Twitter Followers – Increase Your Twitter Followers The Easy Way

I recently created my twitter account specifically for this blog. Initially I was too embarrassed to even put my twitter count as it was only showing 40 followers. That figure was pathetic.

I always wondered how none celebrities ever manage to increase their twitter followers by the thousands. It would be an achievement if my followers could even reach the figure of 1000 people. Everyone knows that the more followers you get, the chances of someone visiting your blog increases. Twitter has become one of the best way to increase blog traffic.

After doing much research online I stumbled upon a website called Twitter Follower. This website is create by John Chow.

So what is the big deal with Twitter Follower?

Have you ever encountered the problem when you followed someone but that person does not even bother to follow you? The good news is that Twitter Follower requires each participant to follow people that are currently following them. Sounds confusing? It’s actually quite simple. It’s basically based on the concept of “You follow me, I follow You”. That’s all to it.

It takes less than 5 minutes to set up an account on Twitter Follower. Once you are done, you will be able to see a massive list of Twitter users. All you need to do is start following everyone, but make sure you follow them back or else you might be taken out from the list.

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Now for the big question, does it really work?

Just check out my Twitter count. Right now it’s hovering around 700++ followers. Previously I had only 40 followers. Therefore, if you want to increase your followers, Twitter Follower is the way to go.

June 18, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Traffic Tips | 12 Comments 

Blog For Lazy People – What a niche.

I have always try to update my blog at least once every 2 days or so. Recently I have been slacking as I am pretty busy with other stuff. I then wondered, is there such a thing as a blog for lazy people?

I know that there are automated blogs that generates contents from god-knows-where, but this post is not about automated blogs. It’s about the niche “blog for lazy people“.

I was finding an excuse to be lazy today so I decided to surf the internet for this keyword.  And guess what Google returned?

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As you can see from the screen shot above, Hubpages is listed second on the search result.  I have mention in my mini eBook, that Hubpages is one of the 12 websites you must visit after you have created your blog. It gets index by Google super fast.

Just out of curiosity I visited the article and the links to the blog. I am not going to tell you what the person wrote on his/her blog but it’s truly for the lazy blogger. It’s good to know that such stuff exist out there.

However I did learn something today. Sometimes you do not need to write blogs about competitive keywords such as how to make money online, search engine optimization or internet marketing. It’s impossible for a newbie blogger like me to compete for these keywords. I will never be able to rank top 100 on Google search let alone rank top 10.

In the next couple of weeks I am going to do a small research on less competitive keywords. Once I have done that, I am going to use blogger to create my free blog and try my best to rank top 10. I am sure that all of you know the top 2 blogs on the term “make money online” is hosted by blogger.

As for the owner of blog for lazy people, I don’t know who you are, but you deserve a backlink from my blog. You have inspired me to come out with a new blog with a less competitive keyword.

June 14, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Traffic Tips | 11 Comments 

5 Ways To Increase Your Mailing List

1. Offer free e-books

Everyone loves free stuff. One of the best freebies that you can give your readers is a short e-book that is related to your niche for example, how to make money online. This will provide the user with extra encouragement to sign up.
 

2. Allow visitors to publish your articles.

One great way is to allow your visitor to publish your articles. However they will need to request your permission first before publishing the articles on their blog. The fastest way for them to do that is by contacting you is through a request form on your blog. They will then fill in the necessary details, including their email, in the form.

 

3. Prove to your visitors why they must subscribe

One of the reasons why people might be hesitant to subscribe to any free content is because of email spam. Therefore you should convince your readers why your newsletters are not just another source of spam. The best way of course it to write quality content on your blog. That way your blog content will speak for itself and the readers will know what they will be expecting in their email.
 

4. Write a personal thank you note to your reader

You might have notice that some readers do provide useful comments on your blog post. It is good practice to reply to any comments on your blog. However, if the comments are really valuable and add extra value to the exiting post, take the time to send them a personal “thank you” email. This will not only create a more personal bond between blog owner and reader but provides you the opportunity for that particular reader to recommend your blog to someone else.
 

5. Create a membership drive contest

You can create a membership drive by making it as a contest. Everyone loves to participate in contest because they know there will be prizes to be won. However you should clearly define the rules and regulation before the start of the contest to avoid confusion and misunderstandings.

The methods mention above will definitely increase the number of readers to subscribe to your mailing list. Remember, that people will only subscribe to your mailing list if you have something valuable to offer. If not, your email will either head directly for the spam or deleted mail bin.

June 8, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Traffic Tips | 6 Comments 

So You Think You Can Comment?

Believe it or not, commenting on other people blogs can be a really good way of generating quality traffic and advertising your blog to general public.

Why should you comment?

1) The more comments you leave, the better chance that someone will visit your site.

2) The best part about a comment is that it gives you the ability for someone to link to your post by you just posting a response to a post.

3) As time goes by, you tend to build up a network with other blogs owners. They will in return provide comment on your pages as well. This will in return form a strong bond between these blog owners.

4) Regular readers of a blog or even the owner will eventually remember your name if you start to comment on a regular basis. In a subtle way, it will actually work to your advantage as you are slowly beginning to build your brand.

Where Should you comment?

Remember, you want to send quality traffic to your blog. Therefore the readers of your blog should be interested in your niche. It would not make much sense if you expect readers from a furniture website to visit your blog that is related to ways to make money online.

Therefore it is critical that you should only provide comments on blogs that is related to your niche. Although commenting on other non related niche blogs may send traffic to your blog, but ask yourself this question, will the reader be interested with the contents of your post? The answer is no. That is because what you have written is of not what the reader is looking for.

Provide comment like how you would expect them.

Here are some very simple tips to help you be a better commenter on any blogs:

1) There should be a purpose to a comment and to provide additional value to the post. The comment could be insightful or even base on a personal experience. Regardless it should provide a value to the post.

2) Don’t bid around the bush. There are some readers that love to write comments that are longer than the original post. However if you examine the comments in detail, it can actually be sum up in a couple of sentences. Make your comments short and sweet. It is much easier for people to remember.

3) Spam stinks. Never ever put in your post link in your text comment unless the owner of the blog has already installed a plugin that automatically detects your last blog post. It is not polite to steal someone else spot light by advertising your site.

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4) If you think that a link can be beneficial to the owner of the blog and the other readers out there, then you can it. For example, the blog owner might have written a post about a certain wordpress plugin. However you have read on another website on how to further improve this plugin. You can obviously provide the link to this information in your comment.

Basically it all comes down to common sense. Just ask yourself, how would you like people to comment on your blog? If you do not want certain kind of comments appearing on your blog, you should not expect owners from other blogs to accept that kind of comments as well.

June 5, 2009 | Filed Under Make Money Online, Traffic Tips | 22 Comments 

OnlyWire – Sumbit Post To Multiple Bookmarking Sites

Tired of going through individual bookmarking sites to publish your articles? Well, OnlyWire can do that for you with just a click of the button. I stumble upon this website when I was browsing through some of the blogs.

All you have to do is sign up, include the widget in your blog and you’re ready to go. If you blog is using WordPress blog engine you can easily download the plugin and install it. The plugin will take care of the rest.

The first step to create an account by signing up to OnlyWire. The sign up process is simple and straight forward. Once you have successfully sign up you will need to log in to your account. You will be presented with the default account page.

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Now comes the tedious part, you will need to set up your bookmarking sites. If you do not have account with any of these site, you will need to create one, and fill in the login information and password accordingly. As you can see from the image below I have only setup the accounts for the more popular bookmarking websites. Once I have the time, I will create the account for the rest of the bookmarking websites.

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Take note that if you would like to test out OnlyWire, you can sent a test post to the your selected bookmarking site by selecting the ” Yes, please send a test post to new accounts to verify” option. If not you can uncheck that option and save your settings.

As mention previously if you are using WordPress blog engine you can easily download the plugin. The plugin will then automatically place the button directly at the end of your post. However if you would like to manually position the button , you can include the javascript code into your template. This is commonly done in the in the single.php file in your template. Once everything is completed, it should look something like this.

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In order to submit your post to the all the selected bookmarking sites, you will need to click on the button, login to your account and click submit. OnlyWire will do the rest. It even provides you the status of your submission. There are basically 3 status. They are Success, Finalize and Failure. For bookmarking sites with Finalize status, you will need to click on them and complete the necessary steps.

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That’s it. You are done. OnlyWire has make it simple enough to submit your post to numerous bookmarking site with just a click of the button.

Do you know of an easier way to submit your post?

June 2, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Traffic Tips | 4 Comments 

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