Start A Blog Today

Blogging isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, actually more and more people and businesses are seeing the benefits to why they need to start a blog.

Since I shared with you the hard truths about blogging with my 5 Reasons You Should Not Be A Blogger

Now that you know what it takes to build a successful blog, I want to share the reasons why I believe you need to start a blog right now. Yes Now..

1- Ok I put this first since this has been an ongoing issue for me haha  But I am getting better, to my defense, “I think faster then I type”

Ok Writing on a blog will help you become a better writer with less spelling and grammar mistakes.

2-  Your blog is a good place to let your personality shine, the more of you you show the more your readers will relate.

3-  A blog is the best place to cover a topic

Click To Continue Reading.. »

How To Increase Your RSS Subscribers

Since I have been on a “How To” post kick, I wanted to continue on that and share my tips on getting more RSS subscribers.

Oh and this month was a posting test for me.. results coming next week

Just to refresh, here is the recent How To posts…

Getting Better Google Rankings

Getting More ReTweets

Getting More Newsletter Signups

Ok now why do you want more RSS subscribers?  Basically it is the easiest way to get a new post in front of your readers. Look at it like making a sale, it is easier to sell something to someone who has bought from you before, then it is to make a sale to a new customer.

Click To Continue Reading.. »

Blogger Tools That Every Blogger Needs

As bloggers we have different tasks to do each day to keep our blogs moving forward, here is my list of the blogger tools I use every day to improve my blog and make my blogging a little less stressful.

Some of these blogger tools may be some you know of, but never really put the time into using, so I hope this post will get you to see the benefits to putting them to work for you.

A Tool Isn’t A Tool Until You USE It!

At the end of the day, using these tools will help you build a stronger blog that will get you better results for the time and effort you put in.

My Blogger Tools List…

Click To Continue Reading.. »

Last week I wrote a post on 4 Posts 200 Comments and Lesson Learned

So today I wanted to build on that and go over some blog posts that work well for attracting more comments.

Writing great content is your first step to getting comments on each of your posts. Knowing that, there are some posts that just work better at getting comments then others. Below is a list of the post that have worked well for me.

You also want to write content that is relevant to your blog, all posts below can be used in any niche on any topic.

How To’s

People like to learn how to “do things” themselves. Writing a step by step outline on how  your reader can do

Click To Continue Reading.. »

5 Reasons You Should Not Be A Blogger

I know the title is a little dramatic, but it got you here and the truth is, not everyone is ready to be a blogger.

If I knew what blogging was really about, I may not have started as a blogger, but now that I am here, let me share some reasons why I think you need to rethink the be a blogger route.

Before I get to far into this, let me first say that I think blogging has many many benefits and those benefits keep me blogging every day. I don’t want to block you from being a blogger, what I do want is you to know exactly what you are getting into so you will have a stronger foundation to get started from.

Blogging Takes Work

People think they can setup a new blog and shove some content to it here and there and  expect to see success.

Click To Continue Reading.. »

Reviewing MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate Plugin

Before I start, this is NOT a paid review! I bought this and I use it and luv it.  Links below are affiliate links, so if you click and buy I make a little money.

I have a few plugins I use on my blog daily to make blogging a lot easier for me, but when it came to Ninja Affiliate I looked at it for a few months, saw many of the top bloggers using it, but never really saw the benefit.

Ninja Affiliate is one of those plugins you don’t realize how bad you need it till you use it.  The biggest benefit for saving time for me, is you can have ALL your affiliate product links all in one place.  So no more signing into numerous affiliate sites to gets links each time I write a post or an article…That for me was BIG time saver.

How it Works?

Like I said above, every time you need to input a affiliate link into a post, instead of signing into a affiliate site to get your link, then choosing the keywords you want to link, now all you have

Click To Continue Reading.. »