HostGator Black Friday Sale

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving with their families.  I did and as usual I ate wayyy to much haha

I wanted to write this quick post about HostGators Black Friday 50% Sale.  Now this is a HUGE discount available all day Friday.

Now if you have been thinking about starting a new site or blog or have a site or blog idea you are planning to do in the next month or so, then now is the time to grab your hosting.

At A 50% This Is the Best Deal You Will Ever See For Hosting.

If you have been holding back on that new blog or site idea for fear of not knowing how to start.. Here is what I will do for you.

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Blogging Tips To Blog As A Job

I think there are many bloggers new and established bloggers that still don’t see the work it takes to building a successful blog.

So I wanted to share some of my best blogging tips that most people can related to, which is “Work Your Blog Like A Job”. You see we have all had a job, so when someone tells you that job is hard, or I work hard at my job etc… We all have an idea of what the hard work means.

I know I know, having a blog is your way to live the internet lifestyle and to NOT have a job… and that is still all true, but taking some of your “Job” discipline will let you reach that goal much faster with your blog.

Here Are My Blogging Tips To Build Your Blog As A Job…

Show Up Every Day On Time

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Twitter Landing Page

Few weeks ago I decided to set up a Twitter Landing Page for my new Twitter followers to visit from my Twitter profile.

See New Page Here http://www.johnpaulaguiar.com/twitterwelcome

My thinking was that it would be nice to have a more personal page for just my Twitter followers to visit and where I can Introduce myself and share more information on Twitter that they will be looking for

The goal is to get them to become new Twitter followers and Blog followers.

With a introduction to who I am and sharing posts about Twitter, it will make it much easier to reach my goals.

Below I will break down each section of the Landing Page and why I chose to do things the

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Drive Blog Traffic From Social Media

If you have been following my blog long enough, then you know I am a big fan of using social media to drive traffic to my blog.

When I started my blog 15 months ago, I looked for ways to drive traffic to my blog and that is when I jumped on the social media wagon.  At first I didn’t see much use for it, I didn’t get much blog traffic, I didn’t get much engagement, I thought it was a waste of time.

I decided to stick to it and see what would happen.  I slowly learned to use social media correctly, share more, engage more, be there more, build that community.  Once I did all that, I started to see what many other saw…

Social Media Works, If You Work Social Media Correctly!

Even today, 15 months later, everything I learned still applies and works very well.

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Traffic Numbers Explained

WOW!  I had 834,459 hits to my blog last month… Pretty dam good..Right?

Unfortunately…NO!

You see hits look great, but they don’t really mean anything at all. I know, it hit me hard back when I learned this too.  What is more depressing, is this is true for most of your traffic numbers.  But I have some good news below

We all want our blog to succeed, to some that means getting a big readership, for some it means making money etc… 

It doesn’t matter how you determine your blog’s success, we all have the same traffic numbers to look at

to see how our traffic is doing and looking at the wrong numbers will be a waste of time and misleading.

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