Revitalizing Your Blog with Alternative Content Types


You’re a serious blogger. With a background in technical writing and journalism, you supply your readers with a daily dose of thoughtfully-written, highly valuable, easily-actionable content, and you take pride in the fact that you accomplish this task with nothing more than good ole’ fashioned words (and a few pictures, just to keep with the times).

But as the months wear on, you notice your readership numbers dwindling, if only ever so slightly. Comments just aren’t coming in like they used to. Inbound links are becoming increasingly rare, despite your efforts to pack all of your content with useful links to peers and competitors.

Before you abandon your blog, consider your approach. In the current online environment, blogs that rely on text and pictures exclusively are starting to seem boring and redundant. In order to set yourself apart, you’ll need to step outside your comfort zone and explore some alternative content types.
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Achieving Ideal Keyword Density Naturally

Online copywriters need to keep two distinct but interrelated goals in mind at all times: convincing search engines to rank their content highly in results (preferably on the first page), and convincing visitors to actually read and act on the content once they arrive. For a typical e-commerce business, the latter is all about writing copy that will convince the reader to purchase a product, while bloggers are more concerned about persuading their first-time and casual readers to become loyal ones.

Regardless of the nature and purpose of your site or blog, the first goal can only be achieved through the proper use of certain SEO techniques – particularly, ones dealing with keyword density.
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Should Your Blog Release an Ebook?


Most bloggers begin to monetize their blogs the same way – by placing ads throughout their site. While high-traffic blogs can easily generate a stable, sustainable income with nothing more than a Google AdSense campaign, many bloggers quickly find themselves seeking larger and more lucrative streams of income.

If you count yourself in this category, you’ll have options ranging from affiliate partnerships and blog consulting services to drop shipping and even developing and selling your own unique physical product. However, one blog monetization method has become especially popular in recent years – ebooks.

With increased popularity, however, comes increased competition and a consumer market that knows exactly what it wants and exactly what it’s willing to pay. If you don’t know what a successful ebook requires, or if you don’t have a good reason to develop one, an ebook could be a complete waste of your resources. What goes into a great ebook?
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Why Your Blog Never Gets Comments


According to a study by Jakob Nielson, 90% of users at the average website never contribute a single comment. Just 9% of users comment on occasion, while 1% of users comment frequently, providing the majority of the fuel for most comment sections.

Although these numbers seem pretty grim, the news is even worse for bloggers. Nielson calculates that roughly 95% of blog readers never comment, while 4.9% contribute occasionally and the remaining 0.1% comment frequently. Sadly, given these statistics, odds are quite good that your blog rarely receives comments, at least not nearly as many comments as you’d like.

Comments add a lot of value to an individual article and your blog as a whole, in some cases as much value as the articles themselves. Comments have the power to transform your blog into an interactive community – just look at the Computer Audiophile, which consistently receives dozens of comments on every single post. Can your blog achieve the same? Here are a few reasons why it’s not, at least not yet:
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How to Replicate the YouTube Success of Dai Ling Ping

In less than a year, YouTuber Dai Ling Ping has started a YouTube channel and gained 25,000 subscribers strictly as a one-man operation. Now, he’s raking in ad revenue and is poised to grow his unique brand in 2012. For the uninitiated, Dai Ling Ping specializes in humorous, albeit juvenile viral videos, mostly based around video games and always laden with profanity. Ping is appealing directly to an internet counterculture marked by rebellious web destinations like FailBlog and 4chan.

Still, it takes a lot more than an immature sense of humor and a love of gaming to generate hundreds of thousands of views on a single YouTube channel. What are the secrets behind Dai Ling Ping’s success, and how can you apply them to your own video blogging efforts?
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