List Building For Newbies

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List Building For Newbies - Build Your List With Pauline

Finding Topics to Blog About

 

 

When you first start to blog, it may seem easy to come up with topics to blog about. But as you continue to blog, you will notice that it becomes harder and harder to keep coming up with unique topics you can write about. There are a number of techniques that you can use to keep coming up with interesting blog topics to keep your content stimulating.

 

 

My Friday Shout Out of The Best Reads of The Week

 

 

 

It’s Friday again and time for my weekly shout out of some of the great blogs I have visited this week.

 

 

 

As you know I am taking part in the Ultimate Blog Challenge this month, as well as urging me to write a post every day for 30 days it gives me an opportunity to visit some new blogs and meet some great people. This week I am sharing with you some of those new bloggers that I have met through the challenge.

 

Search Engine Optimization

 

 

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the way of improving your websites ability to rank in the natural search engine results. Each of the major search engines have an  algorithm that makes up how they rank websites. Even though the algorithm is a close and guarded secret, Internet Marketers have a pretty could idea of how it is made up.

 

 

I will take you through some of the elements of the algorithm

 

Domain Age

Keyword Research

 

Keyword Research is vital to any effective search engine optimization campaign. If you optimize your site for the wrong keywords you could miss out on lots of traffic and potential customers that are trying to find what you do.

 

 

I have broken up the keyword research process into phases to make it easy to understand.

Creating A Strategy

Your strategy is the foundation for your Internet Marketing efforts, so it is important to identify what you are looking to get out of your marketing strategy. Too many marketing campaigns fail because marketers  fail to take the time to recognize clear objectives and goals. They start spending money and resources without having a plan on what they are looking to accomplish. Don’t let this happen to you!

Understand Your Goals

The Ultimate Blog Challenge

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 I was visiting the Moonpreneur blog earlier today and Dee had written about joining the Ultimate Blog Challenge.

It is a challenge to write a blog post every day for the next 30 days it sounded a great challenge and a good way to get your blog out there and noticed and hopefully increase traffic. I left her a comment and said I did not think I could do that but then I sat and thought about it for a while and decided to sign up!!

What have I let myself in for?

Tips On Emailing Your List Part 2

 

I am feeling much better today and the sun has returned after days and days of rain so that has helped my mood too! I think we all feel happier when the sun shines don’t you agree?

I would like to follow on from my last post about tips on emailing your list.

Headlines and Copy Writing

Copy writing can be challenging, you want your subscriber to open
the emails you send them.
One way to get them to open your emails is to create
dangling subject lines, or cliffhanger subject lines.
Here are some examples:

Tips on Emailing Your List

 

I had planned on writing this post at the weekend but I have not been feeling so good so here it is a few days later than planned.

A lot of people have fear when it comes to communicating with their list, they fear they will lose subscribers and yes, this does happen, but the people who stay on your list are the ones you want anyway. They are the ones who want your content.
It is extremely important to build a relationship with your list and these few simple ideas will help to get you started.

My Ten Best WP Plugins

 

It’s another nice sunny morning here in Crete and as I sit here at my desk I decided I wanted to tell you about WordPress Plugins.

If you have a blog yourself it will most likely be hosted on WordPress and you will need some plugins so I wanted to share the ones that I use and recommend. Today I have the ten best for you.

Akismet

How To Create A Short Report In 6 Steps

Today I want to tell you how to use articles and blog posts into a short report and what you can do with it once it is finished.

How can you use the report you are about to create?

1 You can use it to build your list

2 Make it viral

3 Use it as a bonus

You can also offer it to other people to use as a bonus for their products. Find someone with a related offer or info product and email them a copy of the report, letting them know that they are welcome to share it with their customers. If it’s a good report and compliments the product, you can get it on quite a few download pages.