will never be a 100% guarantee on whether your blog content will be seen as epic….All you can do is just do your part and follow these steps.

And let your readers decide whether your content is epic or not!

If you like what I just shared on How to Create Epic Blog Content That Will Rock Your Readers’ World, or have implemented any of these steps and found success, then I’d encourage you to leave your comments in the comment section below. And if you have friends of family members who are struggling to create an impact through blogging, then share this article with them too. Remember, a little help goes a long way!

By caroline_poh

Blogging, Business Tools, Content Marketing

How to Create Evergreen Content for Your Blog

Content is king when it comes to making your business known to your target audience on the internet. So how do you make full use of all the blog articles and write-ups that you produce for long term success? The answer is – evergreen content!

Evergreen content focuses on topics that remain ‘fresh’ and relevant to your target audiences for years to come. Creating evergreen blog content for your business is a really good strategy to develop strong SEO so that your blog will continue to attract more visitors over time.

This tactic also helps you to establish yourself as a thought leader and expert in your field as more and more people will get to know about you and learn from your expertise and content writing.

You will also be able to continually serve your customers and potential customers throughout the year by providing this evergreen content.
It is important to note that evergreen articles are not:-

News-related pieces

Holiday or seasonal write-ups

Current trends and crazes

Statistics or numerical reports

Pop culture fad

Latest clothing and fashion trends

Although such articles may boost up your website rank in search engines, the demand for such information will fade sooner or later. So it’s important to understand that both trending and evergreen content can contribute towards your business success.

Examples of evergreen content that you can produce are:-

Product Reviews

Lists

“How-to” tutorials

Answers to FAQs (frequently asked questions)

Industry Advice

Glossary of terms and phrases that are common to your industry

Testimonials

Case Studies (Successful and What-Went-Wrong)

Resources List

Top Tips

Checklists

List of Free and Paid Tools

Books to Reach a Specific Goal or Solve a Challenge

Interviews

Lessons Learned from Mistakes Made

Common Mistakes in an Industry

Pros and Cons write-ups

Below are my top tips for finding suitable evergreen content ideas for your blog and business:-

Right Keywords

What are the types of keywords that you would like your website to rank for? The best way to figure this out is to determine the types of challenges that your customers are normally facing.

After figuring this out, you will need to brainstorm the potential questions that your customers would be keying into their search engines. And from there, you can use these questions to make a decision on the types of keywords that you will be focusing on to rank your website.

You can get ideas of the types of keywords to use by doing a thorough research on Google Adwords. Try to choose longtail keywords instead of more general keywords because the competition for such keywords would be less. So it will be easier for your customers to discover you.

You must also see that the keywords you have chosen have a good amount of search volume per month.

Use the Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool.

Once you have selected on the Keyword Planner tool, you need to click on ‘Find new keywords’.

In that section, you will need to key in the terms or keywords that would be most likely used by your target customers.

Then you can look through the suggested keywords and average monthly searches to see what are the keywords that are popularly used. You can also use this method to find other potential keywords that you may have missed earlier.

Besides using Google Adwords, you can also use Keywords Everywhere to search for potential related topics that may have a good volume of searches. Keywords Everywhere is a browser add-on that you can use on Chrome and Firefox. It allows you to see what types of keywords are normally used.

Once you install Keywords Everywhere onto your web browser, you will see at the bottom right the search volume for the keywords or term that you have used.

You will also find that at the top right of your browser, there are a list of related keywords compared to the keywords or term that you have used. You can use this to get more ideas for your evergreen content.

Visit Pinterest

Once you have determined that best keywords that are suitable for your evergreen blog articles, I’d highly recommend for you to visit Pinterest for some ideas.

Pinterest is a great place with huge database of evergreen topics. Just key on your chosen keywords and Pinterest will highlight to you so many types of topics you can write that focuses on your chosen keywords.

Optimize for SEO

The next thing you want to do is to create your evergreen content article in a way that is optimized for SEO. You can do this by ensuring that your images have alt text and that your main keywords are in your title, URL and your body copy. Do not overload your articles with too many of the same keywords. Choose a variation of different, but related keywords. You can also hyperlink other related evergreen articles in each of your articles so that your readers will continue to read your blog. This will increase their time on your blog, which will be good for your SEO too!

Create Content Suitable For Your Audiences (Beginners, Intermediate or Advanced)

In order to engage your audiences, you need to write your content in a way that relates to them. If you are targeting an audience with beginner knowledge to a specific topic, then write simple to understand articles that are suitable for beginners. On the other hand, if you are targeting audiences with intermediate or advanced knowledge in a specific topic, then you must write your articles according to their level of understanding. Doing this will ensure that you get to fully engage with your readers so that they will visit your blog again or support your products and services.

Avoid Jargons and Technical Terms

Unless you are writing for an audience that are used to jargons and technical terms, avoid using them at all times! This is because you will only frustrate your readers by using them. And if you have no choice but to use certain jargons and technical terms in your blog, then remember to explain to your readers what those words mean. It’s no use spending all that time writing articles that won’t be understood by your readers.

And so that’s it. Your complete guide to discovering topics for creating evergreen blog content that will help your business to grow. I hope that you found this article helpful. If you like what I have shared and would like to receive my future blog updates, don’t forget to join my newsletter by opting-in to receive my free ‘7 Copywriting Mistakes’ guide below.

References:
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2012/10/16/guide-to-evergreen-content-marketing
https://www.copyblogger.com/evergreen-content/
https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/en-au/blog/2017-10-04-the-beginners-guide-to-evergreen-content
https://blog.scrunch.com/the-benefits-of-evergreen-content-in-your-content-marketing-strategy
https://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/06/evergreen-content-formats/
https://www.workablelife.com/write-evergreen-content-blog-business/
https://suzie81speaks.com/2018/04/16/how-to-create-evergreen-blog-content/
https://thecreativegirlbosstribe.com/what-is-evergreen-content-and-why-do-you-need-it/

By caroline_poh

Blogging, Business Tools

How to Choose a Domain Name

You’re all excited now, wanting to begin your online presence with a paid web hosting. But wait! You still have yet to figure out that best domain name for your website.

Picking a good domain name for your website as it will be your identity on the World Wide Web. Find the perfect website name can be challenging as a lot of great names have been already taken.

With these simple steps, you will be able to learn how to choose a domain name for your website:

Step 1 – Reflects your company name or business

If you’re building a website to promote your existing business, then you will need to have a matching website domain name to your company name or business.

Step 2 – Is it Memorable?

If you are starting your website without having an existing business to link to it, then ask yourself…Can people remember your domain name after they have left your website?

The best way to do this is to brainstorm a few names and circulate them to your family and friends to ask them which names they are likely to remember.

Avoid choosing a domain name with words that are spelled wrongly. You should also avoid having any hyphens and numbers in your website name.

Step 3 – Keep it Short

Avoid having a complex and long web domain name. This is because people may not be able to remember a website name that is too long.

Step 4 – Keywords

It’s advisable to use keywords that relate to the key niche of your business or services, especially if this business can be brought offline as well.

For instance, if you would to provide wedding services, then your website domain should potentially have word ‘wedding’ in it. This is so that your potential customers will know what your business is about.

This will also help you to rank better in search engines so that you will get more traffic to your website. The print screen below shows the top three websites that appeared on Google when I typed ‘wedding services’ in the Google search bar.

Step 5 – Include Geographic Terms (only if applicable)

If your business only provides services to a certain geographic area, then you can add the location in your domain name. But if you have plans to expand your business to the whole world and not limit yourself to a certain area, do not include geographic terms.

An example of a domain name with geographic term is weddingservicesmelbourne.com.au (see below).

You can of course exclude the geographic term altogether even though you service within that area. The choice is yours.

Step 6 – Choose a .com…if possible

It’s advisable to choose a .com for your website domain name simply because it’s the most recognisable compared to the other TLD (Top Level Domain).

Step 7 – Research the name

Before you register your domain name, check and be 100% sure that you have not selected a name that is trademarked, copyrighted or used by another business.

Step 8 – Quickly register your domain name

Once you have done all the steps above, quickly register your domain name. If you would go to Bluehost and register your domain name, they will recommend you with alternative domain names if the domain name you had in mind is no longer available.

The alternative website domain names given by Bluehost are below:

Alternative Website Domain Name Suggestions

So now that you know how to choose the best domain name for your website, you’re ready to register for your paid web hosting and website name.

References:
https://au.godaddy.com/blog/10-tips-choosing-perfect-domain-name/
https://websitesetup.org/#step-1
https://www.domainregistration.com.au/domains/tips/
https://moz.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name-whiteboard-friday
https://fitsmallbusiness.com/choosing-a-domain-name/

By caroline_poh

Blogging

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By caroline_poh

5 Steps to Find a Profitable Niche

5 steps on how to find a profitable niche

One of the biggest challenges for many who are new to blogging or having an online business is deciding on a suitable niche. It’s important to know how to find a profitable niche at the very beginning so that you will not waste your efforts in building your website. If done properly, a niche website will be able to help you in concentrating your efforts better, understand your audience well enough to be able to sell products to them, position yourself as an expert in your field and build trust and loyal readers.

Step 1

Be completely honest and ask yourself:

If you were not paid, what sort of topics will you continue to read and research about?

What are your hobbies?

Have a look around your house or office to see what sort of physical products, software or digital products that you have purchased in the past.

What sort of advice do your friends and family ask you on a regular basis? Have they praised you for any solutions that you have given to them?

In your current or previous jobs – what were your strengths? Did you specialise in any areas? Did you help to solve your company’s challenges in any way?

Now, I want you to jot all these answers down. Just write whatever that comes to your mind. Do not think too hard as you’ll overcomplicate things. Based on these answers, you will then be able to narrow down your potential niches.

Step 2

Next, you will need to find out whether these niches are popular on the internet so that you will know whether they are worth pursuing.

I recommend you to find out the demand of these niches through Google Adwords. It’s free to register for Google Adwords and if you already have a Gmail account, you can use your username and password to login to this tool.

Once you logged into your Google Adwords Account, you will see on your top dashboard of the Keyword Planner that there’s a ‘Tools’ icon. Click on this icon.

Next, you will need to select the ‘Keyword Planner’ link on the dropdown menu.

After this, click on ‘Find new keywords’.

For this exercise, I’m going to make the assumption that you have chosen teaching piano as your niche. So I will be typing in ‘how to play piano’ under the new keyword search. Then I’ll hit the ‘Get Started’ button.

Now, you will need to choose a location for your search outcomes. For this exercise, I have chosen ‘United States’.

You will see below, that the Keyword Planner has come up with the average monthly searches for ‘how to play piano’ based on searches from the United States.

What you will also find is a list of related keywords to your main keyword, ‘how to play piano’.

If there are more than 10,000 average monthly searches for your main keyword and at least 50,000 average monthly searches across other related keywords, then this indicates that this is a good niche for your website.

Step 3

After this you will need to go to ‘Google Search’ and type ‘how to play piano’ to see how many results you can get from that term. As you can see below, there are 275,000,000 results from this main keyword. So it means that many people are developing content in this area. This is shows that it is a profitable niche because people are spending time writing about this niche.

Step 4

When you’re new in a niche, it isn’t easy to start your own product straight away. So you may want to consider selling other people’s products in the mean time.

A quick way to finding out what products to sell is by typing in ‘Google Search’ the words ‘how to play piano + affiliate’. You may also want to check out popular affiliate programs such as Amazon and Clickbank to find physical products, software or online courses in your niche.

If you see many products in your niche, it means your niche has the potential to be a profitable one.

When checking out the affiliate opportunities for physical and digital products sold in your niche, it is important to find out the potential commissions you can get out of each sale. This will give you an indicator as to whether your business will be able to be profitable.

Step 5

The next step is to do a competitor research. Find the blogs and website that are in your niche. Find out what products and services they are selling and how much they charge for them.

For example, I would go to ‘Google Search’ and type ‘how to play piano + blog’.

Then you can find a blog that offers products and services to get an idea on what you could potentially develop and sell to your prospects in future.

For example, I found this really cool website on how to play piano called Piano Blog at http://www.pianoblog.com/

The owner of this blog, Matt, offers paid courses and private piano lessons.

You should then dive deeper and see what courses he is offering and how much he charges for those courses. This is an indicator on how much people are willing to pay for products in this niche.

A thorough competitor research will help to determine whether you can upscale your business in future.

You can also sign-up for webinars, podcasts, free products and opt-in to these blogs to learn more about what they are offering and how they approach their customers and prospects.

Once you have determined your niche, you can then move on deciding your website domain name and register your web hosting.

Have you used any of these tips on how to find a profitable niche and found them useful? Do you have any other tips to share to find a profitable niche?

References:
https://www.copyblogger.com/niche-keyword-research/
https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-to-pick-a-profitable-niche-for-your-online-business-4000460
https://www.chrisducker.com/finding-your-niche/
https://nichehacks.com/ultimate-guide-finding-niche-market/
https://ladybossblogger.com/12-most-profitable-niches-for-making-money-online/

By caroline_poh

Blogging, Content Marketing

57 Best Content Writing Prompts for Bloggers

Are you a content writer who is constantly coming up with new ideas for your blog posts? Even as an experienced blogger, I’m sure you will encounter times when you have absolutely no clue about what to write for your upcoming blog articles. That’s why in this write-up, I’m sharing some of the best content writing prompts that you can use as a blogger or content creator to get amazing blog article ideas.

By using these writing prompts, you will be able to decide on your upcoming blog articles ideas and topics much faster! I’ve personally used these prompts to help me to generate interesting content ideas for my blog and have found them very useful.

Below are the Best Content Writing Prompts For Bloggers:-

Have You Used Any Useful Tools Lately?

You can share stories about how specific tools have helped you in your business or blog operation. This is because your readers might be looking for similar tools and will find your article very helpful!

What Are The Most Common Questions That Your Readers Would Ask?

The best way to get your article noticed is to provide an answer or answers to pressing questions that practically everybody in your industry are asking about. Trust me, this works!

What Topics Are Your Competitors Writing About That Are Getting Lots Of Engagement?

You can predict whether your article topic will become popular by simply looking at your competitors’ blogs to see which of their articles that are getting lots of engagement. The reason is because your competitors will be targeting a similar target audience as you. So the chances of your readers engaging with your content that features a similar topic will be high! Just make sure not to copy your competitors work because that would be wrong…

Can You Interview An Expert In Your Industry?

Do you have any connections with experts in your industry? If yes, then you can interview an expert and turn it into your next blog post. You can also interview several experts and compile their answers into a roundup blog post.

Do You Have A List Of Go-To Write-Ups That Has Helped You?

Do you frequently refer to certain write-ups to help you in performing certain tasks? You can make a list of these articles and hyperlink them so that your readers will benefit from them too.

Do You Have Any Behind-The-Scenes Stories That You Can Share?

Your readers will be thrilled if you can provide them with some behind-the-scenes stories about your life and what you’ve been up to. Perhaps you have an upcoming project that you’re working on or an existing product that you are improving. You can share snapshots of what you are working on right now to get your readers excited!

Can You Identify What Are Your Most Popular Blog Posts To Date?

If you’ve been blogging for quite awhile, you would be able to identify what are your most popular blog posts. You can do a roundup article featuring a list of these popular blog posts and linking them to the original write-ups.

Which Blog Comment Catches Your Attention The Most?

Besides replying to your blog comments, it’s beneficial to start noticing which blog comment that catches your attention. This is because you can use this blog comment to generate an idea for your upcoming blog article!

Have You Made A Mistake And Learned How To Solve It?

While trying to work on something, have you made a mistake and discovered how to solve it? You can share this experience with your readers in your next blog post so that they can learn from it too!

Have You Achieved Something Significant Recently?

Have you finally achieved a milestone in your life or business that you are proud of? Why not share it with your readers instead of keeping it to yourself? It will be so nice if you can share it with your readers and thank them for their support.

Why Did You Choose To Do Things In A Certain Way?

Your readers may be curious as to why you choose to do things in a certain way. So why not write an article about why you are doing things the way you do? That will give your readers a better understanding about how you approach things.

Can You Name A Person Who Has Impacted Your Life and How You’ve Been Impacted?

Can you tell a story about a person who has impacted your life and how you’ve been impacted? It can be about somebody whom you personally know or someone you admire from afar. It can be an online influencer too!

How Can You Tell When You Are Doing Things The Right Way?

When you’re doing certain things, can you tell whether you’re on the right track? If yes, what questions asked yourself or results that you got that made you conclude whether you’re doing things right? Summarise this into a blog article and I’m sure you’re readers will thank you for it!

Did You Read Any Books That Impacted The Way You Do Things?

If you’ve a book lover, I’m sure that you’ve read some really good books that have impacted they way you are doing things now. You can write an article about these useful books so that your readers can also benefit from them.

What Is Keeping You Awake At Night?

Is there something that is keeping you awake at night? You can share this thought with your readers because chances are – they are feeling the same too! And this will make them relate to your blog article better…

What Significant Things Have You Learned From Your Job/s?

Learning on the job is a golden opportunity that not many people realise. If you’re going through a season in your life or business and have benefited by making the right decisions or doing things correctly because of what you have learned from your job/s, you can share this experience with your readers. I bet you that this will be a great eye-opener to your readers.

Who Are The Ones Motivating You In Your Business And Life Journey?

Gratitude is one of the greatest things that let your readers know that you are ‘human’. So if you are feeling motivated to move on in your business because of someone’s kind words or belief in you, then you can share this in a blog post.

What Are The Latest Trends In Your Industry Right Now?

If you have been constantly reading about topics within your niche, chances are you might have read about the latest trends in your industry. People who are interested in your niche are interested in learning about new things all the time. So if you’re stuck with ideas on what to write for your next article, just pick a latest trend to talk about!

Why Couldn’t You Achieve Certain Things?

Readers within your niche would love to know why some things are just not possible! As hard as it sounds – some things are just myths and some ideas just cannot be achieved without doing certain things first. If you had experienced an obstacle that has blocked you from achieving certain things and have found out the reason for the obstacle, why not share your experience with others?

Can You Write An Open Letter To Your Younger And / Or Future Self?

At your stage in life, what would have you written to your younger self? What would you write to your future self? You can give some advice, rant about something or motivate yourself…This will be an interesting article to write about. It’s not just an article…It’s you talking to yourself through an open letter!

Do You Have A Significant Childhood Memory That Influences You Today?

Sometimes they reason why we do things in a certain way, think about stuff and react to specific scenarios in life is due to something that has happened in the past. If you had a significant childhood memory that has influenced you to be motivated and stay positive in doing what you do, then your readers know about it!

How Do You Keep Yourself Inspired Despite The Challenges?

Everyone goes through challenges in life. I’m sure your readers have their own set of challenges too. By writing an article on how you have inspired yourself to keep going in doing what you are doing despite the obstacles, you are also motivating your readers to strive for the best in life!

What Scares You The Most?

Have you encountered a scary incident in your life that has made you decide on making a bold decision in your life and career? If yes, then you can share this in your article.

What Frustrates You The Most?

What is bothering you right now in your life, business or industry? It can be something that can be easily resolved…Or it can be a myth that has been misleading others to a wrong path…Whatever it is, try to state your frustrations in a way that doesn’t sound too negative. Instead, let your readers know how these frustrations can be resolved.

What Do You Strongly Feel About That Others Should Know?

Do you have a strong opinion about something that you feel others should know? Then it’s time to share it in your upcoming blog article. Because as a blogger, you are also an online influencer. By sharing this, you are showing your readers that you care about them!

What Challenges Do You Face And How Did You Overcome Them?

Have you encountered challenges in life or business that you have managed to overcome? If you don’t mind to share about them to your readers, this will greatly encourage them to overcome their own challenges too!

What Do You Like About Yourself?

Do you like yourself because of a certain talent, ability, quality or personality? Sometimes it’s good to let others know why you’re proud being yourself and not just trying to be somebody else. This not only will give you a boost of confidence, but it will also let others know why they should look up to you and what you have to say or share!

What Are Your Hopes For The Future?

Do you have certain goals that you wish to achieve in your life or business? By sharing this through a blog article, your blog readers will know where you are heading and what they to expect from you and your blog in the future.

Why Do You Like Doing What You Are Doing Now?

Do you like blogging, dealing with clients, doing your job or doing anything in your stage of life right now? If yes, then why not share it with your readers? It will help them to relate to you better because it shows that you are ‘human’.

Can You Walk Anyone Through The History To What Got You Started On Your Journey?

If you understand the art of storytelling, then this writing prompt is for you! Your readers are interested in not only what you have to share about your niche. They are interested in what got you started in blogging, immersing yourself in your niche and servicing them! So share your story to them.

Can You Discuss About A Shared Enemy?

Do you and your readers dislike a certain group of people? Who are they? If you can write an article about them, I’m sure your readers will bet interested in reading it!

What Is The Best Unexpected Gift That You’ve Received?

Have you received an unexpected gift that you appreciate so much? How has it helped you in life and business? Share this story to your readers.

Does An Image Remind You Of Something Significant?

Sometimes a writing prompt can also come by looking at an image. If an image can bring you a sense of emotion and remind you about a particular topic within your niche, then just let this image be your guide to inspire you what to write for your next article.

Can You Warn People About A Potential Problem Or Mistake That Might Occur?

Do you know about a potential problem or mistake that your readers are bound to make? Then by writing an article about it and sharing it to your readers, they will be so thankful to you and begin to respect you as a thought leader.

Can You Explain About What Fascinates You The Most?

Are you fascinated about a certain reaction that people make when you say something? Are you fascinated by a certain technology that is changing the way people do things? Are you fascinated by how you can achieve things by doing things in a certain way? These are definitely worth sharing with your readers through your next write-up.

Are There Any Famous Quote That You Can Relate To?

Have you come across a famous quote that you can relate to? It could be a common quote shared in your industry…Or it could be a quote that has helped you to stay motivated in life. It can be a good idea to write an article that explains about a particular quote as long as you know how to apply this quote to your readers challenges and lives.

Can You Write About A Case Study To Educate People?

You can write a case study about an achievement or challenge faced by people in your industry. This will help your readers understand how to apply the knowledge and skills they have into practice.

Do You Disagree With A Common Belief That Is Gripping Your Readers?

Do you know about a common belief that is gripping your readers from success and doing what they want to do in life that you disagree about? Then share why you disagree with it. Your readers will thank you for it!

How Have You Achieved Your Goals?

This an article where you can show off your proud achievements in life. It could be an award you have just received, a high income milestone, or a new goal that you’ve just met for your business.

What Are Your Predictions Of The Future For Your Industry?

What do you think your industry will be like in future? Will it be all rainbows and sunshine? Or will there be more challenges in your industry? Let your readers know because I’m sure they’ll be interested in this!

Have You Regretted Doing Something Before? Why?

Have you regretted doing something before? If you have then let your readers know why…It could be a wrong decision in picking a product, it could be believing in a concept that doesn’t exist or it could be anything at all – as long as it relates to your industry or life.

How Did You Manage To Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone?

Many are ready to cheer people on in taking action. But only a handful of people who really want to do something actually get started. By sharing your story on how you managed to get out of your comfort zone, you are encouraging your readers to take action in improving their own lives too!

Have You Seen A Really Great Infographic Recently?

Infographics are great. But we often let great infographics pass us by without even thinking of using the inspiration from the infographics for our next blog post. So the next time you see a great infographic, keep it in a folder and use it as inspiration for your upcoming write-up!

What Are People In Your Industry Talking About On Social Media?

If you’ve been blogging for quite awhile, you will know that being active on social media is not just a fun thing to do. It is to learn more about your industry and to listen to what your readers might want to know about. Can you identify a certain topic that is commonly discussed in social media about your industry that you have yet to cover in your blog? If yes, it’s time to start writing about it!

How Would You Like To Improve Yourself In Future?

Would you like to improve yourself by acquiring certain knowledge and skills that would help you in becoming better in what you do? If yes, then share this goal with your readers. They might also want to improve on those skills too!

Have You Spoken Anywhere Recently – Like At A Conference Or Training?

If you’re into public speaking, then you’ve probably spoken at a conference or training. Instead of just showing off a pretty photo of yourself on stage, why not take parts of what you’ve spoken to write your next blog article?

What Are Your Favourite Apps And Why?

Mobile apps are the so popular nowadays as it provides us with the convenience of getting things done in seconds. If you’ve been using certain mobile apps to help you get things done fast, then why now share about them to your readers through a write-up?

Can You Interview A Member Of Your Team?

If you’re leading a team that is helping you to develop your business and blog, you can also write about a member of your team. By sharing about your team member/s to your readers, it will make your business and brand more relatable to them.

What Is One Of Your Toughest Challenge Doing What You Are Doing Now?

If you have a blog, you’re either in business or you’re maintaining a hobby blog. In your career or blogging moment, what is the toughest challenge that you have encountered? How did you overcome it in order to become what you are today? This information can be turned into a really interesting blog post!

Can You Interview One Of Your Customers Using Your Products?

Have you been selling your products or services to customers who rave about you all the time? If yes, then for your next article, you can choose one of them to be interviewed. Featuring customers in your blog not only helps you to increase your credibility. It also helps other readers in the same situation as your customers to relate to your brand more!

What Are Some Creative Ways People Can Use Your Products For?

Can your product be used in multiple ways? Then write an article on how your customers can use them. Chances are, they might not even know that your product can serve them in so many ways!

Can You Run A Contest?

Would you like to drive more people to your blog and increase people’s awareness about your business and bran? Then by running a contest, you will definitely get more people to take notice about what you do! Write an article about a contest that you are conducting and share it on social media and enjoy more traffic to your blog and website.

Can You Create A Checklist Or Ultimate Guide That Will Benefit Your Readers?

Are there certain checklists and ultimate guides that you can create that will help your readers in overcoming their challenges. Then you can share it in your next article. Chances are, many of your readers will either link back to your valuable write-up or bookmark your post in their computers for future reference!

Can You Review A Book That You Recently Read?

Have you read a book recently that you feel would benefit your blog readers? If yes, then why not write a review about that book! You can also include your affiliate link in your article so that you can get some commission by recommending the book to others.

What Popular Keywords Within Your Industry You Can Focus Your Next Article On?

If you’re into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), chances are that you will notice certain keywords that are popular within your industry. If you want your next article to be a hit, then why not focus your upcoming write-up on those popular keywords?

Can You Create A Seasonal Post Meant For Either Summer, Autumn, Winter or Spring?

Especially for eCommerce businesses, every season will provide different opportunity to sell certain products. So why not write seasonal posts that are specially prepared to address topics pertaining to either summer, autumn, winter or spring?

What Are The Useful Things That You Learned That Has Helped You?

Have you acquired a specific knowledge or skill that you have found to be very useful in helping you to progress in your life and business? If yes, then why not share about it to your readers? Let them know why it’s worth acquiring those skills so that they will be motivated to improve themselves too!

And the above sums up my 57 Best Content Writing Prompts For Bloggers. Whether you’re a newbie or advanced blogger, I’m sure that you will benefit greatly by using these prompts. Have you used any of these prompts before or have other great content writing prompts to share? If yes, then share your thoughts in the comment section below.

References:
https://coschedule.com/blog/creative-blog-post-ideas-and-topics/
https://optinmonster.com/50-blog-post-ideas-that-you-can-write-about-today/
https://expresswriters.com/creative-blog-ideas-for-writers/
https://medium.com/@BiancaBass/52-writing-prompts-to-inspire-your-next-blog-post-d4556d4f68d8
https://www.copyblogger.com/fascinating-content-prompts/
https://www.quicksprout.com/blog-topics-and-ideas/
https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/68-blogging-prompts-to-help-you-get-over-writers-block
https://startbloggingonline.com/blog-post-ideas/
https://elnacain.com/blog/37-blog-post-ideas/

By caroline_poh

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How to Get Free High Quality Backlinks for Your Blog (Even When Nobody Knows You!)

All the articles in your blog will be meaningless if nobody knows that they exist. So to increase the chances for your target audience to discover you and the valuable content that you have created, you need to find ways to get free high quality backlinks for your blog.

‘Backlinks’ are sites that link to your website. When you get authoritative websites linking to your blog, this will be good for SEO and you will start gain more organic traffic as your blog ranking will increase and your articles will become more visible in search engine results.

Below are my easy methods on How to Get Free High Quality Backlinks for Your Blog (Even When Nobody Knows You!):-

Blog and Niche Directories

Once your blog has a few articles, you can submit your blog to blog and niche directories. Although some of these directories may require you to pay a minimum fee to be featured on their directories, you can still find a lot of directories that will feature your blog and provide a backlink to it for free.

Create High Quality Content

Focus on preparing great content that is valuable to your target audience. Although there are some exceptions, but the following content formats have higher chances in getting backlinks compared to others:-

‘How to’ posts

List posts

‘Why’ Posts

Videos

Infographics

Quizzes

Posts about myths and common mistakes

When you create high quality content that are both interesting and compelling, people would love to share them with others without hesitating. So this will help you to get more backlinks for your blog.

Produce Trending, Viral or Controversial Content

Apart from creating high quality content, you can also choose to feature trending and controversial content in your blog articles. These are also the types of content that will attract backlinks to your blog. Although it is not always possible, but try to strive towards creating content that can go viral. You can choose to focus on an unusual topic, discovery or unforeseen angle when creating your articles for in hopes that they may go viral. When your articles actually do go viral, you will receive so many backlinks for your blog!

Publish ‘The Ultimate Guide’ Articles

Whenever you write on a particular topic, search for other articles feature the same topic. Brainstorm on ways you can make your article even better compared to all the articles that are at the top of search engines. Strive towards creating ‘The Ultimate Guide’ articles that your readers can refer to without reading other articles. When you publish ‘The Ultimate Guide’ articles, you will find so many people linking back to your blog.

Submit Articles to Social Bookmarking Sites

You can choose to promote your blog articles using social bookmarking sites. These websites are designed to help people to store, search, organize and share web pages, videos or images. Examples of social bookmarking sites are Reddit, Digg, Twitter, Pinterest, Pocket, Slashdot, scoop.it and We Hear It.

Use Social Media to Promote Articles

After completing each of your blog articles, remember to promote them in your chosen social media channels. Choose the social media channels that are used by your target audience regularly. So when you promote your articles, the chances of you getting backlinks to your blog will be high!

Submit Articles to Blogging Communities

Submit your blog articles to blogging communities so that more people will discover your valuable content. You can start by sharing your articles to Blog Engage, Kingged, DoSplash, Klinkk and Blokube. When you do this, you will have a greater chance at getting free backlinks to your blog.

Contribute Guest Posts on Other Blogs

Another way to do link building is to write guest posts for other blogs that are related to your niche. By offering to write articles for other blogs, you will increase your audience reach. And in return, the blog owner hosting your guest post will be more than willing to provide a link back to your blog.

Forum Signature

Participating in industry-related online forums are a great way at getting your name out there to your target audience. And if you are a regular participant in these forums and have earned your way into these communities, you may be able to feature a link back to your blog from your forum signature.

Be Active in Facebook Groups

Apart from online forums, being active in Facebook Groups related to your niche may also give you the exposure you need to get more backlinks. When you provide valuable advice to the members in the Facebook Groups that you join, people will want to know more about what you do. And if you have a link to your blog in your Facebook profile, people will begin to discover your blog. And if they like what you write about, they may link back to your blog.

Interview Popular Bloggers Related to Your Niche

You can create content around a specific trending topic and interview popular bloggers related to your niche to share their opinions on that topic and include their comments in your piece of content while linking back to their blogs. Once you have completed your work and have featured it in your blog, you can email them to let them know about it and ask if they would be willing to share your content in their blogs and social media channels.

Mention About Other Influencers in Your Articles

Alternatively, you can get some quotes and inspiration from the content produced by top influencers in your field to produce your next piece of content. And in your content, you can mention the quotes from these influencers and how they have inspired your work. After doing so, you can email the influencers letting them know about it and ask if they would be happy to share your content in their blogs and social media channels.

Comment on DoFollow Blogs

A more passive way to get easy backlinks is to comment on other blogs. However, to make the time you have invested in commenting worthwhile, remember to comment on DoFollow blogs. DoFollow blogs are good because they will help you to increase your authority when you comment. There are a number of Add-Ons you can install on your web browser to find out whether a blog is a DoFollow blog. Remember to provide a link back to your blog when commenting.

Become a Source for Help a Reporter Out (HARO)

You can widen your audience reach by contributing articles through HARO. When you register as a source, you will receive requests from publications who might be able to reach your target audiences. Look out for requests that are related to the topics that are valuable to your target audiences. Once you have identified a request that best suits your niche, send a brief and valuable pitch to the journalist. When you get featured in the publications requesting for information, you will be rewarded with a free backlinks to your blog from authoritative sites.

Get Links from Outdated Resources / Broken Links

This is one of the fastest ways you can get high quality backlinks for your blog. If you are constantly staying in touch with the latest news about your industry, you will find out about companies changing names, shutting down, discontinuing certain services or moving to a new URL. You can then use a backlink checking tool like Ahrefs to check find the websites that are linking to that old URL.

You can then contact the webmaster of those websites to let them know about the broken links. Provide them with the exact links that are broken and inform them about potential resources they can link to. Include your website as one of the resources. The webmaster will be more than happy to link back to your website because you have helped them out.

You can also use this same method to get backlinks to your blog by simply searching for websites in your industry that have outdated resource pages.

Once you have found these websites with resource pages, run them trough the backlink checking tool to see what are their broken links and repeat the process in informing them about useful resources they can link to, which include link/s to your blog!

Contact Websites / Blogs Mentioning About You

Sometimes, people may mention about you or your blog in their website without linking back to your blog. The fact that they have mentioned about you or your blog means that they already like what you do and what you share. So getting backlinks from these people will be very easy. All you have to do is send the webmaster an email to politely let them know about how you found out about their content and how they have quoted or mentioned about you. Then let them know how you would appreciate it if they link back to your blog. They would be most willing to help you out!

Review Products Related to Your Niche

You can also review products that are related to your niche and feature your reviews in your blog articles. After featuring your review, you can reach out to the PR team of the brand you have mentioned by email and include a link to your article. In your email, ask them whether they can share your article on their social media channels or on their product page.

Build Your Internal Links

You can also use internal links to connect the different articles that you have written that are related to one another. You can use anchor texts for this purpose. Good internal linking will help your readers to navigate your blog easily and increase your overall user experience. This will be good for SEO too.

And this sums up my easy methods on How to Get Free High Quality Backlinks for Your Blog (Even When Nobody Knows You!). Have you used any of these strategies and found successful results for your blog before? If yes, let me know in the comments section below. And if you like what I have shared and would love to receive my future blog updates, don’t forget to join my newsletter by requesting my ‘7 Copywriting Mistakes’ free guide below.

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https://www.shoutmeloud.com/101-ways-to-get-quality-backlinks-to-your-blog.html
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https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247984

By caroline_poh

Category: Blogging

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