It’s not enough for bloggers to just write amazing posts day by day. In this post, I am going to introduced to you the concept of blog vitamins not just to nourish your blog but keep it healthy as well.
So why do you need to take this blog vitamins? Like I always say, it’s not enough for bloggers to right amazing posts after another. You have to consider blog promotion, blog monetization and how to keep your visitors. You have to balance all of these for your blog to be healthy. In return, your blog will have an increase in returning visitors and enjoy huge traffic. If your site has huge traffic, you could make more money from it.
If you regularly take these blog vitamins, your blog will enjoy the following things:
Blog will live longer – some blog are just alive for a week, day or months then become inactive afterwards. Reality check, blogging is not an easy thing to do. Writing a quality single blog posts could take you a while and requires a lot of effort.
Blog will look stunning - having an eye-catching theme or layout is not enough for your blog to look healthier. Your site needs to load quickly and site advertisements must be properly laid out. Pop-up or one page ads should be avoided. You could use the following tools to check your site’s loading speed
Blog income oppotunities – You need money in order to maintain your site. Almost every goal of the bloggers is to make money from their blogs. Taking the blog vitamins will give you unlimited monetization opportunities.
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Blog is alive and kicking – People come to your blog and they truly, deeply appreciate it that they will always come back for more
Vitamins have variations and each has their own specialty. Like in our body, we do not need to take vitamins for our eyes but the body as a whole. We need to take a lot of vitamins as well in order to nourish different aspects of blogging. You have to balance all things out in order for your blog to live healthier and longer. You must not intake more of these Vitamins over another or it would be lethal. You have to keep things in balance and not overdo it.
Here are the things that you could do in order to nourish your blog.
Content
- Write posts that are helpful and readers could relate.
- If you write on a daily basis, consider your site’s readers if they will find it useful
- Write on a regular basis
- Encourage your readers to comment
- Break your posts into paragraphs.
- Install commentluv plugin
- Find a spammer blocker plugin (Akismet)
- Practice SEO by installing the plugins such as All-in-One SEO pack
- Respond on comments
Design
- Invest in Personalized wordpress theme
- Find a free wordpress theme that is neat
- Fast loading time
- Lessen your ads
- No pop ups
- Eye-catchy header
- Readable fonts
Blog promotion
- Comment on other blog posts
- Join forums and blogging community
- Place your blog’s url in your signature link
- Purchase banner, text advertisements on other sites
- Organize a contest
- Sponsor a contest
- Join Entrecard community and the likes of it
- Utilize social bookmarking sites
- Shout out your blog’s url in yahoo messenger or friendster/myspace profile
- Let other bloggers review your site
- Encourage readers to subscribe
Blog monetization
- Pay per click sites
- Be an affiliate
- Pay per post sites
- Pay per actions sites
- Place banners and get paid
- Cost per miles sites
- Private advertisers
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well that’s the truth about blogging you need to make a nice blog post not like others just a simple post just to make a post for their blog at that day…
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Yes bloggers block tends to set in at times and you need vitamins and maybe some alone time to clear your thoughts. The blogging community is very large with more blogs added daily, you must strive to be noticed. Thanks for the good read!
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Thanks a lot!!! Another pinay here tho
I have just re-design my blog and in-need of information of how to make money out of my blog. My blog is only a month old that’s why i cant join the pay per post yet. DO you know any good in-line text ads except for ad-brite. I wish you put some useful links on your post too.
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I love the advice you are giving and have seen an increase in traffic by joining Mybloglog, Blogcatalog and doing lots of digging as I downloaded the toolbar and now I am getting fans on digg etc. I also added two polls for both blogs and next month I am going to start contests with my own branded products. This way people will get to recognize my logo too.
If you put the work in it pays. I won 150 bucks bonus award last month for the effort I made on my green not mean blog and that has really got me going!
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yan,
Congratulations for the win!
kurdapya,
I plan to make a post about in-line text ads as part of my “make money with month”.
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in-line text ads im thinking stuff like kontera here imho are not worth it as they are intrusive with a low pay rate per click.
The key for link building is contests etc. though and while Pay Per Post etc can bring in income, the best way to monetise is to write good content so your site grows and thne sell the banners privately (or using OIO)
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ya man i agree with some important facts
Post regularly
Quality content
Quality traffic even if limied
These 3 things can do wonders.
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for blog monetization section, I’d add tracking and testing. It’s not only about placing monetization units (text ads, banners, etc), but also track what position on the blog converts best AND what offer gives you bets results.
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Thanks for the Multi-Vitamins!
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And here I thought that just writting great content for a nitch market was going to be enough!
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great nice tips here, thanks, i need to work hard to give vitamin to my blog
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I like that you have put commenting as the top bullet under promotion. Most bloggers think that just writing posts is enough and dont spend enough time to read others blogs and leave comments.
I like the way you have drawn parallels between blogging and human health. Yup blogs need vitamins too!
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Getting good content on a blog can be challenge and content vitamin
in this case is PLR and outsourced articles. That way you can spend less time putting content on a blog, and more focus on monetization.
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