Suffering from blogging stress ? Here are some remedies
The greatest benefit of blogging is that you dont have to follow a schedule or a time table. You blog as and when you like it. You dont have to get up early or listen to your boss who is good at nothing except shouting at you and who constantly reminds you how good your seniors and colleagues are.. But then every profession has its benefits and downfalls and blogging is no exception.
A lot of bloggers complain that they are so tired of their lifestyle constantly looking for new topics to write about, worrying about advertisers, depreciating value of $$ and the list seems to be a little bit to long. At the end of the day they are more exhausted then those who are working in an office as full time slaves and people who are engaged in businesses. So how are we as bloggers supposed to do about it. After going through a lot of blogs and articles I came across some very good remedies. So here are some small yet effective ways to overcome your blogging problems:
- Take small breaks in between. The best way to do it is to take a break of atleast 10 minutes after working constantly for about 2 to 3 hours. Your eyes needs rest and so do you. This also helps you to refresh your mind and come up with fresh and new ideas. Constantly working from your desk sometimes chokes your mind and reduces your working efficiency as well as performance.
- Try Yoga for a change. the entire world is going gaga about it and why not after all it is the best stress buster the man has ever come across. It not only helps you restore your senses and reduce stress but also helps in bringing yourself closer to your spiritual side. You can start with simple asanas and gradually work yourself to more typical ones.
- Hobbies. I find them them the best of all. however you must take interest in it. Not are are interested in reading books. But those who are or were and were not able to continue it due to reasons like hectic lifestyles.
- Another way of busting your stress is reading blogs of other bloggers. It also increases your knowledge and helps you in finding new topics and issues to write about. So its a kind of win win situation.
- Communication it seems is inevitable for the success of any work and blogging is no exception. So when you are tired of blogging about things you really like you can and must take a break and start talking about your work and other related topics with other bloggers who are equally tired of writing in the same or related niche. I never thought that people can actually get bored of doing something that they like but its a hard learned lesson that there is a limit to everything - even enjoyment !! Sad but true. Anyways communicating in this way helps your contacts and blog grow and eventually your business will also grow. You can come up with new ideas.
- Time factor. A lot of people are early risers and this is the perfect time for a quick work out - not exercise but blogging. Your mind is fresh and there are no thoughts in your mind to clutter your mind. You are not angry or tired or stressed. As for the rest of you - people like me who are lazy and like to sleep more and rise late, well you should skipped paragraph frankly speaking unless you can change it which i doubt is possible. I am trying since last 4 years and still always manage to get late every time cause I just cant get up early.
- Writing about things other than what you usually write about. A good example of this would be john chow who is famous for writing dinner posts apart from his make money online posts. it not only helps in reducing the stress but also gives you a new topic to write about. When yo short of ideas/topics you can always try something different. Dont be afraid thinking what your readers will think or advertisers will complain that you are writing off topic. Everybody like changes which is so inevitable at times.
These are just some of the ways you can try however the list is not exhaustive and you can always try and experiment with your blog. What ever you do, do it with confidence which should reflect in your blog.
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Who says dont write for Google ??
Here I am back to something that I love talking about apart from earning online topics. After all that is what blogging is all about - talking and writing about things you love the most.
I have seen this on a lot of blogs and now this is really pissing me off. so many bloggers are talking about how writing for themselves and not google helped them gain rankings while almost everyone of them have doing exactly the same - writing for google to gain serps and benefit from traffic. I dont say that you should become a google slave write what they like but you must in a way so that google recognises you.
Lets put is this way… When you are quite young in your blogging age and no one recognises you or your talent how are you going to reach the masses ?? You will have to take the benefit of google and improve your serps and organic traffic which every blogger experienced or inexperienced claims is the best traffic !! So how are you exactly going to do it ? Simple, apply some mind and some seo. If you are even somewhat good at it then your blog’s traffic should improve in a couple of months.
So target keywords and twist your articles in a way so that they can incorporate them, inter linking, build BL and use images saved with the name of your keyword linking to some of your old pages and posts and so on… Ok you get the idea. The important thing is to DO IT.
Its not bad to write in a way so as to benefit from it but it is definitely a sin to write only trash and rehash theories providing no value to your readers just so that you can rank on google1st page for a keyword and when the reader clicks on the link and lands on your page, he finds nothing but crab !!
So you must strike a balance between content and google both so that everyone is a winner - google cause they get quality content, readers cause they get a good read and you cause you get - well whatever your purpose of increasing the traffic is !!
You might have heard the concept of evil blogger that has been so much popularised by our very own John Chow (no I dont know him personally so dont point a finger when I say ” our very own “) and this is exactly what you should be doing. But dont push the limits and cross the line cause too much evil in you and your blog will see you out of the game even before you are in it. :twisted:
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To “www” or not to “www” - that is the question ?
So you are already a proud owner of a blog or thinking to start a new one - at whichever point you are there always comes a question (only for those who think about it) that whether our my blog use “www” or not. if you will look at my blog you will see that it is http://earnersspot.com without “www” Even if you type the url of my blog with “www” in it it will automatically redirect to the original that is without “www” So what difference does it makes you ask me …
Well the real difference is not between what you should select. You can select either of it but should stick to it and force the other to follow it like in my case. It is very important from view point of Backlinks. If you dont follow it then google will think that you have 2 seperate urls and will divide your backlinks accordingly but if you stick to one and enforce the other to redirect then all your backlinks will point to single url giving you more link juice benefit and PR.
It is very simple. First if you are using wordpress platform which probably all the bloggers use then simply go to options tab and change the url to what you want. there will be 2 options - “wordpress address” and “blog address” - change both of them and it should be same !! Then it will ask you to login again and it is set. After that you can use a wordpress plugin to do the trick. It is very important so dont waste time thinking about it or wondering whether i should do it now or I can always do it at some later time.
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Merchant Supplied Content can end your career in jail !! - U.K
The source of this article is day trip media. I am still looking into the matter and will post more details when I am through with it. Yesterday I cam across day trip media blog run by David Lloyd who use to work for BBC.
According to the latest amendments made and laws tat have been passed webmasters seem to be in trouble - serious trouble. It came into effect on the 26th May and prevents companies from using unfair and misleading tactics to advertise their products and services. Accordingly the companies running online business and marketing online are legally banned from
“Using editorial content in the media to promote a product where a trader has paid for the promotion without making that clear in the content or by images or sounds clearly identifiable by the consumer.”
It comes under UCPD - Unfair Commercial Practices Directive which is seriously a toll on affiliate marketers and webmasters the way they work. So now you are not allowed seeding positive comments in your blogs articles as well well fake blogs created for the sole purpose of promoting the merchants product/service. But this does not mean that after every link that you create you have to mention the fact that you are affiliated with the merchant according to what I understand from this -
However, Hyperlaunch head of buzz marketing Simon Quanse says the new regulations will only have the potential to affect those using “underhand” buzz marketing techniques.
“There are some agencies that do not have the maturity, openness and respectfulness to engage with people in the right way,” says Quanse. “As a result, the whole industry suffers.”
So is it really safe using content and material provided by them on our sites that speaks nothing but positive things about the product/service ?? The long and short of it is that now you are supposed to disclose the fact that the content that you are publishing for promoting the product/service of the merchant provided by the merchant is for the sole purpose of marketing the product/service and also disclose in clear words your relationship with the merchant - affiliation.
So thousands and maybe millions of webmasters in UK seem to be breaking these laws without even having the slightest idea that they breaking laws - some are even in the dark about the existence of these new regulations that came into effect recently.
Although the laws have been framed in the interest of the society and people who tend to believe on these contents and shop online but it will seriously take a toll on online and business and affiliate marketing.
However it is still too early to jump to any predictions. Lets wait for further developments and see how the UK webmasters are reacting to it.
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Capturing eMails still works - Just be innovative
No matter how many sources of making money online you already know of and find everyday but still there is no better way to make money then opt in lists and affiliate programs. The oldest way of making money online still works. the only difference is that you need to do it the right way and be a bit creative, honest and innovative in your approach.
Once you have an opt in list with prospects the next and the trickiest part is to mail them in a way so as to make them buy the product or service whatever it is that you are trying to sell. Here are some short and simple tips to make your campaign successful.
Selling related Products
Okay so what’s new in it for me. already know it.. Well many of us already know how important it is to try and make effort on selling related products and services that the reader has opted in for and is really interested in buying but the real problem is that when we start sending emails we forget the very purpose and send them almost everything and anything under the roof !! The only thing that crosses our at that particular moment is to make contact with as many prospects as possible and bombard them with as many affiliate links as possible. Always be specific and send them only related products and give them a reason to buy. Tell them how buying that product is going to benefit them. You can include related products but resist it if possible.
Join Hands with Them - Affiliates
This is something that very few people are doing. We all know the great power of affiliates. They reach everywhere and the best thing is that we have to pay them only when they make a sale - so we both make some money out it !! So when sending an email to a prospects, give them an opportunity to be an affiliate and join hands with you. Tell them how hot the product is and how they can make some money out of it. Offer them attractive incentives they simply cant resist. Quick payouts, no minimum threshold and if possible the multiple payment options. Affiliates are a great way to boost your sales.
Your own Products
If you are truly innovative enough and own a product or service of your own then why promote someone else’s products then yours ?? Tell them how great your product is and all the usual stuff and ask them to try it out. Dont forget to ask for their opinions and suggestions and always reply to their mails if they ever send you one. This will increase their confidence in you and the next time you send them an email they will accept it more readily. again here you can implement the theory we just discussed above.
Keep it Short - make it more eye catchy..
Making your email stand apart from the rest is quite a bit of a job and really needs thinking and time. People get so many emails nowadays that most of us never open some of them just by the look and feel of it. Feels like spam !! So its important that you should use spicy and catchy headings and keep the content short and to the point.
People like content that is written in points and are numbered. They like it when we use headings like “5 reasons to buy this thing” or something similar. I know I am not good at those things really but you get the idea anyways right ?? So be creative and innovative.
As the saying goes - the money is really in the list !! so make the most out of it.
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18 Steps to successful affiliate marketing
While surfing on the net (favorite past time of most of us) I came across an article taken from associateprograms.com The article is really long and really useful. i had to bookmark it so I can refer to it again and again. It talks about the 18 steps that you are required to take after you join an affiliate program. The best thing about them is that they provide consistent tips and tricks on making money online week after week. that is why it is a very good idea to join their newsletter. You wont regret it I promise.
Here is the direct link to the article I was talking about. The article is quite lengthy and so I think I have wasted enough of your time. you should be directly heading over there and dont forget to go through the entire article without skipping any part of it. Hope you enjoy it.
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