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Three Super Easy Methods To Increase Your Blog’s SEO

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There are many methods to increase a blog’s SEO. Some of those methods are highlighted here, but most of the SEO increasing methods out there take several months of work before they pay off. However, there are certain methods to boost your SEO that do not take much time. In addition, these methods are super easy to implement. Here are the methods.

  1. Include categories for your blog posts. Categories make it easier for people to navigate through your blog. This will result in more people clicking on links and sticking on your blog. As a result, categories lower your blog’s bounce rate, and as people stay on your blog for a longer period of time, they will be more likely to buy your products or subscribe.
  2. Add tags to your blog posts. A tag is a word or phrase that someone searches into Google (or another search engine) and finds your blog. Tags work like exclamation points which means the more tags you have, the less useful they are. My recommendation is to have 2-5 tags for each of your blog posts.
  3. Include keywords in your blog posts. Keywords strengthen your tags and allow people on search engines to easily find your blog based on search terms. When you include keywords in your blog, you must avoid stuffing keywords in your blog posts. A good rule of thumb is to use a keyword at least five times, but if that keyword appears in every sentence or every other sentence, that keyword needs to be reduced. Just come up with synonyms for your keywords and you’ll be fine.

Those are the three super easy ways to boost your blog’s SEO. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional super easy methods you would like to share? Please share your thoughts and advice below.

 

10 Ways To Come Up With Ideas For Your Next YouTube Video

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Whether you are publishing one YouTube video every week or every month, it is important to have ideas in place for your next video. The quicker you get the idea, the quicker you are able to plan out your video, record the video, and publish it to YouTube. As you publish more YouTube videos, coming up with ideas that you have not used already becomes more difficult. Luckily, there are always ideas available, and here are 10 of them.

  1. Look at your blog posts. If you write one blog post every day and publish one YouTube video every week, you will have seven times as many blog posts as you have YouTube videos. That means you already have the ideas in front of you. Just take one of your blog posts and turn it into a YouTube video!
  2. Look at other people’s blog posts. See how you can combine your knowledge with someone else’s blog posts to create an original YouTube video. Reading other people’s blog posts will also expand on your knowledge.
  3. Talk about a problem in your niche. People want to know the common pitfalls in your niche so they know to avoid them. In addition to talking about the problems in your niche, be sure to provide the solutions for each of those problems.
  4. Talk about success stories. Chances are there is someone inspirational in your niche who has gone through a lot in order to become successful. You can create a success story for that individual and show others that they can be successful too.
  5. Talk about your own experiences. You may have a success story of your own or just want to talk about what happened to you yesterday. Regardless of what you talk about, you need to connect it back to your niche.
  6. Look at other people’s YouTube videos. Looking at other people’s YouTube videos will allow you to identify what kinds of videos people in your niche are uploading and which ones are the most popular uploads. This can help you identify which videos you need to publish on YouTube.
  7. Look at your past YouTube videos. Maybe you shared a tip in one of your YouTube videos that you want to expand on. It’s also possible that you liked the message in one of your first videos but don’t like the way it came out (it takes a while to get experience). You can create a Part 2 or a better version of an older video.
  8. Any new updates relating to your niche. People who want to learn more about your niche do their best to stay up to date. When something big happens in your niche, you can come out with a new YouTube video explaining what just happened.
  9. Tips about anything related to your niche. Many viewers are looking for good nuggets of information. Providing tips about anything related to your niche gets the job done.
  10. Core values. Whether these are the core values to living a happier life or getting more Twitter followers, talking about them and including “Core Values” in your video’s title will attract attention.

What are your thoughts on publishing 1 YouTube video every week? Do you have any additional ideas for YouTube videos? Please share your thoughts and ideas below.

 

Learn Or Plateau

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In his book No Excuses, Brian Tracy mentioned something that forever changed the way I view my niche. In the book, he said that you either learn more about your niche or plateau. You can only go so far with the knowledge you already have, but in order to go further, you need to obtain more knowledge.

Learning more about your niche creates more possibilities. If you stop learning about your niche, you are limiting your capabilities. Learning about your niche will allow you to become the go-to expert in your niche. In addition, learning about your niche will give you more knowledge that you can package into books and training courses.

Make the choice today to learn more about your niche so you are able to grow instead of plateau. Never settle for where you are. Always raise the bar higher and strive for better results.

 

Why You Need To Include Videos In Some Of Your Blog Posts

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There are going to be some instances when your visitors will not feel like reading a blog post. Even if you make your paragraphs bite-sized, there will be some instances when your visitors will prefer to watch a video. Going from reading to watching allows the reader (now a viewer) to absorb more information just by listening.

If you are occasionally sharing your own videos in your blog posts, there are other benefits that occur. The first one is that you get more views for your videos. Getting more views will make your videos look more popular, and if those are YouTube videos, you will also be able to get more subscribers.

Imagine what would happen if your YouTube channel got 100 views every day. Then, imagine if it was more than that. Your YouTube presence would probably grow dramatically. Embedding your YouTube videos on your blog is a powerful way to grow your YouTube presence and get more engagement on your blog at the same time. This is a simple blogging and YouTube tip that few people implement, but implementing this tip will lead to better results for your blog and YouTube channel.

What are your thoughts on including YouTube videos in your blog posts? Please share your thoughts below.

 

The Five Worst Blogging Tips You Will Ever Hear

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If used properly, a blog can allow the people in your tribe to easily connect with you and each other. In an attempt to learn about using a blog properly, bloggers come across multiple blog posts that contain tips and tricks about being successful with a blog. You may have stumbled across this blog post in your epic search to discover more blogging tips. However, there are some methods claimed as effective that do not work as well. These are the tips that bloggers believe to be effective but are really big mistakes. These are the five notorious tips that stood out from the rest.

  1. Focus on SEO. This must be the biggest. lie. ever. Sure, there are bloggers who get thousands of daily visitors from search engines, but these bloggers reached that point by creating a large social media audience. It was easy for me as a new blogger to believe that SEO was the key to success. SEO is still the key to success, but getting social media traffic is what provides the flare for SEO traffic. When I started to bring in over 300 daily visitors from Twitter, I immediately saw a rise in my SEO traffic. It was not one of those rises that is hard to detect. It was one of those rises that allowed me to get 50 extra visitors from SEO overnight (which at the time was a ginormous increase). Do not focus on SEO. Focus on creating a big social media presence.
  2. Never recycle your old content. Not only is it okay to do so, but it is also beneficial. It benefits you because you have one extra blog post scheduled without writing any new content, and your readers get to read valuable content they may have forgotten. It is also important to remember that none of your readers read your blog in the order that the blog posts are published in. Many of your visitors never read the blog post you wrote two years ago, and there will be some visitors who did not read the blog post you wrote two months ago. Here is more information about recycling your blog’s content.
  3. Your blog’s loading time is not important. Few people recognize the significance of a fast blog. If your blog takes a few seconds to load, then that’s too long. Even if the pictures on your blog take a while to load, it is essential that your readers are able to see the content of your blog post. These are some ways to make your blog load faster.
  4. Valuable content is all you need to write a great blog post. There’s so much more than that. Having a bad headline, putting all of your content in one big block of text, and grammatical errors all decrease the value of your blog post. It may contain valuable information, but people must have a desire to read it in order for your blog post to be worth anything.
  5. The longer they are, the better they are. Longer blog posts have better rankings on the search engines, but that’s the only reason you would want to write a long blog post. The truth is that your readers are very busy people. They have other blogs to read, work to do, places to see, and places to be. They are not going to read a blog post that is as long as a novel. For this blog post, I could have bored you with three examples for each of these five bad tips. I’m sure this blog post could have easily been 3,000 words long if I did that, but who would read through that? Getting subscribers and returning visitors is not just about getting them to come by and read your valuable content. It’s also about getting these people to read through your entire blog posts. A 3,000 word valuable blog post that gets skimmed over typically does not provide the same value as a 1,000 word blog post on the same topic with the same methods that gets read from start to finish.

Now that you know the five worst blogging tips, you know some of the things that you as a blogger need to avoid. Which mistakes were you making?

 

How To Get 200,000 Blog Visitors Every Year

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Reaching this stage of the game means your blog is very popular and that you are a credible in your niche. However, few people are able to reach this milestone. I am writing about this topic because this blog currently gets an average of over 200,000 visitors every year. In other words, that’s 548 daily visitors. I am going to share with you the methods I used to get this far and ultimately make my blog become popular.

The first thing that helped me is valuable content. Valuable content encourages people to share your blog posts and revisit your blog. I recognize when certain blog posts on this blog are valuable while others are not valuable. Anything from 2012 is not nearly as good as the content that I write for this blog now. I was not providing a lot of value in 2012 because I was just focusing on survival and being able to write one blog post every day just for the sake of staying consistent. It is better to provide valuable content at the cost of losing your consistency because the more valuable content you have, the more content you can share on social networks.

Another reason I was able to reach this milestone was because I stuck with it. I won’t go into the details about my blog before it was popular. This picture does a fine job with that. Sticking with it allowed me to get better at writing valuable content and learn new methods of gaining traffic a long the way. Many people give up because they are not getting enough traffic. I almost gave up on this blog similar to how I gave up on others as well. However, I knew the growing your presence on the web niche was a niche that I wanted to be a part of. I decided to stick with it hoping my statistics would one day look like the statistics from that picture (and now, they do).

By far the biggest reason towards my blog’s success that was more powerful than anything else was social media, and Twitter in particular. Twitter has been the driving force for this blog’s growth and success. Twitter alone generates an average of over 100,000 visitors every year. In addition, when Twitter traffic picked up, my search engine traffic also picked up. That taught me a very important lesson: SEO traffic and social media traffic are correlated.

Those are the reasons why my blog now gets over 200,000 visitors every year. However, that has been rising at a phenomenal rate. My goal by the end of the year is to be able to get 500,000 visitors every year and have an Alexa rank under 100,000. Basically, I am trying to more than double the number of visitors I get within a few months, but it would not be the first time something like that happened.