Category : Blogging tips

Identifying your blogs niche market

Identifying Your Blog’s Niche Market

Do I have to focus on just one niche market?

In the beginning, bloggers often struggle with focusing on a specific topic or targeting a specific group of people. In fact, I still struggle with this as a blogger.

If you are anything like me, you may feel the desire to write about anything and everything you are working on that could possibly be of help to somebody else. It is a great goal to want to help a lot of people with your blog. BUT you also want people to return to your blog on a regular basis rather than to just stumble upon the one or two articles that may be relevant to that person.

This is why you really need to think about defining your niche market, or target audience.

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Daily Blog Tips

Daily Blog Tips To Keep You Motivated

If you could pass on some daily blog tips to someone, what would they be?  To spend time each day working on a blog post, or perhaps spending daily time on social media?

One of the things that many new bloggers struggle with is keeping their momentum strong.  It is all very well to start off excited and determined, but this can often fade and bloggers feel discouraged when they are faced with the competition of others.  Do you ever find yourself concerned at how you can stand out from the crowd?

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Social Media Strategy

Your Social Media Strategy Defined

Social media is a fantastic platform for you to grow your blog, but do you have a social media strategy?  With the huge variety of platforms available, and the relative ease that they can be set up, even newbie bloggers can get up and running with them quickly and start seeing the benefits. 

Bloggers can however find themselves presented with difficulties when it comes to building up followings on these platforms, and more often that not it is because they don’t have a social media strategy in place.  It is one thing to have a Facebook fan page, a Twitter profile, Google Plus page etc, but unless you have followers (and followers that engage with you), it will be difficult to see the rewards from your hard work.

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Start Blogging

Start Blogging With 4 Useful Tips

Are you looking to start blogging?  How much time do you have available in your day?  Are you someone that sits there twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do next?  I didn’t think so!  I have not  met many people that say they have lots of spare time on their hands and I don’t expect you are any different.

So if you admit to not having much spare time, what is your plan to start blogging and integrate this into your life?  Have you given much thought about how you will find the time to actually undertake the blogging?

What is your perception of how long blogging will take you?  Are you going to commit one hour a month, a week or a day to it?  Have you given any thought as to the things you will need to learn to make your blogging successful, such as SEO, linkbuilding, guest blogging, commenting, social media and so on…..

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Facebook Fan Page

Do You Need A Facebook Fan Page?

Whether you are new to blogging or not, one of the questions you will have asked yourself is whether you need a Facebook fan page.  Facebook celebrated it’s 10th birthday not too long ago, and it is now one of the most successful social media networks

Most people seem to have their own Facebook profile and love to connect with their friends over this social cyberspace. Facebook has however moved forward far further than sharing details with your friends about where you are and what you are having for dinner.  It is also a fantastic avenue for promoting your business via a Facebook fan page.  There are over 1.23 billion active users on Facebook, which means you have access to a potential 1.23 billion customers!

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