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Is SEO Really Important?

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When it comes to getting more blog traffic, most people rush over to learn more about search engine optimization. By having a blog with good SEO, Google will move your blog posts closer to page one for your blog’s keywords. SEO is an important factor towards getting more blog traffic. However, SEO is also an overrated factor towards getting that traffic.

SEO does have the potential to lead to large traffic stats. Some bloggers get thousands of daily visitors just because they have good SEO. However, it takes a very long time in order to get that many visitors primarily from SEO. It took me over a year before I finally got 100 visitors from search engines in 1 day.

While it is important to make your blog’s SEO better, social media should be the main focus. Not only does social media help out with the SEO, but social media has the potential to drive more traffic to your blog than search engines can. Most of my visitors come from Twitter or Pinterest. Search engines do contribute to some of my blog’s traffic, but social media has contributed to 75% of my blog’s traffic.

It takes a long time before you get to see the results of improving your SEO while you will be able to see an immediate impact if you have enough targeted followers. SEO is important, but similar to how it takes a long time for a seed to become a tree, it takes a long time for you to see a dramatic change in your traffic from search engines.

 

7 Ways To Get More Blog Subscribers

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It is critical to have more blog subscribers. These people get your blog posts via email, and in today’s world, it is almost impossible to ignore a new message in the inbox. When you publish a blog post, your subscribers’ inboxes will each have a new message–your blog post. After that, your subscriber will read the email, and if they like your blog post, that subscriber may decide to visit your blog and see what other content is up there. These 7 tactics will allow you to get more subscribers for your blog.

  1. Consistently post new content. If your last blog post was from a month ago, your visitors will be less likely to subscribe. If you are adding new content to your blog every day, your visitors will be more likely to subscribe.
  2. Offer your subscribers a free report or free video. If you offer something for free to your subscribers, they will be more likely to subscribe to your blog. I was stuck at 10 subscribers for a very long time (most of those subscribers were family and friends). Then, I decided to offer a free 22 minute How To Master Pinterest Video Tutorial. Now I am getting multiple subscribers every day.
  3. Create a powerful presence on one or two social network. As my presence on Twitter and Pinterest become stronger, that translates into more blog traffic. In fact, more than 75% of my visitors come from my social networks.
  4. Make your subscription form easy to see. If your visitor has to scroll down in order to see your subscription form, it’s not easy to see. Your visitor should be able to see your subscription form right when they see your blog’s homepage. There are no exceptions for this one.
  5. Write quality content. Once you are getting visitors to your blog, quality becomes king. In order to gain (and keep) subscribers, you need to write quality content. If you do that, your visitors and subscribers will come back for more.
  6. Keep your visitors on your blog for a long period of time. If you reduce your blog’s bounce rate, more of your visitors will read more of your blog posts. If you keep someone on your blog for a longer period of time, they are more likely to subscribe to your blog and eventually buy your products.
  7. Tell your friends about your blog. Your friends are very likely to subscribe to your blog if you tell them about it. Show them what your blog looks like, tell them what your blog is about, and then tell them that they can subscribe to your blog by entering their email address. However, it is also important to avoid peer pressuring anyone to subscribe to your blog. Only tell the friends who take an interest in what you do and would be the types of people who would enjoy what you write.

Those are 7 tactics towards getting more blog subscribers. Do you have any additional suggestions or thoughts about this blog post? Please share your thoughts and suggestions below.

 

How To Market Your Product On Social Media

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When it comes to increasing more sales, social media is a very helpful tool. I have used social media to attract people to my books and talk with my customers. The mistake too many people are making on social media is promoting their product right away. In fact, I made this mistake in the beginning as well. My first tweet was a link to an eBook that was $9.97 that basically said, “Buy Now!” Not only was my first tweet bad, but the link does not work anymore.

In order to successfully market your product on social media, you can only tell people about your product once every three days. In addition, you need to build conversations with your followers. The best way to get a sale is to talk with your followers instead of telling them about one of your products. After you have a conversation with your follower, and they see a link to your product, that follower is more enticed to buy that product.

When you tell people about your product, tell them at the optimal time of the day. Tweriod is a Twitter tool that allows you to find out when your followers are on Twitter, and there are statistics that tell you the best and worst times to post on different social networks. By knowing the optimal time to schedule your posts about your product, that product will get more attention, and as a result, more sales.

If you want to know whether your marketing tactics are right or not, envision yourself as the customer. Does the customer get annoyed if you are sending a tweet about one of your products every hour? Are the customers happy if you are taking the time to talk with them and then telling them about your product every three days? If you envision yourself as a happy customer, you need to continue what you are doing. If you do not envision yourself as a happy customer, modifications need to be made.

Marketing a product on social media does not have to be a challenge. Marketing a product successfully on social media involves making connections and having conversations with your followers as if you were talking with your follower face to face. You can’t force people to notice your products and expect to get sales. You need to have your posts spread out so you don’t force someone to see so many posts about the same product too frequently. By telling your followers about your product every three days and having conversations with the followers you have, you will be able to boost your sales.

 

Lessons I Learned From My First Payout

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I will never forget the first month that I made money online. I made a grand total of $30.78 for the month with the help of Squidoo. Now, I am easily making hundreds of dollars every month and plan to be making $1,000 every month before the start of summer. In fact, I decided to take the approach of finding out how I could make $33 in one day (which adds up to $1,000 per month).

When I got that first payout, this blog did not exist. I never even thought of writing books. My Twitter presence was not nearly as strong as it is today. Implementing YouTube into my business plan was only a thought. Online training courses were not on my mind.

The first payout represented progress. The first payout told me that it was possible to make money online. When I started, I did have my doubts. At first, I believed this was a giant hoax. Then, someone bought a camera on one of my pages on Squidoo, and I saw a monetary value on my dashboard. The thought of making $6 amazed me. Getting the $30.78 payout amazed me more. I got a payout over $100 the following month, and now I have been making hundreds of dollars every month since.

However, now I want to reach the thousands. I have been writing more than ever so I can publish more books including my upcoming book Lead The Stampede. The first payout I ever received gave me the motivation to continue because after all of the hours of hard work, I finally got rewarded for it.

Instead of being happy with the $30.78, I decided that I should be getting more. I put in more work, and my earnings quadrupled in one month. Now, I will be putting in even more work than I have already been putting in so I can have my first $1,000+ month.

This is my journey towards financial freedom in the future. You are on a journey as well. Instead of settling with where you are, continue your journey so you can see the greater rewards on the other side.

 

Why Everyone Needs To Dream Big

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As the saying goes, “Go big or go home.” There is no longer a life of the in between. You can either be a leader of your niche or not the leader of your niche. That’s the only way there is. The in between option was taken out years ago because the need to become #1 dramatically increased with the introduction and rise of social networks and blogs.

The only way to become the best of your niche is to dream big. As you keep on dreaming big, you will give yourself a giant goal to chase after. Some goals may take weeks to complete while others may take more than a year. However, by dreaming big, you are increasing your standards. Dreaming big results in more productivity.

Dreaming small results in lower standards. An example of dreaming small would be wanting to have 1,000 followers in 2 years. You would only have to gain 1-2 followers a day in order to make that dream become a reality. However, dreaming bigger, let’s say getting 100,000 followers in that same period of time, will result in you being more productive and getting more done. Whether you reach the 100,000 milestone or not within the 2 year period, you are going to be well above the 1,000 follower milestone.

Dreaming big gives us a boost in confidence. Dreaming also allows us to plan our futures. After we dream big, all we need to do is act accordingly. By dreaming big, you will know what you want to accomplish. All you would have to do after that is accomplish the dream.

 

The Results For My First Score Card

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Recently, I wrote a score card in order to control my progress. I was amazed with my productivity over the period of 1 week. The only thing that got scratched from the final list was scheduling 10 days of Google Plus posts because accessing Do Share got confusing to the point where I did not want it to hurt my other goals. I will provide the goal that needed to be reached with parenthesis indicating what I was able to do.

  1. Write 20 blog posts (I wrote all 20 blog posts).
  2. Schedule 10 days of tweets (I scheduled all 10 days of tweets).
  3. Finish 12 KeyNotes for future videos (I finished all 12 KeyNotes).
  4. Finish 8 videos (I was only able to finish 4 of the 8).
  5. Write down ideas for 20 Vines (I wrote down ideas for 20 Vines).
  6. Post 5 Vines (I only posted 2 of the 5).

Although I did not finish 8 videos or post 5 Vines, I was able to do all of the other things effectively. I calculated that I would get a score of 82% (B for the week). You can see the algorithm I use to score my score cards here.

This was a valuable lesson that allowed me to see how much I could really do within a week. This week taught me to take my score cards more seriously because they result in me getting a lot of work done in a shorter amount of time.