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How to Create New WordPress Pages
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Search Term Suggestion – Saves Time And Money
Keywords are one of the most important aspects of your online business. Keywords will determine how many visitors you get, how much you will pay for those visitors (though in many cases it can be totally free) and how qualified those visitors are. To find the best keywords you need to use the best keyword search term suggestion tool.
There are many to choose from, but one of the best is completely free to use. Google has a keyword tool that provides you with several search parameters and it is free to use right online, you don’t need to download anything.
Since Google is one of the big 3 search engines it’s just common sense that they would know which search terms get searched for the most as well as other factors about how competitive they are.
Using their data and keyword tools can provide you with all the keyword information you need to make money online. There is a process to it though, learn the process first so you know the best way to do it.
When you start out online one very common (and very wrong) practice is to use the keywords that have a lot of monthly searches. By ‘a lot’ I mean search terms that are getting into the hundreds of thousands of searches a month.
At first glance that seems like a good idea, doesn’t it? Surely with hundreds of thousands of visitors to your site, you will be rich and retiring from your day job in no time.
But, not so fast. With those highly searched for keywords you will have so much competition that it’s very unlikely that you will be able to compete at all. That means you probably won’t get any traffic from those keywords.
A much better strategy is to find keywords that have fewer searches per month so you can rank well for them. Even if you have a list of a dozen or so keywords and each of them averages a few thousand searches a month. You can rank well for many of those terms, not just one.
Think of the traffic you would get if you had say 10 keywords that each got 1,500 searches a month and you were on page one, in the first or second spot for all ten of those keywords. That’s a lot of visitors to your website.
If you add some of these keywords to your web pages you can rank high with the search engines. It’s called search engine optimization and it is a much better investment than paying for traffic and always having to worry about what your bid prices will be.
There are many excellent tools you can use to pick out your keyword list. This process can get a little boring sometimes but it is crucial to your online success.
With so many search term suggestion tools available and many of them free, you can take some of the time and tedium out of the equation.
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Lie Cheat And Steal
Lie Cheat And Steal Your Way….
Yes you read the title right – if you have been blogging with no results, then it is time to turn to the dark side. No more Mr. Nice Guy blogging for you. You have tried your best at being honest – now it is time to embrace the darkness. You need traffic? Then you need to lie, cheat and steal your way to blogging supremacy. Let me guide you down this dire path. If your pure and innocent mind is telling you to stop reading, you might want to continue just to see what I mean.
1. Lie! It is time to forget the ten commandments, lying can help you devise some catchy blog posts that will get talked about. I have to admit that my idea of lying might not be as evil as you were expecting. I am actually talking about satire. You can use satire to craft funny posts that people may feel more inclined to spread. This might be hard to explain so I will give you an example. I pretended to get a sneak peak at some upcoming software. I picked a software release that won’t be happening for years and I gave ten “secret” facts about it. Of course I was “lying”, I just made up new comedic features that were so over the top no one could take it seriously. It ended up getting some twitter love and was one of my more successful posts. The creator of the software even retweeted it and thanked me for giving him a good laugh.
2. Cheat! We covered lies, so now lets move on to cheating. What evil ideas will I come up with here? Well once again, it is a little ,vanilla. I think for us bloggers consistency is key. If you release posts everyday you will get Google love and more traffic. Sometime this is impossible though. I have had days so busy I can’t possibly get a blog post out. That said, my RSS subscribers still got a notification in their email about a new post…because I cheated!
WordPress and most other blog platforms allow you to schedule posts. When you are “feeling it” and ready to crank out content — crank out as much as possible and then like the infomercial says: “set it and forget it!”. You can even keep a couple blog posts in a text file so you just have to copy and paste on your busy days.
3. Steal! Alright this is clear cut, I obviously meant you should go to someone else’s blog and steal their content. This is simple! It is also plagiarism and I’m joking, I do not support that.
What you can steal are ideas! Browse your favorite blogs and get inspiration from them. You can easily and honestly get a topic or general themes from them. You can also go one step further and use a part of their post in your post. You can review their blog, you could review a video they made or you can take a single quote from their blog post (with attribution of course) and discuss your feelings about it. Stealing is usually frowned upon but I think in this case blog owners will be happy to receive exposure from your site.
We grew up learning not to lie, cheat or steal. I think the majority of people would agree they are wrong but even the most prudent person would agree my methods are pretty tame. If you are in a rut then don’t forget; you can lie, cheat and steal your way to creating constant content! This should give your blog a much needed boost, and hey sometimes it feels good to be bad.
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How to Set Up Page Order on Your WordPress Blog
Video: How to change the order of navigation links in your WordPress blog.
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Why is SEO So Expensive?
Video: Brad explains why it costs a lot to do search engine optimization.
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How To Create New WordPress Blog Posts
Video: The fundamentals of creating new WordPress blog posts
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Why is SEO So Important?
Video: Brad explains why it is so important to have your website optimized for the search engines.
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Engage Your Blog Audience
Video: Brad discusses how to keep your audience engaged and commenting on your blog.
